Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 17696, Nathaniel Dan, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Dan, Nathaniel Mary
W 17696
CONTENTS

Agent Notified 5 Oct 1837.
Connecticut 31220
Nathaniel Dan of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Dan of the reg t commanded by Col Thomas in the New York line for
11 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of October 1837 to Mary and Dan widow and sent to Hon. J. Whittlesey, H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $183.30
Pension allowance ending Ditto to 13 th Ap r 1836 4.30
$187.60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. M. Curby Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 3, Page 9.

2409
Connecticut
Mary Dan
widow of Nathaniel Dan, dec'd who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 13 th April 1836 — of Fairfield in the State of Conn: — who was a private in the Comp'y: — commanded by Captain Dan — of the Reg't commanded by Col: Thomas — in the New-York line for — 11 months pay:
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March 1836 13 th . April 1836 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of April 1839 and sent to J. B. Ferris Esq r Stamford Ct:
Arrears to the 4 th of March '39 $105.90 Pension annual allowance ending 4 th Sept: $ 18.33
$124.23
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Intire — Clerk, Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 175

State of Connecticut } ss. Probate District of Stamford. County of Fairfield } On this 24 th day of October A.D. 1834 personally appeared before the Court of Probate in & for the District aforesaid William Dan a resident of the Town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield of State of Connecticut aged seventy nine years, and who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 9 th 1832. That he entered the ser- vice of the United States, under the following named officers of record as here in stated.
In the Revolutionary War on the first day of July 1776 I enlisted as a private in a Company of State troops of the State of New York commanded by Capt. David Dan of Saint Rube's Creek. David David Dan of Pound Ridge in New York of record was of said Stamford - both are now dead - enlisted at S t Pound Ridge which adjoins said Stamford - enlisted for six months. This was in Col. Thomas Thomas's Reg t . - he is dead - and under stand he undertook to raise a Reg t for nine months from Ap r . 1 st 1776 - but did not fill it up for the 1 st of J y July the said Company of as I believe another Commanded by Capt. Gilbreth now dead. were raised to fill out said Reg t . We mustered at P'keepsie in New York of hence proceeded to Kingsbridge near New York - then there in service till the Battle on Long Island of till the British drove our troops out of their post - at the time of the battle on Long Island I went on a draft to take provisions to Fort Washington - assisted with the rest of said Company to build Fort Independence. A day or two before the Battle at White Plains I was sent here by our commanding officer to carry my sick brother, I joined an hour after. I returned & joined my Company immediately after said battle & was therefore not in said Battle - we lay at White Plains till our army left that place of hence went to Peekskill in New York where we lay until a few days before our term expired when Col. Thomas marched us down to Harrisburg Purchase in New York where our term expired on the 1 st day of
no roll, but names of officers present

January 1777. When we were discharged of return to our homes. I think one Halsey was adjutant of the Regt. Here as major or adjutant. James Dan was at P. Pond Ridge was in the same company with me - Samuel Dan of Pond Ridge was in the same service of Regt. but in a company commanded by Capt. Gillely. I served faithfully as a private in said company during the whole of said term of six months of discharge. The pay of regiments was during all of said term constantly engaged in said service, and my pay broken if of course it did not during any of said time follow any civil business. The Corps in which I served was a regularly embodied corps of troops raised of ordered into service by the regular public authorities of New York. I am now so old & broken down that I cannot state the names of other officers or the incidents of the service with any useful particularity -
114 Levee St. N.Y.C. 18/6 72
Some years after this, but I cannot tell what year, but as late as 1779 or 1780 I think and I believe in the month of March that I cannot give the exact date I again enlisted for nine months in a company of New York State troops commanded by Capt. David Lewis then at Pond Ridge now dead? - one Hill Boston I think was Lieutenant - I don't know what has become of him - enlisted as a private at P. Pond Ridge. The service consisted in guarding the country against the Tories, in skirmishing, repelling incursions of the Tories, and rendering aid to the neighboring parts of Connecticut & New York - our service was constant of the kind stated above of such that we could not & did not follow any civil business - I served faithfully & steadily during said whole term of nine months & during as I think some time in the December following

