Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16374, for Timothy Pond, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE Conn  
Pond Timothy 
Merina 
NUMBER W. 16374 |
CONTENTS
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New York - 3,944 |
Merina Pond,
 widow of Timothy Pond,
 who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the 5 December 1813 
of Wayne Conn the State of N York
who was a Pri. in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the Reg commanded 
by --- in the Con. line for 2 years |
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. |
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Aug '39, and sent to Geo. H. Middleton Newark, N. York |
Arrears to the 4th of March - $240.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00 |
$280.00  
{Act July 7, 1838.} 
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk 
Book A Vol. 2. Page 97. 


Widows death not on A. B.
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5366 
Marina Lond 
widow of Timothy 
N. Y. 
Act 7 July 38 --- 
m 84 d 13- |
on Rolls - Chandler 
3 years pri |
admd 
2 yr pri |
80 $ | 
No deduction 
Geo. H. Middleton 
Newark 
N. York
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Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." 
State of New York 
County of Wayne ⎬ ss. 
On this twenty second day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Circuit Court of over & terminer holden at Lyons in and for the County of Wayne aforesaid by said Mosby Esquire Circuit Judge in and for the [illegible] judicial circuit in the State aforesaid; Marina Pond a resident of the Town of Arcadia in the County aforesaid aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled ""an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." 
That she is the widow of Timothy Pond who, as she has ever been informed and verily believes to be true, was a private in the Continental service for three years during the war of the revolution: That he enlisted at the parish of Northbury, now Plymouth in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut when he at that time resided, into the company of Captain David Smith of the eighth Connecticut Regiment. And she is also informed and verily believes it to be true that the said Timothy Pond enlisted on the thirty first day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven; that he was in the battles at Germantown and Monmouth, that after having joined the army he marched to Peekskill, thence with the army through New Jersey to the vicinity of Philadelphia; and after the
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Germantown battle to Woodbury in New Jersey- subsequently to Valley Forge when the army wintered. Afterwards he was with his regiment at New Milford in Connecticut and quartered with it the next winter at Reading in that State. That the next spring he marched to the Highlands, and in the fall to New Jersey near Morristown when the army took up its winter quarters, and that in the latter part of March following he was discharged. And she further states that she has no documentary evidence wherewith to sustain this her declaration. She also declares that she was married to the said Timothy Pond on the Seventeenth day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four at Northbury aforesaid; that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Pond died on the fifth day of to December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen at Lewisville in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated 
Merina Pond 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day above written before the Court of Oyer and terminer of Wayne County, New York the oath being duly administered by me 
D. Chapman Dep.Clk. of said 
County of Wayne 
State of New York 
County of Wayne }ss.
I Cullen Foster clerk of said County hereby certify that the aforegoing proceedings were had in open Court, and that they are the original proceeding & the whole thereof, in this case 
Given under my hand and seal of Office April 22d 1839 
Allen Foster Clerk 
Wayne Co.
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"Marriages"
"Seventeen hundred and eighty four. February ninteenth Timothy Pond and Marina Meggs." 
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the records in my possession and charge, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows; 1784. (seventeen hundred and eighty four) February 17 (seventeen)
Ephraim Lyman, Pastor - 

State of Connecticut Plymouth December 9th 1838 
Litchfield County ss
I Ephraim Lyman, a Clergyman of the Congregational Denomination, the have signed the above certificate, depose and say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the Church and Congregation in the Town and Parish of Plymouth aforesaid, and am keeper of the records of the Pastor of the Church in said Parish and Town and that the above is a true report from the records of said Church with the exception above named as certified by me Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Ephraim Lyman, Pastor, 
Before me Calvin Butler Justice of Peace

I Robert J. Butler Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth in the County and State aforesaid certify that Calvin Butler is a magistrate as aforesaid and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.      In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 29th day of December in the year A.D. 1834 
Robert J. Butler Clerk
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Lettes Pond of the Town of Camden County of Oneida and State of New York being duly sworn deposith and saith that she was present sometime in the month of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four in the Town of Northbury since called Plymouth County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut when Timothy Pond June. was married to Marina Meggs both residents of that Town and Each Personally known to me and further this deponent saith not 
Sworn and Subscribed  this 6th day of September 1838 
before me      Letts Pond her mark 
Israel Stoddard, Judge
of Odeida Court of Pleas

