Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45433, for Walcut Justin, Connecticut
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Justin, Walcut
or
Justice Walcot

NUMBER
S. 45433
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CONTENTS
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Walcut Justin    9
Pension Paper
Schedule   Copy

10171

Sept 1819
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Walcut Justin; prive

German, Chenango
County, New York.
Jany 1778, to the close of the revolutionary war

15 April, 1818

Admitted

Ebenezer Wakely,
judge
South German
Chenango Co; N. Y.
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State of New York}
Chenango County ss.}

On this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of Chenango Court of common pleas in the state of New York aforesaid personally appears Walcut Justin aged fifty five years a resident in the tow of German in said County 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"  That the said Walcut Justin enlisted in the month of January in the year 1778 at the Two of Canterbury run the County of Windham and State of Connecticut for during the war with Great Britain under Capt. Abner Bacon of the Regiment commanded by Col. John Burgee of Connecticut line__That after the battle at Monmouth he was transferred to a company of light Infantry under command
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of Capt. Phelps of the Regiment of light Infantry commanded by Col. Butler__the Brigade being now commanded by General Wayne__That he was in this Brigade when it was commanded by the Marquis de la Fayette in Virginia and at capture of Lord Cornwallis__
That after this the Brigade returned to west point in the state of New York where he was transferred back to the Regiment which he originally belonged to in the Connecticut line__ at this place at the close of the war he received an honorable discharge signed by Col. Thomas Grovenor__That he was in the Battle of Monmouth__at Stony point_and the taking of Lord Cornwallis and in small actions__at Statten Island__at Kingsbridge  and at Horsekneck__That about two years after the close of the war he lost his picket book containing his discharge among other papers on Glascow Mountain in Massachusetts__
And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support__And that he has [illegible] evidence now in his [illegible] of his said services
His
Walcut X Justin
mark

Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid__
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September 13, 1932

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Walcut Justin or
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Walcot Justice -S.45433
BA-J/EEL

Mr. Frederick E. Justice
P. O. Box 142
Bloomingdale, New Jersey

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your further request in regard to the record of Walcott Justice, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

A full record of the soldier is given below as found in the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.45433, based upon the military service of Walcut Justin or Walcot Justice in the war.  It is believed that this information will supply all of your needs in your research work.  The papers are so frail and some pages so dim and so arranged under the various seals, that the photostatic copies would be very unsatisfactory.  However, if the history given below is not sufficient, it will interest you to know that you may examine the papers and collect data therefrom by calling at this office.

Walcut Justin or Walcot Justice was at the battles of King's Bridge and Staten Island; no further details of this service given:  he enlisted at Canterbury, Connecticut, in January, 1778, served as a private in Captain Abner Bacon's Company, Colonel John Durkee's Connecticut Regiment, and was in the battle of Monmouth, after which he was transferred to Captain Phelps' Company, Colonel Butler's Regiment of Light Infantry, was at the takin of Stony Point and capture of Lord Cornwallis, returned to New York and to the regiment to which he originally belonged, and was discharged by Colonel Thomas Grosvenor.  He stated that he had a wound in his leg and arm, but did not state where said wound was received.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-five years and resided in German (later Lincklaen), Chenango County, New York.

In 1820, his wife, her name and the date of their marriage not given, was aged sixty-two. years.  She died in September, 1825.

[handwritten in right margin]
In Conn look in first service; could not find him in Butler's Regt__as I did not 
[illegible] whether it was Col. Zebulon Butler so did no use Conn Regt