Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16193, Edmund R Bird, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental Mass.
Bird, Edmund R. N. 16193. Edmond R. Eve
CONTENTS

(2/449)
New York Roll
Edmund Bird
Private.
Massachusetts line. 17 th Regt. 1 st year.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of April 1818
1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of September 1818 and forwarded to Elias Osborn Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Westchester New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 39.20
Semi-ann. all'co ending 4 Mar-1819- 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 27/30 $87.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Vase
Three years
Emers, Westchester County
Continued
Notification sent the 28 th Oct r 1821, to M c Intosh, Esq. Westchester, N. York.

United States of America, } ss. On this Eighth day of April State of New York Westchester } County in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me,  Ozias Osburn one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester — personally appears Edmond Bird aged fiftyeight years, or thereabouts, resident in The Town of Somers in said County who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the 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:" That he the said Edmond Bird served as a Soldier in the army of the united States in the Revolutionary war that he commenced his services in the year 1776 that he first enlisted for one year in the Company commanded by Capt Merket of the first Massachu-  =sets Regiment commanded by Col Asa Whitcomb after he served about ten months he enlisted for three years and was returned during the war and continued in the aforesaid first Massachusetts Regiment untill peace took place and that said Regiment shortly after his second enlistment was commanded by  Joseph Rose Col d that he got his discharge at a place called Snake Hill near Newburgh with the badge of of honor and that he kept his discharge untill about thirteen years past when that with other papers was destroyed by the mice
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except
Sworn to, and declared before me, } the annexed Certificate from the the day and year aforesaid, } Ozias Osburn one } Secretary of the commonwealth the Judges of the Court of } of Massachusetts  Edmond Bird Com d Pleas in and for } the County aforesaid }
I do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Edmond Bird did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the said Act.
Dated, the 8th day of April 1818  Ozias Osburn
(Seal of the Court) P.S. I do hereby further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Edmond  Bird and have been for fifteen years past and know him to be poor and almost part doing any labor which he now depends on for support Ozias Osburn

State of New York County of Westchester
Henry Hynard of the Town of Somers in said County being duly sworn before me doth depose and say that he is personally acquainted with the within named Edmond Bird that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support he having a large family among which is a son a boy of about teen four years of age who is an idiot and that the said Edmond depend on his labor to support himself & family and that his advanced age renders him unable to labor as he has long been accustomed to and further this deponent saith not
Sworn to this 10th day of May 1818 before me Ozias Osburn Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County
Westchester County.
I Elijah Bradford Clerk of the County of Westchester and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Ozias Osburn is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, duly commissioned and sworn to act as such in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Westchester this 14th day of May 1818
Elijah Bradford Clerk

Edmund Bird
Schaduli
[Signature]
2449
Con
J. L. E.
[Signature]
Bedford, Westchester Co. N.Y.

Schedule
State of New York - } Westchester County } On this 31 st day of May 1821
Personally appeared in open court the same being a court of Record for the County of Westchester - Edmund Bird Aged sixty two years resident in Somers Town of said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows that the s d Bird Enlisted in the year 1797 for three years or during the War at Boston State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt n Fisherman in Col l Bore Regiment - Massachusetts line in the Continental establish- ment that he continued in s d service until the peace took place when he was discharged at Snake Hill that he was at the taking of Brandywine that on the 8 th of April 1818 he presented his original Discharge & Rec d his certificate N o 2-4449 - dated the 18 th day of September 1818 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by Gift Sale or in any manner disposed of any proper- ty or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it as to being myself within

The foregoing is an list of property, entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the revolutionary War pass. On the 18 th of March 1818 And that I have not nor any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due from; Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herewith Ann d And by me Subscribed
Edmund Bird
Sworn to and Subscribed On this 21 st day of May 1821 before me in Open Court.
J. S. Bates Clerk
I, J. S. Bates Clerk of Westchester common pleas in the County of Westchester do hereby certify that the foregoing Deposition & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court & 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 annexed Schedule does not exceed Nine Dollars & Thirty Seven & half Cents.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 8 th day of August 1821.
J. Bates. Clerk

