Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 624, James Batterson, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Batterson, James or Batterson, Nancy
P. 624
CONTENTS

Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. James Patterson Re. 624
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mar. 1777 Mar. 1780 Pvt. Albert Chapman Hezekiah Swift Conn.                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, Apr. 7, 1818 His cl. was of
Residence at date of application, Hilton, Fairfield Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, 57 yrs. Died Aug 7, 1839 at Hilton Conn.
Remarks: Soldier married Nov 29, 1787 in Fairfield Co. Conn. Nancy Williams who was born in 1790 and died Jan 1, 1843 at Hilton Conn. Only surviving children: James A. Ayer; and Sarah W. Parkhurst b. 1792.
Very respectfully,
3
Commissioner.
3179365m10-37
Rejection of widow's claim only legal.

14.777
Sept. 4/52
Nancy Batterson, dec d . Widow of James, Conn
July 7 th 1838
Isaac Sherman Bridgeport, Conn.

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss Redding On this 23 rd day of August A D 1852 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate within & for the District of Redding in said County & State James A Patterson of Redding in said County & State sixty two years of age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 intitled an act granting half pay Pensions to certain Widows & all other acts & Resolutions of Congress connected with or explanatory of said Act relative to Revolutionary Officers & Soldiers - Pensions -
That said James A Patterson, Agd Patterson & Sarah W. Patterson of Wilton in said County & State all of lawful age are the only surviving children of the widow Nancy Patterson deceased who was the widow of James Patterson deceased which James Patterson when he was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per Annum that said James died in said County & State on the tenth day of August Eighteen hundred & thirty nine leaving Nancy Patterson his widow and that said Nancy Patterson died in said County & State on the first day of January 1843 leaving the said children above named as her only surviving children all of lawful age she having never rec d the pension she was was entitled to as the widow of said James Patterson deceased.
That said James A Patterson for himself and said Agd Patterson & Sarah W. Patterson claiming

to be allowed as the only surviving children of said Nancy Patterson due - under said Acts or Resolutions of Congress. The amount that said Nancy Patterson was entitled to at the time of her demise as the widow of said James Patterson due - for proof of the services of said James Patterson due he refers to the Pension papers of said James at the Pension office at Washington City. - and he further declares, that according to the best of his sworn to and subscribe before knowledge & belief that said Nancy Patterson was married to said James Patterson by the Rev. John Noyes now due on the 29 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Attest,
Jonathan R Sanford Jr
Clerk of said Court
that her husband died on the 1 st day of August A.D. 1839. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services but before marriage took place previous to the first of January A.D. 1840 at the time above stated -
I, Jonathan R. Sanford Jr. Clerk of the aforesaid Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of James A Patterson for himself and heirs of Nancy Patterson due for a balance of Pension due said Nancy Patterson due -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 23 rd day of August A.D. 1852.
Jonathan R Sanford Jr (Clerk)
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Redding I, Jonathan R. Sanford Jr. Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Redding in said County & State, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that James Patterson

pensioner of the United States at the rate of Ninety six dollars per Annum; was a resident of the Town of Milton in said County and State and died in the Town of Milton in said County & State in the year A. 1839 on the 7 th day of August & that he left a widow by the name of Nancy Patterson and that his only surviving children at the time of his decease were James A. Patterson, Aron Patterson and Sarah W. Parkerton all of whom were then of lawful age.
Also I certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that said Nancy Patterson was the widow of said James Patterson deceased, was a resident of the Town of Milton in said County & State and died in said Town of Milton in said County in the year Eighteen hundred forty three (1843) on the first day of January that she left as her only surviving children who were then all of lawful age, the above named James A. Patterson, Aron Patterson and Sarah W. Parkerton
and who are now all of her surviving children & that she was the Widow of said James Patterson at the time of her decease In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at said Riddings this 23 d day of August A 1852
Jonathan R. Sanford (Clerk)

I, Salmon B. Burr of the Town of Weston in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut of lawful age do hereby certify that it appears by a Church Record of the Parish of Northfield, in said County now in my custody that James Batterton was married to Nancy Williams by the Rev. John Noyes in the year seventeen hundred eighty seven on the twenty ninth day of November Also it appears by said Record that said Noyes was the pastor of said Church at the time said Marriage was Solemnized by him and that the record of said Marriage is in the words & figures following viz — Married Nov. 29, 1787 " James Batterton & Nancy Williams,
Salmon B. Burr
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss On this 28 th day of August A.D. 1852 — Personally appeared Salmon B. Burr who Subscribed & made oath to the Truth of the above certificate before the Court of Probate for the District of Bethel in said County, who I certify is a credible Witness well known to me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at said Bethel this 28 th day of August A.D. 1852 Jonathan B. Sanford Jr Clerk of said Court
I hereby certify that the interlineation of the word "in said County" between the 3 rd & 4 th lines of the second "month" between the 7 th & 8 th lines from the top of this page was made before signing & execution — Attest, Jonathan B. Sanford Jr Clerk

