Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10569, Simeon Curtiss, Conn.
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SERVICE                                        NUMBER

Conn.             Curtis, Simeon          W.10569
                       Catlin, Elizabeth

                                             Former widow
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                           6092
       Connecticut
Elizabeth Catlin, formy,
widow of Simeon Curtiss
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Teamster
Conn
____________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of     90    Dollars   10
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.
_________________________
Certificate of Pension, issued
the   28th  day of May 188.....
and sent to
Abijah Catlin
Harwenton, Ct.
_________________________________

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 276, Vol. 1


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Erving Tainter
   Nov 11  1854
1886 Fby 23   Miss F A Clark with history press
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Catlin
  wid of Simeon Curtiss, Priv
                         & Teamster
     Capt G. Tuttle
Teamsters
                        Capt Tuttle

                              Rev War
___________________________________
           Rev Pensioner

Conn   Feby 18     - 6092
___________________________________
Ad. 160 acs Jany 19/56
                                    Dedze  [?]
__________________________________
Abijah Catlin
Harwinton  Conn



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1886 Feby 23 Miss F A Clark with history  Frior


Vol. C2 - 151.2
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State of Connecticut
Probate District of Harwenton} Js

On this 28th day of June in the year eighteen hundred fifty two personally appeared before the Court of Probate within the district aforesaid, Elizabeth Catlin a resident of Harwenton in the district aforesaid in the County of Litchfield in said State aged ninety two years of age 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 act of Congress passed July 7 1838 March 3 1843 
17 June 1844 and the 2nd of February 1848 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows     that she is the widow of Simeon Curtiss who served in the war of the revolution as a teamster that according to the best of her knowledge remembrance and belief he served as such teamster in the company of Gersham Tuttle   was a conductor that he served in that capacity or a cook for said Company for a little more than one year as she always understood from her said husband in the years 1779 & in the year 1780   that from age and lapse of time she does not remember many particulars of the service of her said husband as related by him
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she recollects to have heard him state that he took the place of his father Joshua Curtiss & was on one or more nearly taken by the enemy when driving his team and only escaped by breaking an  asle [axle] [illegible word] which prevented his getting up to where the enemy was posted.  At another time by marching a forced march they reached the camp just in time to prevent being mistaken for the enemy   she respectfully refers to the accompanying record evidence and affidavit to prove the service of her husband

   She further declares that she was married to the said Simeon Curtiss on the 27th day of Jan 1782 seventeen hundred & eighty two but that her husband the aforesaid Simeon died on the thirteenth  13th day of December 1809 eighteen hundred and nine, that she was a resident of Middletown in said State that her husband the said Simeon resided in what was afterwards Burlington but then a part of Farmington, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four viz at the time above stated

Subsequently to the death of the Simeon to rest in the year 1812    she married
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Jacob Catlin who died on the November 1822   she has ever since remained a widow   
                                       her
       [Signed]  Elizabeth    X   Catlin
                                      mark

Sworn to & Subscribed the daya nd year above written before the Court of Probate aforesaid     In testimony whereof I the Judge of said Court has hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court having no clerk thereof

Seal affixed                            Lewis Smith
here
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} SS
    On this second day of May AD one thousand eight hundred fifty five personally appeared Elizabeth Catkin aged ninety four years a resident of Harwenton in said State before me a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law declared that she is the widow of Simeon Curtiss deceased who wax a private and cook in the Company of Teamsters commanded by Captain Gershom Tuttle in the war of the revolution.  That her said husband enlisted at Burlington then a part of Farmington on or about the day or month not remembered of the year 1779 or 1780 and served in said company of teamsters for the period of ten months or thereabouts a period of fourteen days and more and was honorably discharged as will appear by the documents and evidence on file at the Pension Office in Washington City    Whereby under the social [?] acts granting pensions to the widows of revolutionary soldiers she is now in [illegible word] of a pension of Seventy dollars ten cents per annum

  She further states that she was married
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the Said Simeon Curtiss in what is now Burlington then Farmington on the 27th day of June 1783 by one Samuel Newell a  minister of the gospel & that her name before said marriage was Elizabeth Sledge and that her said husband died in Burlington on the 13th day of December AD 1809 and that she is now a widow & for proof of these facts she refers wherein to the documents on file with his application for a pension as before stated.