Inventory Ci
Real Estate None in fixed income of any description.
Personal estate
  2. Tables $1 — 0   5 Chairs 62 1/2   1. set 37 1/2   1 tea kettle 37 1/2   6 plates & Dishes 37 1/2   4 knives & forks 25 —   hand frame 75 —   1 Wm. Torrey 25 —   1 Chest 50   1 Pig 2 — 0   6 Pails 1 — 0   1 old Plow 50   1. Ax 37 1/2   1 Sack Wheat & Oats 1 — 0   $9 37 1/2 
Applicant is a carpenter by trade but not able to work on account of infirmity —
is in family wife 61 years of age Oldest Daughter Mary 20 years old 2nd Girl 18 years of age named Eleanor. Had a Son 14 years of age in an Idiot. Named Isaac Isaac
Edmund Bird

New York. 1863
Eve Bird
widow of Edmund Bird —
who died on the 28 th October 1835, of Westchester in the State of N. York who was a P er in the C o commanded by Captain J. M. Rankin of the R eg . commanded by C ol Van Mass in the M il itia line for
2 years —
scribed on the Roll of N. York — at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1835. 28 th Oct r 1835.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of March 1838, and sent unto Hon. A. Ward, Pursuer
Arrears to the 4 th of March — $ 60.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Sept. 40.00
$ 100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R. Purvis Clerk, A. — Vol. 2 Page 15
Let to Asa Clark Oct 30 1838. ced to P er age 21 Jan y 1839.
From N. York City to Albany from 4 March 1835 — 24 Jan y 1839. — Notification sent to Edmund Bird. Kendal. Orleans County New York
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 4 Sept 1838. The day of his age Notification 10. June 1839.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836
State of New York ) Westchester County { ss
On this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid (being a court of record) Eve Bird a resident of the town of Mount Pleasant in the County of Westchester aforesaid aged seventy seven years on the 30 th day of November 1836. who being first duly sworn according to Law doth say on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 That she is the widow of Edmund Bird deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolution in the line of the State of Massachusetts (but she cannot state what regiment he belonged to.) That she believes said Edmund Bird enlisted for the period of during the war about six or seven years before its termination, and continued in the service six or seven years and until he was discharged at the termination thereof. That he was discharged as she thinks some time in the month of June 1783. She further declares that the said Edmund Bird was inscribed on the Pension list roll of the New York agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen That his pension certificate bears date the fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and is signed J. C.

Calhoun and is hereunto annexed She further declares that she was married to the said Edmund Bird on the second day of October 1782. That her husband the aforesaid Edmund Bird died on the 28 th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed this eight day of June 1837 before me
her Eve X Bird mark
Aaron York, one of the Judges of Westchester court
I Aaron York Judge as aforesaid do hereby Certify that Eve Bird who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration cannot from bodily infirmity attend the courts of record held in the County of Westchester aforesaid to make her declaration in open court Dated -
Aaron York

State of New York
Westchester County ss Mary Campbell the Widow of Stephen Campbell late of the Town of Greenburgh in the said County of Westchester being duly Sworn Saith that She is now sixty four years of age That She is the Sister of Eve Bird who is the Widow of Edmund Bird who was a Soldier in the Massachusetts line of the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War That She the said Mary and her Sister the said Eve resided with their Father Delanus Brewer about two Miles North of Croton Bridge in the said County of Westchester in the year 1782 That same time in the Month of October in that year her said said Sister Eve was Married to Edmund Bird then a Soldier in the Army of the States of the rank as She then understood of Sergeant. That She well recollects that the Wedding guest left her Fathers house and returned a little before Sundown That She Stayed at home and assisted her Mother in cooking the Wedding Supper and to make the necessary preparations for the return of the Wedding party. That the said Edmund Bird was then in the Continental Service and as She then understood and still believes belonged to the Massachusetts line of the Army of the United States That the said Edmund Bird continued in the Service until in the Summer of 1783 when he returned and lived with her said Sister Eve as her husband and that they lived together as Man and Wife from that time until the death of the said Edmund which happened in the Month October 1835 That from the time of the Marriage of her said Sister Eve to the said Edmund Bird She has continued to live in habits of Intimacy with them. That She always considered them to be lawfully Married and never heard it doubted by any person that at the time of the death of the said Edmund She lived within three Miles of them
Sworn this Ninth day of May
Mary her Campbell Mark
1864 Before me
Stephen M'Arthur - Justice
This is to Certify that I am acquainted with Mary Campbell, the above named deponent and believe her to entitled to confidence
Stephen M'Arthur - Justice

