Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2160, for Solomon Payne, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Continental
Payne, Solomon. Mary
N. 2160
CONTENTS
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543
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Reported
Mary Payne widow of Solomon Payne
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a priv & sergeant Co. C. Sine
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Ap r 1850 and sent to
John Whittelsey Ravenna Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 29 1848, Page 167 Vol. 1
July A.
Note of death not enrg

23.842 Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
Sister Silas & Ramsey 15 th Sept 1849
Solomon Payne
Portage Co. in the State of Ohio he was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col. [blank] in the Connecticut line for
1 st Pa. [blank] $ 30 1 st Pa. [blank] 40 100.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio, P. A., at the rate of 100 Dollars & Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Jan'y 1831, Wm E Whittelsey - Widow
Arrears to the 4th of Apr 1833 250.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Oct '34 50.00 $ 300.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John D. Sprague Clerk, Book [blank] - Vol. 8 Page 123.

N 519
Mary Payne mo of Solomon Ohio
ad 29 Aug 1848
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James M. ... ..

State of Ohio } Portage County } ss
On this Eleventh day of September personally before me Isaac Swift one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio. Mary Payne, a resident of Rootstown in the County of Portage, aged Eighty four years past, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress, passed July 29 th 1828 Solomon Payne who was a Private and Sergeant during the Revolution was that he served in Captain Abijah Savage Company of Infantry in Colonel Henry Sheldons Regiment. She further declares that she was married to the said Solomon Payne on the thirtieth day of November Seventeen hundred and ninety seven (1797) that her husband the aforesaid Solomon Payne died on the twelfth  fourth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January, Eighteen hundred, viz: at the time above stated. She further swears, that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made application for a pension.
Mary Payne her mark
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year above within before me in presence of John McIntire Solomon L Payne
Isaac Swift Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Portage County Ohio
I hereby certify that the above named Mary Payne is not able by reason of her age and bodily infirmities ( is not able ) to attend the sitting of the Court to make the above application for a pension.
Isaac Swift Judge of said Court

State of Ohio } Personally appeared before the subscribers one of Portage County } the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of said Mary Chapman and Samuel Chapman and made oath in due form of law that they were present at the time Solomon Payne was married to Mary Payne on the thirtieth day of November in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety seven, at East Windsor Connecticut. Sworn and subscribed this eleventh day of September 1829 before me. Samuel Chapman Mary Chapman
Isaac Swift Judge of the Court
I hereby certify that the above named Mary Chapman and Samuel Chapman who have sworn and subscribed the above Certificate are persons of truth and veracity. Isaac Swift Judge of the Court
Personally appeared before me Isaac Swift, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage and State of Ohio. Nathan Chapman, and Solomon L Payne, who being duly sworn according to law say, that Mary Payne who has made application to be placed on the pension Roll of the United States, is the widow of Solomon Payne deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States, that she has not married but still remains the widow of the said Solomon Payne
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 11 th day of September 1829 Isaac Swift Judge.
Nathan Chapman Solomon L Payne

State of Ohio } Personally appeared before me Isaac Swift Portage County } ss one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid Nathan Chapman, Lemuel Chapman, and Solomon L Payne, and made oath according to law, that Solomon Payne a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States died at Rootstown, in the County of Portage, and State of Ohio. On the seventeenth day of August, in the year Eighteen hundred and forty four. Sworn and subscribed this Eleventh day September 1849. before me Nathan Chapman Lemuel Chapman Solomon L Payne Isaac Swift Judge - }
State of Ohio } County of Portage } ss I Horace G Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held at Ravenna in and for said County do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence as appears above has been exhibited to Isaac Swift Esqr, one of the Associate judges of said Court that Solomon Payne was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred dollars per year; was a resident of the County of Portage in the said State of Ohio, and died in the township of Rootstown in the state aforesaid in the year Eighteen hundred and forty four, on the seventeenth day of August; that he left a widow whose name is Mary Payne -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna this Eleventh day of September A.D. 1849.
Horace G Beebe Clerk By Saml. J. Hopkins Deputy

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Horace G. Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Isaac Swift Esqr. before whom the foregoing and annexed declarations and affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn, and to all whom official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine as I believe.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscri- -bed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna this 11th day of September A.D. 1849
Horace G. Beebe Clerk By Saml. J. Hopkins Stp.
N 519 Mary Payne wid of Solomon Ohio act 24 Aug 1848
and me a the

