Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19927, William Burrus, Conn.

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Burrus, William or Burrows
S. 19927
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1992 4 INVALID.
File No. 19927
William Burrows
Pr. Per War
Act: _____
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 57
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Connecticut
William Burrows
Private Conn troops in the army of the revolution inscribed on the roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of $8 per month.
Formal certificate issued 4 October 1827 and sent to the Pensioner Can of John Parish, Esq. Brooklyn Connecticut

State of Connecticut ss.
Trinity Sept. 17 th 1823.
County of Windham
We the subscribers Practising Surgeons & Physicians of the Town of Trillingly aforesaid do hereby certify that after a careful examination in the case of William Burrows who is now on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut. We are of opinion that his disability does still continue, and that it consists of the loss of his left Leg, which was amputated above the knee in consequence of a wound received while employed in a Wooding party in said service. And further that the degree of disability under which he labours is total and such as fully entitles him to his pension of Eight Dollars per month it being not less than the original degree of disability for which he was placed on the pension roll.
Daniel Hatches Lorenzo Ware
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the Subscriber a justice of the Peace for said County of Windham this 17 th day of September D 1823
Anthony Brown justice of Peace
I certify that the deponents are credible persons
Anthony Brown justice of Peace

Copy of a memorandum or Certificate con- ferred on Wm Barry an Invalid Pensioner of the United States by the Judges of the Superior Court of Connecticut Sept. 19 1788 -
" On due Examination it appears, that " William Barry of residing in the town of Killingly " in the County of Windham, aged about twenty seven " years, in the month of December (AD 1780), while " a Soldier in the third Connecticut Regiment " in the service of the United States, received " in the service aforesaid, while employed in " a wooding party, a wound in his knee, which has " since occasioned the amputation of his leg, " whereby he has been ever since the conclusion " of the war still is rendered incapable of per- " forming Military duty, or of gaining a livelihood " and is entitled to receive from the United States " four dollars per month for his support - " Windham September 19 th 1788
Campbottle's Office
Wartford May 31 st 1813
The foregoing is a true copy of the Original Certification the Books of this office
Certified by Elisha Galt (Campbottle)
Certified by Richard Law Eliphalet Dyer Roger Sherman William Pitkin Oliver Ellsworth
Judges of the Superior Court

An application for a Pension Certificate
County of Windham & Brooklyn
On the 24 th day of September 1823, before me the Subscriber, a Notary Public, duly appointed and sworn, residing in said Brooklyn, personally appeared William Bursey of Killingly in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Pierson & Rogers in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B Webb in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Connecticut, but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one.
Sworn & Subscribed to William Bursey before me the day & year aforesaid. Witness my signature & seal of office John Parish Not Public

Rec d Oct. 3. 1823.
Brooklyn Ct Sept 26 13 Oct 1823
J. H. Edwards Esquire Treason Office Bar Department Washington