In the matter of the application of Eve Bird
Supplemental affidavit of Eve Bird —

Age & Birth of Edmund Bird family
Mathew Bird, Born Sep r 28 th 1783. Elizabeth, Born October 2 nd 1785 John, Born Augst 23 d 1787.
State of New York County of Westchester ss Eve Bird widow of Edmund Bird being duly sworn on her oath saith that the above is a true copy of the record of the time of the birth of her three oldest children, by Edmund Bird her decease husband; and that her said children were born at the times above specified: that said record is in her family bible and is true. And the deponent further saith that her oldest son the said Mathew was baptised in the city of New York at the dwelling house of a clergyman whose name she has forgotten, but thinks he was the clergyman of St Pauls church in said city: that she was then on a visit at her brother's in law in said city, and she does not know whether there is any record of said baptism or not. And the deponent further saith that she was married to the said Edmund Bird on the 2 nd day of October 1782 at Groupond in the county of Westchester aforesaid, by the Reverend Joseph Sackett, who was then the officiating minister of the congregation at said Groupond; that they were married at the dwelling house of said Sackett, and the deponent further saith that in the early part of the revolutionary war her father lived in the southern part of the county of Westchester but was obliged in consequence of the exposed state of that part of said county, to the enemy to move to Groupond aforesaid, more in the northern part of said county, and when she was married to the

said Edmund Bird she lived with her father at said Crompond, who had not yet returned to his home. And the deponent further saith that the said Edmund Bird at the time of said marriage with this deponent at the time and place above mentioned was a soldier in the army of the revolution And after the said marriage he returned to the army and was not discharged until the next year, she thinks some time about the 8 th of June, And the deponent further saith that the said Edmund had on his soldier's uniform at the time of the said marriage and wedding that she recollects clearly and distinctly the date of her marriage to her said husband and that it was at the time and place and under the circumstances above set forth - And further deponent saith, not
Known to and subscribed her this 2 nd day of August Eve X Bird 1837 before me mark
Stephen Swartwout Justice of the Peace
I am well acquainted the above named Eve Bird and believe her statement entitled to the fullest confidence Dated August 2 nd 1837
Stephen Swartwout Justice
State of New York
Westchester County } ss. I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County, Do hereby certify, that Stephen Swartwout was on the 2 nd day of August 1837 a Justice of the Peace as above, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Stephen Swartwout - and verily believe the annexed and foregoing signature to the first & Certificate of Character purporting to be his au- thentic signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office. August 10 th 1837
John H. Smith Clerk

W.C.S. dir
April 10, 1928.
Mrs. Fannie Bird Allen, 121 Grove Street, Tarrytown, New York.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 16193 , it appears that Edmund R. Bird , while living in Boston, Massachusetts, enlisted and served with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
From sometime in 1776 he served ten months as a private in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment.
He enlisted in 1777, immediately after the expiration of the ten months service, and served as a corporal in Captain Tuckerman's Company in Colonel Vose's Regiment, was at the capture of Burgoyne and was discharged in June, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 8, 1818, at which time he was fifty-eight years of age and was living in Somers, Westchester County, New York.
He died October 28, 1835, at Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York.
He married October 2, 1782, in Crom Pond, Westchester County, New York, Eve Brewer who was born November 30, 1759,