Solomon Layne
No 20
Sept 1819
[Faint, illegible signature or mark]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, ss. Special County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden by order of the Chief Judge of said Court, on the first Tuesday of August, 1820.
ON this 1 st day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Solomon Payne aged fifty nine years, resident in  Bristol in the County of Hartford,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolu-
tionary War, as follows: In 1776 at New York in the seven months service in Jonathan Bridges company Comfort Sage Regt. General Wadsworth Brigade in 1777 enlisted into the three years service under Lieut. Zadoc Hoad in Capt. Abijah Savage company Henry Sherburn's Regt. for the most part of the time in General Vennhams Brigade my enlistment was dated May 2 nd 1777. I served the three years & received an honorable discharge on the first day of May A D 1780. In the Spring of 1782 I again enlisted for one year under Lieut. Zadoc Hoad as his Serjeant in Capt. Daniel Allen's company - Saml. Banfield's Regt. of State troops which concluded the war - and on the 6 th day of April in the year A D 1818 I declared on oath to my revolutionary services as above & received a pension certificate from the Secretary of War under the act of congress of the 19 th of March 1818 which certificate is numbered 6020
"And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed."
   1 old chest with two drawers $1.25 2 tables 1 sixty the other 30 years old $1.00 $2.25   5 chairs at 34 cents each one rocking chair $1.00 2.70   1 old wooden clock 3 dls 1 wheel one dollar 4.00   1 Pot 1 kettle 1 tea kettle 1 shovel & tongs all of the value of 2.92   1 pease platter six plates & 1 tea pot all of the value of 2.60   2 soap dishes; ten plates six cups & saucers all of the value of 1.20   6 knives & forks 1 coffee pot 1 tin pail 6 tin pans all 2.34   1 old looking glass & six old casks all of the value of 2.00   1 shoat or swine 6.00   Total $25.41  
And I further declare on oath that I now owe & am honestly indebted to several persons in the sum at least of five hundred dollars & have been actually committed to gaol on execution of debt within five years three times & that I was admitted to the poor debtors oath each time without objection by my creditors
My occupation for a number of years past has been that of a day laborer but since sometime in the month of August 1818 I have been wholly unable to perform any manual labor, as at that time I was taken with a violent & distressing turn of the Asthma or Phthisis which disease or complaint has wholly incapacitated me from earning my living & that during the greater part of the time I have been wholly confined to my room & chair much distressed for breath, which complaint was so distressing that I was, under the necessity to

employ physicians use medicine &c &c & call upon my neighbors for their charities in my destitute & distressed situation till at length my physician, druggist & neighbors were worn out with my frequent & loud calls for their aids & charities. My property & credit were both gone & therefore my alternative was to lie & die or call upon the selectmen of the town for assistance & accordingly on the 29th day of January 1819 I made application to the selectmen for assistance which they granted after having duly enquired into my destitute situation & therefore from that day to the present I am enrolled among the list of the paupers of the town in which I now reside & have received from the public funds of said town charities to the amount of about ninety two dollars which charities yet continue which sum is in addition to the charities that I have largely received from my neighbors & also to the sums that I have received from government by virtue of my pension certificate under the act of congress of March 18th 1818. My wife who is fifty five years of age lives with me & she has been for the last thirty years feeble & unable to support herself & is annually failing. I have a son about sixteen years of age who enjoys usual sound health who lives in my family. Solomon Payne
Sworn to and declared by said Solomon Payne on the 1st day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
twenty five dollars and forty one cents.
I, Thomas Chesler
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 26 day of Augt 1820
Th. Chesler
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.

State of Ohio Portage Co. ss. me a full bounty and marked record of in the h. and the of the far was the Payne in  Mary Payne Solomon Payne Born Sep 26 1760 Mary Payne Born Jan 26 1765 Married Nov 30 1777 Solomon Payne Born Jan 30 1799 Electa Payne Born May 3 1800 Joice C Payne March 16 1802 Eleazer Payne Born May 14 1804  by affiant his Payne differ for said at the paper the the family and that Solomon Payne in the possession at the same by Bible of said  "A"
sworn to on January 18
E. B. Taylor Esq. this 15 day of Taylor Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the said deponents are citizens well known in this vicinity and have good character in all respects and that their statements above set forth may be implicitly relied on  E. B. Taylor J.P.
The State of Ohio, PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.
I Francis G. Beebe Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for the county of Portage, and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that C. B. Taylor
Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed Affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 10th day of January, A.D. 1850
Francis G. Beebe CLERK.
By Samuel H. Johnson Clerk

