Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,763, Nathaniel Carver, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Conn.)
Carver, Nathaniel Lydia
R 1,763
CONTENTS

Lydia baron  6930 Declaration
G. W. Harmon, Agent Pawlet Rutland Co. Verm.
M 85 d 05.

Declaration. Act of July 7, 1838.
State of Vermont Fairhaven Probate District
On this 3 rd day of March, A. D. 1840, personally appeared before the Probate Court of the district of Fairhaven, in the county of Rutland and state aforesaid, Lydia Sawyer, a resident of the town of Poultney, in the county of Rutland, aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oaths, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Nathaniel Sawyer, who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution; That the said Nathaniel resided in the town of Canterbury, in the county of Windham and state of Connecticut, during the revolutionary war, and in the spring of the year, 1776, he volunteered, and entered as a private soldier, the regiment commanded by Col. John Dunge, or Ducker, and as this deponent thinks, was, a part of the time in the company commanded by Capt. Isham. She said Nathaniel marched to Long Island, and from thence to White Plains, where he was, at the time of the battle, but was not engaged therein in consequence of sickness, by which he was detained at the hospital. He was discharged late in the fall of the year 1776, having served the full period of six months. This deponent was not acquainted with the said Nathaniel, at the time of his performing his military services, and has acquired her knowledge of those services from the lips of the said Nathaniel, by whom she has been told the foregoing, and many other particulars, relative thereto, which have faded from her recollection. She has often told her, he served six months, and she thinks he served a longer period.

She further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Sawyer, on the second day of January, A. D. seventeen hundred and eighty five; that her husband, the aforesaid Nathaniel Sawyer died on the fourteenth day of April, A. D. 1805; 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, viz, at the time above stated. She has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.
Witnesses Chester L. Sawyer
Sydia her Sawyer
Sworn to and subscribed, on the mark day and year first above written, before
Almon Warner Judge
I Benjamin F Langdon Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairhaven in the County of Rutland do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Sawyer for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 3 rd day of March 1840
B F Langdon Register

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.
I, Elisha Allen Town Clerk of Pawlet aforesaid do hereby certify that the following, is a transcript of the original Record now in my office. To wit: That Daniel Cushman married to Lydia Colgate on January Second one thousand seven hundred and eighty five. I certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "Jan y 2 nd 1785."
I, Elisha Allen above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Pawlet with the exception above named, as certified by me. Elisha Allen Town Clerk of Pawlet
Sworn before me March 21, 1840. H. Griswold Just. Peace
STATE OF VERMONT. RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Harry Griswold was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned: that his commission is dated on the Twenty fifth day of November A. D. 1839, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November A. D. 1840; and I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland in said county this Twenty seventh day of March A. D. 1840. F. W. Hopkins

Lydia Caven
John Caven. Jr
Soldiers Death
Widowhood
1768

I, John Barrow, of Pawlet, in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont, of lawful age, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I am the son of Nathaniel Barrow and of Lydia his wife. That the said Nathaniel died at Pawlet, aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of April, A.D. 1805. And I further depose and say, that the said Lydia has never been married since the decease of the said Nathaniel, to my knowledge, information or belief, and that the said Lydia now lives with me. And further say not. John Barrow
Sworn to and subscribed the second day of April, 1840, before me. And I certify that I am acquainted with the said John Barrow and that he is a person of truth and veracity, and that his statements are entitled to full confidence and credit.
H. Griswold Justice Peace
not authenticated

Messrs of The Bureau of Pensions Washington City The heirs of Nathaniel Carver of Pawlet Rutland County & State of Vermont did execute a Power of attorney to John T. Keeley a Lawyer of your city to present the claims of the Nathaniel for revolutionary services. We have waited over two years since it was done and have heard nothing from him the heirs wish to know if he has presented the claim & the result of it or if the the Keeley yet lives there or if he has removed or is dead or whatever may be the case concerning him An answer to this will greatly oblige the the Heirs Silas Gregory for the heirs Pawlet Feb. 24 th 1854

