Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22897, Abigail Dart, N H

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Dart, Abigail
W. 22897
Sawyer, Benjamin
B.L.Wt. 24769-160-55-
Former widow
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5. 240
New York
Margaret Dart deceased widow of Caleb
who died on the 25 Aug t , 1819 of in the State of who was a B t lv, in the commanded by Captain own of the commanded by in the line for Revolution
Prescribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 day of March, 1831 - Vind 1, 23, June 1852
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of July 1853 and sent to - Thos. Lumpkin Present
Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by V. M. Mac Clerk Book Vol. 2 - Page 356

State of New York Albany County ) ss
On the 8 th day of June (1847) One thousand Eight hundred and fortyseven personally appeared before me Marten T. Field a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Albany & State of New York Margaret Dart a resident of the Town of Palermo & said County of Albany aged upwards of Eighty nine Years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her Oath make the following Declarations in Order to Obtain the Pension due her from the United States and to Obtain the benefit of the Act and provisions made by Congress passed July 4 th 1836 & the Act passed by Congress July 4 th 1836 Entitled an Act Granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows and all Acts explanatory of and according to the same.
That she is the widow of Caleb Dart of the Town of New London State of Connecticut who Departed his life on the 25 day of August 1810 at said New London in said State of Connecticut since which time she has remained his widow.
That she was married to said Caleb Dart on the ninth day of April (1780) One thousand seven hundred and eighty at Norwich before Rev d John Tyler an Episcopalian Preacher in said State of Connecticut and that her said husband Caleb Dart was a Soldier in the United States in the War of the Revolution and at the said day of his death was not a pensioner.
That during said War of the Revolution her said husband Caleb Dart lived at New London aforesaid in said State of Connecticut from whence he entered the Service and as this Declarant was informed by her said husband he served at White Plains and New London & Horse Neck in the State Troops previous to her marriage and was at New London in the Service in said Fort when New London was Burnt and at this time Declarant had a Child Born and was but a little Distant from the Town & Fort when it was Burnt and her said husband was at said Fort but as said Declarant is so old and broken down in her memory she cannot relate the Officers names nor the different times and Periods her said husband was in the service before or after her marriage of which this Declarant believes to prove satisfactory hereafter by those who knew her said husband and

and was in the Service with him during the said war of the Revolution as this Declarant was informed by her said husband while living that he went into the Service in the early & first part of the war of the Revolution in the State Troops &c and served as aforesaid at White Plains and New London & Horse Neck and other places and was in New London as aforesaid when the Fort was taken and burnt by the British which Declarant says was more than one year after she was married to said Caleb Dart her said husband as they had one Child born as stated before at this time and this Declarant further saith that she was married as aforesaid to said Caleb Dart her husband at Norwich in said State of Connecticut before Rev John Tyler an Episcopalian Preacher on the ninth day of April One Thousand seven hundred & eighty (1780) and the following persons were present at her Marriage namely John Waterman & his wife and Alpheus Pops and his wife John Chapman and his wife Vney Freeman Sally Gears William Brooks and others Declarant says she cannot tell whether any persons are now living who were present at her marriage as it is now about 24 years since she moved from said New London to Oswego County where she now resides and has never since been able to visit New London again to see her friends
and that previous to her said marriage she lived in said New London aforesaid and bore the maiden name of Margaret Braddick and that her said husband died said Caleb Dart as aforesaid at New London in the State of Connecticut on the twenty fifth 25 th day of August (1810) One Thousand eight hundred and ten and since his death she has remained single and unmarried and this declarant further saith that the accompanying family record is the family record made by her said husband Caleb Dart and has been kept by this declarant ever since the death of her said husband and is in his own hand writing and with whom she has continued to live as his lawful wife up to the time and day of his death and raised a family of children together as will be seen on said family record. To wit his own age Caleb Dart was born 16 th Sept 1756 Margaret Braddick this Declarant was born 9 th March 1759 Their son Lookua was born February 17 th 1781 Margaret was born Sept 28 th 1783 Lucretia was born August 8 th 1785 see records and was married April 9 th 1780 see records This Declarant believes that it is not probable her said husband served under a Captain Shaply the year New London was burnt and Col Ledyard or in the winter previous as he served during this time

