Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10498, for John Redington, Connecticut

SERVICE
Conn
Redington, John Miller Laura
W 10498
BL 100371-160-55
(Former Widow)
CONTENTS

Miller widow of John Declaration of Mrs. Laura, Redington died widow of John Redington
For Revolutionary Pension under the Act of Congress relating to pensions of widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers passed March 3rd 1853.
State of New York } County of Schoharie }
On this 10 th day of August 1861, personally appeared before me Lyman Sanford County Judge of Schoharie County of the County and State above named, Laura, Redington died a resident of Schoharie County in the State of New York aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed March 3rd 1853. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Redington died , who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he entered as a volunteer at the commencement of the war and served as such during the whole war, that he resided in Hane Hill, Esopus County N.Y. when he entered into service, that he was in several engagements - was engaged in the taking of Princeton College , was engaged in the battle at Saratoga , at the Capitulation of Burgoyne , at the Battle of Trenton - was with Genl. Washington at the crossing of the Delaware , and taken prisoner and kept three months in New York , that he never had a pension. That there is no documentary evidence in possession of claimant of the service, and claimant does not know the names of the officers under whom he served.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Redington died on the Fifth day of December A. D. one thousand Eight hundred and Eleven at Cobleskill Schoharie Co. N.Y. by one Rev. D. L. L. man a clergyman that her name before her said marriage was Laura Wales and that her husband, the aforesaid John Redington died at Cobleskill Schoharie Co. N.Y. on the 12 th day of April A. D. 1830 and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, till the 20 th day of March 1845 when she married Peter J. Miller of Schoharie County and that the said Peter J. Miller died on the 10 th day of June 1861. and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband
Lyman Sanford  Laura Miller County Judge of Schoharie County, N.Y.

Miller widow of John Declaration of Mrs. Laura, Redington died widow of John Redington
For Revolutionary Pension under the Act of  Congress relating to pensions of widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers passed March 3, 1853.
State of  New York } ss. County of  Schoharie }
On this 10 th day of August 1861, personally appeared before me Lyman Sanford County Judge of Schoharie County of the County and State above named, Laura Miller widow of John Redington a resident of Schoharie County in the State of New York aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed March 3 rd 1853. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Redington died, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he entered as a volunteer at the commencement of the war and served as such during the whole war, that he resided in Haver Hill, Essex County, Mass. when he entered into service, that he was in several engagements - was engaged in the taking of Princeton College, was engaged in the battle at Trenton, at the capture of Burgoyne, at the Battle of Saratoga - was with Genl. Washington at the taking of the Hessians, and taken prisoner and held three months in New York, that he never had a pension. That there is no documentary evidence in possession of defendant of the service, and defendant does not know the names of the officers under whom he served.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Redington died on the Fifth day of December A. D. one thousand Eight hundred and Eleven at Cobleskill Schoharie Co. N.Y. by one Rev. D. M. Talman a clergyman that her name before her said marriage was Laura Wales and that her husband, the aforesaid John Redington died at Cobleskill Schoharie Co. N.Y. on the 12 th day of April A. D. 1830 and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, till the 20 th day of March 1860 when she married Peter Miller of Schoharie County and that the said Peter Miller died on the 10 th day of June 1861. and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband.
Lyman Sanford Laura Miller County Judge of Schoharie County, N.Y. —

CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Act of 1853.
Mrs. Laura Miller
Widow of John Redington
DECLARATION.
Notary Public
John H. Tucker. Attorney Washington D. C.

Miller widow of John
Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Laura Redington Miller of the County of Schoharie and State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint
Chas. C. Tucker , of Washington, D. C., my true and lawful agent and attorney, for me, and in my name to prepare and prosecute my claim for a Revolutionary Pension by reason of the services of my deceased husband; and I hereby em- power my said attorney to examine all records and documents in reference to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington, to file additional evidence and arguments, and to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, with full powers of substitution. Hereby revoking and countermanning all former powers of attorney that may have been given by me for the above specified purpose.
Witness my hand and seal this 10 th day of August 18 61 .
Laura Miller
STATE OF NEW YORK. SCHOHARIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
ss: John F. Shafer
T. ALMIRIN GALLUP , CLERK OF SAID COUNTY, do certify that Syman Sanford whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment the Judge of Schoharie County Court (and Surro- gate) a court of record in and for the said county of Schoharie, sworn and duly autho- rised to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said County Judge and Surrogate, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof, or acknowledgment, is genuine, and that the same is executed according to the laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal the 10 th day of August 18 61  John F. Shafer Clerk.
CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Act of 1833.
Mrs. Laura Miller Widow of John Redington
DECLARATION.
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John B. Tucker Attorney Washington D. C.

NOTES.
1. The Declaration must be made in open Court, or before a judge of a Court of Record of the County in which the Declarant resides. In the latter case, the judge will certify that by reason of age and bodily infirmity, she is unable to appear in open court, and the official character and signature of the judge must be certified to by the Clerk of the Court. A Declaration made before a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, will not be admitted as evidence.
2. If the soldier was not a Pensioner, the claimant will state in her declaration all the information known of his services, to the best of her knowledge and belief, such as the day, month and year (if possible,) when he entered the service, and the time he left the it; if he was under more than one engagement, will specify the particular periods, and the rank and names of the officers under whom the service was performed: the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; whether he was drafted, volunteered, or was a substitute: the battles, if any, in which he was engaged: the country through which he marched: the names of officers and soldiers who served with him, and such other information as will be useful in the investigation of the claim, and if the fact be so, that she has no documentary evidence of the service.
3. If the soldier was a Pensioner, that fact should be stated, and it will be unnecessary to mention any particulars of his services. In such a case, the Declarant will state under what act her husband was pensioned, its amount per annum, and at what agency it was paid.
Instructions for all the evidence necessary for the claim will be forwarded on receipt of the Declaration.
ACTS OF CONGRESS, relating to Pensions of Widows of Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers.
ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: That each of the surviving officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, soldiers and Indian spies, who shall have served in the continental line or State troops, volunteers or militia, at one or more terms, a period of two years during the war of the revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty eight, be authorized to receive out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in the said line according to his rank, but not exceeding in any case the pay of a captain in the said line; such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and shall continue during his natural life; and that any such officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private as aforesaid, who shall have served in the continental line, State troops, volunteers or militia, a term or terms in the whole less than the above period, but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, during his natural life, each according to his term of service, an amount bearing such proportion to the annuity granted to the same rank for the service of two years, as his term of service did to the term aforesaid: to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, mariners or marines, who served for a like term in the naval service during the revolutionary war, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same manner as is provided for the officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.
ACT OF JULY 4, 1836.
SEC. 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 the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled, &c., 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.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1837.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the benefits of the third section of the Act passed July 4, 1836, entitled, &c., shall not be withheld from any widow in consequence of her having married after the decease of her husband for whose service she may claim to be allowed a pension or annuity under said act: Provided, That she was a widow at the time it was passed.
ACT OF JULY 7, 1838.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted &c., That if any person who served in the war of the revolution in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled, &c., have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, in virtue of the said act, if living at the time it was passed: Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued.
The pensions allowed by the above act, have been extended by subsequent acts to during life or widowhood of the widow, except for the two years between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, which have not been provided for.
ACT OF JULY 29, 1848.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted &c., That the widows of all officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, soldiers, mariners or marines, and Indian spies, who shall have served in the continental line, State troops, volunteers, militia, or in the naval service in the revolutionary war with Great Britain, shall be entitled to a pension during such widowhood, of equal amount per annum that their husbands would have been entitled to, if living, under existing pension laws, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and to be paid in the same manner that other pensions are now paid to widows; but no widow now receiving a pension shall be entitled to receive a further pension under the provisions of this act; and no widow married after the first day of January, one thousand eight-hundred, shall be entitled to receive a pension under this act.
ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1853.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the widows of all officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the revolutionary army, who were married subsequent to January, A. D., 1800, shall be entitled to pensions in the same manner as those who were married before that date.

