Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2342, for George Pritchard, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Pritchard, George
Abigail
NUMBER  W. 2342
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3470. 
New York 
George Pritchard private, 4 
Connecticut line 1777 3 years. 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May, 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of Oct 1818 and sent to Willard Welton Sherburne N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 5 mo. 4/30. 33.06 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819. 48.00 
$82.06 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued 
Otselic Chenango County 
Notification sent Nov 15th 1820 to Nathan Chamberlin
Norwich New York
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Tilly Lynde, Esquire,  
Sherburne Chenango County, New York 
George Pritchard, 
Connecticut line 
Revolutionary Claim,   
found on the roll of to Col. Chandler's regimt, for 3 years service
Admitted 
The testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, proving the indigent circumstances of the applicant, or the knowledge of the judge to that effect, is required, under the seal of the Court.
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George Pritchard's affidavit svs 
To obtain a pension
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State of New York 
Chenango County } ss  Evi Cobb being duly Sworn Saith that he knows George Prichard and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity that he the said deponent is not interested directly or indirectly in said George's application for a pension under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & that he known the said George Prichard to be in indigent circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support & further this deponant saith not.  
Evi Cobb 
Sworn  before me this eighth at September AD 1818 before me Tilly Lynde one of the Judges of Chenango County Common Pleas
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State of New York 
Chenango County } ss Ichabod Wolcott being duly Sworn Saith that he knows George Prichard and believes him to be a man of truth & veracity that he the said deponant is not interested directly or indirectly in said Georges application for a pension under the act of congress of the 18th March 1818 & that he knows the said George Prichard to be in indigent circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support & further this deponant saith not  
Ichabod Wolcott
Sworn this first day of September AD 1818 before me Tilly Lynde one of the Judges of Chenango County Common Pleas 
State of New York 
Chenango County }  ss: I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Deponent Ichabod Wolcott believe him to be a man of truth & veracity and further I do certify that from the several affidavits hereto annexed I am satisfied that the applicant George Pritchard of Otselic in said county is actually in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.   
Tilly Lynde Judge 
State of New York 
Chenango County } ss This may certify that the Honorable Tilly Lynd one of the [unreadable] is now & for a long any since has been  commissioned as one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Chenango aforesaid. In Testimony whereof the seal of the said court is thereunto affixed this 26th day of September AD 1818 
M. G. Bright Dep Clk
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State of New York
Chenango County}  ss: Be it remembered that on this first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in for the County of Chenango & State aforesaid personally appears George Pritchard aged seventy one years resident in the town of Otselic the said County of Chenango who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land of Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.”  That he the said George Pritchard enlisted in the Month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred of seventy seven in the the town of New Haven now city of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain Theophilus Monson in Colonel John Chandlers Regiment and that he continued to serve in said Corps or in the service of the United States until some one of the last days in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred eighty when he was regularly & Honorably discharged from service at Haverstead or Verplanck’s Point at Kings ferry in the State of New York, and that he was in several skirmishes & Brushes with the enemy at Verplanck’s Point at the time of the German Town Battle, he was left in the rear to guard the baggage in New Jersey, and that he was in the Monmouth Battle and that he is in reduced  circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except such as is contained in the affidavit of John Pritchard hereunder written.  
George Pritchard
Sworn to declared before me the day & year aforesaid T
illy Lynde  one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chenango
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State of New York
Chenango County } ss Be it remembered that on this first day of May in the year eighteen hundred eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chenango & State of New York aforesaid personally appears John Pritchard of the town of Georgetown in the county of Madison & State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say & make the following declaration: That he the said John Pritchard is a brother to the said George Pritchard named in the preceding affidavit and that he the said John was present & saw the said George actually inlist as a soldier at New Haven in Connecticut in the month of May in the year seventeen hundred seventy seven in the company & in the manner set forth in the affidavit of the said George Pritchard and that he the said John Pritchard knows that he continued in the service of the United States until some time in April seventeen  hundred eighty and that he was discharged from said Service at the time place set forth in his said affidavit of that said George Prichard is actually in in reduced circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.  