677 1 FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MA
Caleb Dart was Married to Margaret Brondick April 9 th 1780
Joshua Dart was Married to Francis Darrow August 6 th 1806
Joseph Douglass was Married to Lucretia Dart November 28 th 1808
Caleb Dart son was Married to Elizabeth Caldwell December 7 th 1811
March 12 th 1815  David Dart and  Sally Shepard was  Morrist in Westport Mass  William Dart (character was married to Catherine Macguire April 4 th 1849
Benjamin Dart was Married to Betsy Ingersell January 22 nd 1824
Leonard Dart was Married to Phoebe C Seaman January 22 nd 1825 In Albany New York

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Joshua Dart was born February the 17th 1781
Caleb Dart was born September 16th 1756
Frances Dart was born Novm 22nd 1781
Margaret Braddock was Born March 9th 1759
Decr 30th 1800
Joshua Dart was Born Feb. 17th 1781
Serenah Labor was Born
Margaret Dart was Born Sept. 28th 1783
Sept 19th 1802
Lucretia Dart was Born August 8th 1785
Portia Labor was Born
Caleb Dart Jr. was Born Decm 13th 1792
Venery Dart was Born
Braddock Dart was Born Jan. 31st 1790
was born May the 19th
Christopher Dart was Born Sept 25th 1792
1807
Henry Dart was Born Decm 13th 1792
Margaret Dart was Born November the 18th 1808
Mrs Braddock Dart Born Jan. 15th 1797
Albert Dart was Born October 29th 1810
Benjamin Dart was Born March 15th 1799
Leonard Dart was Born December 3rd 1817
Hellen Dart Daughter of Caleb
and Elizabeth Dart was born
January 17th 1813 Lucretia
Braddock Dart Daughter of Caleb
and Elizabeth Dart was Born September 27th 1814

Part
Albany County State of New York
Personally appeared before me Joseph ...

Albany County State of New York
personally appeared before me Joseph Douglas of Palatine in said County of Albany being duly sworn Deposeth & saith he is upwards of sixty years old and was from the Town of New London in the State of Connecticut and resided near Caleb Darts and has always known David Caleb Dart and said Margaret his widow and remembers the Old Gentleman Died at least thirty six or thirty seven years ago near this Deponent and that the said widow Margaret Dart now resides with said Deponent and remains single and unmarried and has been the widow of said Caleb Dart ever since the death of her said husband Caleb Dart aforesaid and lived together as husband & wife and always reported to have been Lawfully Married by Rev. John Tyler in Connecticut and as such have raised a respectable family of Children together — and that the said widow Margaret Dart is now an Applicant for a pension from the United States for services done by her husband said Caleb Dart in the war of the Revolution — which services this Deponent well remembers as to have been told that his said Deponents Father and said Caleb Dart served together a portion of the time as Soldiers in said war of the Revolution in the United States in the Connecticut Troops — this Deponent always understood from both his said Father and said Caleb Dart while living all of which this deponent very much believes to be true
Joseph Douglas
Subscribed and sworn before me this 8 day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty seven and I certify that said Joseph Douglas is a Credable witness
Walter F. Folsom
Judge of Albany County Court

The papers and discharges are all lost of said Service
Subscribed and sworn before me
This Eighth day of June One Thousand eight hundred and fortyseven at Palmyra in Said County of Osage and I Certify that Said widow Margaret Dart is unable to attend Court by reason of old age and infirmities and being acquainted with the family having full Confidence in her Claim and That she name is the widow of Said Calib Dart and that her Said husband died as stated in the Declaration on the 25 th day of August 1810 all of which I have full Confidence in and this declaration was read to her before Execution
Huntington Fitch
Judge of Osage County Court
An Margaret Dart mark