James Batterton (Ex 2 ) (6390) —
March 189
Catme

At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 14 th day of June 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, James Batterton a resident in the town of Milton in the County of Fairfield in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz.
One small old house standing on the highway - 1 Cow - 1 swine - 1 old table - 1 old chest - 6 old chains 1 porrige pot - 1 spider - 1 tea kettle - 1 trammel 1 shovel & tongs - 1 axe - 1 hoe - 6 knives & forks 6 tea cups & saucers - 6 earthen plates - 2 platters 3 milk pans - 1 tin pail - James Batterton
$60.15-

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of T Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 14 th day of June 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, James Batterton aged 59 years, resident in the Town of Wilton in the County of T Fairfield in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
I enlisted in the month of March 1777 in Capt. Albert Chapman's company in Col: Heman Swift's Regiment, in Jedidiah Huntington's brigade in the Connecticut line in the Continental establishment I served in said regiment for the term of 3 years next following when I was regularly & honorably discharged being in the month of March 1780 and for further information reference may be had to the office of the Secretary of War where proper legal documents were sent with my original declaration in 1818
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 7 th day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 6398 And I do further solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a
day labourer, that I never had any regular trade and that in consequence of the fatigues I endured when a soldier & an unremitted course of hard labour ever since at my present advanced period of life, I am not able to perform more than two thirds of a day's work. and that I have a family residing with me viz - my wife Nancy aged 50 years who has been sick more than 20 years wholly unable to do any kind of labor, being principally confined to her bed - my daughter Sally aged 28 years, who has generally been in good health but has ever since she has been able to work been wholly employed in taking care of & nursing her said mother - but in consequence of my wife's sickness I have been many times obliged to call on the charity of my neighbors and the community about me.
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
James Batterton
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixty Dollars and fifteen Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk

State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
sixty Dollars 2 fifteen Cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 14 th day of June A. D. 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield June 14. 1820
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.

District of Connecticut ss
On this 7 th day of April A.D. 1910 James Patterson of Britton in said District under oath before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the declarant now resides & from since the end of the war of the Revolution hath resided that in the month of March he enlisted in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven, as a private for the term of three years in Captain Albert Chapman's Company in Colonel H. Swift's Regiment then called the second Regiment and at the end of the war the second Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment of the armies of the United States to serve against their enemies in the war of the Revolution and that the declarant faithfully served out said term in said Regiment in said line on said establishment in said armies in said war and at the expiration of said term of three years was honorably discharged from said service which discharge the declarant hath by time and accident lost
And the declarant further maketh oath that he now is & ever since the declaration of independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support
James Patterson

District of Connecticut ss April 7 th AD 1818 the within Named James Batterer came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the same is true
John N. H. H. H. District Judge of sd District

District of Connecticut ss On this 7 th day of April A.D. 1910 before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Stephen Batten son of Redding in said District a respectable citizen thereof who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he knows all the facts set forth in the said James Batten sons declaration foregoing to be true. He this deponent having served the whole of said term of three years in said Regiment with the said James since the end of said war having all the time been well acquainted with the said James & resided in his
vicinity April 7 th 1910 sworn before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut
March 8 th 1888 Francis Chapman do hereby that I charged to the same in any and every way to the best of James Batten for did believe that I will have him before for the term of three years and I do hereby that he failed in the great part of the time and I believe that he was

since [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] discharged James Chapman
April 7 th D 1818 sworn before me Richard H. [illegible] District Judge of the District of Connecticut
See Boston B. J.

6390. L
Connecticut
James Batterson
Saunders 69 in the state of Conn t who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years 1780
inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Feb y 1819 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq r Bridgeport, Sa n field 607: Conn t
arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 amo nt 394 46 emi-anl. all ce ending 4 mar: 1819 48 "
$ 87 .46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Certificate
Application sent the 26 June 1820, to Daniel Burn Eng r
Trifles Com d

1908 Mar. 23 Hist. to Mrs. A. Peck (Letter in S.F. 40737) Stephen Patterson
1922 Apr. 17 Hist. to Mrs. C. H. Salmon Letter in S. 40737 Stephen Patterson
Ex'r. 6 INVALID.
MC. 694
RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Nancy Patterson
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Pension Office Jny 7 1853
Sir
The application of Nancy Batterson dec d widow of James of Jon t . has been recieved and filed under the Act of July 7 1838 and rejected . She was not a widow at the passage of that act and was not alive at the passage of the Act of March 3 1851. Making provision for widows who were not such at the passage of the first-named act.
Isaac Sherman Esq Bridgeport Conn.