Saura Redington. Petition of Laura Redington of Cobleskill, New York, for an allowance to her of the Pension to which her husband John Redington was entitled -
Jan. 13, 1844.
referred to Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Decr 19. 1844
Committee on Revy Pensions
Reported July 12 th Reported against in 1846 V. C. G. of  of  of  of W. C. Cary N.Y.

6350
John Redington
So Levi Wendell } Bond to Herman Van Kliefen } for $2000 dated 24 th March 1819.
John Redington Revolutionary Pension Papers

[THE TIE AND SOLD BY J. B. VAN STEENBERGH, CORNER OF CHAPEL STREET AND MAIDEN LANE, ALBANY.]
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, That I John Redington of the Town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga and State of New York, do hereby certify that I am well and held and firmly bound unto Gerrit Wendell and Herman Van Engelen of the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars money of account of the United States of America, to be paid unto the said Gerrit Wendell and Herman Van Engelen or to their certain Attorney, Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns: for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself and my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and each and every of them firmly by these Presents. Sealed with my Seal and dated the Twentyfourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.
The condition of this obligation is such, That if the above bounden John Redington his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, shall and do well and faithfully pay, or cause to be paid unto the above named Gerrit Wendell and Herman Van Engelen their Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, the just and full sum of Two Thousand dollars with lawful Interest from the first day of April next in manner following to wit, Five hundred dollars paid thereat with the Interest thereof on demand Five hundred dollars with the Interest thereof on the first day of October next, Five hundred dollars with the Interest thereof and of the remaining sum on the first day of April thereafter and Five hundred dollars with the Interest thereof in one year thereafter.
without fraud or delay, then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed and Delivered } In the presence of }
John Redington

Inventory of Capt 10 Ruddington's Stock taken by E.M. & H.P.H. 24 March 1819
For Capt. Ruddington.

Property purchased from Capt. Redington by E.W. & H. 1877 and delivered to them on account of his bond of mortgage $65.00 1 Span Gray horses each $32.50
  1 Gray Brown Mare 90 75   3 Lin d back Cows 82 50   1 Red Cow 26 00   1 Yoke of Oxen 85 75   3 Yearling Calves 15   1 Large Bull 20 75   20 Sheep 32   1 Corn Harrow 3 75   1 Wheat Sleigh 20   1 Set of old Harness 10 75   1 ox Sled 5   2 patent Ploughs 16 75   1 ox Cart 18   2 drags 10 75   1 old wagon 15   5 Teams Hay $5 25   $537 00 
This property was inventoried & priced on the 24 March 1879
Since that period Capt. Redington has furnished to Will with 311 sheets of us 1-101926 10-667 $555.66

9 I have since been So John Reddington Cleteare—

In Consequence of a Compromise made with John Redington I Grant Under one of the Obligees named in a certain Bond or Writing obligatory made and Executed by the said John Redington Mitchell Corliss and John Corliss Junr to myself Herman Van Vughten Walter Van Vughten as Executors of the Last will and Testament of Cornelius Van Vughten decd to Secure the payment of Sixteen Thousand Five Hundred dollars do hereby Release and discharge the said John Redington his Heirs executors and administrators and his and their goods and chattles lands and Tenements of From and against the payment of the said sum of Money: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to discharge the said Mitchell Corliss or the said John Corliss Junr or the mortgage given by the said Mitchell Corliss to Secure the payment of the said sum of Money or of the interest thereof or the premises described in the said mortgage but that the liability of the said John Corliss Junr and Mitchell Corliss and the said mortgage shall remain in full force as if there presents had never been made and Executed In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal this 26 th day of Feb y 1820
Sealed and delivered In presence of Eliza H. H. H. John B. Smith
H. Van Vughten

1 John Redington & wife.
To. Maria Leonard & others
Copy Deed.
In March 24th. 1919.

State of New York } County of Washington } ss.
I, Gerrit P. Wendell of the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington and State of New York, Councillor at law being duly sworn deponeth and saith, That the Heirs and devisees of Cornelius Van Righten late of the City of Albany deceased did on the seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and fourteen for the consideration of the sum of Sixteen Thousand five hundred dollars of the money of account of the United States seemed to be paid to them sell and convey to one Mitchell Corliss a certain Farm situate in the Town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga in the State aforesaid. That in order to secure the payment of the said sum of money the Executors of the last Will and Testament of the said Cornelius Van Righten did take and accepted a mortgage of the said Farm from the said Mitchell Corliss and six several Bonds executed by the said Mitchell Corliss, John Corliss Junr. and John Redington the said John Redington then residing in the Town of Cohoes Hill in the County of Schoharie in the State aforesaid Two Thousand dollars whereof was to be paid on the first day of April then next

State of New York } County of Washington } ss.
I, Gerrit P. Bendell of the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington and State of New York Councillor at law being duly sworn deposeth and saith: That the Heirs and devisees of Cornelius Van Heighten late of the City of Albany deceased did on the seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen for the consideration of the sum of Sixteen Thousand five hundred dollars of the money of account of the United States seemed to be paid to them sell and convey to one Mitchell Corliss a certain Farm situate in the Town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga in the State aforesaid. That in order to secure the payment of the said sum of money the Executors of the last Will and Testament of the said Cornelius Van Heighten did take and accepted a mortgage of the said Farm from the said Mitchell Corliss and six several Bonds executed by the said Mitchell Corliss, John Corliss Jun r and John Redington the said John Redington then residing in the Town of Cohoes Hill in the County of Schoharie in the State aforesaid Two thousand dollars whereof were to be paid on the first day of April then next

and the residue of the said sum in eight equal annual installments thereafter with interest annually. That two thousand dollars part of the said sum of sixteen thousand five hundred appears from the books kept by the said executors have been paid and the interest of the residue of the said principal sum to the first day of April 1915. together with four hundred and fifty five dollars and forty cents of principal on the first day of September 1915. —
And this deponent farther saith that on or about the Twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen the said Mitchell Carlis being then insolvent and unable to pay his debts the said Farm was sold by virtue of an Execution issued against him by the Sheriff of the said County of Saratoga and returned in by the said John Redington for the sum of one dollar. —
And this deponent farther saith that the said Mitchell Carlis and Mary his wife did on the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen sell and convey to the said John Redington the said Farm subject to the payment of the mortgage above in part recited as appears by the conveyance of the same now in the possession of this deponent. — That neither of the said

Conveyances above in part referred to except the said Mortgage are recorded as the recording of such conveyances at the time of the making thereof was not required by law according to the best of this deponent's recollection. —
And this deponent farther saith that the said John Redington entered upon the said premises and occupied the same until the twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen when the said John Redington declared his total inability to pay up or satisfy the said Mortgage and Bonds and agreed to pay the said Executors Two thousand dollars if they would release him from the payment of the said Bonds and Mortgage then remaining unpaid which proposition this deponent and Herman Van Highten two of the said Executors and obligors agreed to accept in a Bond of Mortgage upon property which he then held in the Town of Cobleskill in the County of Schoharie, which agreement was afterwards carried into effect — and the said John Redington did continue to reside upon the said premises for one year after the first day of April then next as the Tenant of the said Executors. —
And this deponent farther saith that in pursuance of the above agreement he the

said John Redington and his wife did execute to the said Executors a release of all his rights and Title to the said premises on or about the Twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty.
And this deponent farther saith that it appears from the books of the said Executors that the said John Redington paid to them on account of the bonds executed by himself the said Mitchell Earle and John Earle June on the 1 st day of June 1814 Six hundred and Seventy four dollars and forty four cents and on the 1 st day of July 1817. Three hundred and two dollars.
Sworn before me this 31 st day of January 1926.
Clark Rice & Cummpton &c
J. Wendell