and whose father's name was Deliverance Brewer.
His widow, Eve, was allowed pension on her application executed June 8, 1837, at which time she was living in Mount Pleasant, New York. In December, 1838 she was living in Orleans County, New York.
The following children were referred to: Mathew, born September 28, 1783; Elizabeth, born October 2, 1785; John, born August 23, 1787; Edmund, who was forty-eight years of age in June, 1837; May, aged twenty years in 1821; Elenor, aged eighteen years in 1821; and Isaac, aged fourteen years in 1821.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Oct. 5, 1905 History to Geo. W. Bird, NY City - c 1778 Apr. 10 hist. to Mrs. Fannie B. Allen NCS
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16193 Eve Bird Wid of Edward Bird Wid Rev Mar Act July 1 st 1836 Index: Vol. 8 , Page 63
[Arrangement of 1870.]
New York Eve Bird Suspended Let to A. Lockwood July 22, 1837) — Same 17 th Aug " "

Edmund Bird. N.Y. act 1818. when last fr d
G. M. B.
Mar 17. 1838.
Price in 1st q 1835 -
- To 4th September 1835.
S. H. H.

V 2142 In the matter of the claim of
Eve Bird to a Pension under act of July 14 th 1836
Eve Bird
[Faint text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side] The [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
adm? 2 years per To commence 29 Oct 33
Hon. A. Ward present

State of New York Westchester County } ss
Edmund Bird of the town of Mount Pleasant in said County being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is the son of Edmund Bird deceased and Eve Bird in the annexed declaration named; that he this Deponent is now forty eight years of age and has two brothers and one sister older than himself. and the Deponent further saith that the said parents of this Deponent lived together as husband and wife from the earliest recollection of this Deponent until the death of the said Edmund Bird. And the Deponent further saith that the said Edmund Bird died on the 28 th of October 1835, and that the said Eve Bird has remained a widow ever since that period. And the Deponent further saith that he has made inquiries for a record of the marriage of his said parents in the place where they were are stated to have been married, in Connecticut and was informed that there is no record of said marriage in said place and he is informed that it was not the custom to keep or make records of marriages there at the time the said Edmund and Eve were married.
Sworn to and subscribed } Edmund Bird this 7 th day of June 1837 before me Peter Clark - Justice of the peace
Westchester County ss I certify that I have been acquainted with Edmund Bird for several years past and that his character stands as good & fair as any other man in the neighborhood where he lives June 7 th 1837 Peter Clark - Justice

State of New York County of West Cheek ss.
I John H Smith Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Do hereby certify That Aaron Vank whose name is subscribed to the Annexed and foregoing Certificate & Affidavit was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and that Peter Clark and Stephen Swarthout whose names are also subscribed to Certificates & Affidavits herewith annexed were Just- ices of the peace in and for the said County of West Cheek on the day of the date of the same residing in the said County. And that the said Aaron Vank Peter Clark & Stephen Swarthout were duly commissioned & sworn and authorized to take the same. And fur- ther that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Aaron Vank Peter Clark & Stephen Swarth- out and hereby believe the foregoing signatures purport- ing to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this 15 th day of June 1837
John H Smith Clk
One Bird

State of New York County of Westchester ss p Eve Bird of the town of Mount Pleasant in said County Being Truly Sworn on her oath saith that she is the widow of Edmund R Bird who was a soldier in the army of the revolu- tion as stated in her declaration for a pension heretofore made and now on file as she is informed in the War Department at the City of Washington And the deponent further saith that she was married to the said Edmund R Bird on the second day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two at Crumpond in the County of Westchester aforesaid by the reverend Joseph Sackett then an officiating clergyman at said Crumpond. that her recollection of the date of her marriage is clear and perfect, and her recollection is also clear and perfect that her husband the said Edmund R Bird then belong- ed to the American army; that said Bird her said husband was from Boston in the State of Mas- sachusetts: that at the time of their said marriage the said Edmund R Bird her said husband was stationed with the American army in or near the Highlands in the then County of Dutchess. and was on furlough at the time of his marriage to this deponent. And the deponent further saith that her recollection is clear and perfect that after the marriage of the said Edmund R Bird to this deponent as aforesaid, his furlough expired and he returned to and joined the army and was discharged, honorably, in the month of June following the said marriage, the deponent then at Newburgh, in the state of New York And the deponent further saith that Mathew Bird the oldest of the deponents children was born on the twenty eight day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. that Elizabeth her