I Certify that the above named Lettis Pond is a person with whom I am acquainted and a woman whose reputation as good and the to truth and veracity is good. and the said Lettis Pond made her mark on account of age and inability 
Israel Stoddard 
Judge of Oneida
Court of Pleas
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State of New York 
Oneida County ss. I Barnabus Pond of Kirkland in said County aged - eighty two years - being duly sworn says - that of he was a brother of the late Timothy Pond-who died at Lewisville in the winter of 1813 - that said Timothy Pond was a private in Capt Smith's company of Col Elmers Regt. of three years. men raised in the State of Connecticut and that this deponant was also a private in said Company-- and that the said Timothy served the full term of his enlistment and was honourally discharged - in 1780 - having served three years in said Regt in the Cont service And this deponent further says that  said Timothy in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three - married Marina Meggs that this deponent was not present at the marriage - but that he this deponent was married on the same day which said Timothy was married and that the said Timothy, and the said Marina attended the marriage of this deponent and that for this deponent had till the death of said Timothy know him and the said Marina as man and wife.
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And this deponent further says that the said Marina is a resident of Newark Wayne County New York Barnabas Lord 
Subscribe & Seven before me this 4th Sept 1838 
J. Pond Court of Deeds 
State of New York 
Oneida County ss - I Julius Pond the Comm of Deeds before whom the foregoing affidavit of Barnabas Pond was subscribed and sworn do hereby certify that said Pond is a reputable person, and that his statement is entitled to credit 
J.Pond Comm of Deeds
State of New York 
Oneida County ss I James Dean Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Julius Pond Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purporth to have been subscribed and sworn to was at the time said affidavit from oath  one of the Comm of Deeds of said County and duly authorized to take affidavits and do further certify that the hand writing of said Commissioner as well known to me and that his signature subscribed to said affidavit is his.
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proper hand writing and genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand affixed seal of said County this 12th day of Sept 1838 - 
James Dean, Clerk. 
Pv. Henry Little, Dep. Clerk.
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July 29, 1938 
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BA-J/MCS
Bartholomew Pond, S.23847
Timothy Pond, W.16374

Alice F. Covert 
605 Jefferson Avenue 
Moundsville 
West Virginia 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Bartholomew and Timothy Pond. 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.23847, based on the military service of the only Bartholomew Pond that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.  
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Bartholomew Pond were not given. 
He enlisted at Waterbury, Connecticut, February 1, 1776, and served two months in Captain Moses Foot's Connecticut company. He enlisted April 1, 1776, and served ten months in Captain David Smith's company in Colonel Elmore's Connecticut regiment. He also volunteered at various times, one of which was at the time of the battle of Norwalk. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 25, 1834, at which time he was living in Camden, Oneida County, New York, aged seventy-nine years. 
In 1834 Barnabas Pond of Kirkland, New York, and Beriah Pond of Camden, New York, stated that they served with Bartholomew Pond during the Revolution, relationship not given. One J. Pond was living in 1836, relationship to soldier not shown. There are no further data relative to soldier's family.
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2
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.16374, based on the military service of the only Timothy Pond that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
The date and place of birth of Timothy Pond and the names of his parents were not given. While a resident of Northbury Parish which was later called Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut, he enlisted March 31, 1777, and served three years as private in Captain David Smith's company in Colonels John Chandler's and Sherman's Connecticut regiments and was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth.
He married at Northbury February 17, 1784, Marina or Merina Meggs, and both were residents of Northbury, 
Timothy Pond died December 5, 1813, in Lewisville, St. Lawrence County, New York. It was stated that the soldier had also lived in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, 
His widow, Marina or Merina Pond, was allowed pension on her application executed April 22, 1839, at which time she was seventy-three years of age and was living at Arcadia, Wayne County, New York. 
In 1838 the soldier's brother, Barnabas Pond, was living in Kirkland , Oneida County, New York, aged eighty-two years. In 1838 one Lettis Pond, resident of Camden, New York, stated that she was present at the marriage of Timothy and Marina or Merina Pond, One Julius Pond was Commissioner of Deeds in Oneida County, New York, in 1838. The relationship of Lettis Pond and Julius Pond to the soldier was not given. 
There are no further data relative to soldier's family. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1938 July 29. Hist to Alice F Covert M.C.S.

Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 16374 
Merina Pond 
Widow of Timothy Pond 
Priv. Rev. War --- 
Act July 7th 1838 I
ndex: Vol. M, Page 137 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Newark May 3rd 1839 
Sir
Enclosed on the declaration of Merina Pond widow of Timothy Pond a soldier of the revolution, made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": together with a copy of the parish register of the Town of Plymouth Ct. in proof of her marriage with the said Timothy Pond: and affidavits of his enlistment and services in the revolutionary war and of his death in 1813. 
The certificate and seal attached to the copy from the parish register, and the affidavit of the Clergyman an there of the Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth which is I believe, made a court of record by the laws of Connecticut; but however but may be I presume you have been called, in the discharge of your duties to act upon testimony similarly authenticated, and have doubtless, already established a cover of precedents which will grown in this case.
If the application of Mer.Pond shall prove successful please forward her certificate to my address and much oblige 
Yours with much repect
Geo. H. Middleton Newark, Wayne County ⎬ New York
 Hon J.L. Edwards Com of Pensions
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605 Jefferson Ave 
Moundsville, W. Va. 
6 - 25-1938 
Veteran's Administration 
Adjutant Generals Office 
Washington, D.C 1838 
Dear Sir: Through the war Department I learn that my great grandfather, Timothy Pond, and Bartholomew Pond brother, were both in service during the Revolutionary War Timothy served in that war as a private in Captain David Smith Co. Colonel Elmore Battalion, Connecticut [crossed-out] Capt Nehemiah Rice's Co., and the 8th Co, 8th Connecticut Battalion commanded successively by Col. John Chandler, Major Joseph Hart Col. Giles Russell and Lieut. Col. Isaac Sherman He enlisted March 31, 1777- for three years and was discharged March 31, 1780. Bartholomew Pond served in the same war as a private in Captain David Sum this Co. Colonel Samuel Elmore Battalion, Connetticut Troops. His name appears only on a muster  roll of the company covering the period from April 15, 1776 to Jan. 13, 1777, which shows he enlisted April 1 - Nothing further relative to this
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soldier has been found of record." The statement above in quotation marks is from the War Department signed by E. S. Adams, Major General & Adjutant General, by LAR. They go on to say the Revolutionary dept. war records in their dept. are far from complete and suggested I contact the Adjutant General of Hartford Connecticut, or Veteran's Administration , Washington, D.C. I am told your department may have more complete record in case either Timothy or Bartholomew or both may later have applied for pensions.
Timothy - above, second son of Philip pond, was born 1730 (or 31) at Branford Connecticut. His son Bartholomew b. Aug. 1754 was also in the Revolutionary War but I have no data on his war record He died Mch. 31 - 1850, aged 95. his wife Elizabeth Dunbar Pond, died Nov. 8 -1839, aged 78. 
Timothy of Branford, had a son Timothy Jr who could have been in that war- we do not have his birth date but it would have been in the early 1750's.
Bartholomew, brother of Timothy of Branford, was born in 1736, died March 21. 1810 his wife Lucy Curtis Pond born 1738 - died Mch. 1 - 1822 
I give you these details and dates, etc, it because of the duplication of names that might cause confusion any data [crossed-out]. Any further data concerning the two Timothys and the two Bartholomews will be greatly appreciated by the great great granddaughter of Timothy of Brandford and the great, great great granddaughter of his brother Bartholomew
 (my grandparents were married several years before they knew they were related.) 
Sincerely and gratefully, Alice Farrar Covert 
aged 71.
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[stamp] Received Jul 5 1938
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Onondaga County Ss. William Cook of the town of Pompay in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Timothy pond & this deponent enlisted in the continental army on the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven in Capt David Smiths Company Eight Regiment of Connecticut then commanded by Col. John Chandler, We enlisted in the Parish of Northbury town of Waterbury County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut. We enlisted under Lieutenant Nehemiah Rice Timothy Pond resided in the same place where he enlisted. He enlisted for three years. I was sick with the small pox when the company joined the Regiment. I joined the Regiment at Peekskill in the State of New York and Timothy Pond was there when I joined the Reg. We marched from there through the State of New Jersey & Joined the main army about twenty miles from Philadelphia a short time previous to the Battle at Germantown. We were in the Germantown Battle & after that we marched to Woodbury in N Jersey. I went from there to Mud- Island fort. I dont recollect that Pond was there
After that we marched to Valley Forge and wintered The Regiment marched with the army into New Jersey and in a few days were in Monmouth Battle. I was sick at the time & did not march with the Army & was not able to join the Army untill next fall & when I came to the Regiment again they were at New Milford in Connecticut T. Pond was with them. We quartered this next winter in Redding in Connecticut. We marched the next spring to the highlands on the North River in the State of N York & in the fall we marched into N Jersey near Morristown & built huts and quarter then for the winter & in January the 16th we went on to Staten Island when we left the Island we quartered on the Road between there the huts, Col. Sherman then commanded the Regt & in the latter part of March we were
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both discharged in a day between Morristown & Elizabethtown and we went home together to the place where we first enlisted. I think it was in 1781 or 1782 that Timothy Pond was married to Marina Meggs & lived with her in the same Parish untill I left there in 1783. I have since known Pond to live with his wife, the aforesaid Marina, in Clinton Oneida County N Y. & have seen the Widow Marina Pond (since the death of her late husband Timothy Pond) in the vicinity of Palmyra & Newark. Wayne Co. NY. & further this deponent saith not 
William Cook
Subscribed & Sworn this 3rd day of January 1839.  before me 
Henrich Allan J.P. 
This may certify that I am acquainted with 4 the above named William Cook & believe him to be a man of good moral character & is at all times to be depended upon as to truth & veracity 
Herrick Allen I Peace
State of New York 
Onondaga  County 
Clerks Office } ss.  I certify that Herrick Allen Esqr before whom the preceeding affidavit was taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and authorised by law to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Allen and verily believe his signature thereto and to the above Certificate to be genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed  my name and affixed the seal of said County this 7th day of January 1839
E Rhoades Clerk