State of New-York, } ss. County of Washington, }
I, John L. Loomis Clerk of the County of Washington, and of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county, Do Certify, That Clark Rice Esq. whose name is subscri- bed to the Certificate  Deed of the annex- ed Deed , affidavit and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate , a Commissioner in and for the said County of Washington, dwelling in the said County, appointed and sworn, and duly authorised by law to take the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds, and discharges of Mortgages, &c. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commis- sioner, and verily believe that the signature of Clark Rice Esq. subscribed to the said Certificate , is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Thirty first day of January 1826
John L. Loomis

This Indenture made the twenty fourth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hun- dred and Nineteen Between John Reddington of the Town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga and State of New York Yeoman, and Laura his wife of the first part and Maria Leonard Elizabeth Smith Herman Van Vighten and Gerrit Wendell of the second part - Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and consideration of the sum of Sixteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars money of account of the United States to them in hand paid at or before the inrolling and delivery of these presents by the said parties of the second the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknow- ledged Have granted bargained sold aliened remised re- leased conveyed assured enfeoffed and confirmed And by these presents do grant bargain sell alien remise re- lease convey assure enfeoff and confirm fully freely and absolutely unto the said parties of the second part in their actual possession now being unto their heirs and assigns forever All those certain Lots of Land and Premises sit- uate lying and being in the Town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga being Lots Number Three Four Seven Eight Eleven Twelve Seventeen and Eighteen and the Northerly part of the Gore lying to the South of the Domestic homestead in the possession of Cornelius Van Vighten and Jacobus Swart now released which said Lots and Gore are part of the Farm called and known by the name of Dove Gall Farm and also all that certain lot of Land com- monly called the Bleeker lot situate in the Town and County aforesaid lying adjoining to a part of the Premises above mentioned Bounded on the East by Hudsons river in the South by the Dove Gall Farm on the North by Lands now or heretofore the Property of Philip Schuyler

and on the west by lands of the said Philip Schuyler and others as the said several lots are now possessed by the said party of the Second part, as the said premises were conveyed by Maria Leona and others the Heirs of the said Cornelius Van Rhyne deceased to Mitchell Corliss on the 17 th day of January in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred & Fourteen, subject to a Mortgage made & executed by the said Mitchell Corliss to Herman Van Rhyne and others to secure the payment of Sixteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. Together with all and singular the appurtenances privileges and advantages whatsoever unto the said above mentioned and described premises in any wise appertaining or belonging, and the division and divisional remainder and remanent rents issues and profits thereof. And also all the Estate right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever as well in law as in equity of the said parties of the first part of in and to the same or any part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances. To have and to hold the above granted bargained and described premises with the appurtenances unto the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns for his & their own proper use benefit and behoof forever. And the said parties of the first part for the values and their heirs do Covenant from in grant and agree to and with the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns. That they the said parties of the first part at the time of in sealing and delivery of these presents are lawfully seized in their own right of in and to the aforesaid described premises hereby granted and conveyed with the appurtenances, as of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible Estate of inheritance in the law in fee simple without any manner of condition to alter charge determine or defeat the same.

And have in the premises good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and release the above said described Land and Premises with the appurtenances unto the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns in manner aforesaid. And also that they the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter peaceably and quietly have hold occupy possess and enjoy the said hereby granted and bargained Premises with the appurtenances. And also that the said hereby granted and bargained Premises with the appurtenances to the same belonging are free and clear of and from all former gifts grants leases mortgages judgments and all other charges and incumbrances whatsoever had made done or suffered by the said parties of the first part or any other person or persons heretofore owning the Premises. And also that the said parties of the first part and their heirs and all and every other person or persons whomsoever lawfully or equitably deriving any estate right title claim jointure or interest therein or to the herein before granted Premises by from under or in trust for him or them shall and will at any time or times hereafter upon the reasonable request of the said parties of the second part their heirs or assigns and at the proper costs and charges in the law of the said parties of the first part their heirs and assigns make do and execute or cause or procure to be made done and executed all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable conveyances and assurances in the law for the better and more effectually vesting and confirming the Premises hereby intended to be granted in and to the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns forever as by the said parties of the second part their heirs or assigns or their counsel learned in the law shall be reasonably desired advised or required.

And the said parties of the first part themselves and their heirs covenant and agree to and with the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns to Warrant and by their covenants forever to defend the above described and related premises and every part and parcel thereof to the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns against the said parties of the first part and their heirs and against all other persons whomsoever lawfully claiming the same or any part thereof. Except as to the mortgage executed by the said Mitchell Corliss as aforesaid in Wilnips whereby the said parties of the first part have hereto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us The words the said John Redington in the 15 th & 16 th lines obliterated The words from "except" to "aforesaid" between the 2 nd & 3 rd lines from the Bottom interlined before execution
John Redington (L.S.)
Laura Redington (L.S.)
Stearns Hill -
State of New York - County of Saratoga Be it remembered that on the Twenty Sixth day of March in the Year Eighteen hundred and Ninety four personally appeared before me William B. Van Benthuysen one of the Commissioners for taking the acknowledgements of Deeds of the said John Redington & Laura his wife and severally acknowledged the within Instrument to be their respective voluntary act and deed and that they executed the same to and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and the said Laura being examined by me privately and apart from her said husband acknowledged that she signed sealed & delivered the within Instrument freely without any fear or compulsion of her said husband and

Knowing the said John Redington & Laura his wife to be the persons named and described in the within instrument and having examined the same instrument and finding therein no material alterations except those noticed by the witness as appears by the note thereof made before the execution do allow the same to be recorded
William B Van Benthussen one of the commissioners for taking the acknowledgment of Deeds &c. in & for the County of Saratoga
State of New York County of Washington
I, Gerrit Wendell of the Town of Cambridge in the County and State aforesaid Councillor at law and one of the Grantees named in the preceding copy deed, being duly sworn deponeth and saith that the preceding, written on three half sheets of paper is a correct and true copy of an original Deed and of the Certificate of acknowledgement indorsed thereon, made and executed by John Redington and Laura his wife to the Grantees therein named, now in my possession that the said Deed has never been put upon record in the Clerk's office of the County of Saratoga where the premises described in the said Deed are situated and that at the time of the Execution of the said deed it was not necessary by law to place any deed of real estate on record, and further this deponent saith not.
Subscribed this 25 th day of May 1827 by Gerrit Wendell with known to me before me George W. Jennings a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York at law in the Superior Court of said State.
G. Wendell

State of New York Schoharie County, ss
James Cleasland of Cobleskill, in the county of Schoharie and state aforesaid, late of the army of the Protection of the United States of America, aged Seventy years, the fifteenth of July last, being duly sworn saith, that he has repeatedly in parts of the years 1776 and 1777 seen John Bedington with whom he then was, since has been, and still is personally well acquainted, doing duty as an artilleryman in the capacity of a soldier, in the late company of artillery then commanded by Captain ——— M en , commanding the United States artillery, whose Christian name is forgotten; that this deponent saw the said John Bedington at New York, at the retreat from Fort Lee, afterwards in crossing the Delaware, at Shemmany Ferry so called at that time, at which time, this deponent belonged to the qualified master department, and was inspecting the lading of the boats particularly to see that they should not be over-laden which took place in the night time; and this deponent well recollects that at that time and place, the said John Bedington was employed in holding a light of Berwick's barks to enable this deponent to discharge his said duty, in inspecting the embarkation of said boats —
That on a night shortly thereafter this deponent again saw the said John Bedington at the time of the reoccupying of the Americans, at the forks of the Delaware, on the way to Trenton, at each of which aforesaid times, the said John Bedington was a soldier in the company aforesaid clad in the uniform, and serving upon the continental establishment —
That shortly thereafter this deponent was separated from that part of the army, and ordered to Philadelphia — This deponent further saith, that he knows the said John Bedington was reputed a faithful and brave soldier, and always heretofore has understood from his companions in arms, and otherwise, that having served faithfully during twelve months, the term for which he enlisted, that he was honorably discharged. And further this deponent saith not.
James Cleasland

