SOLOMON WARING REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION, OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

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Affidavit of Solomon Waring on his applicationfor his pension for service in the 
Revolution. From pension number S14787 obtained from the NARA. History of Oswego 
County shows that Solomon settled in Constantia in 1793 and his son George was 
the first white child born there. The affidavit from the NARA is as follows:

State of New York

County of Oswego SS

On this 24th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the 
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Solomon Warring of the Town of 
Hastings in said County age seventy two years who being first duly sworn 
according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to 
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered 
the service of the United States under the following named officers and served 
as herein stated, viz

That he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Nathaniel Slawson, Major John 
Davenport's detachment for guarding the seaboard in 1777, for the term of nine 
months. That he served said term faithfully at Norwalk, Connecticut and was 
dismissed but retained no regular discharge.

That he was frequently called out on a draft or rallied by alarms as often as 
once or twice a week for above six months and was often engaged in driving the 
cow boys from their hiding places or preventing them from taking property from 
citisens. That he was born in Norwald Connecticut in 1761. That in 1785 he moved 
to Ballstown New York from thence to Constantia in said County of Oswego.

That he has no other evidence of his service in his honor (?) of his service. 
That he is now an inhabitant of the County of Oswego, town of Hasting where 
(unreadable - perhaps he had resided for the past __ years). That except the 
officers above named he has lost all recollection of their names and that he 
hereby relinquishes all and every claim to a pension or annuity except the 
present? one and declares that his names is not on the pension roll of the 
agency of any State in the Union.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,

Solomon Waring (s/)

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 24th Sep 1832
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