State of Connecticut New London County } ss.
I Ephraim H. Douglass of New London in said State of Connecticut of lawful age being duly sworn according to law depose & say that I am Town Clerk of said Town of New London & by virtue of said Office have charge of the Records thereof. That I have examined said Records in order to find proof of the marriage of Caleb Dart to Margaret Braddick , & that the following is a true Copy of an entry upon said Records, to wit:
"Caleb Dart & Margaret Braddick were married April 9 th 1780
Jonathan their son was born Feb. 17 th 1781 Lucretia their Daughter born August 8 th 1785 Caleb their son was born December 7 th 1787
From whence it appears that Caleb Dart & Margaret Braddick were duly married to each other on the ninth day of April Seventeen hundred & Eighty, according to law. The date of said marriage is expressed upon said Records in fair legible figures Attest Ephraim H. Douglass Town Clerk
Subscribed & sworn before me the 26 th day of August AD 1847 AD 1847 . And I certify that said Ephraim H. Douglass is Town Clerk of New London as aforesaid.
John Grace Justice of the Peace
John Grace
New London August 26 th 1847 Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } County of New London } ss
I James Stedman, Clerk of the County Court within and for said New London County, do hereby certify that John Grace, whose name in his own proper hand writing is subscribed to the Surety certificate on the other side written, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of New London duly appointed and commissioned, (his commission bearing date June 20 th A.D. 1847 and continuing in force one year until the 20 th of June A.D. 1848.) duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths out of Court to take Depositions, acknowledgments of Deeds & other instruments in writing &c.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my my hand & prefixed the Seal of said County Court, which is my Official Seal this 20 th day of September A.D. 1847.
James Stedman Clerk

State of New York County of Cortland
I Lewis Kniply Surrogate of said County do hereby certify that at a Surrogate Court held in and for said County before me the said Surrogate at Hudson  Cortlandville on the 22 nd day of June 1853 it was proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to the said Court, viz by the affidavits of Joseph Douglass and Margaret Peck of Oswego County N.Y. that Margaret Dart late of the town of Palermo County of Oswego N.Y widow of Caleb Dart, died on the 23 rd day June A.D. 1852 and at her death she left but one child who survives her viz
Lucretia Douglass of Palermo County of Oswego New York aged 68 years
That she is her only child her surviving and is over twenty one years of age
The testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this 22 nd day of June 1853, at Cortlandville in said Cortland County.
Lewis Kniply, Surrogate of said Cortland County New York

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.
J. W. B. W. 16943.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, G
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
April 11, 1899.
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Margaret, widow of Caleb Dart , made an application for pension on June 8th, 1847, at which time she was 89 years of age and residing at Palermo, N. Y., and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of six months. She He enlisted at New London, Conn., and served under Capt. Shapley and Col. Ledyard.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Charles R. Coville,
First National Bank Building,
Camden, Oneida Co., N. Y.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
Apr 11 '99 Chas R Coville Camden N.Y.
File No. 16943
Margaret Dart wid. of Caleb Dart Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:—Vol. a , Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York (Albany) Roll
Margaret Dart, de who was widow of Caleb, who was a private Coun- tress, —
She died July 4, 1836, 6 in sum.
$20 per share
On March 4, 1831.
On June 23, 1852, when she died —
Payable to Lucinda Douglass, as child of —
H. L. Lupton, Present.

Feb 12/53 Cal. Niles
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Mayard post
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Department of the Interior. OFFICIAL BUSINESS.

V No 6994 Margaret Dart N.Y. Mt. to J. S. Thingerland Oct 25 th 1847 Let to Hon. L. Babcock 25 Feb 1853 Lt. T. Lupton Jun 11/53
ad 4 July 1836
Jan 81 No 1 Exempt T. Lupton December 14. 1850 and returned.

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss
Oswego County Clerk's Office. } ss
I, JABEZ H. GILBERT, Clerk of said County DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Huntington Fitch whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledg- ment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the date of said Certificate, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, and duly authorised to take the same. AND FURTHER, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowl- edgement to be genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this 8th day of June 1847.
J. H. Gilbert Clerk. M. D. Easton Dep. Clk. (Clerk pro tem)
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57. Hot R, Feb'y 23 d 1853,
Hon Leander Babcock
Rel: to the application of Margaret Dart of Onondaga County New York—
Respy ref d to Mr Com. of Pen- sions for immediate at- tention & reply to Mr Babcock. She so advised.
Dept of Int. 23 G.C.W. Feb. 24/53.
Rec d Feb. 24. 1853.