State of New York Schoharie County ss-3
On the Seventh day of October, in the year 1824, before me personally appeared the within named James Cleveland, a person to me personally well known, who, I do hereby certify, is a credible and respectable witness, who subscribed the within affidavit, and made solemn oath to the truth thereof—
John Youngs, a justice of the peace, in and for the county of Schoharie—
Schoharie County ss I John S. Lawryn Clerk of the County aforesaid Do hereby certify that John Youngs whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the taking the above affidavit was on the day of the taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in & for said County And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Youngs, and verily believe that the signature above subscribed, is the proper handwriting of the said John Youngs. In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this seventh day of October 1824.
John S. Lawryn Clerk

3 Ltr from the department of War- Pension office touching Washington pension dated April 10th. 1925-

War Department, Pension Office, 8 th April 1825.
Sir,
I herewith return the papers forwarded by you in the case of John Redington, and have to state that before a final decision can be had on his claim to a pension, he must state why he did not make an earlier application for a pension; and account for all the property he may have disposed of since the 18 th of March 1815, in the manner prescribed by the regulations herewith enclosed.
I am, respectfully, Yr Obt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Sedeciah Miller, Esq r Cobleskill, N. Y.

Elijah Chapman's affidavit of the revolutionary ser- vices of John Brington—

State of Connecticut ss. County of Tolland
I Elisha Chapman of Tolland in the County of Tolland & State of Connecticut now being one year of age being duly sworn testify and say that in June  July 1778 he was an officer in the Revolutionary army of the United States, to wit, a Lieutenant in a Company commanded by Capt. Elisha Chapman the continental establishment in the line of Connecticut and the said Company belonged to Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment This deponent further saith that in about the month of June  July in the year last above mentioned he this deponent in listed John Redington then of said Town of Tolland to him then personally well known into the Company aforesaid for twelve months and that the said John Redington with this deponent in the Company aforesaid soon after the enlistment aforesaid marched to the City of New York at which place there was a call for a certain number of men to be detached from the Regiment of Col. Ward aforesaid and that to redress the said John Redington and a sufficient number of others turned out as volunteers to constitute an Artillery Corps that the said John Redington became one of Capt. Allen's Artillery Company This deponent further saith that he personally knows that the said John Redington remained in said Company of Artillery through the year for which he enlisted and that as a continental soldier he faithfully served through the whole

That year and was honorably discharged with them enlisted for the same time with others belonging to Col. Ward's Regiment of Chatham in the State of New Jersey about the fourteenth day of May in the year 1777 Elijah Chapman
State of Connecticut ss Tolland County ss September 17 1824 Personally appeared General Elijah Chapman the above named deponent made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition and further the said deponent is a respectable & credible witness Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace
Tolland County ss } Clerk's office } I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the County Court for Tolland County in the State of Connecticut Do Certify that Jonathan Barnes Esq before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken is duly installed in this office as a Justice of Peace and for Tolland County legally appointed and qualified to all the duties of a Justice of Peace in said County & that the above sig- nature is in his own handwriting In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court at Tolland this 17 th day of Sept. 1824 Jeremiah Parish Clerk

2 Letter from the department of War - Pension Office touching John Pattington's pension - Dated, June 12th. 1824 -

2 Letter from the department of War - Pension office touching John Pattington's pension - Dated, June 12th. 1824 -

War Department, Pension Office, 12 th June 1824.
Sir,
I herewith return John Redington's declaration, and have to state, that it should be so amended as to set forth the county in which he resides. He must also prove his service by the testimony of two credible witnesses, certified to be such by the magistrate who may administer the oaths to them. The official character and signature of the magistrate should be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of Office.
I am, respectfully, Yr. Obt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Isaaciah Miller, Esq. Cobleskill, N.Y.

5 John Beclington a revolutionary pensioner's Papers —
(Filey. Vol. 10244)

The value of all his estate excepting the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself and family is One hundred and Fourteen Dollars and sixty seven cents -
John Redington
Sworn before me, in open Court this
3. day of Feby. 1824. John D. Lameyer, Clk.
The said John Redington do hereby further also swear and declare that since the Revolutionary war, I have been at different times Farmer Magistrate Merchant Legislator and Tavern Keeper that from the infirmities of age, and reduced circumstances unable to conduct other business. I have during the two past years for the support of my family been engaged in keeping a small country tavern, and until the present winter have generally been able to attend here, and do the most of light work, during all which time, I have economised according to the best of my ability all concerns that have instead of advancing been growing poorer. During the present winter I have been too lame to do any kind of business profitably, though I have heretofore enjoyed good health.
I am also, through the indulgence of my friends, honestly and truly indebted to divers individuals, in various large sums of money, which I am totally unable to pay; and for the stand I occupy, I have paid nothing, but worked as best for its accommodation -
Laurea my wife
was thirty six years of age the 20th. June last, and is a woman of good health and faculties. We have five infant children of ordinary health and faculties of the ages following said, One of eleven years of age, of 7, of 5, of 3 & of 1 year
And from the premises aforesaid, I sometimes that I can truly say I am deserving, and that I am in such needy and indigent circumstances, as to require the assistance of my country for the comfortable support of myself and my family -
Sworn before me in open Court This 3. day of Feby. 1824 -
John Redington
John D. Lameyer, Clk - Schoharie County, N.Y.
I, John D. Lameyer, Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Schoharie, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the said

Property entitled in the aforesaid Schedule, is One Hundred and Fourteen Dollars and Sixty Seven Cents.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this third _____ day of February, in the year of our Lord one thou- and eight hundred and Twenty Four -
John D. Lawyatt Clerk.

And in pursuance of the act of the first May, 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen 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 18 th day of March One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen; And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debt due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me Subscribed.
The said John Redington hath no real estate whatsoever, either in possession reversion or remainder.
A true and perfect Schedule or inventory of the personal property of the said John Redington the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself and family excepted. 1 Large Bible, 1 Book the life of Christ. 2 Psalm Books, 2 School Books. 1 Set Scales & Weights. 1 Set Small Scales. 4 Jugs. 5 Glass Bottles. 3 Quarters. 2 Punnels. 8 Tumblers. 2 kegs. 2 Pitchers. 1 Wash Bowl. 2 Small old Looking Glasses. 3 Tables, all old. 12 old Chairs. 1 Pair Shears & Scissors. 2 Iron Candle Sticks. 2 Snuffers. 4 Tin Milk Pans. 1 Set Tea Cups & Saucers. 2 Doz White Plates. 1 Earthen Tea Pot. 1 Coffee Pot. 1 old Candle Stand. 1 Wash Stand. 1 old Server. 2 old Chests. 1 Trunk. 2 Floor Boards. 4 old Cedar Boards. 2 Sheet Boards. 1 Glass Sash. 1 Pitch fork. 2 Rakes. 1 Iron Pot. 2 do Kettles. 1 old Frying Pan. 1 Baking Pan. 1 Grid Iron. 1 Toast Iron. 1 pair flatirons. 1 Doz Knives & Forks. 1 Carving knife & fork. 2 pair old Iron And Irons. 2 Shovel & Tongs. 1 old Lantern. 6 Spoons. 1 Grind Stone. 2 Augers. 1 Iron Square. 1 Saw & 4 Pigs. 1 Stone Pot. 1 Salt Mortar. 1 Coffee Mill. 1 Cow. 1 Bushel Wheat. 3 Gallons Jamaica Rums. 2 do St. Croix. 1 1/2 do Brandy. 1 Lump Sugar 6 lb about 3/4 Barrel Pork & Hams, about 4 Bushels Rye, about 4 Cwt Hay, about 40 Bushels Potatoes. 4 Bushels Buck Wheat. 1 Pair old Spectacles. 1 Axe. 3 old Sleds. 1 old Horseman's sword & Cartridge Box. 2 Gallon Whiskey. The said John Redington doth upon his oath before said declare that