second child was born on the second day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty five. and the deponent further saith she was married at the dwelling house of the said Joseph Sackett, and that there were but seven or eight persons who went with the said Edmund R Bird and the deponent to their marriage, that she well recollects, that among that number were two orderly sergeants belonging to the army at that time and who came down with the said Edmund R Bird from the army to be present at his wedding; that after the marriage as afore- said they returned to her fathers house and celebrated the wedding, and the deponent well recollects that Mary Brewer, now Mary Camp- bell was present at her fathers house when the party left to go to said Sacketts and that she was also there on the return of the said party on the same day the said Edmund and Eve were married. And the deponent further saith that she has no record of the baptism of her oldest children, nor does she know of any record thereof, that they were baptised in the city of New York by a minister of that city whose name she does not now recollect, nor can she learn that there is now any record thereof. And further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of February 1838 before me.
her Eve X Bird mark
Peter Clark - justice of the peace
I certify that I have long been acquainted with the above deponent, and that she is a lady of good character and entitled to full credit.
Peter Clark - justice of the peace

State of New York County of Westchester ss Mary Campbell of the town of Greenburgh in said County Being duly sworn on her oath saith that she well recollects that she was present at the wedding of Edmund R Bird to Eve Brewer, now Eve Bird, the widow of the said Edmund Bird: that she well recollects that the wedding party assembled at the dwell- ing house of the father of said Eve, and that the said Edmund and Eve together with six or seven other persons left the said house about the mid- dle of the day for the house of the Reverend Mr Sackett for the purpose of attending the marriage of the said Edmund R and Eve. And she also well recollects that the said Eve and Edmund returned towards the evening of the same day with the said party and were then said to have been married on that day by said Sackett: That this deponent did not go to the house of said Sackett to see said Edmund and Eve married but remained until their return and was present at the cel- ebration of their marriage on the evening of the said day and on the return of the party from said ministers. And the deponent further saith that she well recollects that there was present at the wedding celebration a soldier from the American Army who was in his uniform and who came down from the army with said Bird to attend his wedding, and the deponent further saith that she well recollects that the said Edmund R Bird after his marriage to the said Eve returned to and joined the army and was not discharged until some consider- able time after said marriage and the deponent recollects clearly, that the said Edmund returned from the army after his discharge therefrom

and some months after his said marriage and the deponent further saith that the said marriage of the said Edmund R Bird to the said Eve was in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and that he was discharged from the service of the United States the summer following - and further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed her this 26th day of February Mary H Campbell 1888 before me mark Peter Clark - justice of the peace
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponent and that she is a lady of respectability and entitled to full belief.
Peter Clark - justice of the peace
State of New York County of West Chester ss.
On John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify, that Peter Clark before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavit of Eve Bird & Mary Campbell were taken was on the day of the date of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Peter Clark and verily believe the foregoing signa- tures purporting to be his are genuine.

Payable on the 4 th day of March and the 4 th day of Septem- ber of each year at the Branch Bank of the United States at New York
(2,449)
Recorded S. H.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claims
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18 th of March 1818.
Edmund Bird late a Private in the Army of the Revolution.
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars  cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the UNITED STATES,
this fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
BIRD, EDMUND MASS, W. 16193

In the matter of the application of
Ebene Bird for a pension under act of July 4 th 1836
affts of Ebene Bird and Mary Campbell