House of Representatives, Feby 23. 1853.
Sir.
I have applied by no less than four different letters one of which was written as long ago as last July to the Commissioner of Pensions for information as to the disposition made by the Commissioner of Pensions of the application of Margaret Dant of Oswego County New York for a pension as widow of Caleb Dant deceased a Revolutionary Soldier. I have not yet heard from the Commissioner on the subject and feel constrained to appeal to you in regard to the matter. The Application for the Pension was made I am informed some two years since. I ask your interposition to procure for me the information I have so often asked from the Commissioner of Pensions
I am Reply
Rev A. K. H. Stuart Yrs Obt Servt Leander Babcock

52,
Washington D.C.,
July 11. 1853
r Thos. Lampkin
Appeals from Com; in case of Margaret Dent Widow of Caleb Dent
Resp y Ref d Com Pen's for Report Dept t Int r July 12. 1853
Cleary.
Rec d Feb. 12. 1853.

Washington, D.C. Feb 11th, 1853.
Sir,
I am instructed by Mrs. Margaret Dart, widow of Caleb Dart of New-Roth, lost 4th July 1836, to appeal from the adverse decision in her case by the Pension Office. The ground of the objection to the allowance of her claim, was insufficiency of proof of service. In the examination of her papers you will find the testimony of Robert Graves a pensioner who swears that he served as much as six months with claimant's husband.
I have the honor to be Sir, very respectfully Your Obedt Servt Th Dumphrey
Hon. A. N. H. Stuart Secy of the Dept of the Interior.

House of Reps. Jany 10. 1853.
Sir
I wish to be informed if the application of Margaret Dart widow of Caleb Dart for a Revolutionary Pension has been examined since the last proofs were submitted and if so what was the result.
During the last session I had occasion to request the same information to which request I never received any answer
I am very
Your Obedient Servant Leander Dabcock
Hon Jas E Hallett Clerk of Pennins

Barnerville Sept. 27, 1847.
Dear Sir: I herewith enclose you the evidence in case of Margaret Dart, who is the widow of Caleb Dart a deceased soldier of the Revolution. She applies under the act of July 4, 1836.
Very truly Yours &c.
T. S. Slingerland Barnerville Schoharie Co. N.Y.
Hon. J. S. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Brief in the case of Margaret Dart, do no q Cobb. Osage — County and State of  New York. act  July 4, 1836.
Claim, (“original,” or “for increase.”)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Recd evidence of Marriage. The commission decided that the evidence of [illegible] support to another use the admission of the claim for [illegible] month, (If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
T. Lumpkin, Berea.
Examining Clerk.
Orde M. [illegible]

C Babcock Esq., McGrawville, N.Y.

Sir:
Pension Office,
June 14 th 1853.
I have caused the papers filed in this Office, in support of the claim of Margaret Dart, widow of Caleb Dart, for the benefit of the Act of July 4 th 1836, in reference to which you appealed to the Secretary of the Interior, to be re-examined; and you are informed that it will be admitted for six months service as a private, if you will file satisfactory evidence to show that Mrs. Dart is now living; or, if dead, the period of her death, and the names and ages of her children now living. In the latter event, the evidence on which the certificate is based, must be cited in that paper.
I am, respectfully, Your At. Secy, L. Bradley. Commissioner.
Thomas Luptkin, Esq. Present.

July 18, 1853
Admiral case of
Mayant Dart,
Nyah 36

State of New York } County of Oswego } ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for said County Joseph Douglass, a resident of Palermo in Oswego County, aged sixty eight years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he was personally well acquainted with Caleb Dart, who had the reputation of being a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and also well acquainted with Margaret Dart who was the wife of the said Caleb Dart, that Caleb Caleb Dart died over forty years ago, and at his death he left Margaret Dart his Widow and that she remained his Widow until her death, and that this deponent was present at the time when she the said Margaret Dart died, and that she died in the Town of Palermo County of Oswego N.Y. on the 23 rd day of June 1852, at the time of her death she left but one child who survives her, and that she is the wife of this deponent and is now sixty eight years of age and is a resident, whose name is Lucretia Douglass wife of this Deponent, and that she now resides in Palermo County of "Oswego New York, and is now sixty eight years of age, and that she is the third child of the said Caleb and Margaret Dart deceased (as he has her understood it)
Sworn and Subscribed } before me this 18 th day of } June A.D. 1853
Joseph Douglass
Ezra Green, Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Joseph Douglass is personally known to me and that he is entitled to full credit on whatever he may ever Ezra Green