February 10, 1933.
Mrs. Laura Hodge Gehoa Nebraska.
BA-J/ILL Joseph Haskell S. 29869 Nathaniel Carver R. 1763
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Joseph Haskell and Nathaniel Carver, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The record of Joseph Haskell given below is obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29869, based upon his military service in that war. It is the record of the only soldier with that name, variously spelled, found on sail records of this office.
Joseph Haskell was born in the year 1753 at Harvard (later called Boxboro), Massachusetts.
While a resident of Templeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he enlisted September 20, 1776 and served two months as private in Captain John Boynton's Massachusetts company, after which he enlisted and served three months as private in Captain William Mearn's Company, Colonel Spaulding's Massachusetts Regiment; he enlisted sometime between July 15 and 20, 1777, and served one month as private in Captain Boynton's Company, Colonel Job Cushing's Massachusetts Regiment; he enlisted the last of August, 1777 and served three months as private in Captain David Bent's Company, Colonel Job Cushing's Massachusetts Regiment, during which period of service he was in skirmishes at Stillwater and witnessed the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga. He enlisted April 1, 1778 and served three months as orderly sergeant in Captain William Mearn's Company, Colonel Reed's Massachusetts Regiment; he enlisted January 1, 1779 and served three months as orderly sergeant in Captain Adam Henry's Massachusetts Company under

Major Tuckerman, during which service he was stationed at Rutland to guard prisoners.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he resided in Templeton, Massachusetts; he had resided there ever since the war.
Joseph Haskell died February 9, 1834.
No reference is made to wife or children in the papers on file in the above noted claim.
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NATHANIEL CARVER -R. 1763.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 1763, based upon the military service of Nathaniel Carver in the Revolutionary War. Said record, R. 1763, is that of the only soldier named Nathaniel Carver found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Nathaniel Carver was a resident of Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary War.
He married January 2, 1785, Lydia Edgerton; the date and place of her birth and the names of her parents are not stated. Their marriage was recorded in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont.
The soldier died April 14, 1805 in Pawlet, Vermont.
On March 3, 1840, Lydia Carver, the widow of Nathaniel Carver, then seventy-seven years of age, applied for the pension that might have been due on account of the service of her husband, said Nathaniel Carver, in the Revolutionary War.
She stated then that Nathaniel Carver volunteered in the spring of 1776, as a private in a regiment commanded by Colonel John Durkee, a part of the time in Captain Isham's Company, marched to

Long Island, thence to White Plains, where he was detained in a hospital in consequence of sickness at the time "of the battle", and was discharged late in the fall of 1776, having served full six months.
Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law under which she applied.
In 1840, John Carver, the son of Nathaniel Carver and his wife, Lydia, resided in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont; he was then of legal age, the date and place of his birth not given. His mother lived with him at that time.
In 1854, one Silas Gregory of Pawlet, Vermont, made inquiry for the heirs of Nathaniel Carver of Pawlet, Vermont, in regard to his pension claim; the names of said heirs are not given and there is no further information relative to the widow, or the heirs in the papers on file in this claim.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.

Oct. 28/98.
Mrs. Mary L. Batesford, Manchester Centre, N.H.
1933 - Feb. 10 - Hist. to Mrs. Laura Hodge. See letter in Rev. N. Joseph Haskell - S 29869. J.L.L.
1763
RECEIVED
P. O. Sylvia Casser widow of
Service: Nathaniel
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Notes: List of suspended claims printed in 1852 shows cause of no-enlisted suspension as follows: "Service not fully proved."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
_____, 18

Lydia H. Sawyer Vt. Mar 38
Cole
The Bureau of Pensions
Washington City
D. G.
FREE

6930 Yrs
Suspended
Lt. to G.W. Harman May 10 July 9 1840 do to same May 27 1840 " Solas Gregory March 9/54
Act 4. July '38

G. M. Harman
May 27 th 1840
A. C.
E

415 Gen: A May 20 th 40
Sir
In answer to your of 15 inst in the case of Lydia Farver, I have to state that no reason is perceived for not adhering to the objection respecting the service of '96 - Adam's testimony conflicts with his own declaration & is not sufficient to establish that term -
J. M. Harman J. S. Dawlet B. L.

