Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20954, Abner Daggett, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental Ware.
Daggett, Abner Mary.
N. 20954
CONTENTS

Rhode Island - 737
Mary Daggett
widow of Abner Daggett , an R.A.
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 25 th Aug t 1832
at Providence in the State of R. Island
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Richardson of the R.A. commanded
by Lieut. Col. in the R.A.
line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Oct r 1838, and sent to and C. Robinson Providence, R.I.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept r $191.65 Semi-annual allowance ending 38.32
$229.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 - Page 6 -
Let. to Na. for L. Fil-
Cinghurst. Dec r 13, 1838.
let to C. Robinson Jan 30. 1839.
Def Certificate issued 5 April 1839, and sent to C. Robinson Providence R. Island
1889 May 7 Miss Nettie D. Zabriskie - history - Prior

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations } Providence County }
In this Thirtieth day of August A. D. 1838 personally appeared before Thomas Burgess Esq. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Providence and State aforesaid. Mary Daggett, a Resident of Providence, in the County of Providence and State aforesaid, aged Eighty one 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 th 1838, entitled an Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows: That she is the Widow of Abner Daggett, late of said Providence in the County and State aforesaid, deceased. That the said Abner in the year 1775, was a Resident in Attleborough in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the month of April of said year 1775 according to the best of this Applicant's recollection and belief the said Abner enlisted for the term of Eight Months in a Company of Militia in said Attleborough, commanded by Capt. Caleb Richerson and Attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Smith.

Walker. From Attleborough they marched to Roxbury and Dorchester, where they were stationed during said Period and a portion of said time kept guard at Preston's Point. The said Abner served the full term of his enlist- ment and was discharged, as this Applicant believes in the Month of December 1775. At the time of the said Abner's discharge from said enlistment, or immediately af- ter, being then also a Resident of said Attleborough, he again enlisted as a Bombadier in a Company of Artillery, com- manded by a Capt. or Col. Brane, but to what Regiment said Company belonged or by whom commanded, this Applicant has no knowledge. The said Abner at this se- cond enlistment, enlisted for the Period of one year, to wit- for the whole of the year 1776. The said Company pro- ceeded to Long-Island in New-York, and I frequently heard the said Abner relate that he was in the battle fight on Long-Island in the summer of 1776 and saw the Capture at that time of Long-Island and I also heard him speak of the retreat of the American Troops through the low and swampy Grounds. The said Abner served the full term of his second enlistment and was discharged at the close of the year 1776 or in January 1777 and was not in the service after said second dis- charge. And she further states that she has no docu- mentary proof in support of the services aforesaid but is informed that the Muster Rolls of said Company are at Washington —
She further declares that she was married to the said

Sworn on the Twentieth day of April in the year Four teen Hundred and Seventy nine. That her husband the aforesaid Abner Daggett died on the Twenty fifth day of August in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two, that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Four Big at the time above stated
Mary Daggett
Sworn to and subscribed by this day and year above written before Me. and I further certify that the above named Mary Daggett from advanced age and bodily infirmities is unable to appear in court and that her state- ment is entitled to full credit and belief -
Thomas George Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence State of Rhode Island -

Abner Saygett was married unto Mary Holmes the 20th day of April in the year 1779, by the Rev. Natijah Held Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Atleborough.
We certify the above to be a true copy of the record of marriage of Abner Saygett and Mary Saygett as recorded in the family bible. And we further certify that we are executors of the last will and testament of said Abner Saygett deceased, and have possession of said family bible, and have had possession of the same ever since his decease. We further certify that we

have no knowledge of any other record of the marriage of the said Abner and Mary. Mary Daggett.
Ann Daggett
Providence R.I. the Seventh Day of August AD 1838. I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the record of the family bible of Abner Daggett which was produced & shown to the said Mary & Ann Daggett. as transcribed by me. And I further certify that the above named Mary Daggett and Ann Daggett made solemn oath to the truth of the facts subscribed to by them, and that said Ann and Mary I believe to be persons to whom testimony full and may be given. Attest.
Henry L. Bowen. Justice Peace