State of New York
County of Westchester
ss Mary Campbell of the town of Greenburgh in said County Being duly sworn on her oath saith that she well recollects that she was present at the wedding of Edmund R Bird to Eve Brewer, now Eve Bird, the widow of the said Edmund Bird: that she well recollects that the wedding party assembled at the dwelling house of the father of said Eve, and that the said Edmund and Eve together with six or seven other persons left the said house about the middle of the day for the house of the Reverend Mr Sackett for the purpose of attending the marriage of the said Edmund R and Eve, and she also well recollects that the said Eve and Edmund returned towards the evening of the same day with the said party and were then said to have been married on that day by said Sackett: that this deponent did not go to the house of said Sackett to see said Edmund and Eve married but remained until their return and was present at the celebration of their marriage on the evening of the said day and on the return of the party from said minister. And the deponent further saith that she well recollects that there was present at the wedding celebration a soldier from the American Army who was in his uniform and who came down from the army with said Bird to attend his wedding, and the deponent further saith that she well recollects that the said Edmund R Bird after his marriage to the said Eve returned to and joined the army and was not discharged until some considerable time after said marriage and the deponent recollects clearly, that the said Edmund returned from the army after his discharge therefrom

and some months after his said marriage and the deponent further saith that the said marriage of the said Edmund R Bird to the said Eve was in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and that he was discharged from the service of the United States the summer following and further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of February 1888 before me
Peter Clark - justice of the peace
her Mary X Campbell mark
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponent and that she is a lady of respectability and entitled to full belief.
Peter Clark - justice of the peace
State of New York County of West Chester } ss:
I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County Do hereby certify that Peter Clark before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavit of Eve Bird & Mary Campbell were taken was on the day of the date of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Peter Clark and verily believe the foregoing signa- tures purporting to be his are genuine.

An testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 27 th day of February 1838.
John H. Smith Clerk.

Westchester County ss
I Abraham P See being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Eve Bird when she was a single Woman and that he well remembers the time when she was said to be Married to Edmund Bird and fath er saith that he has heard them both say that they were Married and the time was in the last years of the Revolutionary War before the said Edmund Bird was discharged and also saith that has been acquainted with them ever since and they have allways lived together as man and Wife and have raised a large family of Children and he has ever heard that their marriage has been disputed and the said Eve Bird is now a Widow and has been since the death of Edmund Bird which is two years in September now coming or thereabouts
Abraham P See Sworn and Subscribed before me this 6 th day of June 1837
Peter Clark Justice of the peace
Westchester County ss I certify that I have been acquainted with Abraham P See for over ten years past and that his character stands as good and fair as any other man in the Neighborhood where he lives
June the 6 th 1837
Peter Clark Justice of the peace

State of New Westchester County ss
Peter See of the town of Mount Pleasant in said County being duly sworn saith that he was well acquainted with Edmund Bird now deceased, in his life time: that the said Edmund Bird died some time in the month of October 1835, at the residence of Mount Pleasant aforesaid and that Eve Bird with whom he is also well acquainted has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said Edmund Bird. And further deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 7 th day of June 1837 before me
Peter See
Peter Clark Justice of the peace
Westchester County ss I certify that I have been acquainted with Peter See for seventeen years past and that his character stands as good & fair as any other man in the neighbourhood where he lives
Peter Clark Justice of the peace

State of New York Westchester County ss:
Abraham Miller being first duly affirmed doth Declare that he resides in the farm vicinity with the Applicant Edmond Bird that he has been acquainted with him for a number of years & truly believes him to be a man of truth & veracity, that he was acquainted with his circumstances & the manner in which he lived — with his creditors. That he truly believes the property he possessed the estate of the deceased was not sufficient to pay his Debts, and that the property of said Bird was sold and the Debts so far as the property extended paid, all in good faith, as this Deponent truly believes and that the said Bird is now in Indigent Circumstances any subject to the Unnatural Affection & on soon about fourteen years of age who is an Indigent Dependent on him for support. — Abraham Miller
Affirmed & Subscribed this 31 st day of May 1821 - before me in open Court -
Bates. Clk. of the County of Westchester

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Office of Secretary of State April 4 th 1818 -
By this I certify, that it appears by the regimental Rolls or Lists in this office, that Edmund Bird serv- ed as a corporal in the war of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment for during four years, that he belonged to a Light Infantry Company in Colo. Vose's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line & that it appears by said do- cument, that he enlisted (for dur- ing the war) the first day of January A.D. 1777 & continued to the 31 st day of December 1780 -
How & when, after the last above

date, he was discharged, does not appear as there are no documents in the office giving any account in the premises from & after 1780.
Halden Bradford
Secy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Stewart
My Singing Wg (see 17) 33 Houl, Stewart  Stewart Commissioner of Pensions Washington, City D.C.