And James Dean was in this Service with me - During this time we made an excursion to Tarrytown on the Hudson & spent some weeks there in the Service. we drinking & eating. This company was a regularly organized Corps raised & ordered into service by the Regu- lar public authorities of New York - I have endeavou- red in vain to find the year for I cannot do it - I think it was when the Cow boys were most troublesome for we had many affairs with them.
I was born in said Stamford on the 22 nd day of June 1755 - I have a record of my age in an old book - I lived in said Stamford till I entered said Service - During the war of some few years after resided in said Pound Ridge. Then came back to said Stamford I have lived there ever since - - In fourteen years past I have been broken down & laid up with infirmities of the several years past have been in the poor-house supported by the Town of Stamford - In about two years I have been blind - I have not been in said Pound Ridge for about twenty years - I enlisted as stated above on my own account & not at a substitute - never received a written discharge - do not know that I can obtain any proof of my services under said Lewis but said James Dean - have answered the 5 th & 6 th entitled interrogatory as fully as I can to any useful purpose - I refer to said James Dean & to John Seely of said Stamford who have long known me well to prove my char- acter for truth of their knowledge or belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution - There is no sluggard within my knowledge nor unfaithful who has any knowledge in regard to my services or the reputation of them - for my former residence was remote from any of those who live in that region are all late comers to whom I am unknown or in consequence of my poverty & being in the poor-house, there is none I believe to whom I could apply with any prospect of obtaining a certificate from them - I am quite too poor & infirm to be able to make extensive inquiries - I have for a long time past been endeavoring to make my application for a pension, but have been

unable until now I could not write but for the kindness of assistance of friends -
The Declaration hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension. I hope the President of Congress that his name is on the pension roll of the agency of any state - I swear to the substance of the Day of your adjournment.
His William X Dan marks
John H. Henshaw Judge.
And on the same day before said Com. personally ap- peared James Dan of Pond Ridge in West York named in the foregoing application aged seventy four years in Feb. last who being duly sworn doth on his oath testify that he has always well known William Dan who has subscribed his name to the foregoing Declaration - between his age & the twenty nine years - his character has always been good for veracity - He is very in fine of mind & has been for years in inmate of the poor house in Hampden. In the Revolutionary War I was in the of July 1776 the Defeat of Genl. Washl. at Br Pond Ridge together with for six months in a Company commanded by Capt. David Dan then of P. Pond Ridge, now Det. of said P. & P. & P. & P. Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas H. Henshaw now Det. of we together served the whole of said six months out in said Company against the pub- lic enemy - from Bedford where we mustered we proceeded to Kingsbridge where we assisted in building Fort Independence of lay there till Wash- ington was driven from New York & we then pro- ceeded to White Plains of were there till after the Battle when we went to Peekskill where

we staid till one time was nearly out when we went to Harrisburg Penchake where our time ended. I was then discharged. This was constant steady service in the field such as entirely took us from our homes for all civil pursuits of our bread regular pay of rations - I was in the same mess with David Matthews - The term ended Jan 3. 1. 1777 -
After this but how long I cannot tell but some years after - as late I think as 1779 or 80 - I cannot possibly now fix the time - I in the early part of the year - I believe in March - said Washington & myself with others at said Point Ridge as privates in a company of New York State troops under Capt. Sand. Lewis now dead. - We were raised to guard against the Cortelrys who were exceedingly troublesome - we enlisted for eight months & served in said company for nine months, in repelling the Tories, chasing them, scouting & patrolling the country & in making excursions - This was steady service of the kind above stated for which we drew pay of such as prevents our following any civil pursuit. I draw a pension under our late law for my services under both of the above named enlistments - I was forget in what year I stated my nine months services to have been rendered - I cannot now fix the year by any thing within my memory I know from my own observation that said Matthews enlisted as stated above; for fifteen months as stated above including both terms - although I cannot fix the year of my last stated services I know that the enlistment of service was for nine months, ending I believe in December - Of this I am confident -
James A. Dan
I was not of age at the time of my enlistment & I certainly know that I knew the appearance of that he is a credible person
Chas. H. Hawley Judge
And on the same day before said Court personally appeared Alanson Dean of said Stamford aged twenty seven years who being duly sworn doth testify that he well knows Matthews Dean who has subscribed to the foregoing declaration &