I David Daggitt of New Haven in New Haven County and State of Connecticut do hereby say that I was twenty three years of age on the last day of December 1837 - that I was born at Attleborough in the County of Bristol I commonwealth of Massachusetts where I resided till the fall of the year 1779 - that in 1781 I came to this place in which I have ever since lived. I distinctly recollect the battle of Lexington in April 1775, & that my brother John Daggitt of Attle- borough who was about seven years older than myself was in the army in the years 1775 & 1776. In March 1776 I went down to Dorchester where a part of the American army lay & there saw him a soldier. Where he enlisted under whose officers I have forgotten if I ever knew. I know also that he was in the battle of Long Island in July 1776 as I often heard him relate the particulars, or at least that he was

then in the army, I think he belonged to a company of artillery under the com- mand of a Capt. Gane. After he left the army, the month or year or day I can not specify, but I think in 1777 1780 or 1789 I know he was married to Mary (Polly) Holmes who was also then a resident of Attleborough. His son as I believe living in Providence State of Rhode Island. They had several children all of whom I will know.
I saw Oliver Dazett in Providence about three or four weeks before his death, which took place in August 1932 at about the age of 77. He resided in Attleborough for a few years after he left the army. Then removed to Warpole in Massachusetts, still in residence there forty years ago to Pro- vidence where he resided till his death in August 1932.

of the facts of his enlistment in the army of the U.S. serving as above stated, of his marriage, of his death as now related I have no more doubt than I have of any other fact which I did not personally witness. And I add that I have for more than fifty years been intimately acquainted with the family of the said Abner Daggett. State of Conn. New Haven Aug. 9 th 1838. David Daggett
Subscribed & sworn to before me August 9. 1838
In Witness Justice of the peace I hereby certify that the above named David Daggett, is well known to me personally & is a credible witness. The deponent is the Hon. David Daggett of New Haven late Chief Justice of the State of Conn. S.D. In Witness Justice of the peace

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20954 Mary Daggett Widow of Abner Daggett Moatown (Rev. Wm.)
born in Littlewood - son after war moved to Providence - in Wadsworth Mary & back to Providence
Act July 7 th 1838 Index Vol. 1 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1009
Mary Daggett widow of Abner
R.I.
Marrried in 1779.
act of July 38
vol 16, p 12 - on private 8 mo 96 c
adm
8 mo. pri hts 12. Matrofs
$76.66
no deduction
C. Robinson Esq Providence R.I.

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, Providence Jc.
I, John W. Smith Clerk of the County of Common Pleas within and for the County of Providence, in said State, Being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Thomas Burgess Esquire, before whom one of the foregoing affidavits was sworn, is Chief Justice of our said Court of Common Pleas; and that Henry Bowen Esquire, before whom the other affidavits were sworn, is a Justice of the Peace of the City of Providence; that by law said Burgess & Bowen are author- ised to administer oaths & take depositions; and that their aforesaid signatures, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have set my hand, and affix the seal of our said Court, at the City of Providence, this thirtieth day of August A 1838.
John W. Smith Clerk

I John Howland of Providence in the State of Rhode Island now in the eighty first year of my age do Testify and Say that I was Acquainted with M c Alner Daggett from the time he became a Resident in Providence which was about Fifty years ago, that we resided in the same Neighbourhood during this Period and frequently visited in each others families, he was a Gentleman of great respectability and for several years was a member of the Town Council before our incorporation as a City, that he was married to the Lady who is now his Widow before he settled with his Family in this place. and I further testify that in conversation with him in presence of his Wife and daughters I have frequently heard him relate several circumstances of the campaign of the year 1775, in which he served, and description of the Battle on Long Island in the year 1776 in which he belonged to the Artillery and their Retreat across the Low ground or marsh after he saw Lord Sterling made a prisoner, he died after a long illness in the month of August 1832, his Widow Mary Daggett is now living, and remains Unmarried
John Howland
Providence to wit Providence this Seventh Day of August A.D. 1838. Personally appeared John Howland subscribe to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. And I further certify that said John Howland is well known to me, and that full credit is to be given to his testimony. Attest.
Henry S. Bowen Justice Peace