May 25. 1840 Vt. Brattleboro
Mr.
Glenn
J. P. Edwards Esq.
Home of Indians
Washington City D.C.
2

Pawlet May 15. 1840.
The letter of the Com r of Pensions, addressed to me, in relation to the claim of Mrs. Lydia Cawen, has been received. and upon examining the same in connexion with copies of the original papers in support of that claim, it appears that the clerk who has had the business in charge, has misapprehended the purport of the evidence, in several important particulars.
The letter states. "The claim of Mrs. Lydia Cawen under the act of 7 th July 1838, is asserted for six months service in 1776, in New York under Captain Isham and Col. Durkie of the Connecticut Troops."
Mrs. Cawen's declaration states, - that her late husband, "in the spring of the year 1776, volunteered and entered as a private soldier, the regiment commanded by Col. John Durkie or Durkee, and as this deponent thinks, was, a part of the time , in the company commanded by Capt. Isham." - "He was discharged late in the fall of the year 1776, having served the full period of six months."
The letter states. "the only (witness?) (Levi Adams) asserts, that it was rendered under Captain Butts, and Col. Durkie, he having served with him for the six months in New York in that year."

Adams' affidavit states - "The officers that I served under were capt. Sherbick Butts" &c.
"I think he" (Carroll) "commenced service in the spring and served six months"
"I cannot tell " (the names of the officers) "but I think he served in Col. John Duiges regiment."
Although Adams, in his application for a pension, may have stated his service in 1776, to have been but two months, such statement is not at variance with his affidavit, in which he swears that Carroll served six months - for though Adams may not have been in service at that time, non constat , but he was so connected with the army, that he knew of the service of Carroll. His having testified to the performance of six months service by Carroll, ought to afford some evidence that the service was done.
I trust the papers will receive a further examination.
I am &c
Yr Abt St.
G. M. H. Garrison.
Col. P. L. Edwards Comm: of Pensions.

J. W. Hartman
May 9 th 1840
at

Sen: off May 9 th 40
Sir
The claim of Lydia Carver under the act of 7 July 38 is rejected for want of service in 7 th in N.Y. under Capt Isham H o l d Durkin of the Connecticut Troops and the only (Levi Adams) asserts that it was rendered under Capt Butts H o l d Durkin he having served with him for the six months in N.Y. in that year - By reference to Adams' papers it is seen that he served for 2 mos four of the Conn s militia in the fall of 7 th in N.Y. under Capt Butts & was discharged after the battle of White Plains - and if his statement be true that Claimant's late husband served with him in that company which the records show was called out for 2 mos only, she has no claim
G.W. Harman Pawlet Vt

Pension Office,
March 9, 1864.
Sir,
In reply to your communication of the 24 th ultimo, I have to state that it does not appear that any papers have been filed by the heirs of Nathaniel Garrow for pension, by John T. Neely or any one else - Mr. Neely now resides, I believe in this City.
Three were papers filed in 1840 by the widow of Nathaniel Garrow - The claim was then suspended - The present condition of the case  claim will be reported to you, if desired, upon the transmission of a power of Attorney
Very respectfully J C
Silas Gregory Esq Pawlett, Rutland Co Vermont

Henry Kilbourn, Compt. Recd Feb 21 1840.
J. M. Haman Esq. South Vermont

Comptroller's Office Kilsyth July 17 1840
My Sir, Again. I have to answer yours of the 12 th in the Negative. I have examined all the Pay Rolls remaining in this Office from 1775 to 79 particularly for 1776 for the purpose of the Comptroller - his name does not appear - you are aware that we are deficient in Pay Rolls for 1776 and have no means of ascertaining the services of the Private Soldiers (Militia) except by Pay Rolls
Very Respectfully Your O bt Servant Henry Nisbet Compt.
G. M. Haemad Esq r