    She makes this declaration for the purpose of claiming the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3rd 1855    She also declares she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefore.
                                                her
              [Signed]  Elizabeth     X     Curtiss
                                               mark

We Samuel Harrison and Amanda Harrison residents of Harwinton in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Curtiss in our presence and that we believe that from the appearance and statements of the
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applicant that she is the identical person as represents herself to be
        {Signed]   Samuel Harrison
                        Amanda Harrison

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim
              [Signed] Abijah Catlin
                                       Notary Publis

[Seal affixed
here]
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In reply to your request of ............., received ....................... for a statement of the military history of Simeon Curtiss a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in  his (or [last two words crossed out] his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
                                        Wid. file 10,569

[NOTE: a chart follows with five columns]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS 
       RENDERED.   CAPTAIN   COLONEL
STATE

Part of 1779, 1780 & 1781    More than one year    Teamster,   Cook    Captain Gershom Tuttle        Conn.

Served in place of his father Joshua Curtiss

Battles engaged in, [check mark]

Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Farmington 
                  Conn known also as Bristol & 
                  Burlington, Conn.
Date of application for pension    June 28 1842   
                Her claim was allowed
Residence at time of application,   Harwinton, 
                 Litchfield County, Conn with her 
                 sister Amanda wife of Samuel 
                 Harrison
Age at date of application,   92 years

Remarks:  Sol mar Farmington, Conn. June 27 1782  Elizabeth Sledge of Middletown    died Dec 13 1809 Burlington Conn., and she mar 1812  said Catlin who died Nov.     1822 (or Dec 18 1823)
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m. LOVELL
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to Mrs. R.M.
rd, Conn-
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   10,569
Rev WIDOW, etc.

File No. 10569
 Elizabeth Catlin
     Wid
  Simeon Curtiss
  Teamsters Rev War
Act:     Feb 2nd 48

Index: - Vol.  A , Page   117

[Arrangement of 1870.]


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Oct. 16/97 Mrs R.
Stratford. Con
________________
Jan.5/98, History
Lovell - Stratfo
_________________
1910 Apl 25. to
Curtiss L. Sheldon  Etc
1910, Nov. 11. Hist to
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Curtiss
        New Britain, Conn
1913 Oct. 27 to Mrs. Samuel
T. Buxton Etc
1915 March 12. history to 
Mrs. Warren C. Warner
    M.B.H.
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(CHECK MARK)

14,667

   {

Rev Army
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      14, 800
Elizabeth Catlin
formerly widow of
   Simeon Curtiss  Cont


Abijah Catlin  Mch 24 [year illegible]


Act July 7 1838
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    No. 14,800

   Elizabeth Catlin
formerly widow of'  
Simeon Curtiss decd
   Connecticut
Act of July 7, 1838
  at $90.10 a year
commencing March 4, '36
except 2 years from
March 4, 1841 - to March
4, 1843.-

  Certificate sent to
Abijah Catlin Esq
    Present.
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     9 379
Connecticut
Elizabeth Catlin
widow of Simeon Curtiss
who was a Teamster
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 90 Dollars 10 - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
28th day - of May 1853 and 
sent to
                Abijah Catlin
                       Harwinton, Ct.

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June
       17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 - Page 51
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                   11, 498
  Connecticut
Elizabeth Catlin
widow of Simeon Curtiss
who died on the  ---- 1809
of ..... in the State of ..... who was a teamster in the ........ commanded by Captain ...... of the.......... Commanded by ......... in the .............................
line for Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford at the rate of 90 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May 1853 and sent to A. Catlin Harwington, Cy

Arrears to the 4th of ...........................'Semi-annual allowance ending ............................

                Revolutionary Claim
                Act July 7, 1888.

Recorded by R. McRae Clerk
Book D  Vol .1-   [Page 101
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Seal                  State of Connecticut
affixed              Comptrollers Office              
here                    Hartford  Aug 24th 1854

    I certify that an application for evidence of the service of Simeon Curtiss as a Teamster in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the books kept by Nehemiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General in said War, and find as follows,
1st  Under date of Dec 23rd 1778, in an entry, Quarter Master Genl. Dr. to sd Gershom Tuttle [illegible]  for Pay Roll: To the service of six Teams of oxen April 20th to Oct. 31st inclusive 1778 & [illegible] day up to and including 4th Oct. & 20 p per day from 5th Oct. to 31st ditto inclusive L[pound]9b8.8   There is also an entry, in the sd acct: 'To the service of a Cook 195 days in [illegible] L46.6.3.
2nd  Under date of May 10th 1779 is an entry, Quarter Master General Dr to [next word written over, illegible] said Gershom Tuttle to Pay Roll for the service of 6 Teams from Nov 1st 1778 to March 31st 1779 inclusive 157 days  in 4 dollars each per day, L1087.4.  There is also an entry in said account for WIlliam Jerome, Cook 5 months, in L8, L40.
Under date of July 30th 1779 is entered, Quarter Master General Dr. to said Gershom Tuttle Cond for the Pay Roll for service of 15 Teams from April 1st to July 1st 1779, in which account appears the name of Simeon Curtiss
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with one team 91 days at 48 p L218.8. In the above account Job Larkom, Cook, is credited 3 months at  L18.  54 L.

