Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9854, John Ellsworth, Conn. N.H. R.I.
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SERVICE                          NUMBER

Conn.     Ellsworth, John  S. 9854
N.H.
R.I.                                       carded

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R28734             New York
                   John Ellsworth
of Montgomery Co. in the State of New York of
who was a Private in the Comp 4 commanded by Captain Smith of Regt. commanded by Col. Crary in the R Island line for 17 months 14 days

   R. I., Conn., and N. H. January 9/75

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 64 Dollars 88 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May 
1834 and sent to Pensioner,
    Hope, Montgomery Co, NY

Arrears to the 4th of March 1/34  $194.14
Semi-anl. allowance ending 
4 Sep. '34                                           32.44
                                                       $227.08
            
                             Revolutionary Claim,
                             Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Jno. Cromwell Clerk,
Book E    Vol. 4    Page 55

Order to p ay 12th Nov. 1840
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State of New York
and County of Montgomery

On this 11th day of March personally appeared in open Court before Abram Morrel, Samuel A. 
Gilbert David Spraker 
the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery now sitting John Edwards a resident of the town of hope County of Montgomery and State of New York aged seventy six years on the seventeenth day of April last, 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 the 7th 1832
That he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served a herein stated.
In the year 1775 he enlisted in the Rhode Island State troops under Lieutenant Thomas Sweet entered the service about the tenth day of August at west Greenwich from thence to Westerly on the sea coast from thence he went together with part of a company (being still under the command of said Lieutenant Sweet to Block Island to guard that place, at Block Island they lay til the last of November. They they returned to East Greenwich from thence they marched to Providence and thence to prospect hill near Boston where they joined their company which was commanded by Captain Smith and ensign
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Timothy Lock, the name of two of the sargents were Joseph Sweet and Abel Bennet, the Company belonged to a Regiment under the command of Colonel Cavary. He lay with this regiment on Prospect Hill in barracks to the first of January following when he and the rest of the company were all discharged but has no written discharges. He served in this tour of duty at least four months and twenty days. He resided when he entered the tour of service in the town of Killingly in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, he has no documentary evidence of this tour of service nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove it.
2nd  He again entered the service in the year 1776 about the last of February, he enlisted in the Connecticut lines under Ensign David Cody they joined their company which rendezvoused near Boston and was commanded by Captain James Gordon this company belonged to a regiment commanded by Colonel Douglas and Lieutenant colonel William Denison he lay with this regiment in and about Cambridge College til after the [illegible] on Dorchester Heights were built when he with the said regiment marched to Roxbury where they lay til after the British army evacuated Boston on which they marched into the City where they remained til they were discharged which happened about the first day of April General Washington commanded the army
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before Boston General Putnam had the command of that division where he lay. He served in this tour of duty at least one month he never had a written discharge of this tour of service nor had any of his fellow soldiers they having all been discharged at on time. He resided when he entered this tour of duty in the town of Killingly County of Windham State of Connecticut has no documentary evidence of this tour of duty nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove it.
3rd     He next entered the service in the year 1776 he enlisted under Lieutenant Abram Shepherd who was enlisting recruits to fill up a regiment of Connecticut State troops then on duty in New York, he and a number of other recruits rendezvoused at Plainfield in Connecticut about the first day of august under said Shepherd and marched from thence to New York where they joined the company which was commanded by Captain John Dixon and said Lieutenant Shepherd and Edmonds, Ensigns name was Chamberlin and the name of three of the sargents were Phillip Spalding Comfort Titus and Michael Flinn, the regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Colonel Russel and Major Buel. From New York he went with the rest of the regiment to Staten Island where they remained til the day after the battle in long island, they then
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5.20   retreated two miles north of New York where they remained to the 18 of September they then retreated to Harlem Heights thence to White plains from thence he and the regiment to
which he belonged marched to North Castle where they remained until their tours of enlistment had expired and they were all discharged which happened on the 1st day of January, he did not receive a written discharge neither did his fellow Soldiers, he has no documentary evidence of this tour of service nor does he know of any living Witness by whom he can proved it but has recently learned that a man by the name of Noah Day which he formerly knew and whom he saw while in the service at White plains is still living and resides in Washington County this state whose deposition he is now striving to obtain he served in the tour of duty at least (over 5) five months he resided when time this tour of service in the said town of Killingly County of Windham and State of Connecticut
4th     We again entered the service in the year 1778 on the 29 day of June in the New Hampshire forces he joined the regiment at Providence voluntarily and was attached to a
company commanded by Captain Samuel Dearborn, lieutenant McMurphy and Ensign Wheaton the sergants names were Flin, Blake, and Dudley Gilman.
This company belonged to a regiment commanded by Colonel Peabody and adjutant Reed.
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(From Providence they marched to Newport then to East greenwich then to Boston Neck in South Kingston where he lay with the said regiment to the latter part of December when they all marched back to Providence where he and his fellow soldiers were discharged on the first day of January A. D. 11779. He had a written discharge from Captain Dearborn of the tour of service but supposing it was useless he took no cure of it after he arrived home and it is lost. He has no documentary evidence of this tour of duty nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove it except Wells Kimbal whose deposition he has been recently been able to obtain. He served in this tour of duty (month 6) at least six months he resided when he entered
6.24 days    this tour of service at New Plainfield
on roll         in this state of New Hampshire
of Capt       twelve miles from Dartmouth
Dearborn    College.
Col              in all above mentioned tours
Peabody     he served as a private soldier
July 15
17.14
       He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
                         John Ellsworth
Sworn in open Court
the day & year aforesaid
Geo. D. Ferguson Clerk
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Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Court

We Joseph F Spier a Clergyman residing in the town of Northampton County of Montgomery and the State of New York and John Patterson of the town county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Ellsworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn in open Court              Joseph F. Spier
the day & year aforesaid        John Patterson
Geo. D. Ferguson Clerk

Interrogatories by the Court
1st  Where and in what year were you born
Answer  I was born in West Greenwich in the state of Rhode Island on the 17th day of April
A. D. 1757 so my mother informed me.
2nd  Have you any record of your age
Answer  I have not neither do I know that my father ever had for he died when I was but three years old.