Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45410, Ellis Doty, Mass.
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(3--1776)
SERVICE Mass. Doty, Ellis
NUMBER S. 45410
CONTENTS [section empty]
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[printed form with hand written responses] 
W17.330 R Vermont to New York
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Ellis Doty of Willmington in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Mass. line, for the term of [2 years -- crossed out] 1782 - 1 yr 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of March 1819
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d. of June 1820 and sent to John Roberts Esqr. Westminster, Vermont
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Arrears to 4th of March 1820  -- $89-80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820. 48,
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11 mo 7/31  $137.80
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} File Sept 20 [word crossed out] Continued

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Notification sent October 26. 1820 to James Eliott Brattleboro Vermont.
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Transferred to New York, 29" Jany. 1829, to take effect from and after 4th of September, 1828. -- Notification sent to Samuel A. Brown, Esqr. JamesTown, New York. 

[written upside down in bottom right corner] D. .June 14, 1836
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State of Vermont Windham County Ss.} 
On this 29th day of March 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont personally appears Ellis Doty aged fifty seven years Resident in Wilmington in the County of Windham and State of Vermont afd. [aforesaid] who being by me first duly Sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act act [word repeated in original] of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That in the month of August AD 1782 he enlisted in the town of Hardwick in Massachusetts in the Company Commanded by Captain John Trotter in the fifth Regiment in the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam which Regiment was afterwards Commanded by Colonel Newal. That he enlisted in the three years service and continued to serve (untill the army was disbanded in the year 1784) at West Point) in the said Company when & where he was honorably discharged which said discharge he has since lost that he was in several skirmished but no regular pitched battles that he is in reduced Circumstances and is in need of assistance from his country for support = that the depositions of Jonathan Warner and Pelatiah Hawes ["is" written over "are"] the only Evidence now in his power to process of his said Service -- Ellis Doty [signature] 

Sworn to and declared this 29th day of March AD 1819 before me John Roberts Cort Judge of Windham County Courts [signature]
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I, John Roberts assistant Judge of Windham County Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction from the declaration of the within named Ellis Doty and the enclosed depositions of Pelatia Hawes and Jonathan Warner that the said Ellis Doty did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration I therefore transmit the proceedings and the testimony taken and had before me for the Department of war pursuant to the direction of the said act of Congress -- John Roberts Asst Judge of said Court [signature] 
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I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do certify that I am satisfied from the affidavit, Russell Fitch & Humphrey Miller that the within named Ellis Doty is in reduced circumstance as by them stated October 7th 1818 -- John Roberts Asst Judge as aforesaid [signature] 

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Wilmington February 11th 1820 I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named applicant by by [word repeated in original] reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance of his Country for support I therefore again transmit the papers to the Dept. of War John Roberts asst Judge of Windham County Courts [signature]
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Ellis Doty 484
[The official character of signature of the magistrates
before whom the within affidavits were taken, must be
attested by the county clerk under his official seal -- these words crossed out by one large X] 

Wanting the judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant. June 1819
Admitted to be sent to John Roberts Esq Westminster, Windham VT
It is requisite, that the Judge should certify, that the
applicant, "by reasons of his reduced circumstances in
life, needs the assistance of his country for support."

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Jamestown NY Jan. 18th free
Hon: Sec,y of War Washington City

[written vertically from bottom towards top of page in left margin] E Pension Office 28. Jan. 1829. 
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County of Chautauque ss.
On this thirteenth day of January 1829, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Chautauque personally appeared Ellis Doty, who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Trotter in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Rufas Putnam in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Vermont from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the town of [Busti -- crossed out] Carroll. -- inserted] County of Chautauqua and State of New York where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of New York [are -- inserted] that he has children residing there and that the means of obtaining a livelihood are much more easily obtained in the Western part of the State of New York than in the State of Vermont. Ellis Doty [signature] 

Sworn & subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid} Rufus Pier J.P. [signature] 

State of New York Chautauque County} Ss
Simeon. C. Davis of the town of [B -- crossed out] Carroll -- in the county aforesaid, being duly
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sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Ellis Doty and that he knows him to be the identical person described in the above or within affidavit-  Simeon C. Davis [signature] 

