Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42554, David Tuthill, Conn.
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Connecticut
Tuthill, David
S42554
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Invalid
Navy
File  Number 42554
David Tuthill 
Marine 
Frigate Confederacy 
Revolutionary --- 
Act March 18 1818 Index: Vol. Page Arrangement of 1870.}
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8759    4
New York Roll
David Tuthill
of Southold in the state of New York
Who was a marine on board the Confederacy
commanded by Seth Harding Connecticut
for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of April 1819
and sent to E. W. Case, Esquire Southold
New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $84.51
Semi-annual allowance ending September 4, 1819. $48 "
Arrears 10 months: 13/30-4/31
$132.51
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued on the pension
Roll under the law of the
1 May 1820.  Notification
to Charles H Havens Esquire
Smithtown New York 26 July 1820
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State of New York
County of Suffolk
Ss
On this Eighteenth day of April one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber, one of the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said County personally
appears David Tuthill aged Sixty three years, resident in the town of
Southold 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 he the said David Tuthill shipped as a private of marines between the last of February and first of April in the year 1779 on board the United States Frigate Confederacy commanded by Seth
Harding Esquire, then lying at New London from thence
sailed in said frigate to Philadelphia, was employed during the
summer in convoying merchant and other vessels off the coast and cruising between the United States and the West Indies, late in the ensuing fall the said Frigate was ordered to France, for the
purpose of carrying out the Honorable John Jay (and suite ) as ambassador
to the Court of Paris and likewise to convoy home the Honorable [illegible] Girard the ambassador from the Court of France to the United States. that in November in the said Frigate was
totally dismasted on the banks of Newfoundland, while on her way to France with the abovesaid Gentlemen on board, a week or ten days after which the ship was again almost a wreck and having lost her rudder it was determined to get into Martinico, at which port she arrived after fifty one days, at which place the ship was repaired and in the spring following she sailed for Philadelphia, where she arrived in May 1780 where on the last of May or first of June he the said
David Tuthill was discharged from service, 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
service except the testimony of John Gardiner hereunto annexed
Sworn to and declared before my
at Southold the day and year aforesaid
Ebenezer W Case
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State of New York
County of Suffolk Ss.
On this Eighteenth day of April 1818
before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
for Suffolk County personally appears John Gardiner (Physician)
of Southold in the said State who being by me first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath declare and say that he is well acquainted with David Tuthill of Southold the person who made the preceeding [sic] declaration on oath, and that he the said John Gardiner
was surgeons mate on board the Continental frigate Confederacy Commanded by Seth Harding Esquire, and that between the last of February and first of April 1779 the said David Tuthill shipped on board said frigate then lying at New London in the State of Connecticut
as a marine and served on board untill the last of May or first of
June 1780 and at that time while the said Frigate was lying at
Philadelphia the said David Tuthill according to the best of this
deponents recollection was regularly discharged
Sworn to and declared before me
at Southold the day and year aforesaid
Ebenezer W Case
I, Ebenezer W. Case one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas as aforesaid
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Tuthill did serve on board of the United States Frigate Confederacy as stated in the
preceeding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of
the Department of War pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress
Ebenezer W. Case
I, Ebenezer W. Case aforesaid do further certify that it appears to
my satisfaction that the said David Tuthill is in reduced
circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
dated at Southold 11 March 1819
Ebenezer W Case
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State of New York
Suffolk County Ss.
I, Charles H Havens Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of the County of Suffolk
do hereby certify that the said Court is a
Court of Record of the State of New York that
Ebenezer W Case whose name is subscribed to
the preceeding certificate is a Judge of the
Court that full faith and credit are due to his
official acts in that capacity and that the signature to the said Certificate is in the proper hand
writing of the said Judge - In Testimony where
of I have subscribed my name to these presents
and affixed the seal of the said Court the 28th
day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Charles H.Havens

David Tuthill Marine Ship Confederacy. Harding
1779 to 1780-
13 April 1812
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Supplied 20 March 1819
[illegible]
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David Tuthill
Con
8759
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State of New York
Suffolk County ⎬S.
On this 30th day of May 1826 personally
appeared in open Court being a court of record
for the said County David Tuthill agree sixty three
years resident in Southold in said County who
first being duly sworn according to Law doth on
his oath declare that he served in the revolution
any war as a marine on board the United States
Ship Confederacy commanded by Captain Seth
Harden. that the date of his original Declaration
in order to obtain a pension under the act of congress of the 18th March 1818 was the 18th of April 1818
that the number of his pension certificate is 8759-
and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820.
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of
the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any
manner disposed of my property or any part thereof
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my
self within the provisions of the 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 18th day of March
1818 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, that I am by occupation a
Laborer but cannot perform but little service
in consequence of the infirmities of my age. that
my family consists of my wife aged 64 years
who is unable to work, and my daughter Mehetable
aged thirty seven who is helpless has never
been able to work that before obtained a pension
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I was unable to support myself and family
without and from the overseers of the Poor and
have now no other means of subsistence for myself
and family but from the bounty of my country
in granting me a pension.
David Tuthill
Sworn to and declared in
open Court the 30th day
of May 1820 before the
Judges thereof -
Reverend Charles H Havens, Clerk
A schedule containing the whole estate and income of David Tuthill of Southold aforesaid-
Two pigs_____$4.00
Two Iron Pots__$1.00
One Dish Kettle, One Tea Kettle___$1.25
Four old Chairs___$.50
One pair Bellows, 30 one case of Drawers $1.00__$1.30
One set cups and Saucers 25 cents, half set knives and forks, 37½ 162+___$.62 ½
One Table 12 ½ And Iron shovel and tongs $1-00- $1.12½
One axe, 37 ½ , Scythe, .25,  hoe 37 ½____$1.00
One tea pot, 12 ½ , 1 Mu. 6 and 5 plates. 25___$0.44
Total amount $11.34
I owe as follows
One obligation to John Hubbard__$34.00
One obligation to N. Hubbard__$14.00
One obligation to Daniel Tuthill $4.00
One obligation to Mr. L. Case__$6.00
David Tuthill
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I Charles H Havens Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for the County of Suffolk
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and
schedule thereto annexed are truly copied
from the record of the said Court and that
it is the opinion of the said court that the
count in value of the property exhibited in
and schedule is Eleven Dollars and thirty four cents 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
and and affixed the seal of the said Court
this 14th day of June 1820
Charles H Havens, Clerk