State of New York Schobearie County ss.
In this Third day of February in the year of our Lord 1824, personally appeared in the open Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schobearie said court being a Court of Record, John Redington aged Sixty Six years the 29 th September last as he has ever been informed and verily believes, who being firstly duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March, 1818, and the 1 st May 1820, that the said John Redington enlisted for the term of One year, about the fourteenth day of May, but on what particular day he doth not recollect, in the year 1776, at Tolland, in the State of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain — Prior whose Christian name is not recollected, in a Regiment Commanded by Col d Ward, whose Christian name is forgotten, in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment.
That after his arrival at New York there was an order for drafting a certain number of men not now recollected, to enter Capt. Allen company Artillery unless the number required should be obtained without, upon which the said John Redington volunteered with others, and served the residue of the year in said company of Artillery, faithfully until the fourteenth day of May 1777 when he was discharged at Chatham, in the State of New Jersey honorably, but if he had a written discharge it has been lost. He the said John Redington was actively engaged in taking the Hessians at Trenton, and was afterwards near the person of Gen l Washington in the attack upon Princeton, and immediately concerned under the command of General Knox, in the Artillery, in expelling the enemy from the College.
He was afterwards as one of Captain Chamberlains horse in the service of the State of Connecticut at the taking of Burgoyne, and served under three several annual enlistments under Capt. James Dana, while in that service in the year 1781, he was taken at Horse Neck and imprisoned in the Sugar House at New York about two months, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

And in pursuance of the act of the first May, 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by Gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of any 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 18 th day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen; And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debt due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained, in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
The said John Redington hath no real estate whatsoever, either in possession reversion or remainder.
A true and perfect schedule or inventory of the personal property of the said John Redington the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself and family excepted.
1 Large Bible, 1 Book the life of Christ, 2 Psalm Books, 1 School Book, 1 Set Scales & Weights, 1 Set small Scales, 4 Jugs, 5 Glass Bottles, 3 Quarters, 2 Tumblers, 8 Glasses, 2 kegs, 2 Pitchers, 1 Wash Bowl, 2 Small old Looking Glasses, 3 Tables, all etc. 12 old Chairs, 1 Pair Shears & Scissors, 2 Iron Candle Sticks & Snuffers, 4 Tin Milk Pans, 1 Set Tea Cups & Saucers, 2 Doz White Plates, 1 Earthen Tea Pot, 1 Coffee Pot, 1 old Candle Stand, 1 Wash Stand, 1 old Server, 2 old Chests, 1 Trunk, 2 Flour Barrels, 4 old Cider Barrels, 2 Wheat Barrels, 1 Grass Scythe, 1 Pitch fork, 2 Rakes, 1 Iron Pot, 2 do Kettles, 1 old frying Pan, 1 Porkie Pan, 1 Grid Iron, 1 Toast Iron, 1 pair flat Iron, 1 Doz Knives & Forks, 1 Carving knife & fork, 2 pair old Iron And Irons, 2 Shovel & Tongs, 1 old Lantern, 6 Spoons, 1 Grind Stone, 2 Axes, 1 Iron Square, 1 Saws & 4 Pigs, 1 Stone Pot, 1 Set Mortar, 1 Coffee Mill, 1 Cors, 1 Bushel Wheat, 3 Gallons Jamaica Rum, 2 do St. Croix, 1 1/2 do Brandy, 1 Lump Sugar 6 lb about 3/4 Barrel Pork & Hams, about 4 Bushels Rye, about 4 Cwt Hay, about 40 Bushels Potatoes, 4 Bushels Buck Wheat, 1 Pair old Spectacles, 1 Ale, 3 old Saws, 1 old Horseman's sword & Cartridge Box, 2 Gallons Whiskey.
The said John Redington doth upon his oath afore said declare that

The value of all his estate excepting the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself and family is One hundred and Fourteen Dollars and sixty seven cents -
John Kedington
Sworn before me, in open court this
3. day of Feby. 1824. John D. Lameyer, Clk.
The said John Kedington do hereby further also swear and declare that since the Revolutionary war, I have been at different times Farmer Magistrate Merchant Legislator and Tavern keeper that from the infirmities of age, and reduced circumstances unable to conduct other business, I have during the two past years for the support of my family been engaged in keeping a small country tavern, and until the present winter have generally been able to attend beer, and do the most of light work, during all which time, I have economised according to the best of my ability all concern but have instead of advancing been growing poorer. During the present winter I have been too lame to do any kind of business profitably, though I have heretofore enjoyed good health.
I am also, through the indulgence of my friends, honestly and truly indebted to divers individuals, in various large sums of money, which I am totally unable to pay; and for the stand I occupy, I have paid nothing, but erected a shed for its accommodation -
Laurel my wife was thirty six years of age the 20th. June last, and is a woman of good health and faculties. We have five infant children of ordinary health and faculties of the ages following vizil. One of eleven years of age, of 7, of 5, of 3 & of 1 year
And from the premises aforesaid, I conceives that I can truly say I am deserving, and that I am in such needy and indigent circumstances, as to require the assistance of my country for the comfortable support of myself and my family
Sworn before me in open court
John Kedington
This 3. day of Feby. 1824 -
John D. Lameyer, Clk -
Schoharie County, ss.
I, John D. Lameyer, Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Schoharie, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the said

Property entitled in the aforesaid Schedule, is One Hundred and Fourteen Dollars and Sixty Seven Cents.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thou- and eight hundred and Twenty Four -
John D. Sawyer Clerk.

State of New York town of Schoharie County ss: William Boyce - on being duly sworn doth declare and say that he was present at the intermarriage of Laura Reddington with Joseph John Reddington deceased. What Marriage took place on or about the fifth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty That the said Laura Reddington was then and is now personally with the undersigned and is the identical person who was married by the Rev. Thomas T. T. T. at Schoharie in the town of Cobleskill on the  and  the  at to the deceased in my presence, and that the said Widow Laura Reddington now resides with her family in the town of Cobleskill in the County and State aforesaid -
Henry Jaycox
Sworn the 31 st day of May 1841 before me Martin Meneley Justice of the peace
State of New York Schoharie County ss
On the thirty first day of May 1841. Before me personally appeared the within named William Boyce a person to me personally well known who I do hereby certify is a credible and respectable witness who subscribed the within affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth thereof.
Martin Meneley a justice of the peace in and for the County of Schoharie

State of New York } ss
Schoharie County } I Thomas M c Arthur Clerk of the said County. do certify, that Martin Maseley, before whom the within affidavit, purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal, this 7 th day of June. 1840.
Thos M c Arthur, Clerk, of the County of Scho.