State of New York County of Cortland } ss.
I Lewis Kingsley, Surrogate of Cortland County, State of New York, do hereby certify that in the original certificate in the pension claim of Lucetia Douglass of Palermo, Oswego Co. N.Y., as daughter of Caleb Dart, made by me June 22 d 1853, the death of Caleb Dart, by mistake in drawing up the said certificate, was stated to have been on the 23 d day of June A.D. 1853, instead of June 23 d 1852, the real date of his death as proved before me; and further that the said certificate, as now corrected and stating the death of the said Caleb to have been June 23 d 1852, states the time of his death as proved before me.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this 11 th day of July 1853.
Lewis Kingsley, Surrogate.

Margaret Dart N.Y. sis

Whereas I Margaret Dart Widow of Caleb Dart, have made an application for a Pension due me for the services of my husband the aforesaid Caleb Dart, and as it appears that my claim has been abandoned by Mr Slingerland. I therefore authorize Mr Thomas Lumpkin of Washington City my agent, and attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim for the said pension hereby ratifying and confirming all he may lawfully do in said claim.
Dated Palermo Oswego County
November 25 th 1850
for Margaret X Dart mark
Witness Margaret Douglass

No 6994 Margaret Dart wid of Caleb N.Y. act 4 July 1836
Married 1780 He died Aug 25, 1810. June 11. 1853
The Commission has decided to admit this claim for six months service. See evidence of Shapley or Shapley's same term, Mr. Ray.
also son of Robert Graves, New York 1832 old iron

Onida County State of New York ss
I Hobert Graves a resident in said County of Onida aged 82 years and upwards Depose and saith he is now a pensioner of the United States for services done in the war of the Revolution and further saith he served six months at New London in the State of Connecticut the same year and winter that said New London was burnt and destroyed this six months service was in the winter previous before the City of New London was burnt was under Captain Shapley & Col Ledyard and was acquainted with Caleb Dart who also served during the six months under said Capt Shapley and Col Ledyard in Company with this Deponent This Deponent says that he and Caleb Dart served together in one Company under said Captain Shapley for the period of six months at New London aforesaid it being in the winter and spring of the same year that New London was burnt - this Deponent believes he was discharged in the month of May his six months was expired he returned home to East Haddam and does not know whether said Caleb Dart continued any longer in said service after the expiration of said six months - but served as above stated during the six months in Company with this Deponent under said Capt Shapley & Col Ledyard as above stated and further this deponent saith not
Hobert Graves
Subscribed and sworn before me this 25 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and fortyseven and I certify that said Hobert Graves is a Credable witness
Aaron E Pettee Justice Peace
State of New York
Clark's Office Onida County ss. I. Patrick Mahon Clerk of the said County certify, that Aaron E. Pettee Esq. was on the 25 th day of June A.D. 1847 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and authorized to act as such: and that the signature above written, purporting to be that

of the said Justice, is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, and subscribed my name July 16. 1847 P. Mahon Clerk for James Edgar Dep: Clk

House of Reps - Jany 31 1853.
Sir
I had the honor to inquire of you some time since the situation of the case of Margaret Dart the the widow of Caleb Dart for a pension under the act of 1832 to which I have received no reply.
May I ask your attention again to this request
I am respectfully
Your Obedient Servant Leander Babcock
Hon James E Kratt Court of Pensions

Old War DAVIES, JOHNSON, COVILLE & MOORE,
LAWYERS, FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, CAMDEN, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
John C. Davies, Attorney General. Russel S. Johnson, Charles R. Coville, James Moore. Burritt B. Johnson, Clerk and Notary Public.
March 1, 1899.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir :-
Margaret B. Dart, widow of Caleb Dart, who died August 10, 1810, was a pensioner as the wife of a revolutionary soldier. She died June, 1852; her post-office address at that time was either Caughdenoy or Central Square, Oswego County, New York.
Will you please kindly send us certificate to the effect that she was a pensioner as above set forth, as we desire this for the purpose of evidence ? Will be pleased to remit fees.
Yours very respectfully,
Davies, Johnson, Coville & Moore,
per Charles R. Coville