Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 584, Philip Bartlet, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bartlet, Philip Lydia
NUMBER
R. 584
CONTENTS

Plattsburgh June 14. 1842.
Sir.
Mrs. Lydia Bartlet, as I am informed by her son, died at Saratoga on the fifteenth day of October last, having previously made her declaration to obtain a pension as the widow of Philip Bartlet deceased. His children have procured some further evidence in the case, which I enclose, & will thank you to give such instructions in regard to the claim as you may deem proper.
Yours Respectfully
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions.
J. D. Woodward

Act of March 3 rd 1833
Saranac Clinton Co, N.Y. Aug 19 th 1836
Dr Sir
Yours of the 11 th instant in relation to the claim of George Parsons M a 184077 for bounty land came duly to hand - Claim suspended for other evidence of the service alleged & requiring the roll, discharge or other record evidence if any of such service or the positive testimony of at least two witnesses who were in the same service or in a situation to know the facts about which they testify Some time last winter I forwarded to the Department the affidavits of Thomas Pratt & Josiah Dickinson of Northampton Mass who were known to the service of the claimant - If those aff ts are not sufficient please return them & state when they are deficient & I will supply

the deficiency
Philip Bartlett a resident of this town made application to the Department through G. A. Standish of Plattsmouth N.B. for the xx back pension for services of his father Philip Bartlett in the war of the rebellion.
The application was made sometime or four years ago. He is apprehensive that things are not all right & wishes to learn whether his claim has been allowed.
Yours & C M. D. S. Paton Hon. J. M. [?] Comt of Pensions

✓ Lydia Bartlett, 7988 declared at July 7. 1838 widow of Philip N.Y.
Dear Geo. C.
J. D. Morse (

Declaration to obtain a pension under the act of July 7. 1838.
State of New York
County of Clinton On this twenty third day of June 1841. personally appeared before George Parsons a Judge of the County Court of said County Lydia Bartlett a resident of Saranac in said County aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Philip Bartlett who was a private Sergeant Ensign & Lieutenant during the revolutionary war and served as follows. He entered the service as she believes at Deerfield or Watfield Mass at the commencement of the war and was in the battles of Lexington & White Plains and served in the Massachusetts Regiment and was imprisoned until the end of the war. He was once taken prisoner by the Tories & put in a cage from whence he escaped and was again taken about a year before the war closed. North of Lake Superior and was released after the close of the war. She believes he once enlisted for three years in a Massachusetts Regiment and served that term & then re-enlisted for the war and served and was imprisoned until the close of it in 1783. She believes he was acting as Lieutenant at the end of the war and belonged to the Massachusetts Troops, but is unable to give the names of the officers under whom he served.
She further declares that she was married to the said Philip Bartlett at Royalton Vermont by a justice of the peace on the Eleventh day of June Seventeen hundred and Eighty four. Her name was Lydia Marsh. She further declares that her said husband died at Saranac aforesaid on the twelfth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and sixteen leaving Dependant a widow and she has ever since remained a widow and unmarried. She has not applied before for a pension owing to her inability to prove her husband's services.
Sworn and subscribed to before me } Lydia X Bartlett } her marks. this 23 rd day of June 1841 and Geo. Parsons Judge Clinton County courts

I certify that Deponent cannot write her name having never learned how to write, & that she is a credible person and unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court which sits more than fifteen miles from the place where this declaration was taken. Her interlineation made before mention.
Geo. Parsons - Judge of Clinton County Court.
State of New York
County of Clinton ss. I the Subscribed Clerk of said County certify that George Parsons before whom the within declaration of Mrs Lydia Bartlet was taken & sworn on the 23 d day of June 1841 was at said time a Judge of the County Court of said County. His signature within above are genuine. Witness my hand and official seal this 30 day of June 1841.
J. Mead Clerk
J. D. Woodward
Hon. Geo. Parsons
N.Y.
Lydia Bartlet. declared At July 7. 1838 widow of Philip
7988

In the matter of Philip Bartlett Durand Evidences D, 9
Bartlett's case affidavit.

State of New York,
County of Clinton ss Philip Bartlet John Bartlet, William Bartlet all of Saranac in said County being duly sworn depose and say that they are children of Philip Bartlet deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution served with the Massachusetts Troop, and died at Saranac aforesaid on the twelfth day of May eighteen hundred and sixteen aged about sixty five or sixty six years. He was six feet and two inches high and Deponents respectively are six feet seven and a half inches high except John who is six feet and two inches high. That as they have been informed and always understood and believe their said Father was married to Lydia Marsh (widow of James Marsh deceased) at Royalton Vermont on the eleventh day of June seventeen hundred and eighty four. The said Philip says he was as he nearly believes born in the town of Waterbury Vermont on the fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine and is now fifty two years of age, and the said William says he was as he believes born at Waterbury Vermont on the tenth twelfth day of April seventeen hundred and ninety seven, and is now forty five years of age, and the said John Bartlet says he was born as he believes on the first day of July seventeen hundred and ninety four at Middlesex Middlesex Vermont and was forty seven years of age on the first of July last. That said Philip Bartlet, John Bartlet, and William Bartlet also Lydia Bartlet (who resides in Bennington Vermont and wife of Talmadge Benedict), are the children and only children of said Philip Bartlet deceased, and said Lydia Bartlet now wife as deponents believe, is fifty one years of age. That there is no record of the marriage of Deponents said Father and Mother as they believe. and further says not. William Bartlet Sworn and subscribed to before me this 13 th day of April 1842 and I certify that deponents are credible persons. witnesses.
Phillip Bartlet John Bartlet
B.E. Hopper } Justice Peace