To the Hon ble J. M. Porter Secretary of War
By a resolution of Congress passed the 29 th May 1830, it is made the duty of the heads of Departments to present to the Senate and House of Representatives a several list of such persons whether revolutionary, invalid, or otherwise, as shall have made application for a pension, and in their opinion ought to be placed on the pension-roll, or otherwise provided for, and for the doing which they have no sufficient power or authority, &c to the end that Congress may consider the same —
The above resolution would seem to render it appropriate that the subscriber, widow and executrix of John Redington deceased, who died on the 12 th day of April 1830 should ask a review of her husband's pension papers: whose application bears date the 3 rd February 1824 —
It will be observed by the annexed papers that the Declaration and Schedule of the applicant was substantially a compliance with the acts of March 18 th 1818 and May 1 st 1820 and so considered by the Department, with the uncorrected omissions noted per letter of the 12 th June 1824 — When the omissions indicated were supplied the requisition of the Department involved the case amidst inextinguishable difficulties; which the applicant, poor and feeble health, in his life time, was unable to remove: altho' attempts were made and persevered in to comply comply with the rules of unerring scrutiny adopted by the Department until 1827, as will also manifestly appear by the papers attached. —
Should the accompanying papers convince the views entertained that the applicant was truly and honestly an object of Government bounty,

contemplated by the acts of 1818 & 1820, and delays to be decided upon during the life times of the applicants in consequence of Official regulations enforced with stern security against him — No substantial reason, it is hoped, can be assigned why such arrearage of bounty should not be given to his widow, to relieve her, in some small degree, from the wants incident to human life —
The ruin of her late husband and consequent necessity of his application to the Government for aid and assistance was not the fruit of idleness or want of industry and economy; but the result of an unguarded moment when he yielded to the importunities of a friend, and became his bail to secure the payment of $16,000. —
To extricate himself from this calamity he was obliged to devote all his means; and dispose of all his property to make the payments exacted. That done, in a game, went, and the consequent application to Government followed as a necessary consequence — This will explain why no earlier application to the Government under the acts mentioned was made; and but for his misfortune in becoming the bail of Mitchell her life the Government never would have heard of the acts, soldier's importunities for public charity; nor of his impoverished Widow, or children. —
Should there be no power in the Department to grant the relief sought for; strong hopes are entertained that the Department will make a brief statement for the favorable action of Congress in her behalf. —
Very respectfully &c
Cooper's Hill, New York Nov. 10 th 1843
Lucia Ralston

10. 7072
1878 Jan 3. H H Adams - who had given military personal history of soldiers
New York - Albany.
Maria Miller, formerly widow of John Redington,
who served in the Revolutionary
Conn war, as an Artillerist.
Conn
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 dollars — cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 11. June 1861.
Certificate of Pension issued 16. day of Dec. 1861
and sent to
John H. Tucker Present.
on Roll of Pensioners under act 1853, Page 22 Vol. 10, n 3.

Additional Evidence.
Claim of Barbara Miller for services of John Redington for Revolutionary Pension.
1897
John L. Tucker Present.

State of New York County of Schoharie } S.S.
On this second day of December 1881 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, per- sonally appeared Laura Miller, aged 74 years, a resident of Cobleskill, in said County and State, where she has resided for sixty three years past, and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of John Redington, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, that her said husband entered service in Holland County Militia — as she was informed by her husband John Redington deceased in the spring of 1776 and served several years during the war. That since the death of her husband in the year 1843 presented a claim before Congress for a pension in right of services rendered by her said husband John Redington in the Revolution- ary War: That she said John Redington in his lifetime made an unsuccessful effort to obtain a pension: that she desires to avail herself of the provisions and provisions filed by her said husband in support of his claim, and respectfully requests that the same may be referred to in connection with her application for a similar pension. January 31 1853, filed by Hartshorne, Inc. H. Master of Washington D.C. on the 21 st of Jan. 1851. That she was married to the said John Redington on the 5 th day of December 1811 at Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York, by the Rev. Mr. Halloran, a minister of the Gospel. That her name before her said marriage was Laura Baker; That her said husband died at Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York on the 12 th day of April 1830. That she was not married to him prior to said marriage in May 1800, but at the time of her death; and she further states that there is no public record of her marriage; and that there is a private record of her marriage, and

of the death of her said husband John Bedington She further states that she again on the 26 th day of March, 1845 was married to Sedediah Miller in Cohoeskill, County of Schoharie State of New York; that the said Sedediah Miller, died at Cohoeskill State of New York on the 10 th day of June 1861, that there is no public record of his death, and that there is a private record of the same. She further declares that she is now a widow, and makes this declaration as additional evidence in support of her claim for a Revolutionary Pension.
Laura Miller
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written and I hereby certify that I know the said Laura Miller, and believe her to be as is above stated, and that she is of the age stated, and further that I am not interested in this her claim as Attorney or otherwise.
Tiffany Sawyer Justice of the peace in and for Schoharie County
State of New York County of Schoharie } ss.
On this second day of December, 1861 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Thomas Sawyer aged 76 years, and William Elmendorf aged 80 years, both residents of Cohoeskill in said County and State, and to me well known to be credible witnesses, who being duly sworn declared, each for himself, that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Laura Miller the above named applicant for a pension that they have known her for forty years past

that they were acquainted with her former husband John Redington, having known him for thirty years previous to his death. That they the said Mary Redington and Laura Redington lived together as husband and wife and were reputed to be so. That it appears to her that the act of their marriage is disputed or questioned. That she said Mary Redington died on or about the 12th day of April, 1830. That he was reputed to be a Revolutionary soldier, and that Mary informed and greatly believed that he did know the war, and was a successful soldier in the Revolution, and that her widow who has subscribed to the following declaration is the identical person who about the year 1843 petitioned Congress for a pension in right of her Revolutionary services after said husband. That the said Laura Redington again on the 20th day of March 1845 married Edward Miller, at Cobleskill in the State of New York, and that they were then acquainted with the said Miller, who departed this life on the 10th day of June 1861. And that the said Laura, is still a widow. Respectfully further state that they are not interested in the matter claimed. Morris Law
Wm. Elmerdorf
Concord, and published before me this day, and gave full authority and thereby certify that I have no interest in the within claim.
William Lloyd Jones, Value of the "peace in v. for a Chohan" " " " County

STATE OF NEW-YORK, SCHOHARIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss :
I, John H. Shafer, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Tiffany Sawyer whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit was at the date therein mentioned, viz.: on the 2 nd day of December 1861 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie, sworn and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature of the said Justice is genuine, and that the same was executed according to the laws of this State
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the 3 rd day of December 1861.
John H. Shafer CLERK.

State of New York County of Schoharie } S.S.
On this Tenth day of December A.D. 1861 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Thomas Lawger a resident of Cobleskill in said County and State and known to me to be a credible witness, who being by me first duly sworn, doth on his oath state that he is acquainted with Laura Miller formerly widow of John Redington , deceased, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, having known her for the last forty years; that he has examined her family records and believes the same to be genuine, that it is contained in a book purporting to be the Holy Bible and printed in the year 1807 and that the said record as far as relates to the marriage of John Redington and Laura , his wife, and of the death of said John Redington , and also of the death of her second husband Sedediah Miller , is as follows, which is an exact copy of the same: " Marriage " John Redington and Laura Wales were married December 5 th 1811... Death  John Redington departed this life April 12 th 1830. . . . Death  Sedediah Miller departed this life June 10 th 1861. . . . . " " " " " " " " " " " " and that the said deponent is not interested in the claim.
Thomas Lawger

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I have no interest in the within claim.
Tiffany Sawyer, Justice of the Peace in and for Schoharie County
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss: SCHOHARIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I, John F. Shafer, Clerk of said County,
do hereby certify that Tiffany Sawyer whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit, was at the date therein mentioned, viz.: on the 11th day of December 18 61 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie, sworn and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature of the said Justice is genuine, and that the same is executed according to the laws of this State
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the 11th day of December 18 61 . John F. Shafer CLERK.

316.835. Act Mch 3/55 Dec 31/61
Ed Butts
Laura Miller for wid John Redington Pri
Capt Prior Col Andrew Ward Conn line Revolution
See Pension papers
Allowed 160 acres. L. M. Drury.
Examiner.
John S. Tucker Present

CLERK.
316.825 Claim of Laura Miller - formerly widow of John Redington for Pounty Land Act 3 rd March 1880. (Revolutionary Pensions under Act 3 rd Feb. 1833.)
Recd John Redington Perryville Ky.
John H. Tucker Agent Present.