John Pritchard
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid  Tilly Lynde one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chenango 
I Tilly Lynde one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Chenango & State of New York as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said George Pritchard did serve in the Revolutionary as stated as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for more than nine months on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings of Testimony taken & had before to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions
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of the aforementioned act of of Congress 
Dated this 1st day of May in the year 1818 Tilly Lynde 
State of New York 
Chenango County } Ss: To the Secretary for the War Department at the City of Washington and to all others whom it may concern This may certify that the Hon. Tilly Lynde of the town of Sherburne in said County, to me personally well known as is also his hand writing & signature, now is & for the space of more than one year last past continually has been one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Chenango by law duly commissioned as such by the proper Authorities of said State of authorized to take affidavits to be read in any Court of Record in said State when affidavits are by law Jusage allowed and that the name of the said Judge subscribed to wit of the foregoing affidavits certificate as such Judge as aforesaid appeared to me to be in the proper hand writing of the said Tilly Lynde.   
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto caused the seal of the said court of Common Pleas of said County, to be affixed this ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen.  
Daniel G. Bright Clerk of said County
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George Pritchard 
Declaration 
3470 March 1819 
Con 
Nathan Chamberlin Norwich 
Nov. 15 1820
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State of New York 
Chenango County } ss On this 14th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record in and for said County being the Court of Common pleas of the same County George Pritchard aged seventy three years the 14th day of April last part who being first duly sworn resident in Otselic in said County who according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows (viz) he served in the Connecticut line in Col. John Chandlers Regiment and Captain David Smiths Company of Infantry that the date of his original declaration for a pension in the first day of May 1818 and that the number of his certificate is 3,470 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolution war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.  And further the said George on his oath aforesaid declares he was a farmer but is now from age debility unable to perform any labour that he and his wife Hannah who is of the age of sixty eight years and who from debility and age is unable to perform any labour live with their son Asa Prichard aged 26 years and are dependant
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on him for support and further that his said son is not in a situation to contribute much to the support of this deponent.  
George Pritchard.   
Sworn to and declared on this 14th day of June 1820 before Uri Tracy,  Casper M Rouse and David Buttolph Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Chenango County.  
Schedule of all the property and Estate of George Pritchard of the County of Chenango and State of New York a pensioner under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 
George Pritchard
1 Cow 
1 Ox 
1 Hoe 
1 Scythe 
1 Snath  & Tackling 
Chenango County
Clerk’s Office }  I Nathan Chamberlin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Chenango do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the words of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighteen Dollars and fifty cents.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 30th day of June 1820 
N. Chamber his Clerk &c
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2,240 
New York Albany 
Abigail Pritchard 
widow of George Pritchard  who served in the Revolutionary war as a private 
Conn Line 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of October 1853 sent to Alfred G. Mudge Rochester N. Y. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act January 3, 1853, Page 85  Vol A.
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Pension Claim 
Act February 3, 1853  
Abigail Pritchard Widow of George Pritchard deceased.  
Alfred G. Mudge Attorney 
Rochester N.
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State of New York 
Monroe County SS. On this 28th day of June 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Sessions in and for the said County said Court being Court of Record, Abigail Pritchard a resident of Perinton in the said County of Monroe aged 84 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the  benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed February 3d 1853. That she is the widow of George Pritchard deceased, who was a  Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and who as such pensioner drew the annual sum of Ninety six dollars. that he resided at the time of his death in the town of Smyrna in the County of Chenango in said State and that he resided there for about two years previous to his death. That his pension was payable either at the City of Albany or the City of New York, but at which of these places deponent does not now recollect.
She further declares that she was married to the said George Pritchard on or about the 23d day of January A.D. 1823 in the town of Otselic in the County of Chenango in said State of New York by one Jonathan Brown a Justice of the Peace, and that her name before her marriage aforesaid was Abigail Munger: That her husband the aforesaid George Pritchard died in Smyrna aforesaid on the 12th day of March 1828. That there is
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no public or private Record of her said marriage.  She further swears that her said husband drew his Pension  up to March 4th 1826, through the aforesaid Harvey Talcott Esquire of Smyrna but what has become of the Pension Certificate & she is unable to say. That the said Talcott is dead as she is informed & believes, the further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the act aforesaid and is still a widow and has remained unmarried since the death of her husband aforesaid and that she has never before applied for a Pension. 
Abigail Pritchard x her mark
Attest Joseph Dewey 
T. D. Walker
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written and I certify that I am not interested in the result of this application nor concerned in its prosecution, and that the said Abigail Pritchard is unable to attend in open Court to make the foregoing Declaration by reason of great bodily infirmity and debility. 