Sworn and subscribed to this 13 of January 1829 Before me Rufus Pier J.P. [signature] 

I certify that Simon C Davis, the above deponent, is a person of the strictest integrity, and also that he is a person of truth and veracity -  Rufus Pier J.P. [signature] 

State of New York Chautauqua County Clerk's Office.} Ss.
I James B. Lowry Clerk of the County of Chautauqua, Do hereby certify that, Rufus Pier Esquire, before whom the aforegoing Affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking Said affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County, duly Elected and Sworn and acting under the authority of said State by virtue of said office, duly authorised to administer an Oath &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Said Justice and verily believe the signature of Rufus Pier J. P. Subscribed to the foregoing is in Said Justice's proper hand writing.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this fourteenth day of January AD 1829 James B. Lowry Clerk [signature]

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Jamestown, NY. Jan.y 17. 1829 Hon: Sec.y of War.
Sir - 
Be pleased to transfer Mr. Doty from the Vermont to the New York Agency, and the certificate of transfer send to me by mail. I have adopted the form which was sent to me some time go from the War office, and I hope that it will answer now - 
Yours very Respectfully  Sam,l. A. Brown [signature]
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No. 100
Ellis Doty - 
Application for Pension. 
Windham County, Vert.
[Copy] [square brackets in original] 
17.330 Sept 1820 AM
[365 -- crossed out]
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[printed form with hand written responses] 
STATE OF VERMONT. COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.

[At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.... -- section in italics]

PRESENT -- Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge. Hon. JOHN ROBERTS, Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs. } Assistant Judges.
ON this 20th day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Ellis Doty aged 57 years, resident in Wardsboro in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
in the Company commanded by Capt John Trotter in the 5th Regiment commanded by by [word repeated in original] Col. Rufus Putnam in the Massachusetts line in the continental establishment. That he enlisted in August (according to the best of his recollection) in the year 1782 for the Term of three years that he served the said term and that he was honorably discharged from said service

That he has received a pension [Certificate -- inserted] under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is No 17.330 and the date of his original declaration is twenty ninth day of March 1819.

AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, That I was resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Ellis Doty [signature]

SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
1 old horse $15 -1 Cow 16 - 1 pr 3 years old Steers 30 - 2 Hogs & 2 Pigs 4 - 2 Calves 4 - Banawole 3 - 3 old Tables 1.50 - 7 old chairs 1.50 - crockery ware very little & old 2 - hollow ware all poor 2.50 - Pails and milk pans 2 - Farming Utensils few and very much worn 8 --
Debts which I owe amount to $173.72 - besides some small debts which I owe and have some small sums due to me which will probably about balance each other  Ellis Doty [signature]

AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of a common laborer my family consists of my wife aged fifty years my daughter Polly aged 22 years, Huldah aged 19 years Lucinda aged 17 years my son Ellis W. aged 13 years Ebenezer K. aged 11 years my daughter Electa aged 8 years & my son John F. aged 6 years Ellis Doty [signature] 

SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1820, Before John Roberts JUDGE. 
James Elliot Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty nine dollars, and fifty cents.
N testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of July 1820. 
James Elliot [signature] 
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM
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I Ezra Doty of Choconut in the County of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania Depose testify and make oath that I know of my on knowledge that some time in the month of August 1782 Ellis Doty then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts now of Wardsbor [Wardsboro] in the County Windham and State of Vermont did Enlist into the army of the United States in the Company commanded by Capt John Trotter in the fifth Regt in the Massachusetts line Commanded by Col Rufus Putnam for three years and that he the said Ellis Doty Continued to serve in said Corps in the service of the United States on the Continental establishment untill sometime in the month of June 1784 - When he was regularly discharged I further testify that I have no interest in the said Ellis Doty's obtaining a pension and further the Deponant saith not  Ezra Doty [signature] 

State of Vermont Windham County ss.} 
Whitingham August 28th 1819- Then personally appeared Ezra Doty above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed I further certify that from recent acquaintance with the said Ezra Doty I consider him a man of veracity and entitled to full credit-
John Roberts asst Judge of Windham Co Court -- [signature]
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Om [in upper left margin of page]
[printed form with hand written responses] 
In reply to your request of ____ , received ____ for a statement of the military history of Ellis Doty [name underlined] 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. S. File 45.410
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[table with 6 columns and 2 rows including row of column headings] 
[row 1 column headings] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE. 
[row 2] Aug. 1782 | until 1784. when the Army was disbanded at West Pt. |  | John Trotter | {Rufus Putnam Newhall | 5 Mass.