4th Under date of Nov. 19th 1779, in an entry Quarter Master General, To said Gershom Tuttle for Pay Roll and Rect for the service of a Company of Teams for the month of Septr 1779, in which the name of Simeon Curtiss appears as Cook for which he is credited L18.

5th   Under date of Feb. 29th 1789 is an account "Quarter Master Genl. Dr. To said  Gershom Tuttle Comd., & Jona. Hart Sub Cond. Pay Roll for themselves & 2 sp Teamsters from October 1st to Dec. 31st '79 inclusive & Tuttles bill of [illegible] L 9.396.5 & also another entry "To said Gershom Tuttle Conde Pay Roll for himself & Jonath Hart Sub Condi & 20 Teams from Jany 1st to Feb 29th L5.166.
6th   Under date of Feb. 16th 1781 is a charge "Quarter Master General Dr. to said Gershom Tuttle  per bill. For the "Service of 11 Teams 220 days each at 10 p L 1.936," is entered also 'Simeon Curtiss, Cook 7 months & 6 days at 
L 6     L 43.4.
   [Signed]  John Danham  Comptroller
               By Geo Robinson Clerk
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Seal                            State of Connecticut
affixed                        Comptrollers Office
here                            Hartford Aug. 23rd 1854

I certify that there is now deposited in this office the Letter Book of  Nehemiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General in the war of the Revolution, and among the copies of letters on said book are the following, vis,
                                 Hartford April 27th 1779 Dear Sir:
  I have your favor of the 28th inst. now before me, and note the Contents.  I have also receivd. orders from the  Quarter Master General to raise a number of Waggoners to serve nine months. It will be very difficult to raise Waggoners in this State at any Price.  However I intend to make trial at Sixty dollars per month without Cloaths [sic] or Forty dollars per month with one suit of Cloathes at the end of the nine months.  Must request that you will also inform me of the terms on which you expect to raise Waggoners in your District that I may be directed therefrom
                      Interim am D Sir
                             Your obedt. servant
                                     N. Hubbard
                                              D.Q.M.G.
Col. Udny Hay
   D.Q.M.G.
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Hartford April 27th 1779
Dear Sir,
  I am favored with yours of the 24th Inst. fr. Capt. Osborn, with a copy of a letter from his Excellency George Washington to Genl. Greene & also one from General Green [sic] to yourself, with an estimate of the number of Waggons [sic] wanted for each Brigade inclosed [sic].  I shall immediately give Enlisting orders to ask the Conductors with particular instructions to keep everything as secret  as the nature of the business will admit of.  The terms as follows, vis.
Sixty dollars per month without cloathing [sic] or Forty dollars per month and one Compleat [sic] suit of Waggoners Cloathes at the expiration of the nine months on his producing a Certificate from the D.W.U. Genl. of the Division to which he shall belong, of his faithful performance of his duty during the said term, and in case they cannot be Raised on this Terms, I will Raise ten dollars per month on their pay.

I have receivd a letter from the Colo. Hay on the subject, and now send an answer for this conveyance which youll please to forward on first opportunity.  The prospect for raising Waggoners in this State appears to be none of the best. However ee must
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exert ourselves and raise as many as we can. A suit of cloathes will no doubt be a very good inducement for men to enlist into the service. I rather think their  [sic] is already a sufficient number of conductors.  However if you have a good one in your mind, that can enlist a number of Waggoners, it will be best to give him an appoint.  Two or three Company of Teams shall be sent to your assistance as soon as they are fit for use.

I have heretofore wrote you to raise Teams and have sent you a copy of the agreement made with the old Conductors when the reingaged [sic] , etc.

  I certify that the foregoing are true copies saving that the whole of the last letter is not copied.  It is addressed to Capt. E. Starr A.D. Q.M.G. & signed Nehh. Hubbard D.Q.M.G.

          [Signed] John Dunham Comptroller
               by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} SS
                    On this third day of May one thousand eight hundred & fifty three personally appeared before me Abijah Catlin a Notary Public for the State aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified to administer oaths Cornelia Hall a resident of Cheshire in said County & State aged sixty six within two or three days being duly sworn deposes and says that she is the daughter of Simeon Curtiss formerly of Burlington who was killed by falling into a well & of Elizabeth his wife now Elizabeth Catlin who now resides in Harwinton in said State.  That she has heard her father in his life time say that he served as a teamster for a little more than one year in the war of the revolution part of the time he drove teams a part of the time he cooked for the Company. She recollects that he said they put him to cooking because he
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could cook better than any other member of the Company. She heard him [last word inserted] say his Captain was Gershom Tuttle of Bristol who lived where Tracy Peck now lives in Bristol. That he was living with a Wm Newell of Bristol at the time he entered the service with Capt Tuttle  She further says that she frequently heard this service spoken of by her father grandmother and mother & further the deponent saith not.
                                      her
    [Signed]     Cornelia    X     Hall
                                     Mark