State of Ohio } Portage County } Jan'y 15 th 1850 Personally appeared Solomon L Payne & Wilkes Payne before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said county and made solemn oath that the paper marked "A" and hereto attached is the true family record of Solomon Payne deceased and that it is in the hand writing of the said Solomon Payne and that it has been ever since in the possession of the family of said Payne and that the same was this day taken from the family Bible of said Payne in their house
Solomon L Payne Wilkes Payne
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of Jan'y 1850 Elysa B Taylor Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the said deponents are citizens well known in this vicinity and have good character in all respects and that their statements above set forth may be implicitly relied on E B Taylor J.P.
The State of Ohio, PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.
{ I Horace G. Beebe Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for the county of Portage, and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that C. B. Taylor Esquire, before whom the foregoing and an- nexed Affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said coun- ty, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the fore- going signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 15 th day of January, A.D. 1850
Horace G. Beebe CLERK.
By Amos A. Phelps Clerk

Sol: Paynes Papers —
[Faint, illegible signature or mark]
Solomon Paynes Private May 1777 to May 1780 Bland Sherburn's Connecticut Regiment

I Solomon Payne of Bristol in the State of Connecticut - being sworn depose to say that on the first day of May One Thousand seven hundred & seventy Seven I enlisted as a Private Soldier into the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain in the Connecticut line on the Continental Establishment in the Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Varnum. Regiment commanded by Col. Henry - Sherburn Capt. Abijah Savage's Company - I - served three years in said Company viz from the day of my enlistment untill the first day of May Seventeen hundred & eighty when I was discharged honourably from the service by a written Discharge - it was also countersigned by Col. Jackson. This Discharge was given me at Morristown in New Jersey - I kept my Dis- charge for a number of years - but have now lost or mislaid it - so that I cannot find it - I now live live at Bristol in Connecticut & by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from the United States for my support - My health is greatly impaired by the Rheumatism - I am unable to do any work at present - nor have I been since the first of last January - Solomon Payne

State of Connecticut Hartford April 6 th 1818 Personally appeared the above named Solomon Payne and made solemn Oath that the facts stated in his affidavit aforesaid are true Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for said County
State of Connecticut Hartford County ss. 6 th April 1818. I William Jerome of Bristol in the State aforesaid being sworn depose to say that I am well acquainted with Solomon Payne of Bristol the person who has subscribed to made Oath to the above affidavit & I am also well acquainted with his pecuniary circumstances & I know that he is entirely destitute of property & his Health is much impaired by disease & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of as- sistance from the United States for his support Sworn before me Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid William Jerome

August 6, 1931
Mrs. Charles E. Aspinall 419 East Oakland Avenue Columbus, Ohio
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section EEL ew
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 2160, that Solomon Payne was born September 26, 1760, place not stated.
He enlisted in 1776 and served seven months as a private in Captain Jonathan Birge's Company, Colonel Comfort Sage's Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted May 1, 1777, in the state of Connecticut, served as a private in Captain Abijah Savage's Company, Colonel Henry Sherburne's Regiment, and was discharged May 1, 1780.
He enlisted in the spring of 1782, and served one year as sergeant in Captain Daniel Allen's Company, Colonel Samuel Canfield's Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he was residing at Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
In 1826, he was residing at Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio, where he had moved to live with his children. In 1833, he was a resident of Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio.
He died August 17, 1844, at Rootstown, Ohio.
The soldier married November 30, 1797, in East Windsor, Connecticut, Mary -----, who was born January 26, 1765.
Soldier's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed September 11, 1849, at which time she was a resident of

