Individual Details

Probate

Hannaniah Barker did not leave a will and his estate entered probate on 17 September 1825 with John Barker as administrator. Personal estate was valued at $217 and later value of the estate was $281.47. Widow Lydia Barker received $69.34 from the persona estate. After debts and expenses, $137.56 was available for distribution with one-fifth parts going to each of the heirs: John Barker, Abial Barker, Samuel Barker, Susannah Barker, and Hannah Bridges.1

There is a probate
Probate – seems to be at image 1680 – widow is Lydia – daughters Hannah and Susannah approve the request for the administrator – also John Barker
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9084/images/007714919_01679?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Fgz119558&_phstart=successSource&pId=1141338
records volume 10, p 156 says the cover sheet – and here it is in the book Windsor District – 10:156-159
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BH-NSDG-C?i=352&cat=268752
the heirs are on this page
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BH-NSDJ-K?i=353&cat=268752
heirs are John, Abiel, Samuel, Susannah, and Hannah – Hannah is Hannah Bridges – so Polly and Sally are dead
no kids in the household of Hannah and Peter Bridges in 1810 – he is much older than her
Abiel and Smauel seem to go to Illinois

1 Vermont Probate, Windsor County, Windsor District, 10:156-159

Military

On 17 April 1818, Hannaniah Barker aged sixty-six years [sic] and resident of Reading, Vermont applied for a pension based on his service in the Revolution. Hannaniah enlisted from Boxford in April 1776 for a term of one year in the company of Capt. John Robinson, Col. John Durkee’s regiment of the Connecticut troops. At the expiration of that term in April 1777, he enlisted for three years in the same company. He was discharged in April 1780 at Newtown, Pennsylvania. He was in the Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Rhode Island (reported as Battle of Long Island elsewhere in the pension file). On 8 September 1820, Hannaniah provided additional information on his circumstances. He had no property except his wearing apparel valued at eight dollars. He was a farmer by occupation but was almost wholly unable to perform any labor. His household was himself aged 77 years and his wife aged 67 years.1

1 U. S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Case S38519