Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37189, for Trueman Loveland, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Navy
* Loveland, Truman
NUMBER  S. 37189
Conn. residence and agency
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Invalid 
Navy 
File No. 37189 
Trueman Loveland  
Mariner Frigate "Trumbull”  
Revolutionary 
Act March 18. 1818 
Index: Vol. Page 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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9912 
Connecticut. 
Trueman Loveland, 
of New-Haven Co  in the State of Connect’t. who was a mariner in of the frigate Trumbull Capt Saltonstall for the term of one year,  Conn.  
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 April, 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of April ‘19 and sent to Fredk Wolcott, Clerk Supr Court, Woodbury, Litchfield Co. Connt  
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819   87.70 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4. Sept. 1819 48.00 
10 mos 25/31 & 4/31    $135.70.  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
Notification sent September 30 1820 to Henry C. Flagg New Haven Connt.
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Truman Loveland 
Mariner New Haven Co, Connt frigate Trumbull,  
one year d April, 1818. 
Admd [admitted] 
Returned for further evidence
Nathl Smith  judge 
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk Superior Court, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Clerk of Litchfield County
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On this seventeenth day of December 1818 personally appeared Nathaniel Warren who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith. That he entered on board the Trumble [Trumbull] as Mariner in the month of March 1776 and that Truman Loveland came on board of the same frigate in about one month afterward where they remained about three months together when said Warren left the Frigate and left Samuel Loveland on board and that he always understood, and believes that he remained and servied the U. S. till his time of enlistment expired as stated in the said within declaration. 
Sworn to before me this 17 day of December 1818 
Nathaniel Smith 
a Judge of the Supr Court 
On this seventeenth day of December 1818 personally appeared Ashbel Loveland who being me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, That Truman Loveland at the time of his entering into the service of the U.S. lived with this deponent, that he was gone a year, that he always understood and verily believes that he was in the service of the U.S., first on board of the frigate Trumble [Trumbull]  where he served 9 months and that afterwards he was transferred to the Ship Warrin [Warren]  where he remained till the expiration of the year for which he enlisted.  
Sworn to before me this 17 day of December 1818 
Nathaniel Smith a Judge 
I Nathaniel Smith Judge as aforesaid do certify that Truman Loveland is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that Nathaniel Warren and Ashbel Loveland the within named deponents sustain good character for truth and reliance may be placed on their testimony.   
Woodbury December 17 1818 
 Nathaniel Smith as of the Supr Court
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield County }ss Woodbury April 6. 1818. 
On this sixth day of April 1818. before me one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said State personally appear Truman Loveland resident in the Town of Oxford in the County of Newhaven State of Connecticut 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 a 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 Truman Loveland in the Month of May 1776 entered the of the United States for one year as a Mariner on board the Frigate Trumbull commanded by Capt Dudley Salstinstall [Saltonstall], his Brother Gilbert Salstinstall [Saltonstall] commanding the Marines. That he served on board said ship about nine months as a Marine when he was transferred to the Ship Warren commanded by Commodore Hopkins. On a cruise they took a prize and he was put on board as one of the prize crew.  They came into Providence and from thence to Lime where he received a which discharge is since lost by time or accident.  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the
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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 
Nathaniel Smith a Judge of the Supr Court 
I Nathaniel Smith Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Truman Loveland did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
Woodbury May 1st 1818 
Nathaniel Smith a Judge of the Supr Court 
I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Superior Court within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connt. certify that the Hon’ble Nathl Smith Esq is a Judge of a Court that the above signature is his hand writing & that the seal hereto annexed is the seal of said County 
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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Truman Loveland
9912
Sept 1819
Con
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At a County Court, held in and for the County New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court,  Truman Loveland a resident of Oxford in the town of in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and beding excepted, viz:
4 Chairs                       $1
1 Tea Kettle broken       0.34
1 spider                          0.12 ½ 
1 Iron basin                    0.25
1 pr andirons                  1.00
1 great chair                   0.50
1 sett cups & saucers     0.16
5 Plates                          0.35
1 Tea pot & milk cup     0.12
1 table                            2.00
1 Chest with drawers     1.50
1 old chest                      0.75
1 Brass Kettle                1.50
2 Calves                         5.00
1 Pig                              1.88
4 Lambs                         1.50
1 Old Horse                   3.00
1 Pot & dish both broken 0.25
1 stand                           0.25
1 pr Bellows                  0.12
1 Cow                         15.00
4 old casks                    1.00
The use & improvement of 16 acres of land in said Town on Oxford belonging to my wife which is worth per annum        6 
44. 24 ½ 
Truman Loveland
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District and State of Connecticut, ss. New Haven 
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State aforesaid, on this day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Freeman Loveland aged 60 years, resident in the Town of Oxford in the County of New Haven in said State, and being sworn, according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:   
I enlisted into the service of the United States in the year 1776 at New Haven under Dudley Saltonstall Captain of the Frigate Trumbull for one year and served out my time & was regularly discharged    
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the sixth day of April 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 9912 And I do further solemnly that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day 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 myself within the provisions of an 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is [unreadable]  
and that I have a family residing with me consisting of a wife aged 55 years and one child a girl aged 16 years,  both dependant on me for support. 
Trueman Loveland
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. 
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 44  Dollars and 24 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said court.   
Attest Henry C. Flagg Clk
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District of Connecticut, New Haven 
I Henry C. Flagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 44 Dollars and 24  Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 5th day of July  1820 
Henry C.  Flagg Clerk
I Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the of in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Flagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in this 5th  day of July 1820 
Isaac Mills Chief Judge of said Court