State of New York County of Schoharie. } ss.
On this 25 th day of December 1861 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Mrs. Laura Miller aged 74 years, a resident of Cobleskill, in the County of Schoharie and State of New York, who being duly sworn declares that she is the widow of John Redington deceased, as she was informed by her husband John Redington deceased only believes that who was a soldier in a company commanded by Captain Prior in the Regiment of Connecticut Line, commanded by Col. Andrew Ward and also as an Artillerist in Captain Allen's Company, which company was composed chiefly of men detached from Col. Ward's Regiment, in the War of the American Revolution.
That her said husband entered the service at Tolland Connecticut in May 1776, and continued in actual service in said War at least two years and was in 1781 imprisoned in the Sugar House at New York, where he remained till the latter part of 1781 when discharged. That she has no knowledge of the certificate of discharge.
She further states that she was married to the said John Redington in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York State on the 5th. day of December 1811 by one Mr. Tollman a clergyman; that her name before her said marriage was Laura Mills; that her said husband died at Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York on the 12th. day of April 1830. That on the 20 th day of March 1845 she was again married to Jedediah Miller, and that the said Jedediah Miller died at Cobleskill on the 10th.

say of June 1861, and that she is still a widow. That there is no public record of the marriage or death of her said husband, that there is a private record of the same. That for proof of her husband's service, her marriage, and the death of both her husbands she respectfully refers to the papers filed in support of her claim for a Revolutionary Pension under Act 3 d Feb. 1833, on which Pension Certificate No 7072 was issued dated 16 Decr 1861. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received Bounty Land under any act of Congress, and makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the warrant to which she may be entitled under Act of March 3 d 1855. She hereby appoints J. A. Tucker of Washington D. C. her true and lawful Attorney to prosecute this her claim for land, and to receive the certificate or warrant when issued.
Witness: Tiffany Sawyer
Levina Miller
Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and I hereby certify that I know the above deponent Levina Miller, to be as is above stated, and that she is of the age above stated, and further that I am not interested in her claim for Bounty Land as Attorney or otherwise.
Tiffany Sawyer Witness of the "pleas in s for Schoharie County
State of New York County of Schoharie I SS
On this 25 th day of December 1861 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared

Peter Cole " and Philip P. Island who are to me well known and who are credible witnesses and who being duly sworn depose and say that they are residents of Cobbskill, in the County of Schoharie and State of New York, that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Hannah Miller who has known and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, that they have known her for 35 years past, that they were acquainted with her former husband John Redington and her late husband Jedediah Miller, that the said John Redington and the said Jedediah Miller are both deceased and that the said Hannah Miller is now a widow, and further that the said John Redington was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and that they have no interest in the said claim.
Peter Cole
Philip P. Island
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year above written.
Tiffany Sawyer Justice of the Peace in & for Schoharie County
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
SCHOHARIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS:
H. John F. Shafer, Clerk of said County,
do hereby certify that Tiffany Sawyer whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit was at the date therein mentioned, viz.: on the 25 th day of December 1861 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie, sworn and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature of the said Justice is genuine, and that the same is executed according to the laws of this State
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the 26 th day of December 1861.
John F. Shafer CLERK.

n 1 letter to the mother J.B.
copy of evidence to ams M.C. J.B.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
1893 to. D. Ch. etc see copy.
File No. 10498
Apr 30'9 marriage H H ad
Leanna Miller French Hill John Badian Rev. Rev. War
Act: Act of
Index:—Vol. M , Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10498-24.

100.37 1/2
160.00
Pension Act 7 Feb. 1873.
Second instance
First instance
Hon Jos. A. Barrett, Comr. of Pensions - Present.

Hon Jos. H. Barrett.
Comr of Pensions. Present.
Additional Evidence. Act 3 d Feb. 1853.
Hon Jos. H. Barrett.
Comr of Pensions. Present.
Laurens Miller John Kensington
Mr. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]

RECEIVED JUN 30 1861 PENSION OFFICE
Hon Jos. H. Barrett Com te of Pensions Present.

John Redington widow of
Petition of Laura Redington praying for the payment of the pension due her husband on account of her services during the revolutionary war
Dec 19 1844 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
December 27, 1845. Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
March 27, 1846 Ref. 21. to 1335
M c Gowan

Jos. H. Barrett Esq. Commission of Housing Washington D.C.

Laura Miller, formerly widow of John Redington.
Schoharie County, New York.
at 3 rd February 1853.
allowed at the rate of $50. per ann. - paid on the 11 th of June 1861.
the Artillerist in the Civil war.
John H. Tucker
Present.

No. 7626. Laura Miller - formerly widow of John Redington - New York -
Lt. Clark H. Phipps Oct 3 rd 1861. Lt. John H. Tucker, Oct. 9. 1861 " John H. Tucker Nov. 16. 61
Act. 3 rd Feb. 1853.

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OFFICE OF
Henry H. Adams
SPECIAL AIDE TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
177 Broadway.
New York Apr. 2> Apr. 24, 96.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I desire to get proof of marriage between Capt. John Redington of Schoharie Co., New York and Laura Wales, daughter of Capt. Elisha Smith Wales.
Capt. John Redington served in the Revolutionary War and resided at Lawyersville, or Cobleskill, New York. He drew pension and made affidavits of his marriage, I believe, or if not, then Laura Redington, his wife made affidavits and submitted same to the Pension Authorities at Washington.
I would like to have transmitted to me at the earliest possible moment, a sworn copy of the affidavits now on file, which were made and executed by Laura Wales, the wife of John Redington, in securing her pension.
Whatever charges are incurred on this, I shall be glad to pay.
Awaiting your reply, believe me,
Yours very truly,
Henry H. Adams

O. W. & N. Div. L. W. B. W. 10498.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30th, 1896.
Sir:-
As requested in your communication of the 24th inst., I transmit herewith a certified copy of the evidence of marriage of Laura Reddington to John Reddington, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, as set forth in her application for pension now on file in this Bureau.
It appears that a statement of the soldier's military history was sent you under date of January 3rd, 1875.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Henry H. Adams,
177 Broadway, New York City,
New York.

1000 100 1000
JUN 13 1892
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4750 HANCOCK ST.
GERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.
JUNE, 11, 1892.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSION OFFICE, DEPT. INTERIOR,
DEAR SIR,
WASHINGTON D.C.
KINDLY FURNISH ME WITH A STATEMENT OF THE DURATION OF A PENSION PAID TO THE WIDOW OF JOHN REDINGTON OF LAWYERSVILLE, SCHUYLER CO., N.Y., A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, D. 1839. A LETTER OF ONE OF YOUR PREDECESSORS, DATED JAN'Y 3, 1876 ADDRESSED TO H.H. ADAMS CLEVELAND, O., RECITED THE SERVICES OF THE SAID RED- INGTON AND STATES HIS WIFE, LAURA YALES, DIED JULY 22, 1868, HAVING MARRIED JEDIDIAH MILLER OF COBLESKILL, N.Y. IN 1845. He died 1861. "
VERY RESPY.
T. Chester Walbridge

OFFICE OF HENRY H. ADAMS, SUCCESSOR TO REDINGTON & ADAMS. Pig Iron & Iron Ore.
CLARKSTON, D. Dec 8 1870
N. J. Graham Esq. Dept of the Interior. Washington D. C.
Sir: I want a copy of the facts relating to the service of John Redington who served in the Rev. War. The papers on file in the Pension Office give some information relating to him - the father of Jct. Redington. A proof of his service is now on file in the department. This proof was sent to Washington about the year 1828 or 1829 & laid there until 1861 or 1862 when a Pension was obtained.
Will you kindly get Copy of the proof & send to me and if to any expense let me know. I desire to know what Compy & Reg he served in & all the facts connected with his service that it is possible to obtain.
I am Yours Very truly, H. H. Adams

Washington, Dec. 30. 1860.
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Emma Miller formerly widow of John Redington for Bounty Land under Act of March 3 d 1855.
Yours Very Truly, John R. Tucker.
Wm Lloyd J. Barnett Comm. of Pensions Present.