Long Island New York June 17 th 1837.
Hon. James L. Edwards
Sir. Enclosed are the papers in support of the claim of Eve Bird to a pension under act of July 4 th , 1836. The proof of the marriage in this case comes within the rule recognized and acted upon by the Department viz That where there is no record of the marriage and no one can be procured as a witness who was present at the marriage, reputation and cohabitation &c anterior to the last period of service is admitted as proof of marriage &c.
Your Ob t servant
Albert Lockwood

N.Y. Aug 14 M. Suec
Chiquita N.Y. Aug 12
for
Henry D. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Shing Shing August 11 th 1837 New York
Dear J. L. Edwards
Sir, Enclosed is supplemental affidavit of Eve Bird in support of her claim to a pension. Also your letter in relation thereto
Respectfully Your O bt servant Albert Lockwood

Oct 28 th Murray Oct 25 AM
for
J. Edwards Esq Comt of Pensions Washington City
Ever Bird

Murray N.Y. Oct. 25. 1838.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions
Dear Sir
Eva Bird. widow of Edmund Bird deceased. holds a certificate from the war office. for a pension for Eighty Dollars per Annum. dated the Seventeenth day of March 1838. Recorded in the Pension Office in Book A. Vol 2 Page 104 No. 1683. Mrs Bird has formerly resided in Westchester County N.Y. and now resides in Orleans County N.Y.
I wish to ascertain the form necessary for her to obtain her pension. as I am unacquainted with their kind of certificates. and also if she can still draw her money in the city of New York. by answering this communication you will oblige a worthy widow.
I am very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt Asa Clarke

Mechanics Bank New York 4 th January 1839
Sir
Eve Bird, a pensioner under the act of 4 th July 1836 at Eighty Dollars per Annum, mentioned in your Letter of the 2 nd Inst, was paid at this Agency to the 4 th of March 1838, on the 29 th of the same month,
I am Very Respectfully Your, Abt Servt J Kneall Post
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Dec 29 Kendall NY Dec 22
Mr Swan,
Mr Department Passion Office Washington City

State of New York
Orleans County ss
On this 20 th day of December Eighteen hundred & Eighty Eight before me, the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Orleans personally appeared Eva Bird who made oath in her form of Law & declared that she is the same person who is described in an original Certificate in her possession as the Widow of Edmund Bird Deceased who was a private during the war of the revolution, which certificate bears date the twentieth day of March One Thousand Eight hundred & thirty Eight & that her name was placed upon the pension Roll of the State of New York payable at the Mechanics Bank in the City of New York. That she has lately removed from the County of Westchester State of New York to the County of Orleans State of New York Where she intends to remain, and wishes to have her pension made payable in future at the City of Albany. The following are the reasons for removing from the County of Westchester to the County of Orleans is that her son resides in the County of Orleans & that she has taken up her abode with him for the rest of her life sworn & subscribed to before me this 30 th day of December 1888
Lyman Brumm Justice of the Peace
Eva h- X Bird mark
Orleans County ss
State of New York On this 30 th day of December 1888 personally came before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace Edmund Bird of the Town of Kendall Orleans County, who being duly sworn accord- ing to Law made oath & said that he was acquainted with Eva Bird the person who made the foregoing

affidavit & knows that she is the identical person named in the original certificate in her possession & that she is the widow of Edmund Bird deceased that she still remains a widow & that she has drawn a pension under the provisions of her pension certificate herein described the same to wit day & year last above written
Sydney Bunnell Justice of the Peace
I the undersigned of the peace before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Edmund Bird & that he is a person of truth & veracity & his statement entitled to credit & I further certify that the original certificate of pension referred to in the foregoing affidavit was presented to me at the time of making said affidavit Dated December 30 th 1858
Sydney Bunnell Justice of the Peace
State of New York Orleans County - ss. I certify that Sydney Bunnell Esq. before whom the annexed proof or affi- davit purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and legally authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquaint- ed with his hand writing and truly believe his signature thereto subscribed is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and impressed the seal of said county at Allien this twen- tieth day of December A.D. 1858
J. C. Strong Clerk