Joseph Dewey Justice of Sessions
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State of New York 
Monroe County SS On this 28th day of June 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned, John Walker and Hannah Walker residents of Perinton in said County. who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Abigail Pritchard of Perinton aforesaid is the widow of George Pritchard, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That the said George Pritchard died in Smyrna Chenango County in said State on the 12th day of March A.D. 1826 that he died at the residence of John Walker one of these deponents and that both of these deponents were present at the time of his death and also attended his funeral. That they were well acquainted with said George Pritchard and with the fact of his receiving a Pension and that we have ever since been well acquainted with the widow aforesaid.  And that she has ever since remained a Widow. And they swear that they are disinterested Witnesses.  
John Walker 
Hannah Walker 
Subscribed sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I certify that John Walker and Hannah Walker are credible witnesses and that I am not interested in the result of this case nor concerned in its prosecution.  Joseph Dewey Justice of Sessions
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State of New York 
Madison County ss: On this 13th day of July 1853. before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jonathan Brown a resident of Georgetown in said County, who being duly worn according to law deposeth and saith: That Abigail Pritchard is the widow of George Pritchard, deceased, who was Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that the said Abigail Pritchard was married to the said George Pritchard at the town of Otselic in the County of Chenango in said State at the residence of of Jonathan Brown Esquire the father of this deponent. That said marriage took place between the 16th day of January 1823 and the close of that month that this deponent was present at their said marriage and witnessed the ceremony of marriage, that they were married by the said Jonathan Brown the father of this deponent who was then a Justice of the Peace that this deponent was married on the 16th day of January 1823, and recollects that the marriage of the said George Pritchard was immediately after wards but deponent is unable to State the precise day, and he swears
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that he is a disinterested witness.
Jonathan Brown 
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I certify that the said Jonathan Brown is a credible witness and that I am not interested in the result of this case nor concerned in its prosecution.  
Asa Ellis Justice of the Peace 
STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
Clerk's Office, Madison County, SS.  I, LUCIUS CLARK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Asa Ellis Esqr. whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said interest in the within certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State, that I have no interest in within claim.  
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the 20th day of July 1853 
Lucius P. Clark Clerk 
No tape is necessary when there is but one sheet.
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State of Ohio 
Geauga County SS. On this 6 day of July  1853, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Alonzo Brown a resident of Parkman Geauga County Ohio who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: That Abigail Pritchard is the widow of George Pritchard deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States: That the said Abigail Pritchard was married to the said George Pritchard in Otselic Chenango County in the State of New York in the latter part of January 1823, by one Jonathan Brown the father of this deponent who was then a Justice of the Peace and the said marriage was solemnized at the residence of the aforesaid Jonathan Brown and that this deponent was present at said marriage and witnessed the ceremony of Marriage. And he swears that he is a disinterested Witness.  
Alonzo Brown 
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I certify that Alonzo Brown is a credible witness and that I am not interested in the result of this case nor concerned in its prosecution.   
Before me Elias Haight Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio. 
GEAUGA COUNTY } ss I  A. H. Gotham of the court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that Elias Haight Esq was at the date of executing the annexed and foregoing affidavit, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the Statutes of said State of Ohio, to all whose Official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere, and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Elias Haight and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine.  
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office  at Chenango County this 18th July Anno Domini 1853
A H Gotham CLERK. 
Fee $0.50
Rec’d 25 cents
send the ballance on receipt of this. Yours AHG
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Know all men  by these presents that I Abigail Pritchard of Perinton  Monroe County N. Y. do hereby make constitute and appoint Alfred G. Mudge of Rochester in said County my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the proper department of the United States the Pension Certificate to which I am entitled as is mentioned in the foregoing Declaration & hereby revoking any and all other powers of Attorney or other authority I may have given for any such purpose and rest the same solely and irrevocably in my said Attorney, said Alfred. G. Mudge. 
In testimony whereof Witness my hand and seal this 28th day of June 1853
Attest Joseph Dewey 
T. D. Walker  
Abigail Pritchard x her mark
State of New York 
Monroe County Ss: On this 28th day of June 1853 Abigail Pritchard before me personally appeared Subscriber to the foregoing and acknowledged that she executed the same for the purposes therein mentioned. Joseph Dewey Justice of Sessions
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Pension Claim
Act February 3, 1853
Abigail Pritchard 
Widow of George Pritchard deceased
Alfred G. Mudge
Attorney 
Rochester N.Y.
