Claim No. 1037 (Skinner)

Claim No. 1037 (Skinner)

1037-Skinner-Elizabeth

1037

Elizabeth Skinner

Elizabeth Skinner

58/18/9

38/12/6

V1-1296

9/13/1.5

3/17/3

13/10/4.5

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Class 1 No 123

Mrs Skinner

Stamford

HMT £19.11.3

Enemy 9.7.6

£58.18.9

Estimated at forty pounds

Affidavits of Claimant and of Evidence wanting

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No 1037

Elizth Skinner

Claimed £58.18.9

Allowed £38.12.6

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Statement of Property taken from Mrs Skinner by the Americans and Indians in the American service during the late War with the United States of America

1813 June	10 1/2 yds Dress’d Cloath @16/	@5/ 2.12.6	8.8.0
	A Bed Quilt 32/ two blankets @ 20/ £2	1.17.6	3.12.0
	5 Bushels Buckwheat @12/	1.0.0	3.0.0
	NYC	£9.7.6	£15.0.0

Amounting to Fifteen Pounds NY Currency

Stamford 29^th Septr 1815

Elizabeth Skinner (her mark)

Allowed £5.10.0

Statement of Property taken and destroyed by the Troops and Indians in His Majesty’s service during the late War with the United States of America.

6 Acres of Corn £24 One do. Potatoes £24	12.10.0 80 Bushels at 2/ 8.0.0	48.0.0
8.0.0 for Potatoes
Table Furniture	4.0.0	8.0.0
Kitchen Utensils	1.17.6	2.8.0
1/2 Barrel Pork		5.0.0
5 Hogs	5.0.0	10.0.0
a Barrel Flour	1.15.0	6.0.0
NYC	33.2.8 £49.11.3	£79.8.0

Amounting to Seventy nine Pounds Eight Shillings NY Currency

Elizabeth Skinner (her mark)

Stamford 29^th Sepr 1815

Total allowed £38.12.6

49.11.3

9.7.6

£58.18.9

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Mrs Elizabeth Skinner

Stamford

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Queenston 3 January 1824

Mrs Elizabeth Skinner

Madam,

Your Claim for Losses is before the Board

£9.7.6 _ Cloth, Bedding, Buckwheat

49.11.3 _ 6 Acres Corn, Table furniture, Kitchen furniture, 5 Hogs, Flour, Pork

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Seth Cooks wife a witness

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In support of this Claim you are required to furnish proof by your own Affidavit and the Affidavits of Witnesses, one or more, at present there is no Evidence.

You will please attend to this without delay.

I am Your O. Servt

Robt Grant

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District of Niagara

David Skinner, son of Elizabeth Skinner, late of Stamford deceased, before me Samuel Street Esquire, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the aforesaid District maketh oath and says, that previous to the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, he cultivated for his mother a farm near, and upon part of which that Battle was fought, that they had growing there three Bushels growing of Buck Wheat, & six acres or about of Corn, all of which was destroyed at the time of the battle, also two Bushels planted of Potatoes, which at and about that time were dug and destroyed by the Troops, submits to the Commission of Claims to determine the value. That at the time, Mr. Thomas Lundy’s House was burnt by Colonel Chapin’s party, the American Indians plundered his mother of seven yards new fulled Cloth, then worth two and a half to three dollars pr yard that this deponent himself lost two Fuzils, one of which was taken by the American Indians the

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the other by the British Indians, for one of them deponent paid eight dollars, the other four Dollars. 

David Skinner

All this he swears before me this 6^th day of January 1824 at Stamford

Samuel Street J.P.

This deponent further saith that his mother lost some Hogs, can’t say what number or by whom they were taken. David Skinner

Sworn to

Samuel Street J.P.

Martha Cook, wife of Seth Cook, maketh oath and says, that on the night of the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, she was at the House of Elizabeth Skinner, widow, then residing in a House upon Lundy’s Lane, and that during the battle Mrs. Skinner & herself abandoned the House, leaving every thing they had. on returning the second day, the things were all taken away, the Garden destroyed and some of the windows taken out of the House. Can’t enumerate the articles belonging to Mrs. Skinner which were taken away.

Martha Cook by

holding the pen

Sworn before me this 20^th day of March 1824

Samuel Street J.P.

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Proof of Claim of Elizabeth Skinner

Stamford

1037