Seal             Sworn to and subscribed this day
affixed         and year above written & I further
here             certify that the said Cornelia
                    Hall is well known to me &
                    is a person of truth and
                    veracity   In testimony whereof
                    I have hereunto set my hand
                    & affixed my Seal of office
                        [Signed]  Abijah Catlin
                                          Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
    On this 17th day of May 1853 before me Abijah Catlin a Notary Public duly commissioned & qualified & sworn personally appeared William Marks a resident of Burlington in Said County who deposes and says that he is now sixty nine years of age & has always resided in said Burlington and has been generally acquainted with all the region round about and the inhabitants thereof, that he well knew Simeon Curtiss of Burlington who was killed by falling into a well in the year 1809  deponent attended his funeral   That he never knew or heard of any other person by the name of Simeon Curtiss except one grand [last word inserted] son by the same name who is now living & further the deponent saith not   
                        [Signed]  William Marks

Seal       Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year
affixed   above written & I further certify
here       that the Said Wm Marks is to me
              well know as a person of truth & 
               veracity
       [Signed]   Abijah Catlin Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} S
   On this third day of May one thousand and eight hundred & fifty three before me Abijah Catlin a notary Public in & for the State aforesaid duly sworn commissioned qualified & sworn personally appeared Tracy Peck a resident of Bristol in said county aged sixty eight being duly sworn deposes & says that from reputation and tradition he believed that Gershom Tuttle was a Conductor of teams during a considerable period of the revolutionary war   That the said Capt Tuttle once owned  & [illegible word] the place now occupied by me [last two words crossed out] and owned by me  he sold to one Dr Holt from whom I derived my title. I also was acquainted with Simeon Curtiss    I was much younger than him & heard of his death   he resided in the town of Burlington - He resided at the time of his death about four or five miles from this the place of  my residence     his fathers house by [last word crossed out] I know by reputation
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which is about one mile nearer Burlington & Bristol during the revolutionary war composed a part of the town of Farmington & further the deponent saith not
                  [Signed]     Tracy Peck


              Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year
Seal         above written & I further certify
affixed      that the said Tracy Peck is to
here          me well known & is a person
                 of truth & veracity   In testimony
                 whereof I have hereunto set my 
                 hand & affixed my seal of office
                      [Signed] Abijah Catlin
                                         Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford  
             On this 17th day of May1832 before me Abijah Catlin a Notary Public in & for said State duly commissioned & qualifies & sworn personally appeared John Peck a resident of Burlington in Said County aged Seventy seven years & deposeth & says that he has resided in Burlington for the last sixty years being born & raised in Woodbridge until he was sixteen years of age or thereabout that he was well acquainted
with Simeon Curtiss of said Burlington resided about two miles from him  Said Curtiss was killed by falling into a well & was the husband of Elizabeth who after the death of said Curtiss married Jacob Carlin   That he has the impression that he has heard Simeon Curtiss say that he drove teams in the service during the revolutionary war that he never knew any other man by the name of Simeon Curtiss except some  descendants of the family
who are not old enough to have served during the war and further the deponent
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford  
             On this 17th day of May1832 before me Abijah Catlin a Notary Public in & for said State duly commissioned & qualifies & sworn personally appeared John Peck a resident of Burlington in Said County aged Seventy seven years & deposeth & says that he has resided in Burlington for the last sixty years being born & raised in Woodbridge until he was sixteen years of age or thereabout that he was well acquainted
with Simeon Curtiss of said Burlington resided about two miles from him  Said Curtiss was killed by falling into a well & was the husband of Elizabeth who after the death of said Curtiss married Jacob Carlin   That he has the impression that he has heard Simeon Curtiss say that he drove teams in the service during the revolutionary war that he never knew any other man by the name of Simeon Curtiss except some  descendants of the family
who are not old enough to have served during the war and further the deponent
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State of COnnecticut
County of Hartford} Js    

               On this 20th day of May 
               1853  before me Abijah Catlin 
a Notary Public in & for said State duly commissioned qualified & sworn personally appeared John Roberts a resident of Burlington in said County and being duly sworn deposes & says that he is seventy four years old & has resided for the most part of his life in said Burlington   that he was well acquainted with Simeon Curtiss in his life time & was a neighbor within a mile or a little more  had deal with him  He has heard said Simeon Curtiss in his life time say that he served as a teamster in the revolutionary war he thinks he has also heard him say that he served under Capt Tuttle who lived in Bristol.  He never knew or heard of any other person by the name of Simeon Curtiss except a nephew and grandson    He is unable to write from a paralysis of his right arm & therefore makes his mark & further the deponent saith not
                                his
    [Signed]   John      X     Roberts
                              Mark