State of New York 
Monroe County ss: On this 22d day of July 1853
State of New York
Monroe County ss;
I  W Barron Williams Clerk of said County and of the Court of Session in and for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Dewey before whom the foregoing declaration affidavits and acknowledgments were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Sessions in for said County duly commissioned and sworn. That I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe that the signatures to said Jurate & acknowledgment are genuine and that said Court is a Court of Record.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County & Court this 22 day of July 1853 
W. Barron Williams Clerk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington D. C. , 19 -
In reply to your request of – received – for a statement of the military history of  Geo Pritchard  
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this bureau.  
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT   May 1777  LENGTH OF SERVICE  Apl 1780   RANK.  Pvt.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Theophilus Munson, Captain David Smith, Colonel John Chandler   STATE.  Conn.
Battles engaged in,  Monmouth, several skirmishes
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Enl. New Haven, Conn.
Date of application for pension,  May 1 1818, cl. al. [claim allowed]
Residence at date of application,  Otselic, Chenango Co. NY
Age at date of application,   b. Apl 14, 1747
Remarks:  In 1820 Sol. [soldier] refers to his wife Hannah aged 68 and son Asa aged 26 yrs.  He again married Jan 23, 1823 in Otselic NY, Abigail Munger.  He died in Smyrna, Chenango Co. Ny, and she was al. [allowed] pension ap ex [application executed] June  28, 1853, while residing in Perrington, Monroe Co. NY, aged 84 yrs.
Very respectfully
Commissioner
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Rev Sec 
Oct 25-1920 
War Dept 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 27 1920
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me a copy of the revolutionary service of George Prichard or Pritchard – he was a resident of Smith Co. Litchfield Coun  and enlisted May 20. 1777, served 3 yrs. 
Also send me please information of one Jesse Meigs
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(MEIGS) who was born in Litchfield, and served some three years, I think.
Sincerely
Mrs. W. G. Middleton
Emmetsburg
Pa
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  OCT 27 1920
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Mch 9 / 20 Ex by Mr. Aspinall B of Rev 
1920, Nov. 27 Hist to Mrs. W. G. Middleton EW 
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 2347 
Abigail Pritchard, Widow George Pritchard, 
Pri  Rev. War 
Act: Feb. 3. 1853. 
Index: Vol. M. P 139 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pension Office 
October 1. 1853 
Sir, 
Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid; and (if in your power) the date of his death.   
Very respectfully Your Obt. Servt. 
L. P. Waldo Commissr. 
F. Burt Esqr 3d Auditor, Present  
George Pritchard, act 1818. $8.00 p. m. [per month]  Paid to 4th Mar 1826, no date of death on our Books.  
F Burt Auditor
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No 2751    July 25, 1853 
Appl. of Abigail Pritchard widow of George Pritchard Monroe Co. N. York m 19 
Act 3d Feb. 1853 
Admitted $96 per annum Commencing 3 Feby 1853 Rev 
Alfred G. Mudge Rochester N.Y 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
PENSION OFFICE OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner
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BRIEF in the case of   Abigail Pritchard, widow of George
Monroe County and State of  New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
Claim (“original”)
Proof exhibited (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either state the substance
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 18th march 1818 at $96 per annum.
Marriage proved by Jonathan Brown and Alonzo Brown who swear they were present at the ceremony.  
(If for increase.)  They are only certified to be credible witnesses.
Had additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so what?
Alfred G. Mudge Esqr
Rochester NY
Name and residence of Agent
R Geddes 
Examining Clerk
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[stamp] ROCHESTER NY JUL 22
Mr. Cole
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions  Washington D.C.
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Sherburne Free 
28 Sept 
Admitted
Hon John C Calhoun Esquire 
Secretary of War Washington
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Sherburne Sept. 28th 1818 
Hon Sir  
I inclose again the affidavit of George Pritchard for a pension together with such additional Testimony as appeared to the Judge conclusive as to the Reduced &  indigent circumstances of the said George.  The Judge has certified the same & has also caused the Seal of the court to be affixed to his certificate. I conclude that the additional Evidence now sent of Eli Cobb, Ichabod Walcott of the Judges certificate & the Clerk certificate under the seal of the court together with the affidavit of Geo. Pritchard & John Pritchard formerly sent will be sufficient to support &  substantiate the claim to a pension under the late act.  Be so good as to forward the pension certificate to me also any other communication on the subject.
With consideration & Esteem I am Sir Your Obt & Humble Servt 
Willard Welton 
Hon John C. Calhoun Esquire Secretary for the War Department