Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2218, Nathan Fobes, Conn.
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SERVICE                                           NUMBER

Conn.           Fobes, Nathan           S.2218


                                                            Carded
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                                                              3208
Ohio. Pittsburg Agency

Nathan Fobes
of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the compy commanded
by Captain Robinson of the Regt commanded
by Col. Ely _____ in the Cont _____
line for 10 months from
                                1777

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of 33 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18- day of Decr '32
and sent to Abram Griswold, Kinsman, O

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 --                  49.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 mar. 33     16.67
                                                                      _____
                                                                    $66.66

                                                      { Revolutionary Claim, }
                                                      { Act June 7, 1832.       } 

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D    Vol. 2    Page 131 -
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Date of death not on [illegible]
                                              [illegible]
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The State of Ohio       }
Ashtabula County ss  }   On this Eleventh day of August 1832 personally appeared before me Luther Spelman one of judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Ashtabula Nathan Fobes a resident of Wayne township in said Ashtabula County aged as he believes seventy four years the 24th day of July 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 7th 1832.      That he was born as he believes the 24th day of July 1758 at Canterbury Connecticut, from thence his fathers family removed to Amherst Massachusetts & from thence to Sommers now Tolland County Connecticut, at which last place he lived when he served in the Revolutionary War, That he has no record of his age. That in his first tour of duty in the Revolutionary service he volunteered & enlisted 1 June 1777 for seven months, was marched to New London about the 15th July crossed over to Groton & was engaged in building Fort Griswold after some months marched to fight the enemy at Rhoad island but after many (fruitless) attempts to cross occasioned by contrary winds & fear of the enemy [words "we were" crossed out] was commanded to quarters at Little Compton, that his regiment was then marched back to Groton, -- then after about a month marched towards New York & was stationed at Wry about thirty miles from New York from there called off eight or ten miles on guard several times at Wry he was discharged the last of December 1777 That this service was in the Connecticut troop under Capt Elijah Roberson. Col Ely & Genl Spencer,- That he has no documentary evidence & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service as above stated except the affidavits (accompanying this) of Simon Fobes & Ezra Sexton.
2nd tour served as a substitute for Levi Pease of said Somers two months in the Connecticut Malitia, under Capt. Nathl Wales & Col McClannan & stationed at Groton  Thinks that
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he was engaged in building then fort Griswold & that he there received his discharge at the close of the two months in 1779 [?]. That he lived at said Sommers when he entered this service That all of the evidence he knows of concerning this 2nd tour is the affidavit (accompanying this) of Capt Joel Pease
3rd Tour served in Connecticut Militia one month immediately after the burning of New London under Capt. Wood _ was some times engaged in repairing Fort Griswold was at Groton in this town. That he knows of no person living by whom he can prove this service     That when he entered this tour of duty he lived at Somers aforesaid
That in Another tour of duty while he lived at said Somers he enlisted for one year in Connecticut troops under Col Ledger Capt. Adam Shapley & Lieutenant Simon Fobes said Fobes enlisted him    That his service was performed by a substitute of the name of Zabina Horton    That if he recalled [?] he enlisted the first of April 1780.    & That all of the evidence of this tour of duty performed as aforesaid is the accompanying affidavit of his brother Simon Fobes --
He further States that his [illegible word crossed out] several discharges of the aforesaid Services he posseses none of them or knows where they are That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to any person or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. that he removed from said Somers to [the words "the place of his pres" crossed out] town of Chester Massachusetts & lived there about 17 or 18 years & from there mooved to his present place of residence about 25 years since.  That he is & has been known a long time in the neighborhood where he now resides by Revd Joseph Badger & Luther Splman Esqr. who are able to state with reference to character for verasity & their belief of his services as [illegible] in the revolution.              Nathan Fobes [signature]
        Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
                                 Luther Spelman
           And I do hereby declare my opinion after investigation of the matter & after [illegible] the interrogatories parsed [?]
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by the War Department that the above named applicant Nathan Fobes was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states that I have been personally acquainted with said applicant for a number of years past & he is reputed in the neighborhood where he belongs to have been a Revolutionary Soldier that I cuncur in that belief also that I am well acquainted with the Revd Joseph Bader that he is a Clergyman a Resident of an adjoining township of this & that his stament is entitled to credit
        In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Eleventh day of August AD 1832 I also would certify that the aforesaid applicant is unable to atten court or even to leave his house from bodily infirmity ------------------- Luther Spelman