Sworn to and Subscribed this day amd year above written and I further certify
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that the above named John Roberts is well known to me and is a person of truth and veracity

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 23 day of May 1853
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                            Harwinton Litchfield Co,
                             Connecticut 115th Sept 1852

Sir
      Herewith is the application of Elizabeth Curtiss for a pension under the act of July 7 1838 & other acts continuing the same.
      I trust the evidence is complete & formal as to the marriage & widowhood. Equally complete I trust the evidence of service by her husband Simeon Curtiss will be found.
     The widow and one living witness testify of their own knowledge to service for one year or more   The record evidence from the Hubbard books shows eleven  11 months.  But on examination of the comptrollers certificate shows service up to July 1 1779 and then evidence of service for the month of September following leaving  the two months of July & August in which there is no evidence from the record.  Counting then two months it makes the time claimed by the widow a "little more than one year".  The reasonable presumption I think is that he was still in service although we do not prove it by record as the integrity of the witnesses .are thereby presumed without conflicting with the record.
    The traditionary testimony is added although verbally unnecessary  Yet it tends
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to know the identity of the man & service.  No presumptions can be raised from lapse of time as this class of claims have but recently been allowed           Yours respectfully
                                Abijah Catlin
                                   Harwinton
                                    Litchfield County
                                           Connecticut
Hon Jas E. Kreath  [?]
   Commissioner of 
               Pensions
                              Washington City
                                               D.C.
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Catlin, widow of Simeon Curtiss   Litchfield County and State of Connecticut act of July 7, 1838, March 3, 1848, June 17, 1844 and Feby.2.1848. -

Claim (original)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by roll?  If either, state the substances.
    Marriage is proved by record evidence and by a witness who was present at the ceremony.  The service of Curtiss is sustained by recent evidence for eleven months and four days. The identity of Curtiss with this service is shown by one witness now 85 years old brother of Curtiss who swears that his brother was in the teamsters and by various respectable witnesses in the neighborhood of the tradition and reputation of Curtiss service in Gershom Tuttles Company of Teamsters, and also of the  fact that they lived in [next three words illegible] & no other man by the name of Curtiss in [illegible] town.
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"Quarter Master General                        Dr.
     'To paid Gershom Tuttle Condr. for Bill,
'For the Service of 11 Teams 220 Days each @ 161 L 1.936.
"For the date of      1  ditto   179  ditto  " @  161            143.4
  "Gershom Tuttle, Cond, 7 months & 6 days ea @ L16   108.
  "Simeon Curtis, Cook 7 do & 6 do       ea 6                      43.4
" Time, Horse hire & expense settling, accts.                        4.16
                                                                                         ________
                                                                                     L 2.235.11  
                            Advance Forty for one                                  40
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[Seal                   State of Connecticut
affixed               Comptrollers Office
here]                       Hartford August 6th 1853

I certify that on application for evidence of Simeon Curtiss in the war of the Revolution, on behalf of Elizabeth Catlin widow of said Simeon Curtiss [name underlined] I have examined certain books now in this office, purporting to be books of account kept by Jeremiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General, in the war of the Revolution, and which I have no doubt, from their appearance and the entries therein contained are genuine. On one of these books under date of "Hartford July 30th 1779", I find an entry as follows "Quarter Master General Dr  To paid Gershom Tuttle Condr. pr "Pay Roll for service of 13 Teams from April 1st to July 1st 1779."   Then follow the names of 13 Teamsters, among which I find that of Simeon Curtiss [name underlined] with entries opposite as follows
" 1 Team. 91 days 48/- L218.8.

On the same book under date "Hartford Nov. 19th 1779" I find another entry as follows. 'Quarter Master General Dr. "To paid Gershom Tuttle for Pay Roll & Rect. For the service of "a Company of Teams for the month of Sept. 1779", and on this  Pay Roll I also find the name of  Simeon Curtis, [sic, name underlined] who is credited with service as a Cook 30 days L18.
On another book of later dates, under date of Feby 16th 1781 I find an entry as follows viz,
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"Quarter Master General                        Dr.
     'To paid Gershom Tuttle Condr. for Bill,
'For the Service of 11 Teams 220 Days each @ 161 L 1.936.
"For the date of      1  ditto   179  ditto  " @  161            143.4
  "Gershom Tuttle, Cond, 7 months & 6 days ea @ L16   108.
  "Simeon Curtis, Cook 7 do & 6 do       ea 6                      43.4
" Time, Horse hire & expense settling, accts.                        4.16
                                                                                         ________
                                                                                     L 2.235.11  
                            Advance Forty for one
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Quarter Master General                        Dr.
    "To paid Gershom Tuttle Condr. for Bill.
'For the Service of 11 Teams 220 Days each @ 1 bd L  1.936.
"For the    ditto  of 1   ditto  179  ditto   "     @ 1bd        143.4
 "Gershom Tuttle, Cond. 7 months & 6 days each "L15.  108.
"Simeon Curtiss, Cook,   7    do      & 6  do     "           6    43.4
       [first six words above are underlined]
'Time, Horse hire & expense settling, Accts                      4.16
                                                                                     _________
                                                                                 L 2.235.11
               "Advance Forty for one                                          40
                                                                                    __________
                                                                                L   89,408"
                                                                          