Who is this Defendant's grandfather - believes his age to be seventy nine years - That his character for truth is good - That this Defendant is well acquainted in that part of said Ham- ford where said Nathl. resided before he went into the poorhouse & that he knows it is gen- erally reported & believed in that place w ch is in H. neighbourhood where said Nathl. resided as aforesaid That he was a soldier of the Revolu- tion & that this Defendant concurs in said opin- ion - and further that said neighbourhood is consid- erably remote from the residence of any clergyman or magistrate of whom he does not believe (as the clergy- men & magistrates who live in said neighbourhood are all comparatively young men) That any clergyman or magistrate has any knowledge of the services of said Nathl. or the reputation re- garding them, especially as he fears his obscurity & being in the poorhouse has not been for years the subject of conversation except among his rela- tives & perhaps a very few others - I warrant & subscribe (his mark) Dan The day & year aforesaid If I certify that I know the defendant of that he is a credible person.
Ch. Hensley Judge

(2041)
At-Dan 1838
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield }
On this thirty first day of August A D 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in said County and State, the same being a Court of Record and held at Stamford in said District Mary Dan a resident of Stamford in said District 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 A D 1838 en- titled "an Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Nathanial Dan late of said Stamford now deceased who served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. That he was entitled, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832. to receive thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4 th of March 1831. and that, having died on the 13 th day of April 1836, the amount due up to the day of his death was payable and paid to Declarant the said Mary Dan - who then was and still is the widow of said Nathanial. And to the evidence upon which said pension or annuity was granted to her said husband and to declarant up to the time of his death - she respectfully refers in support of this her claim to a pension - The pension certificate hav- ing been returned to the proper Department - an ex- act copy is hereto annexed.
She further declared that she was married to the said Nathanial Dan on the sixteenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty three by the Rev. John Ellis. That her maiden name was Stevens. That her husband, the aforesaid Nathanial, died on the 13 th day of April 1836 as aforesaid - for proof

That he then died, Declarant refers to the evidence which accompanied the return of said pension certificate. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four by at the time above stated.
That she has never married since his death but has ever remained and still is his widow and has always resided and still resides in said Stamford.
That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim except that herein before referred to.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first herein before writ- ten. by declarant, who being unable to write subscribed by her cross
her Mary X Dan cross
In presence of
M c Neish
Before Joshua B. Ferris Judge

And The said Court doth hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that said Nathaniel Dan was a Revolutionary soldier - That Mary Dan the applicant was married to said Nathaniel on the 16 th day of January 1783 - That said Nathaniel died on the 13 th of April 1836 - and that said Mary Dan still remains unmarried & his widow. That said Court cannot determine the duration of said Nathaniel's services from any testimony herein contained - it being referred to as on file in the proper Department.
Joshua B. Ferris - Judge -

I, James Seely Clerk of The Court of Probate for The District of Stamford in Connecticut, do hereby certify That The foregoing contains The original proceedings of The said Court, in The matter of The application of Mary Dan for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and seal of office This 26 th day of September A D 1838
2041 Mary Dan Widow of Nathl.
born
Oct 7
July 38
Mar 2 1753
died 13
Apr 1838
Widow 85 30 11/11 New
and John
J. Seely
St. John's Ep Stamford Conn

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } p - Stamford
Be it known That on this 8 th day of September 1838 before me M. D. Haight a Notary Public in and for said State personally appeared James Dan of The Town of Poundridge. County of Westchester and State of New York, now in said Stamford, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say That he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Dan during his life time - whose widow Mary Dan is an applicant for a pension - said Nathaniel and Mary were married in The presence of this Deponent on the 16 th day of January 1783 - by John Ellis then of New-Canaan which was a part of said Stamford, now deceased - Deponent was married at The same time - in The same house - and by The same person to wit said John Ellis. Deponent and his wife - and said Nathaniel and his wife, the said Mary, all stood up together and were married, as before stated, at The same time - Deponent is certain That The marriage of said Nathaniel and said Mary took place at The time and under The circumstances above stated -
James Dan
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first written - I further certify That I am well acquainted with Deponent and know him to be a credible person - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office -
M c Wright Notary Public

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
See
File No. 17696
Mary Dan. Widow of Mathaniel Dan Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. 81, Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nathl. Dan. Conn. At June 7. when paid. Due 13 th April 1836 p st to that period JH HHS