I Abial Brown of Providence in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations do depose and say that I was  have been acq- uainted with Abner Daggett the husband of Mary Daggett late of said Providence deceased. In the month of April in the year 1775 the said Abner Daggett enlisted with me in Capt Caleb Richardson's Company of Attleborough in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, & Colonel Timothy Walker's Regiment. Said Abner Daggett served eight months as a private in said Company and Regiment at Roxbury & Dorchester - a portion of said time said Company was stationed opposite the Castle & kept guard at Preston's point. In December 1775 after the expiration of said eight months, said Abner Daggett enlisted in the Company of Artillery commanded by Lieutenant or Colonel Crane and went

to Long Island and was in that service one year, and was present at the battle when Lord Stirling was captured, from thence, as I believe he marched to White Plains. While on Long Island he enlisted as Bombadier. according to the best of my recollection said Abner Saygett died some seven or eight years ago. The aforesaid Mary Saygett has since the decease of her said husband remained a widow. Said Abner Saygett at the time of the first and second enlistments was a resident in said Attleborough.
year 1755 April Abiah Brown I was a minor then
Providence for the Providence. This 14th day of August. 1838. Personally appeared the aforesaid Abiah Brown and made oath to the truth of the aforesaid statements by him subscribed. And I further certify that the aforesaid Abiah Brown is known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit. Henry L. Bowen Justice Peace

State of Rhode Island Providence & Plantations County of Providence } ss
In this Twenty Third day of March A. D. 1839 before me, the Subscribed, a justice of the Peace for the said County of Providence, personally appeared Mary Daggett, of Providence in the County of Provi- dence & State aforesaid, Widow of Abner Daggett, late of said Providence deceased, who on her oath declares that she is the same person, who in August A. D. 1838 made her declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the Seventh day of July A. D. 1838 entitled "an act granting half Pay & Pension to certain Widows, setting forth in service in the war of the Revolution  service in the war of the Revolution her said declaration that her said husband enlisted as a Private in a Company of Artillery, in April, in the year 1775, in Attleborough in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which said Company belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Waller & marched from said Attleborough to Dorchester in said Massachusetts, served therein till December, 1775 or January 1776, and before the expiration of said term of service enlisted as a Private

for the whole of the year 1776, and served throughout the whole of said year, on Long Island in the State of New York, all which services according to the best of said Mary Daggett's recollection & belief are specially set forth in her declaration aforesaid, that her papers were duly forwarded to the Pension department at Washington, that her name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Rhode Island, and that a Certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War, was issued on the Twenty Fourth day of October A. D. 1838, and enclosed to C. Robinson as appears by the annexed letter from the Pension De- partment at Washington, that said Certificate has never been received by the said Mary Daggett, though frequent Applications have  been made to the Post office in the City of Providence, have been made for the purpose of ob- taining the same if the same had come to hand since the said Twenty Fourth day of October A. D. 1838, and she can obtain no information respecting the same and she verily believes that said certifi- cates must have been miscarried or lost, between the City of Washington, and the city of Providence

since the said Twenty Fourth day of October, A.D. 1838. between that time and the date hereof, and she wishes that a new certificate may be issued -
Mary Daggett
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year last aforesaid And I further certify that Charles Holden for the affiant is personally Justice of the Peace known to me and her state- ments are entitled to full credit.
Charles Holden Jr Justice of the Peace