State of New York Clinton County } ss. William Burtlet within named being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the son of the within named Sydney & Philip Burtlet deceased and that he has a direct interest in the claim & application for a Pension within referred to herein to and subscribed this 6 day of August A.D. 1851 Before me A. Scribner Justice Peace } William Burtlet
State of New York Clinton County } ss August 6 th 1851 } I David H. Parsons, Clerk of the County Court county seat of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Abram Scribner Esq. before whom the foregoing acknowledgment an affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same and now is a Justice of the peace in & for said county duly authorized to take the same further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice & verily believe that the signatures thereto are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the County Court of said County the day and year aforesaid
D. H. Parsons, Clerk of Clinton Co Court

Whereas Mrs Lydia Bartlet deceased who was the widow of Philip Bartlet deceased instituted a claim for a Pension in her life time & after her husband's death on account of Revolutionary services of the said Philip Bartlet and was advised by Council that the claim would have been sustained had her marriage with the said Philip Bartlet been proved and whereas it is believed that the marriage of said case be proved to the satisfaction of the Pension Commission.
Now Therefore the undersigned William Bartlet son of the said Lydia & Philip Bartlet doth hereby constitute and appoint Henry H. Sylvester of the City of Washington D.C. his true and lawful Attorney for him & in his name & on behalf of the other children of the said Lydia & Philip Bartlet to prosecute the said claim of the said Lydia for a Pension before the proper officials of the Government of the United States. Hereby revoking all other Powers of Attorney heretofore given by me - Witness my hand and seal this 6 th day of August A.D. 1851.
(The word "deceased" interlined before signed)
William Bartlet
State of New York
County of Clinton ss. On this 6 th day of August A.D. 1851 before the subscribed a justice of the Peace in & for said County personally appeared William Bartlet above named and to me well known and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed. Witness my hand the day and year last above written.
Alvan Scribner
Justice Peace

Lydia 7988 Bartlett Ave Philip (NY) Bartlett Ave
I.D. Woodward Aug 30. 41
June 22, 42
M. B. Patchin Sept. 3/56
5824
act J. Gales 38

1889 Soldier's History by M. M. Bartlett Court
Ex'r.
INVALID.
1053. 254
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Sydia Bartlett P. O. Phelps
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
RECEIVED

N. G. Surkinds Roll
Lydia Bartlett wid of Phillip Bartlett
Act of 1838 &c
Papers
Jas. G. Austin atty for
H. H. Sylvester
Examined there. Case June 30. 1853

Plattsburg N.Y. Aug t 21. 1841
Col. Jas. L. Edwards
Sir
I wish you would cause an examination of the Rolls with a view to evidence in the case of Lydia Bartlett whose declaration is enclosed.
Proof of her marriage will be forwarded if her husband's services be established.
Yours Respectfully J. D. Woodward for the widow

Boston, May 26 th 1842
Sir,
By the Secretary's direction I enclose you the certificate, and in that you have inserted the reference to the Coat Roll in the form it is always stated, and is I presume, what you intended, although in your letter you say a copy of the order, which has never in any instance been required. I believe you are aware that the muster rolls of this service, if dated as late as October, are received as evidence of 8 months' service, unless a date of enlistment against a man's name, as is often the case, contradicts this supposition. In this case the roll itself is not dated, but the date of the Coat roll , as it bears the name, with those of many others in the same company, may be sufficient.
Respectfully, Your ob t serv t .
W. T. Durivage.

Poyganon 9 th of June 1842
Dear Sir
When I rec d your letter with the Dollar enclos d I handed it to our town Clerk for him to examine the records. He has faithfully examined them as far back as we have any records & finds no such record. He tells me that some 50 years since our town records were burned & if that was recorded it cannot be ascertained. He the town Clerk claims the money sent for his services. I should have written before but waited his motion that he might be paid
Yours truly
E. P. Varnes P.M.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, 1 May 20 th 1842.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Philip Bartel is borne on a "Master Roll of Capt n Jonathan Bardwell's Company in the 9 th Continental Reg t Commanded by Col d David Brewer" where it further appears, that he belonged to Belchertown, and that he served as a private. The Roll is signed by "Jonathan Bardwell Capt n ". The name of Philip Bartel is also found, signed on a Roll for Coats, to be delivered to Capt d Bardwell's Company in Col d David Brewer's Reg t . The said Coat roll is dated 31 st October 1775.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John C. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.