Copy of Mary Davis Certificate -
Endorsement
"Payment to be made at bank. To be by Saml. L. Pitkins agent for paying Pensions in the agency of Connecticut -
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E. 2. Vol. 3.
Page 9. by J. M c Curdy Clerk -

War Department - Revolutionary claim.
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 Nathan L. Dan late of Connecticut who was a private in army of the Revolution was entitled to a pension thirty two dollars fifty six cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4 th of March 1831 that having died on the 13 th day of April 1836 the amount due up to the day of his death is payable to Mary Dan the widow of said deceased.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Third day of October one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven -
J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War
Seal
examined & correct
J. L. Edwards
Commission of Oaths
The number on the back is 31.220 -

Hon J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Stanford Sept. 26 th 1838
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of the Widow Mary Dan for a pension.
Most respectfully
Your obt. servt.
Joshua B. Ferris -

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. Probate District of Stamford. On this 19 th day of July A.D. 1835 before the Court of Probate in the 4 th District was sitting personally appeared James Darr of Pound Ridge in the State of New York who being duly sworn & the testimony in add to his deposition given heretofore on the application of Nathl. Darr for a pension, that he cannot state with certainty to what Regiment the Company commanded by Capt Samuel Lewis (in said former deposition mentioned) belonged; nor can he state with certainty that there was raised an entire Regiment of the same kind of troops; but according to the best of his recollection Col. Thomas of Westchester County in which County said Pound Ridge is, had the superintendence of command of the said Company, as well as of other troops of a similar character raised during that time in that part of the State of New York. Col Thomas was long in command in that quarter during the war & had the direction of State troops in that region. He was an active officer. The nature of our services was such as gave us but little opportunity (if any) to see superior officers active in superintending our movements. I think from the best of my recollection at the present time that the Company was raised under Col. Thomas's directions & that he was our superior officer - To how large a corps said Company belonged I cannot now tell; - we were raised for the purpose stated in my former deposition of our services were such, that the privates of the Company, stood no great chance of learning much about orders etc from superior officers. I know very well however that said Company was raised of service as stated in my former deposition of that said Nathl. Darr myself both served therein as in said deposition stated - I however do testify that I well knew said Thomas of horse been repeatedly in expeditions, excursions, scouts &c under his personal direction; (Very possibly probably during this same term of mine mentioned in Lewis's company, but in consequence of the uncertainty of my memory.

I will not state positively that such was the case - for I cannot now state from my unaided recollection the particular times when I have known him in the personal charge of us on such occasions. Whenever I was out of our company associated with other troops on an expedition Col. Thomas according to my recollection was the superior officer present. I won to subscribe to James A. Jan say I have found that he is a candid person.
Col. H. A. Taylor Judge -

Nat. Abometical } p. Probate District of Stamford. County of Fairfield }
On this 3rd day of September A.D. 1835 before the Court of Probate in & for said District was sitting personally appeared Nathaniel Dorr of Stamford in said District who makes the following additions to his original declaration under date of October 24th 1824 viz: That he believes that the said Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Lewis as stated in his original declaration, belonged to a Regiment or Corps commanded by Col. Thomas Thomas as in said original declaration mentioned. This is according to the best of my knowledge & recollection. I well recollect being out on expeditions many times under said Col. Thomas besides my services under David Dorr & I think that said Thomas was the superior officer when I was under Lewis - I believe sometime during the war there was a change of Col. Crane was placed in command of the State troops in that quarter & I think I was once out in an alarm under him. It is possible Crane may have been one colored then I was under Lewis, but I believe Thomas was. Thomas was commander of the State troops of militia in that quarter a great while - I don't recollect Crane's Christian name, but he belonged to Upper Salem. He is dead now - I was well acquainted with Thomas but not with Crane. I have been so long broken down with infirmities, that I cannot speak as much confidence in my memory as I otherwise could, but I well know I served under David Dorr & under said Lewis as I have stated in my original declaration, & for the terms there stated. About these prominent facts I cannot be mistaken. I don't recollect with any certainty that the Regt. was ever together when I served under Lewis. Our services were gecluding the particular region where we were stationed & scouting in & about that place, except on expeditions to the Hudson as stated in my original declaration, when, I have no recollection that any other Corps was with us - No higher officer than our Captain was with us on this occasion. Our services were such as gave us little or no opportunity to see our superior officers in service or to know by observation from whom our Captain received his orders.
Sworn to & subscribed to the day of year as above & I certify that the words here- in intitled were written before signature or oath.
his Nathaniel X Dorr mark
Ch. H. Judson Judge

I Samuel Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Dan for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 4 th day of September A D 1835. —
Samuel Lockwood Clerk
to the Hon. Barn. C.
Esq d
Ad m re Jan y 11 th 1836 for ann. interest to be paid to Mary Dan up the time of her husband's death 13 th Apr 1836.
Rev. J. T. Church, U.S.A. H.R.

