Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4753, for Lemuel Orton, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Continental (Conn)

Orton, Lemuel
Sibbel

NUMBER
W. 4753

CONTENTS
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(left side)
455
Ohio, Cincinnatti
Sibbel Orton
widow of Lemuel Orton (Conn) who served in the Revolutionary war, as a pri of Dragoons

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of June 1848 and sent to Joseph Patrick Sunbury, Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under the act February 2, 1848, Page 356 Vol. 4

(right side)
Reported
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"Marriages
one thousand seven hundred and eighty five-- Lemuel Orton and Sybil Peck February tenth"

I John R Landon of the town & county of Litchfield CT do certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz "1785 Feby 10" and I John R Landon above named, being of lawful age do deposeth & say that I married a daughter of the Revd Judah Champion late of sd. town decd. & late the settled minister of the Gospel in said town; and that after his decease the record kept by him of marriage ceremonies performed by him as such clergymen came into. & have ever since remained in my possession And that the above is a true extract from the records of said Champion with the exception above named, as certified by me. Dated at Litchfield this 4th day of October 1838

John R. Landon

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss
Litchfield October 4th 1838
personally appeared John R Landon to me well known & who is entitled to credit & who subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence & made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me
Geo C. Woodruff
Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut ss Litchfield County
On this 20th day of April 1818- before me the subscriber, Chief Judge of the County Court for Litchfield County, personally appears Lemuel Orton aged fifty seven years, resident in the town of New Milford in said county of Litchfield, 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 he the said Lemuel Orton enlisted in the town of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut sometime in the month of August 1777 in the company commanded by Captain Josiah Stoddard of the Light Dragoons in the second regiment; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States, until the 12 - day of June 1783, when he was discharged from service in Danbury, County of Fairfield and state of Connecticut; that he was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, (illegible) and Youngs's at Perry town - and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

I Augustus Pettibone Esq chief judge of the county court for Litchfield County as aforesaid
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Sibel Orton 
3682

Admitted
Pri Dragoons 2 yrs
$100

(illegible) 28

(illegible) J Ridgway
HR