John Redington Widow of =

Warren Office, May 17 th 1881.
Sir,
Upon the papers in the case of Laura Herring, widow of John Herring, deceased, the Secretary of War has made the following remarks, and I herewith return the papers.
"In the within case prior to the death of the husband, the proofs were not entirely completed. There was something wanting - say it was not strict - call it technicality and form - but still it was necessary - and if that so called technical defect has not been supplied, the pension could not be obtained . It is an act of Congress , not a regulation of the Bureau, which provides that the pension shall commence when the evidence is made complete."
"This cannot break over the law. The shades of difference in cases are so light, and so run into one another, that we do not know when to stop. If you ever make up exceptions and dispense with what is required by the law, and the rules of the Office, the demands upon us for relaxation and exceptions would be almost innumerable. I affirm the decision. (Signed) Wm. Wilkins."
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully,
Hon. J. E. Carey, House of Representatives.
Your Obedient Servant,
J. L. Edwards

Washington
Nov. 15. 1861.
Hon Jos. A. Barrett Comm ee of Pensions
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose you my authority as Agent in the claim of Mrs Laura Miller formerly widow of John Redington, dec d , for a Revolutionary Pension under the Act of 3 rd  March Feb. 1853, - as required by your letter of Oct. 9 th ult o . herewith returned.
Yours Very Resp ly .
John H. Tucker.

Pension Office, October 9 th 1861.
Sir, Before the case of Laura Miller, of New York, formerly widow of John Redington, can be acted upon and reported to you, a power of attorney, properly executed, acknowledged and authenticated, authorizing you to act for her, should be filed.
Very respectfully, Jos. H. Barnett, Commissioner.
John H. Tucker, Esq., Present.

Laura Miller, formerly widow of John Redington, An Artillerist in the revolutionary War.
State of New York County of Schoharie -
Act 3 rd February 1853.
John Redington applied for a pension under the act of 18 th March 1818, and alleged one years service from May 1776, in Captain Allens Company of Artillery. He proved the service by the testimony of Elijah Chap- -man, who as a Lieutenant, enlisted Redington, and had personal knowledge of his service for the entire year - Chapman subsequently became a Captain & served through the whole war, & drew a pension under act 18 th March 1818.
Jamies Christland also testified to Redington's service for one year, he being a soldier himself, and often seeing him in the ranks.
The records of the service for the year 1776, are exceedingly imperfect in all the States, and under the act of 18 th March 1818, testimony of one commission- -ed Officer, or of two soldiers was deemed suf- -ficient to establish a claim to a pension.
But Redington was not allowed a pension for the

reason that he possessed property sufficient to ex- -clude him from the benefit of the act. He died in the year 1830 1820.
In the year 1843. his widow the present applicant presented a petition to Congress to be allowed the amount of pension her husband would have had if the property had not declared him from the benefit of the act. She submitted the original declaration - & proofs, proved herself to be his widow, and fur- -nished the testimony of a witness present at her Mar- -riage to Redington on the 3 rd of December 1811. Her application was not granted, & she was not herself then entitled to a pension for her Mar- -riage was subsequent to the year 1794.
Subsequently she married a man named Jedediah Miller who died on the 10 th day of June 1861. leaving her a widow, and she now applies for a pension as the widow of John Red- -ington.
The service of John Redington, as an Artillerist in one year, is fully established by the testi- -mony above referred to.

marriage Her identity, as his widow, is  was proven by the original papers presented to Congress, and by the testimony of two respectable witnesses.
Her marriage is proven by the same evidence, and by a certified copy of a family record, showing it to have occurred on the 5 th of December 1811, & by testimony as to the relation of husband & wife.
Death of the last husband proved by the same evidence.
Pay of an Artillerist was $100. per ann.
Pension for one years service, at the rate of $50. per ann.
Allowd. at the rate of $50. per ann. to begin on the 11 th day of June 1861.
L. H. Drury Examining Clerk
John H. Tucker Agent. Present.

State of Connecticut,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Hartford, Dec. 2 d 1861
J. A. Redington Esq. Sir,
Your letter of Nov. 27 th with two dollars inclosed, has been duly received at this office. I have made a careful examination of the Pay Rolls of the Connecticut Line of the Continental army, and have not been able to find the name of John Redington on those Rolls.
Col. Ward's Regt. was raised in 1776 for two months, and Abner Prior was a Captain in said Regiment at that time, but I have not been able to find the Pay Roll of his Com-

hang for that service. Capt. Prior served again in the Regiment commanded by Col. Andrew Ward in 1776 or 1777, but the Pay Roll for this service is unfortunately lost.
We have some other sources of evidence, which I will ex- amine as soon as my other duties will permit, and if I can find any evidence of the service of your father I will write you immediately.
We are now making up our accounts for the payment to families of our volunteers, and my time is very con- stantly occupied, so that it will probably be some
days before I can examine farther in this matter. I will complete the search as soon as I can, and if any thing is found I will send you the certificate.
I am, very respectfully yours &c.
Geo. Robinson For Comptroller

A. A. N.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11, 1893.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of June 8, 1892, in which you request to be informed of the duration of pension paid to the widow of John Redington, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I have to state that the Bureau is unable to furnish the desired information. It may be obtained, possibly, upon application to the Third Auditor, Treasury Department. The pension was paid at the New York Agency, Certificate No. 7072.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
T. Chester Walbridge, Esq.,
No. 4750 Hancock St.,
Germantown, Pa.

L. W. B.
State of New York,
ss
Town of Seward, Schoharie County.
William Boyer on being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was present at the inter- marriage of Laura Reddington with Capt. John Reddington, deceased; Which marriage took place on or about the Fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven. That the said Laura Reddington was then and is now personally well known to me and is the identical person who was married by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Tallman to the deceased in my presence in Lawyersville in the town of Cobleskill, Schoharie County; and that the said widow, Laura Reddington, now resides with her family in the town of Cobleskill in the County and State aforesaid.
William Boyer. (Signed)
Sworn the 31st day of May,
1841, before me,
Martin Menley, Justice of the Peace.

Washington City Sept. 19. 1861.
Hon Jos. H. Barrett. Comm ee of Pensions.
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs Laura Miller formerly widow of John Redington, deceased, for a Pension under Act 3 d February 1853.
For proof of the Revolutionary Service of John Redington, I respectfully refer your honor to the evidence and testimony presented before the "Committee of Revolutionary Pensions", at the 29 th Congress, 1 st session, and to the report of said Committee numbered 489.
Very Respectfully Your Obt. Serv t . John H. Tucker.

Power of Attorney from Laura Miller widow of John Redington. Claim for Rev. Pension Act 3 Feb 1888.
John D. Tucker, Agent. Present.

1 Know all men by these presents, That I Laura Miller, of Cobleskill — in the County of Schoharie and State of New York, do hereby constitute and appoint John D. Tucker, of Washington N. E. my true and lawful attorney to prosecute my claim for a Pension under Act 3 d February 1853 in right of services rendered in the Revolutionary War by my former husband John Redington; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to consult all papers and documents relating to my claim, on file in the Pension Office or elsewhere, to file additional Evidence, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.
Witness my hand and Seal this 30 th day of October 1864.
Widow's Signature.
Signed and sealed in presence of
John W. Redington Niffany Sawys State of New York County of Schoharie }
Laura Miller
On this Thirtieth day of October 1864 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mrs. Laura Miller and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed; and I certify that I have no interest in the claim of Mrs. Miller.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year above written.
Niffany Sawys, Justice of the Peace in & for for Schoharie County.
(Get the claim to attach his certificate.)

STATE OF NEW YORK, Schoharie County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, JOHN F. SHAFER, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, do hereby certify that Tiffany Lawyer Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie, sworn and duly authorised to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and the same is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal this 1 st day of November 18 61
John F. Shafer Clerk.