32.969 Natt. Dan Count.

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss. Probate District of Stamford.
On this 22 nd day of October 1834 before the Court of Probate in said District personally appeared John Seeley of Stamford in said District aged sixty one years who being duly sworn & testified that he has long well known Nathaniel Dyer of said Stamford an applicant for a pension - believes his age to be twenty nine years - his character for truth is perfectly good - he has been for many years a professing Christian of the Methodist Denomination - He is now blind of pre a long time has been very infirm of entirely poor of a town pauper of the Town of Stamford - While he has been supported by the town he has been kept in places more or less remote from his former place of residence in said Stamford & by reason of his poverty & obscurity the incidents of his former life have not been extensively the subject of conversation - but Defendant well knows that in the neighborhood where s d Dyer resided before the town took him in charge of where this Defendant is very familiarly acquainted it is generally reported & believed that he was a soldier of the Revolution of this Defendant concurs in that opinion. This Defendant has heard the said Nathaniel tell of having enlisted of Second trip months in the State of New York under Capt David Dyer in Col Thomas's Regt. in 1776 & also of his having enlisted of Second trip years afterwards for nine months in the State of New York under Capt Samuel Lewis in Waterloo of New York on both occasions & from the general reputation of what he has heard from old neighbors of said Nathaniel of some his opinion of the s d Nathaniel character for truth has no doubt he served as stated above - This Defendant belongs to the Methodist Denomination of Christians of has been for several years (not indeed a licenced clergyman) but a class leader in the society to which he belongs - This latter fact he states by request - There is no all the clergymen residing

in the neighborhood where said Nathl. Dine within in Stamford or the adjoining town of New Canaan who has resided there more than a few years - had one in the immediate neighborhood. And Depo- nent presumes that in consequence of the poverty of obscurity of the S d Nathl. There is no clergy- man or magistrate any where in that region who has heard him so much talked of as to be able to testify to the reputation of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. - The Deponent has given the names of the Captains under whom he understood S d Nathl. Served - He may not be exactly correct in this but believes from his recollections that he is - John Seely Sworn to above on the day of your above mentioned the forenoon of I certify that I will know the deponent & that he is a credible person -
Ch. Haverley Judge -
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier of service as heretofore. - And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that John Seely who has signed & sworn to the preceding deposition is, what is, among the Christian sect called methodists, called a class-leader - viz a leader in religious services of the Methodist persuasion on occasions of public worship of a person of entire respectability of that Adam Dine who has signed & sworn to the the preceding deposition is a resident in the town of Stamford aforesaid & is a credible person - of that said Seely is a resident in the said town of Stamford, of that their statement is entitled to credit.
Ch. Haverley Judge

I Samuel Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Con- necticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the Hon. J. D. for a probate. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25 th day of October A.D. 1834.
Samuel Lockwood Clerk

State of New York Westchester County 3s On this twenty third day of October in the year 1834 Personally appeared before me Ezra Lockwood One of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas in and for said County, Samuel San of Poundridge in s d County aged eighty One years and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith That he is well acquainted with Nathaniel San of Stamford in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut and hath been acquainted with him since the commencement of the Revolutionary War - That the deponent was a soldier in the American Service in the year 1776 - and in actual service at Fort Independence in West- chester County and various other places in said County - That the said Nathaniel San was a Soldier in the New York State troops at the same time and in the same Regiment, to wit in Col. Thomas Thomas' Reg t and in the Company of Capt David San as the deponent believes, That the said Regiment was out under Arms in the Cam- paign of that year for Six Months as the deponent be- lieves and said Nathaniel San served as the deponent believes, for the term said Reg t was in service - That the deponent receives a Pension for his Services during the said year - in said Reg t
Sworn and Subscribed
Samuel San
The day and year aforesaid
before me Ezra Lockwood One of the Judges
in & for said County -
I Certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel San who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition - That he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit. Ezra Lockwood One of The Judges in & for s d County