July 19, 1853.
Rel. to care of heirs of Polly Duncan, widow of David Dun- can, decd.
Papers Not Found in Files has or Adm rs of Conn.
Samuel Sanford, Reading, Conn.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE. OFFICIAL BUSINESS.

14777 Sept 4: 1852
Appf of Nancy Patterson deceased
of James
Adm of Estate
James Sherman
Essex Co
1852
Heath Co Mass Sept 4 1852

J C
Redding Ct. July 16 th
Hon. Loren P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Sept. 22, 1853.
Set. in cases of
both when can
acc. off  order
of Isaac and
Is. Batterson
acc.
Recd 375
Dull off  order  not found Patterson Lemuel
Re off  order  also Dull off  order Lemuel
Recking Off Sept 20th

14,777
Nancy Patterson dec widow of James C. C.
He died in 1839 - she died before 3rd ch 1851-
Isaac Sherman Jny 7 1853
Batterson
024
Rejected
ad July 7 1838

State of Connecticut Fairfield County Bridgeport Sept. 2 1852
J. E. Heath Esq Comm r of Pensions
Sir I send the pension Claim of the heirs of the widow Nancy Patterson in - please send their certificate to me -
Yours Respectfully Isaac Sherman

Jas Batterson
James Batterson private Connecticut line 7 th April 1818
The Judge's Certificate as to circumstances wanting in this case
Pierpont Edwards Esq. Bridgeport, Fairfield Ct. Connecticut —
Rec d . 27 th May 1818

I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that James Patterson who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy as field in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule May 20 1818 Pierpont Edwards
District of Connecticut ss Jan 30 th 1819 I certify that the above James Patterson by reason of his red and circumstances in life was found on review of the appearance & his counsel for justice Pierpont Edwards District Judge of said District

Redding Sept 19 th 1858 -
How L. P. Waldo,
Dear Sir,
I wrote you some time in July, respecting a pension claim in favor of the heirs of Dolly Duncan dec d , widow of David Duncan, also respecting a claim in favor of the children of James Patterson dec d - The applicants fearing lest you may not have rec d the letter, have requested me again to write you on the subject - The claim of the children of Dolly Duncan is on this ground - as stated to me - David Duncan was a Revolutionary Pensioner, left a widow whose name was Dolly - who died in 1847 - Some few years previous to her death she made application, but for some reason was unsuccessful - Mrs Polly O Lee of this place one of the children of said Dolly, since her death has made application. The papers I believe were forwarded to Washington a year or two ago by Sam Lee now in State Prison - No answer has been rec d from the Department respecting the same - They wish to know whether new papers are to be made out or those already there are sufficient - I suppose the proof of David Duncan's services are is in the Department, also the proof that said Dolly was his widow and the time of her decease, also Mrs Polly O Lee's declaration etc - Respecting the Patterson claim an answer was returned last winter rejecting the claim - which was considered by the

children unjust, hoping that the Department by a review of their claim, would grant it - The claim was on this ground - James Patterson was a pensioner - died in 1889 - leaving a widow who never made application; she died in 1863 - The children now claim what from the time of their Father's death to their Mother's, the amount she might have drawn - I suppose from the number of applica- tions you have but little leisure - but could you find time to send me an answer respecting P d claims - & further is Magie alive (if necessary), you would confer on the applicants, a great favor -
Very Respectfully Yours
Ernest Sanford

Reading July 15 th 1853 -
Wm. L. P. Weld,
Dear Sir,
The heirs of children of Dolly Duncan, dec d who was the widow of Jacob Duncan, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States are endeavoring to obtain a pension - and as they regard it write to you respecting it - The facts in the case as stated to me are these - Jacob Duncan drew a pension for a number of years till his death, which occurred in 1823 - His widow attempted to obtain a pension, but was unsuccessful, she died in 1847 - Some time since the business in behalf of the children of Dolly was taken up by Taylor who is now in State Prison, & the papers forwarded to the Department, but they have rec d nothing from the Department respecting it - The children are now endeavoring to obtain what they claim their mother was entitled to - You would confer on them a great favor by informing me whether their claim is a good one & whether any other papers or proof than what is already in the Department is necessary in support of said claim -
Can Will you have the goodness to state also your opinion respecting the pension claim of the children of James Patterson, dec d who was a Pensioner -

He died in 1839 - His widow died I think in 1843 - having never applied for a pension - The children claim in right of their mother - The necessary papers were accordingly made out & sent to Wash- ington last summer, but their claim was rejected by the Department -
The children feel aggrieved by the decision - think where the matter again brought up - If their claim is a good one - will not a reference to the papers they have forwarded to the Pension Office be all that is necessary in the case -
Very respectfully Yours Samuel Sanford