                                                       _____________________________

On the same books are accounts with Gershom Tuttle Conductor of Teams, commencing May 16th 1778, and extending through the years 1778, 1779, 1780, to February. 26th 1781.

                           [Signed]  R,G, Pinney Comptroller
                                  by Geo. Robinson Clerk,
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford}  on this 26th day of June 1852 personally appeared before me Samuel P Newell a justice of the peace in the said County Lot Newell a resident of Bristol in said County aged fifty five & upwards [last two words inserted] & deposes that he is a Grandson of the Reverend Samuel Newell who was a pastor of the Congregational Church in the Parish of New Cambridge now the town of Bristol & there composing a part of the town of Farmington from the year 1747, seventeen hundred forty seven to the year 1789 and as grandson the records of the Baptisms, deaths and marriages kept by him when pastor as aforesaid has come to my possessions  [illegible word] examination I find the following record of the marriage of Simeon Curtiss "I am  27 twenty seventh seventeen hundred & eighty two Simeon Curtiss" under a caption of Record of Marriages, the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expunged on the record in fair legible begins as follows " I am 27, 82 Simeon Curtiss" and he further deposes that the above is  true abstract from the record aforesaid with the exception of the date as state above, And he further deposes that in the record of marriages aforesaid a great proportion of them contains only the name of the man
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omitting the name of the woman as was done in the above record
    [Signed] Lot Newell

Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year above written  I further certify that the said Lot Newell is well know to me as a person of truth & veracity &   that the two [illegible word] in the foregoing were  made before the execution & swearing to this affidavit
                      [Signed]  Samuel P. Newell
                                 Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} SS    I David L. Buell Assistant Clerk of County Court within & for Hartford County, the same being a Court of Record & having a Seal, hereby Certify that Samuel P. Newell Esqr was on the 26th day of June A.D. 1852 ever since has been ,now is a Justice of the Peace within * for the Said County duly appointed commissioned & sworn with power by the laws of this State, to administer Oaths and take the acknowledgement of Deeds and other instruments, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the Signature to the instrument hereabove appended purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature

Seal       In testimony whereof I have hereto set
affixed   my hand & the Seal of Said Court on
here      this 3rd day of September A.D. 1852 at    
              Hartford in Said County
                   [Signed] David L. Buell
                                  Assistant Clerk
                                 of County Court
                                 in this Hartford County
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} SS   Burlington Bristol
    On this 2nd day of September 1852 personally appeared before me Samuel P. Newell a justice of the peace in the said County [illegible word followed by Simeon and Allen, both crossed out] Curtiss of said Burlington in said County afirst [sic] being duly cautioned and sworn deposes and says that he was eighty four years old the 8th day of February last that he was born and brought up
in said town  In the early part of his life this town was a part of Farmington afterwards a part of Bristol  and afterwards was sell [?] off by itself and called Burlington.  That he is or was a brother of Simeon Curtis who was older by some years than myself [last word crossed out] himself, about nine years he thinks  Between him and  himself was the following children  Joshua, Lydia Robert and Asa Curtiss.  That he well recollects that his said brother entered into the Service of the United States as a teamster in the war of the revolution, that he was gone from home & he always heard and understood was driving teams in the service for as much as a year, he don't recollect if he ever knew who the Captain was. He recollects hearing his brother the Said Simeon often speak of his service & circumstances that then took place among others that he had the small pos slightly at the house of a W. Strong, that he was at
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White Plains Valley Forge spoke of crossing the Delaware river at Cowells Ferry  he recollects that he was  ... during one winter & has but little doubt he served one year.  That after the Said Simeon left the Service he was married to Elizabeth Sledge but dont recollect where in the year.  They were married by the Rev Samuel Newell of Bristol then New Cambridge   he was present at the wedding recollects the minister told them just as he was leaving "Be merry but wise".  The Said Simeon & Elizabeth afterward lived together as husband and  wife raised a large family of children  He was married himself in the year 1789 &  my brother has two or more children when he was married      Simeon was killed by falling into a well as he understood     he dont remember the year he was temporarily absent in the State of New York at the time.  The widow afterwards married Jacob Catlin of Harwinton who came to Burlington   died in the same house that her first husband passed.  He died many years ago but the year he does not recollect
                                               his
                 [Signed]    Aaron     X   Curtiss
                                             Mark