I am told you will probably find satisfactory evidence of Judge Lockwood's official capacity on the ap- plication of Jonathan Wood, Adahel Scoville Amos Dixon, Eleazer Nason, Joseph Mansrow, Amos Marshall, Joseph Webster & Nathan Nason. The applicant has nothing wherewithal to pay the expense of sending for a certificate to a public Office in New York.
Ch. Hawley

Walter Davis widow
Hon. T. J. Whittelsey ADR

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. Probate District of Stamford -
On this 16 th day of December A.D. 1836 before the Court of Probate in Open P. District now sitting personally appeared Nathaniel D Haight Esq of the Town of Stamford in said District aged thirty three years who being only sworn oaths on his oath testifies that he is a practicing physician in said Town of Stamford, located in the Society of North Stamford in said Town - That he well knew Nathaniel Dan late of said Stamford an applicant for a pension having attended him at various times in his professional capacity for the space of ten years before his death of two or three times in his last sickness - he was an inmate of the poor house in said Stamford, having been a town pauper - he died in said poor house in said Society of Stamford on the 13 th day of April 1836 of left a widow Mary Dan who is still living of still his widow I am as well acquainted with her personally as with him - she still resides in said poor house of I am for a considerable time past, have been the attending physician upon that establishment - My residence is but about a mile distant from said poor house - I had for some years before the decease of said Dan heard much of his history as a soldier of the revolution - such being of having been the current report among elderly people in that neighborhood I have no doubt from those reports that he was a soldier of the revolution -
Sworn to & subscribed on the day of year above mentioned of I
Nathaniel D Haight
Certify that the defendant is well known to me of is a credible person - of the Court adjourned & after hearing find I certify of express its opinion that the said Nathaniel Dan who was in his life time of at his decease an applicant for a pension, died at said Stamford on the 13 th day of April A.D. 1836 of that he left a widow Hannah Dan

who resides in 12nd Hambley St is still living & still his widow -
Chs. H. H. Judge -
I Joshua B. Ferris Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the probate of the Will of Nathaniel D. an applicant for a petition of the fact that he left a widow. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19 th day of September A.D. 1887 -
Joshua B. Ferris Clerk

Hon. J. L. Edwards Washington -
J. B. Linn Esq.

Dear J. L. Edwards Sir
Hampton Sept. 19 th 1887
You will perceive that the papers now forwarded were made out long ago - they have lain unused because I intended obtain some new testimony - but the age & poverty of the widow & the poverty of her nearest connections has prevented such a search as a more active person or one of more means might have made.
However the applicant has the testimony of James Dan, who was a fellow soldier - was in the same Corps with the applicant & at the same time - & has long drawn a pension for his services services - His deposition accompanied the original application - & an additional deposition has since been forwarded - As the Department found sufficient evidence that the Corps in which he served, were of that character, that he was entitled to a pension, it would seem to follow as a result, that the claim of the widow should also be allowed; unless indeed the testimony is considered not entitled to credit - The respectability of the witnesses is however only shown if I respectfully ask a review of the case on behalf of the widow, -
Yours respectfully & O. B. Smith.
Chas. H. Cleveland
P. S. I add if a part of the services are considered sufficiently proved by the evidence, the applicant will be content to take an allowance for the part sufficiently proved - She supposes that she should be allowed for the whole, especially as James Dan received for the whole -

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } p Stamford Probate District
On this 25 th day of Sept r A D 1838 personally appeared before The Court of Probate within and for said District Nathaniel D Haight a resident of Stamford in said District who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say That he is a practising Physician in the Town of Stamford and attended Nathaniel Dan in his last sickness - Deponent knows that said Nathaniel Dan died at the time stated in The Declaration of his widow, to which this is annexed - Deponent knows that his said widow, Mary Dan, who has made her declaration with a view to obtain a pension under The late Act of Congress is still unmarried and the widow of the identical Nathaniel Dan in said Declaration mentioned.
N d Haight
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first written - I further certify That I am well acquainted with Deponent - said N d Haight That he is a practising physician in said Stamford and a credible person - Joshua B b Ferris Judge