The State of Ohio       }
Ashtabula County ss  }   I Sam. Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Ashtabula do hereby certify that the Hon. Luther Spellman whose name appears subscribed above, in his own proper hand writing, was at the time of his subscribing the same, to wit, on the Eleventh day of August AD.1832 One of the Associate Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio
             In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Jefferson the 16th. day of August AD.1832.                                    Sam. Hendry  Clerk
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The State Ohio         }                               Kinsman Augt 6th 1832
Trumbull County ss  }
                                        Personally appeared before me Abram Griswold a justice of the peace within said county of Trumbull Simon Fobes Esq of said Kinsman township who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration relitive to Nathan Fobes of Wayne in (word "Trumbull" crossed out) Ashtabula County & State of Ohio & his service in the Revolutionary War viz That he is a brother of the said Nathan Fobes & lived in the family with him. That the fore [?] part of June 1777 he was knowing [?] to said Nathan Fobes Enlisting in the Company commanded by Elijah Robinson until the first of January then next that in the month of December previous to s Jany. he returned home sick having as he supposes served in the war while absent. That in April 1780 He enlisted him in the company of matross Connecticut troops (wherein he then held a commission of Lieutenant. Adam Shapley was Capt. of the same for one year & was knowing to his serving by substitution (Lobina [?] Horton) the whole time. That, if he remembers right, after this while he was absent on a tour of dulty He believes (from information given him by his family, said Nathan & others that he was in the service two months as a substitute That the place of residence of said Nathan with himself & Father's family during this service was a Sommers then Hartford County Connecticut. That the age as he believes of said Natham Fobes is seventy four years [word "of" crossed out] last July & further he saith not. ------
                                                           his
                                               Simon   X   Fobes
                                                          mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me the date above written
                  Abram Griswoold, Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio      }
Trumbull County ss   }   Gustavus Augt. 11th 1832
             I Joseph Badger a clergyman residing in the township of Gustavus aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted [word "with" erased] & have been for many years past with Mr Nathan Fobes living in an adjoining township of this viz in Wayne Ashtabula County & said state of Ohio that I believe him to be about the age of Seventy four years, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a Revolutionary soldier & that I cuncur in that opinion ----------      Joseph Badger
[written perpendicular on the right margin: No 6659]

           Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
                              Abram Griswold Justice of the Peace


The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss        I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Abram Griswold Esquire whose signature in his own proper hand writing is affixed the above and foregoing Certificate of acknowledgement, is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly Commissioned & sworn agreeable to the law of said State; and to whose official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
            In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said Office, at Warren, this 21st day of August AD 1832.                                      George Parsons Clerk
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Nathan Fobs.   [a letter between the "o" and the "b" crossed out]
               Ohio
               No 6659.
from 1777 private
10 months
               $33.33/100
      ______________
         Pitts:  agency
      ______________
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BRIEF in the case of Nathan Forbs
       of Astabula County in the State of Ohio
                               (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?     Judge

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?     Yes.

3.  How old is he? 74 Years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

_________________________________________________________________________________________
                  Period.               |        Duration of Service        |     Rank     |   Names of General and Field Officers
                                                                                                             under whom he served
_________________________________________________________________________________________
                                              | Years,       Months,      Days. |      As a             | Gen. Spencer
1 June In 1777 Enlisting     |    " -------   7   ------- "        |   Private           | Col Ely.                }  Connecticut
                 1778                    |    " -------   2   ------- "        | Substitute       | Capt Roberson   }   Troops
                                                                                                 | for Levi Pease | Col McLannan
                 1779                    |    " -------   1   -------"          | Private             | Capt Wales [?]   }  Connecticut
                                                                                                                             | Capt Wood         }  Militia
Enlisted   1780                    |       -------  "   -------            | Substitute        | }
                                                                                                 |      for                | } Col Ledger        }
                                                                                                 | [illegible]          | }                            }
                                                                                                 | Horton              | } Capt Shapley    }  Connecticut
                                                                                                 |                           | }  [illegible]           }   Troops

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  ---

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?    Hartford Cty Connecticut

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
           Three living witnesses and traditionary