Sworn to & Subscribed before me the day & year above written & I certify that all the reasons and substantiations in Said affidavit were made before the execution thereof & that the said Aaron Curtiss is personally known to me and is a man of truth & veracity -
   [Signed]   Samuel P. Newell Justice of the
                                                     Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} SS

      I David L. Buell Assistant lLerk of County Const within & for the County of Hartford, the same being a Court of Open Record & having a Seal hereby Certify that Samuel P Newell Esq was on the 2nd day of September A.D. 1852 ever since has been and now is a Justice of the Peace within & for the said County duly appointed Commissioner and Sworn, with power by the laws of this State to administer Oaths and to take the Acknowledgement of Deeds and other instrument hereabove appended purporting to be his is his official Signature

Seal           In testimony whereof, I have 
affixed      hereto set my hand & the Seal of sd
here          Court on this 4th day of September
                 A.D. 1852 at Hartford in sd County
                       [Signed]  David L. Buell
                                              Assistant Clerk
                                        of County Court
                          in & for Hartford County
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State of Connecticut
County of HAartford

  On this 29th day of July personally appeared before me Alijah Catlin a Notary Public in & for said State
Arnold Crane a resident of Burlington in said County aged sixty six years & being duly cautioned & sworn deposes and says that he knew Simeon Curtiss who in his life time resided in said Burlington & was present at the time he was killed by falling into a well that was then being stoned up.  He took hold of the wrong ropes of the pulley in descending & was precipitated to the bottom not so much bruised that he breathed but a few hours after he was got out. His death took place as near as I can remember in  the year 1809 in the latter part of the year.  I remember the year from knowing that I was then living with one Oliver Humphrey, and the said Curtiss was taken from the well into the house of said Humphrey and died there & the next morning was carried to his own residence & further the deponent saith not.

   [Signed]  Arnold Crane
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the day and year above written and I certify that the deponent is well known to me as a person of truth and veracity

Stamp        In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed       set my hand & Seal of office
here                     Abijah Catlin Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} SS

  On this 29th day of July 1852 personally appeared before me Abijah Catlin a notary public in & for the State aforesaid Clarissa Curtiss a resident of Burlington in Said County aged forty nine years & being cautioned and duly sworn deposes and says she is the wife of Major Curtiss who is the son of Elizabeth Catlin who she always heard and understood was the widow of Simeon Curtiss the father of said husband.  She was married to said Major Curtiss in the year 1822 that she came to live with her husband in said Burlington & he was then living in the same house  with his mother,  That Jacob Catlin  was then living with his mother as he husband that she well remembers that the Said Jacob Catlin died about one fortnight before her first child was born which was on the 29th day of December 1823.  After that time until within four years past the said Elizabeth widow of Simeon Curtiss and Jacob Catlin has lived with her husband the said Major.  She now resides with a daughter & her husband Samuel Harrison
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his wife Amanda in Harwinton She never knew Simeon Curtiss but it has been ever spoken of by the family & Mrs. Elizabeth & others that her husband drove a baggage waggon [sic] in the revolutionary war & further the deponent saith not.
                                  her
                     Clarissa   X   Curtiss
                                Mark

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that the deponent is well known to me as a person of truth and veracity.
    In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of Office
                 [Signed]  Abijah Catlin
                             Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
   On this 31st day of July 1832 personally appeared before me Abijah Catlin a notary public in & for the State aforesaid Major Curtiss a resident of Burlington in said [word crossed out] County of Hartford and said State & being duly cautioned and sworn deposes and says that he is now fifty five years of age  is a son of Simeon Curtiss & his wife Elizabeth now Elizabeth Catlin   that he remembers well the death of his father Simeon which took place the 23th of December 1809. he remembers it distinctly from the sudden manner of his death having been killed in a well which was being stoned up   His mother the said Elizabeth continued to reside in said Burlington   A few years after his death she married one Jacob Catlin who also died as near as I can remember the latter part of the year 1823.  I [illegible word] the death of said Jacob by his having died about two weeks before the birth of my own eldest son which happened the 29th December 1823  I was living in the same house with my mother and her husband the same Jacob at the time of his death.  My mother has remained & still is a widow since the death of the said Jacob,  I remember to have
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heard one John Gellett who was a neighbor for whom I did a great deal of work for many years & who was an elderly sergeant in the revolutionary war & is now dead say a good many times that my father drove teams in the revolutionary service that he was a young man sixteen or thereabouts years of age when in service   I have also heard a Mr. Thomas Beach  who is now dead & a pensioner say the same - I have also heard other old people now dead say the same among whom I recollect Samuel Webster  Isaac Webster     it was always understood in the family that my father was a teamster in the revolutionary war.  I am the tenth child of my father and mother.   
                              [Signed]  Major Curtiss

Sworn to and Subscribed before me in the day and year above written & I certify that the deponent is well known to me as a person of truth and veracity  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office

        [Signed]     Abijah Catlin Notary Public

Seal 
affixed
here
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Harford Cortland Co N. J.
                       Nov 6th 1854.