Rootstown. Ohio.
Their children were:
Solomon L. Payne born January 30, 1799. Alecta Payne " May 3, 1800. Joice G. Payne " March 16, 1802. Eleazer Payne " May 14, 1804.
The above is the history of the only soldier named Solomon Payne found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT—ss---HARTFORD
On this 6 th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Hartford for the said district, personally appeared Solomon Payne aged 70 years resident in Bristol in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Solomon Payne
on 1 st May 1777 enlisted in Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Savage of the Connecticut line of the Continental establishment  Col c Sherburne's Regiment ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 1 st May 1780 , when he was discharged from service in Morrisville state of New Jersey , that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court For the County of said — Rowe Brace Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to
my satisfaction, that the said Solomon Payne did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
6 th April — 1818
Jonathan Brace Judge aforesaid April 6. 1818 Sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of the Honorable Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court Thomas Chester Clerk
Sim Paterson that Solomon Payne the person herein named was nine months at one time in the Continental establishment that he is in indigent circumstances Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court at Hartford aforesaid

1830 Warren Pataps County Ohio July 22 Dear I. L. Edwards Commission of Pensions Dear Sir
Enclosed find further testimony in the case of Mary Payne asking to be placed on the Pension Roll. I have made great exertions to obtain the testimony of the Clergymen who married Solomon Payne to Mary Payne, or the register of the Church, but have not been able to find any record. I have therefore sent the family record, as the only record Evidence known to exist
Yours Respectfully John Whittlesey

Wacum Sept 11. 1847. Dear J. L. Edwards.
Commission of Pensions
Sir Sir
Inclosed you will find the Application of Mrs Mary Payne, asking to be placed on the Pension Roll under the act of July 29. 1848. She refers you to the proof of Solomon Payne now on file at your office to make out the proof necessary to entitle her to a pension
Yours very Respectfully John Whittlesey

June 2/99 Eng. Rep. 3
Dr. Mary Payne
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Chas. G. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pension Washington City
D. G.

Ravenna Portage County Ohio
June 4 th 1849
Col. S. Edvards
Comm ee of Pensions
Sir Mary Payne widow of Solomon Payne late of the Township of Rothsford in this County is desirous of obtaining a pension. She was married Nov 30 th 1797, and her husband was a pensioner, and died Aug th 17 th 1844. She has been informed that by a recent law of Congress these facts will entitle her to a pension, and desires us to obtain the pension for her. Not having access to this law we are unable to act, and our object in writing is to ascertain whether this woman is so entitled, and if so to solicit from you a copy of the law, together with the rules and regulations adopted for proceedings under it.
Respectfully &c. Tilden & Hovey

Adm rs to you as Serv s . $1.00 per year $100
Notifying the Agents to deduct the Am t the May have rec d since 4 March 1831.
Don E. Whittles

Ravenna December
1833
To The Honorable J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of the Pension office At Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed, I send you my original certificate and my serjeants warrants and pray for an increase of my Pension and you would confer a special favor by extending it back as far as the Act of June 7th 1832 will permit I have omitted forwarding it sooner in consequence of the amounts I have received during my health - answering my yearly demand, yet old age has deprived my companion of health and I am no longer able to support myself even with the amounts hitherto received, you will therefore confer a special favor by granting the prayer of your Petitioner
Solomon Payne
We the Subscribers do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Payne who signed the above Letter and know him to be the person named in the original certificate which is herewith enclosed,
Ravenna December 4th. 1833
Keyes Prentiss
Grace Hough
Affidavit the above named Witnesses are made out to that the statements therein made are true - and I certify that I am acquainted with them, and they are persons of truth -
Lucius V. Bierce
The State of Ohio Portage County ss.
I Geo. Kirkham Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, certify that Lucius V. Bierce is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and
Subscribed my name this 5. day of December in the year 1833.
Geo. Kirkham Clerk of s d Court.

Solomon Payne

State of Ohio } Application for a transfer Portage County }
On the 31 st day of August A.D. 1826 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Portage personally appeared Solomon Payne who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Elijah Savage in the regiment commanded by Henry Shukurn as Colonel in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Connecticut from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in Rootstown Portage County & State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension payable at Pittsburgh Pa. in future agreeable to an act of Congress of last Session and where he intends to remain. and that his reasons for removing to this State are that his children had emigrated here and desired him to spend his declining years with them.
Solomon Payne
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year above mentioned
Morris Babcock, Just Peace Portage County, ss On this 31 st day of August 1826 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Portage personally appeared Cyrus Prouty who on his oath declares that he well knows Solomon Payne the above named deponent to be the same person described in the above affidavit.
Cyrus Prouty

Sworn to and subscribed before me this thirty first day of August A.D. 1826 and I also certify that the foregoing named Cyrus Prentiss the deponent is a person of truth & veracity
Almon Babcock Justice Peace
THE STATE OF OHIO, } ss. Portage County, }
I, SETH DAY, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Portage, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents, certify and make known, that Almon Babcock Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing Deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such Deposition and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere. of the TESTIMONY Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court at Ravenna, in said County, this second day of September in the year of Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty six
DAY Clerk.