Dr Sir
On the opposite page are the proofs to procure a transfer of the plan from which Mrs Eva Bird is to draw her pension money to Albany Will you forward the evidence of such transfer to Edmund Bird, of Plandall Orleans County New York
Yours &c
H. J. Giff

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 31 st , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Eve Bird, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th July, 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1838, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Harrison Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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Gentlemen;
Can you give me any information concerning the Revolutionary War record of my great grandfather Edmund R. Bird. I understand he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, as captain. He is buried in a cemetery at Unionville, now called Hawthorne, in Westchester County, this state, New York. I desire this information, as I am an applicant for membership in American Sons of American Revolution.
I think his son Edmund Bird, was in the War of 1812, and I believe his widow drew a pension. He was born in Westchester Co. New York.
Thanking you for any information, I am Sincerely Yours. Geo. W. Bird.

Rev War (3-469)
Bureau of Pensions.
16193 W. Application No. _____
Certificate No. _____
NAME OF SOLDIER, Edmund A. Boil
Co. _____, Reg't Mass
INFORMATION DESIRED.
All papers for him
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Widow - Eva - a pensioner

Stamp Enclosed Tarrytown, N.Y. Apr 4, 1938.
Pension Department Washington Gentlemen,
I am anxious to join the Daughters of The American Revolution And I am a descendant of Edmund R. Bird who was born in Massachusetts on the 26 day of Jan, 1759 and died on Mt Pleasant 28 th of Oct 1830. I have found many things. but I cannot find out the name of his wife. all I have is his I should like to know the

last name, see she was born I have her date, and month. Edward R Bird was pronounced from Apr 8 1818 Appleton for pension in pension left Washington, and also the names of Edward R Bird children. We are a new chapter in Tarrytown and I should like to hear from you as soon as possible as the next meeting is April 17 Thanking you for your kindness Sincerely yours Mrs Fannie Bird Allen 121 Grove Street

Edmund Bird - son of Sonners Pensioner - Westchester County, New York - Declaration dated 8 th April 1818 - Served to the close of the War in the 1 st N.Y. Col. Vols - discharged at Newburgh with the Badge of Honor - lost his Discharge about 12 years prior to the date of his Declaration - Certificate of the Secretary of State shows that he entered the 1 st Jan y 1837 for "dearing the War" -
Mrs Bird of town of Mount of Pleasant in the County of Westchester State of N.Y. Widow of the aforesaid Edmund Bird, who died on the 28 th Oct. 1835 at Westchester aforesaid - was placed on the Roll of Pensioners under the act of July 1836 - at $80 per annum to commence on the 28 th Oct. 1835
of Edmund Bird  mid. 16.193 , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his s) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     76 10 mos. Pri. Asa Whitcomb   Boston Jan. 1, 77. 4 yrs. Cpl. Fuckerman Gov. Vose → "   Lt Inf. Co. Const. Sgt.  
Saw this old record as it went over this way. must have
Battles engaged in, capture of Burgoyne . Stillwater Residence of soldier at enlistment, — Date of application for pension, Apr. 8, 1818. Residence at date of application, Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y. Age at date of application, 58 Remarks: His claim allowed. He mar. Oct. 2, 1782 Eve dau. of Delivarance Brewer Sol. d. Oct. 28, 1835 Mrs appl d June 8, 1837 res. Mt. Pleasant Westchester Co., N.Y. as 77 Nov. 30, 1836 resided with her son Edmund, in New York very respectfully, Dec. 1838.