Sir
   I have the honor herewith to transmit additional evidence in the case of Simeon Curtiss of Conn, who was a Teamster in the Revolutionary War and ask an increase of this pension to the amount of his full pay.

   You will undoubtedly perceive from the evidence herewith presented that Simeon Curtiss was not at any period of his service paid so small a sum as 16 dollars per month.  the lowest being 20 dollars, while the highest was 60 dollars.

   The letters of N Hubbard  D.Q.M.G. copies of which are herewith transmitted, show that during the campaign of 1779, for nine months at least - the full pay of Teamsters was not less than 40 dollars per month, and the certificates from the accounts show that the Cooks who had no teams were paid 60 dollars per month. the Teamsters being paid by the day for the man and his team

   A careful examination of the evidence in this and similar cases is respectfully solicited. by
                             Your humble servant
                                          Erving Taintor

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
       Washington
                      D.C.
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West Pawlet, Vermont
Oct. 21, 1913.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, I will consider it a
great favor if you will kindly
send me the Rev. record of
Simeon Curtis who received a
pension for service. Born in
Wallingford, Conn. died Burlington,
Conn.

Thanking you in advance
I am yours truly
Mrs. Samuel F. Buxton
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                                           One 2c stamp recd.
                                                            OK H
                                        Stamp retd in    RWS
Forestville Conn.
Feb - 27 - 1915 -

Dept of the Interior
   Bureau of Pensions 

Dear Sir -
Enclosed a stamp for which will you kindly send an official copy of the pension which was granted to Elizabeth Catlin, of Harwinton, Conn - former widow of Simeon Curtiss - who fought in the Rev. war.
   She made her application in June 28 -1852-
                  Very respectfully
                        Bessie Culver Warner
Mrs. Warren C. Warner
Box 115   Forestville, Conn.
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OW&J                    ___________________________
_______                     OLD WAR & NAVY
   J                                OCT 12 1897
                                          FILES
                              ___________________________

                                       Stratford Conn.
                                            Oct 7 1897
U.S. Pension Office
Washington, D.C.
    I wish to obtain information in regards to my great grandfather Simeon Curtiss. He was born in Milford Conn and enlisted in the war of the Revolution but I do not know the name of the town although probably farther north

[NOTE: The above paragraph has a U.S. Pension Office stamp dated Oct 9 1897]
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He died in 1809 and a pension was afterwards granted to his widow Elizabeth who I think lived in Burlington, Conn.  Will it be possible for you to give me definite information as I wish to study my ancestry.
                              Very respectfully,
                                  (Mrs.) R. M. Lovell
                                           Stratford
                                                     Conn
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                                                          C
                                                Stratford Conn
                                                  Dec 23, 1897
To the Pension Office
     Washington, D.C.

      I wish to obtain information about a pension received by my great grandmother as I intend to join the Daughters of the American Revolution,  Her husband Simeon Curtiss served in the war but at present I do not know where he enlisted   He died in 1809 and after
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the death of her second husband, a Mr. Catlin of Harwinton, Conn., a pension was obtained for her by Abijah Catlin of Harwinton.  Her maiden name was Elizabeth Sled and she was born at Middletown Conn and died at Harwinton March 13 1856 aged 95 years. They are both buried at Burlington Conn where he died and spent most of his life.  His father Joshua Curtiss came from Milford, Conn,  I wrote to you some months ago but have received no answer
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and would like you to give this your earliest attention as I wish to join the Daughters next month.  I hope I have been able to give you the necessary information
                   Very respectfully    
                          (Mrs.)  R. M. Lovell
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                                        New Britain, Conn.,
                                              April 18, 1910.

Commissioner of Pensions,
         Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,-
                Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension record concerning Simeon Curtiss, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.  Elizabeth Catlin, former widow of Simeon Curtiss, made application for a pension on June 28th 1852 and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a teamster in the Connecticut troops,.  A copy of a letter written in 1897 on this matter has the inscription M.E.C. Wid. 10.569.  if that will be of any help in looking up the record.

              Thanking you for the favor, I am,
                             Very truly yours,
                                   Curtiss L. Sheldon

Address:
86 So. High St., 
New Britain, Conn.