I Christopher Robinson of the City & County of Providence do hereby declare, that I acted as the attorney of Mary Daggett of the City & County aforesaid, Widow of Abner Daggett, late of said Providence deceased, in preparing the papers necessary for her applica- tion to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the Seventh day of July A. D. 1838 entitled an act grant- ing half pay of Pensions to certain Widows, and forwarded her papers to the Pension Department at Washington sometime in August A. D. 1838, that I am the person to whom the Answered Letter from the Pension Department was directed, setting forth that Pension Cer- tificate was issued for the said Mary Daggett and enclosed to me. And this affiant further saith that he never has received said Certificate, & that he has frequently since the said Twenty Fourth day of October A. D. 1838, applied to the Post office in this city respecting the same, but has been uniformly told that there was no document of the kind directed to him, this affiant verily believes that said Certificate must have been lost on its passage from the City of Washington to the aforesaid City of Providence, sometime between the said Twenty Fourth day of October A. D. 1838 & the day of the date hereof.
Christopher Robinson
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 23 rd day of March A. D. 1839. Edward H. Holden Jr. Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island &c
Providence S c Providence March 23 d A.D. 1839. I certify that the within signed Miss- -opher Robinson is well known to me and entitled to full credit and belief
Before me
Charles G. Knapp Not Public
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State of Rhode Island &c
Providence &c. I, John W. Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within & for said County of Providence, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Charles Holden Esq. Esquire, before whom the two aforegoing affidavits were sworn is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the City of Providence; that by law he is duly authorized & qualified to administer oaths & take depositions: and that his aforesaid signatures are genuine. —
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of our said Court, at the City of Provi- dence, this 23 d day of March 1839.
John W. Smith clerk

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, NEW-HAVEN COUNTY: COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE.
} ss.
J. M. Beach
I, ROBERT S. HUBBARD , Clerk of the County Court, within and for said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that
J. M. Beach
Esq. is a JUSTICE OF PEACE within and for the said County, duly appointed Commissioner and sworn, with power to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of Deeds: that his Commission is dated the 28 day of May A.D. 18 38 , and will expire on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 18 39 . That I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his,
is his genuine official signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 9 th day of August A.D. 18 38
J. M. Beach Clerk.

Hon. S. L. Edwards.
Accompanying this is the application of Mary Daggett for the issuing of a New certificate in the case of her Pension. If granted a please for to send the same directed either to her or myself.
Christopher Robinson
Hon. S. L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D. C.

War Department, Pension Office, January 30. 1839.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 21 st inst. I have to inform you that a Pension Certificate was issued for Mary Daggett, on the 24 th of October last, and enclosed to you, as appears from her papers. If it did not come to hand, application should be made for a duplicate. I enclose herewith a printed sheet, which should be so altered as to meet the case.
I am, very respectfully, Your Ob t Serv t . J. L. Edwards
C. Robinson, Esq., Providence, R Island.

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Daggett widow of Abner Daggett , deceased, who was a Private & Mate of the Reedy  How , and died on the twenty fifth day of Aug t 1832, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Seventy Six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24 th day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
J. P. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Providence Jan'y 21 st 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Sir!
Formerly in August or September last. I forwarded to your department the Papers in the application of Mrs. Mary Daggett, of this City, Widow of Abner Daggett, for a Pension under the last Act of Congress. In December I received a letter from S. L. Tillinghast Esq. one of the Representatives in Congress from this State, who made enquiry at your department, respecting the matter, that he had received the information from the Commissioner of Pensions that the pension was granted, and certificate forwarded. Mrs. Daggett has not as yet received any certificate and I forwarded this at her request to obtain information respecting the matter.
Respectfully yr Obedt Servt
Christopher Robinson atty for Mary Daggett
To Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

Prov. Aug 30. 1838
Hon. S. L. Edwards.
If a Pension is granted upon the application. Please to direct the certificate to the Applicants at Providence R. I.
Mary Daggett per C. Robinson Aug