Lydia Canou
Levi Adams aft.
6 mo. since

State of New York Chautauqua Co. ss On this 20 th day of January A.D. 1840 personally appeared Levi Williams of Ripley in said county, aged 85 years, and being duly sworn, deposed and says, as follows:
1. Question. In what town, county & state did you reside, during the revolutionary war?
Answer. The Town of Canterbury Windham County and State of Connecticut
2. Question. Were you acquainted with Nathaniel Baron during that war? and if so, in what town, county & state did he reside?
Answer. I was and he resided in the same Town County and State that I did
3. Question. Did you perform military service in the army in the year 1776? and if so, what were the names of your generals, colonels & other field officers, captains & subalterns?
Answer. I did perform military service in the year 1776 and 1777 as a minuteman The officers that I served under were Capt. Sherebiah Butt and Ensign David Baldwin James Delap Serj and Ephraim Lion Lieutenant
4. Question. At what places did you perform the service above stated? and in what battles were you engaged?
Answer. Westchester and white plain and in battle at white plains
5. Question. Did Nathaniel Baron perform military service in the army in the year 1776? & if so, when did he commence? when did his term of service expire? & how long did he remain in the service?
Answer. He did and I think he commenced service in the Spring and served six months

6. Question. What were the names of the generals, colonels & other field officers, captains & subalterns under whom Sawyer served? Answer. Cannot tell but I think he served in Col. John Dwyer Regiment
7. Question. At what place did Sawyer perform the services above stated? & in what battle was he engaged? if not in battle state the reason why he was not. Answer. He was at White Plains, was not in the battle in consequence of sickness
8. Question. Do you know of any services performed by Sawyer, other than those above enumerated? if so, state them, particularly. Answer. I do not
9. Question. Do you know any other person, or persons, now alive who can testify to the services of Sawyer

military services of Mr. Lawrence? if so, name them, and where do they reside? Answer. I do not
10. Question. What was Lawrence's rank in the army?
Answer. Private Soldier
[Adams will sign the above.] Levi Adams
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Levi Adams, before me this 20 th day of January A.D. 1840; and I further certify that I am ac- quainted with the said Levi Adams, & that he is a man of truth & veracity. Simeon Park Justice Peace
State of New York Chautauqua County S. S. George W. Tew Clerk of said County. do hereby certify that Simeon Park Esq. was on the 20. day of January instant now is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature "Simeon Park" above subscribed purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this twenty first day of January. A.D. 1840. G. W. Tew Clerk

Brown
B.C.E.
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Will you please look at the records of Revolutionary pensioners and see if the name of Ezekiel Beebe is there if so what was his military record also the name of Nathaniel Carver and Capt. Simeon Edgerton and their records? I will be very grateful.
Mrs Mary Louise Bolzford,
Manchester Centre,
Vermont.
Oct 13 th 1898

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 44614, R. 1763.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
October 28, 1898.
Madam:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Ezekiel Beebe made an application for pension on March 31, 1818, at which time he was 63 years of age and residing at Rutland, Vermont, and his pension was allowed for three years' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Oliver and Col. Greaton. He enlisted at Ludlow, New Hampshire.
A very careful search has been made and from the data given the name of Simeon Edgerton has not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension or bounty land records on file in this Bureau.
Lydia, widow of Nathaniel Carver, made an application for pension on March 3, 1840, at which time she was 77 years of age and residing in Fairhaven District, Vermont, and in her application she alleged that her husband enlisted in the Spring of 1776 at Canterbury, Conn., and served as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war, under Capt. Isham and Col. Durkee. Length of his service not stated. Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mrs. Mary L. Botsford, Manchester Centre, Vermont.