[Battles -- crossed out] Engaged in, several skirmishes not specified
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark] Enl. at Hardwick, Mass. 
Date of application for pension, Mch 29 1819 Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Wilmington, Windham Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, 57 yrs.
Remarks: 1820 Wife -- ae 50 yrs. ch. Polly 22, Huldah 19, Lucinda 17, Ellis W. 13, Ebenezer K. 11, Electa 8, & John F. 6 yrs. Jany 13, 1829 res. Carroll, Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
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Centreville, Pa., Sept. 30. 1909.
Pension Dept., Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Kindly advise me whether or not you ever had on your pension list Ellis, Doty who served in the Revolutionary War from what is now Vermont, and who afterwards lived and died in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. He was said to have been among the Green Mt. Boys. It is stated that he stormed Stony Point under Anthony Wayne. He is said to have faught in the battle of Long Island. He was a private, though perhaps promoted during the war or afterward I am a descendant and vary desirous to get some official record of him. Thanking you, Very respectfully, J. W. Sturdevant. 
D. 
[round stamp in bottom right corner of page] PENSION OFFICE U.S. A OCT 2 1909
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[printed form with hand written responses] 
45410 Revy INVALID.
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File No. 45410 Ellis Doty Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 1818 Index:--Vol. 3, Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.] [square brackets in original] 

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1939  Oct. 11. Hist to J. W. Sturdevant. [large C cent symbol]
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Evidence in the Case of Ellis Doty

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I Jonathan Warner of Hardwick in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Soldier in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment -- do on Oath testify and Say in the year 1782 I was knowing to Ellis  -- Doty, from Hardwick aforesaid, now a resident in Wilmington in the State of Vermont. being in the Army in the Continental Establishment In Col. Rufus Putnam's Regiment --- and further your Deponant sayeth not ---Jonathan Warner [signature] 

Worcester Ss -- March 24th. 1819 ---
Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Warner and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed --- 
Before me Daniel Ruggles Just. O' Peace [signature] 

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with [the -- inserted] above named Jonathan Warner and I consider him to be a man of truth and veracity Daniel Ruggles Just. O' Peace [signature] 

[smaller piece of page with printed form and hand written responses attached to bottom of this page] 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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WORCESTER. ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, [word in italics] certify that Daniel Ruggles and Samuel Mixter Jr Esq.s before whom the annexed Affidavits have been made, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names subscribed thereto are their own proper signatures. --
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this seventeenth day of September A. D. 1819. Abijah Bigelow, Crk. [signature]
Application of Ellis Doty}
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I Pelatiah Hawes of New Braintree in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Soldier and Pensioner in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental establishment do on oath testify and say, that in the forepart of the summer AD 1902. I was acquainted with Ellis Doty formerly of Hardwick in the County of Worcester aforesaid, but now resident in Wilmington in the County of Windham & State of Vermont. and said Doty was a Soldier in the same Company with me for more than one year after the aforesaid time, in the aforesaid establishment, and on the 9th of June AD 1783 I was discharged from the Army and left said Doty on his duty, who was enlisted for three years service, and further your deponent saith not.-- Pelatiah Hawes [signature] 

Worcester ss New Braintree March 22nd. 1819 
Personally appeared the above named Pelatiah Hawes and made oath, that the above relation, by him subscribed, respecting the service of Ellis Doty, is just and true -- 
Before me Saml. Mixter Jr Just. of the Peace [signature] 
I hereby certify that the above named Pelatiah Hawes is well known to me, and his character for truth and veracity is good 
Saml. Mixter Jr Just. Peace [signature]