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

                                             Examining Clerk
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April 14, 1943.
BA-J/Ill
Nathan Fobes
S. 2218
Ruth L. Cook
797 West 47th Street
Ashtabula, Ohio.
Dear Madam; 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the  Revolutionary War records of Nathan Fobes who served from Massachusetts, and Fenner Palmer.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and there in no claim for petition or bounty land made to the United States on file based upon the service of Fenner Palmer in that war. The record of only one soldier with name Nathan Fobes has been found. His record is given herein as shown in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 2218, based on his Revolutionary War service.
Nathan Fobes was born July 24, 1758, in Canterbury, Connecticut; he moved with his father's family to Amherst, Massachusetts, thenee to Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, where they lived during the period of the Revolutionary War; the name of his father is not shown.
Nathan Fobes enlisted [illegible] 1777, served as private in Captain Elijah Robinson's company, Colonel [illegible] Connecticut regiment and was discharged the last of December 1777; he enlisted in February 1779, and served two months as private in Captain Nathaniel Wood's company, Colonel McClannens' Connecticut regiment; he enlisted April 1, 1780, and served one year as private in Captain Adam Shapley's company, Colonel Ledger's (possibly meant for Ledyard's) Connecticutregiment, Simon Fobes, soldier's brother, Lieutenant of said Adam Shapely's company; he, (Nathan) served one month as private in Captain Wood's Connecticut company following the burning of New London. 
Service in Com. Book. Simon Fobes, Lieut in files.
The soldier moved from somers, Connecticut, to Chester, Massachusetts,
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and resided about eighteen years, then moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio.
Nathan Fobes was allowed pension on his application executed August 11, 1832, at which time he resided in Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio. One Joshua Fobes was a Justice of the Peace for said Wayne Township in 1832, no relationship to the soldier stated. 
In 1832, Simon Fobes, soldier's brother, was a resident of Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio; he stated that they had lived together in Somers Tolland County, Connecticut, when they served in the Revolutionary War. 
There are no further data relative to the families of either Nathan or Simon Fobes in this pension claim.
Very truly yours, 
A. D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.
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797 West 47th St.
Ashtabula, O.
April 3, '34
Bureau of Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me a [illegible] copy of the pension papers of Nathan Fobes who served in the Revolutionary War from Massachusettes?
Also send paper of Fenner Palmer who enlisted in Albany Co. N.Y. I do not know definitely whether he ever had a pension. 
Very sincerely
Ruth L. Cook
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Rev War 
2218
INVALID.
File No. 2218
Nathan Fobes
Privt Rev War
Act June 7 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 128
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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1934.
April 14. Hist. to [illegible]
L. Cook. ILL.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Nathan Forbs which require
further proof of explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where resides, is there any reason
assigned for his doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods if the war when he served?
Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with regulations?
Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes
VIII. Has the court given their opinion?
Yes
IX. Has the clerk given his certificate?
Yes
X. Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to 
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Yes
XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in declaration that such proof cannot be had?
Three living witness who served with him, one whom is the officer who enlisted him
XIV. If applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
administered the oath certified the he, she, of they are persons of credibility?
No
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?
Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For
year
months and days, I served as a.
For
Months
and 
days,
I served as a;
and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In the case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he
must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits
the time of the claimants entering service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as
well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witness, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper office, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheer of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper of authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of the office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Kinsman O
Augt 24th free
Hon. Lewis Cass Esqr
Secretary of War
Washington

[written sideways at left end of envelop]
No 6660 crossed out No 6659
Sept 18th
1832
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Kinsman O free
Augt 24th
Hon. Lewis Cass Esqr
Secretary of War
Washington
[written sideways on left end of envelop]
No 6660 crossed out No6659
Sept 18th
1832
[initials not legible]
[T? in small writing}
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August 23 [illegible due to drop]32
The Secretary of War of UStates
Sir
Enclosed are papers of Nathan Tobes
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832 for Pensioners
Any communication relative to them may
be directed to me or to the applicants at
the Post office in Kinsman Trumbull County
Ohio [long dash] yours Respectfully
Abram Griswold
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The Deposition of Ezra Sexton formily of the town of Somers Tolland County and State of Connecticut.
I Ezra Sexton depose and saith that I was a soldier with Nathan Fobes in the Company 
Commanded by Capt Elijah Robison from the first of June 1777 to Jany 1778 at which time we were discharged, the Regiment Commanded by Col Ely, and further this [illegible] saith not
Wayne June the 28th 1832    
                                                    his
                                             Ezra   X    Sexton
                                                    mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me Joshua Fobes a Justice of the Peace and in for the County of Ashtabula the Day and year first above written
                  Joshua Fobes Justice of the Peace

The deposition of Joel Pense formily of the Town of Somers Tolland County and the State of Connecticut
I Joel Pence depose and saith that in Feb 1779 I saw Nathan Fobes in New London then a Soldier in the Revolutionary ???? I was knowing to Nathan Fobes being in the American Army two months, and further the [ illegible ] Saith not
Wayne Ashtabula County                Joel Pense
Ohio ST June 28                   1832

   Sworn to and subscribed before me Joshua Fobes justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ashtabula theDay and year first above written
   Joshua Fobes justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County { } I Sam Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas written and for said County of Ashtabula do herby certify that
Joshua Fobes Esq whose name appears subscribed above in his own proper hand writing was at the time of his subscribing the same [illegible] on the 28th June 1822 a Justice of the Peace to the township of Wayne in the County of Ashtabula, duly commi?? and sworn agruebly to ??? Laws of the State of Ohio . In testimony where I have hereunto let my hand 
and affixed the seal of the ?? Court at ???? the 16th day of August 1832.
                                                ????????
                                                Clerk