Bury  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2160
Mary Payne, Widow Solomon Payne, Ingt. Rev. War.
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol. M1 , Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1929, July 16, Hist. to Mrs Fanny Williams. Ed
1931 Aug 6 - Hist. to Mrs C.E. Aspinall Ed

Mar 25 th 1929.
Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir + Please send any information you have concerning one Solomon Payne (or Paine) a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Our family records show he was born Sept 26 th 1760 died Aug 17 th 1857 He enlisted from Mass. or Ct. After the war came to Painesville Ohio and died in Rootstown, O. He was a brother of Capt or Gen Edward Paine (or Payne written both ways by the family). Mrs Fay Williams Orwell, O.

MRS. CHAS. E. ASPINALL 419 EAST OAKLAND AVENUE COLUMBUS, OHIO
July 23 - 31
Bureau of Pensions Dept Dept of Interior Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
only!
Did Solomon Payne have a pension record?
Solomon Payne enlisted May 1 st 1777 in the State of New York in the Continental Army for the period of three years.
If he or his wife drew a pension can you help me with any data at all. Wife's or families' names or what place he came from in New York State? It would be very much appreciated.
Thanking you in advance
I am Respectfully
Mrs Chas E Aspinall (address above)

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section EEL
July 16, 1929
Mrs. Fay Williams Orwell Ohio
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 2160, it appears that Solomon Payne was born September 26, 1760, place not stated.
He enlisted in 1776, and served seven months as a private in Captain Jonathan Birge's Company, Colonel Comfort Sage's Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted May 1, 1777, in the State of Connecticut, served as a private in Captain Abijah Savage's Company, Colonel Henry Sherburne's Regiment, and was discharged May 1, 1780, at Morristown, New Jersey.
He enlisted in the spring of 1782, and served one year as sergeant in Captain Daniel Allen's Company, Colonel Samuel Canfield's Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he was residing at Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.

In 1826, he was residing at Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio, where he had moved to live with his children. In 1833, he was a resident of Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio.
He died August 17, 1844, at Rootstown, Ohio.
The soldier married November 30, 1797, in East Windsor, Connecticut, Mary _____. She was born January 26, 1765.
She was allowed pension on her application executed September 11, 1849, at which time she was a resident of Rootstown, Ohio.
Their children were:
Solomon L. Payne born January 30, 1799. Alecta Payne " May 3, 1800. Joice C. Payne " March 16, 1802. Eleazer Payne " May 14, 1804.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Middletown at the Branch Bank N. J. Connecticut
Recorda

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Solomon Payne late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this truly  second day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

8020 / From
Connecticut
to the Pittsfield Solon Warne of Hartford in the state of Conn who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Conn ct line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 of April 1858 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Mar 18 and sent to Judge Cromwell .
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1859  87.60 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 Sept 1859  18 25-41 10 31 31 } $135.79
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application sent to Thomas Chester Esq. 90 West St New York, Jan 1860

No 519.
Pitts
Mary Payne Solomon m o of John Pitts Ohio.
Old det. July 29, 1848
at $100 per An m .
To commerce drain 4/48 Portage Co, Ohio
John Whittlesey, Painesville, Ohio

N 579 Mary Payne Q
Sister to John Whittlesy 8 th Nov. 1849
at 29. Inly 48

Solomon Payne W. F. 2160. Com.

Samuel Canfield Esq
Lieut. Colonel Commandant of Regt. of Infantry raised by the State of Connecticut
Solomon Paine Greeting
Reposing special trust & confidence in your fidelity courage & good conduct I do by these presents constitute & appoint you the said Solomon Paine to be hereafter in Capt. Allen's Company in the Regt. aforesaid all the duties of which office you are to observe by faithful discharge of the same & you are to obey all orders which you receive from me or other your Superior Officers & allendes you are to obey you as their Serjeant & for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand at the Garrison in Stamford this 3 rd day of July 1782 in the 6 th year of the Independence of America
Sam l Canfield Lt Col Comdt