Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Obadiah Perkins, Connecticut

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Perkins, Obadiah
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers Class 9, page 141.
Rank: Lieutenant, fireworker.
Garrison: Fort Griswold
Disability: Wounded in his breast by a bayonet.
When and where disabled: Sept 6. 1781, Fort Griswold.
Residence: Groton.
Remarks: No rolls in this office.
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Evidence incomplete, viz: 1 st The evidence of his being wounded while in the actual line of his duty rather doubtful; 2 nd The report of the examining physicians does not appear to have been upon oath and does not precisely state the degree of his disability; 3 rd The evidence of three freeholders adduced does not ascertain their knowledge of his mode of life, employment &c. for the first two years immediately after leaving the service.
Allowed: See List 1835.

M.B.H. Jan 6. 1911
On the list of invalid pensioners, who have been in receipt of pensions at the agency of Connecticut and whose residence cannot be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of the papers in the War Office in 1800 and 1814, appears:
Obadiah Perkins, Lieutenant, Revolutionary Army, annual allowance $40 commenced Mar. 4. 1789, under Act of June 7. 1785, increased to $96 per an from Nov. 18, 1808 under Act Mar. 3. 1789. Died in 1813.

1016 W. Babcock St. Bozeman, Mont.
Dec. 28, 1925
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
In filling out my application for membership in D.A.R. I am able to trace my ancestry to Obadiah Perkins of Groton, Conn., b. at Groton, Conn. Dec. 4, 1740, d. Dec. 4, 1812, son of Elnathan Perkins. He was in Capt. Gallup's Company in 1776; Gunner in Capt. Latham's Artillery Co. in 1780; was seriously wounded at Ft. Griswold in 1781. See "Connecticut in the Revolution" page 452.
His father Elnathan Perkins and three brothers, Elisha, Asa, and Luke, and also Obadiah himself, were defending Groton Heights on the morning of the battle there. The father & the three brothers were all killed there, and Obadiah received 3 bayonet stabs, was put in a cart

which was allowed to run wild down hill. His wife rescued him after the massacre from a pile of slain. See "The Battle of Groton Heights" by Chas. Allyn.
Esther Perkins was a daughter of Obadiah Perkins, and she is my great-great-grandmother. The only thing that is holding me back from joining the D.A.R. is the name of Esther Perkins' mother, Obadiah's wife, and the date of their marriage.
Esther was born at Groton, Conn. Nov. 12, 1770.
She married Thompson Blair in 1795. Will you please tell me if a pension was ever granted, or applied for, by Obadiah Perkins or his wife and let me know all the data concerning it, esp. anything as to his wife's name and date of their marriage?
Thanking you for any help,
Yours truly, (Miss) Alene Morris

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
Call
February 5, 1926
Miss Alene Morris 1016 W. Babcock St Bozeman, Mont.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Obadiah Perkins of Groton, Connecticut, was a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Troops, War of the Revolution, and was wounded, in his breast by a bayonet, at Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781.
He was allowed pension from March 4, 1789, on account of disability resulting from above mentioned wound. He died in 1813.
There is no further data on file as to his services, and no data on file as to family, owing to the destruction of papers in such claims, when the War Office was burned in 1800 and 1814.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.