Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 36,806, for Elias Stilwill, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

*
Stilwill, Elias
or
Stilwell

NUMBER
S 36.806

CONTENTS
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Examnd with Orig. Rolls 
Aug. 1883 M.G 

Connecticut Rolls. 
1633
Elias Stilwell, 
Captain
Colo. Wyllys 
Connecticut Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of March 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818 and sent to Simeon Baldwin, Esqr 
New Haven, Connecticut. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 
5 months 4/31
4/30
$105.24

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818 } four years 

New Haven, New Haven
Ct[?]
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THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For Elias Stillwill Esquire Greeting: We Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the third Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the 1st day of July 1779 You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do Strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as Captain And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you Shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States. 
Witness His Excellency Saml Huntingon Esqr President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 5th day of September 1780, and in the fifth Year of our Independence.
Sam. Huntington President

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest
Ben [illegible] - Secretary of the Board
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36 806
Revy INVALID.

File No. 36,806
Elias Stilwell
Capt Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 398

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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3-082

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
I[?]. File no
Application No.
Certificate No. 36806

NAME OF SOLDIER,
Elias Stillwell
Co. Conn Reg't

INFORMATION DESIRED
Papers
L. Stillwell

ADMITTED FILES
APR 18 1910

FIRST DEPUTY,
COMMISSIONER.
M.
APR 18 1910

6-1736
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Elias Stilwell

March 28. 1818

Correct. ["original" crossed out]
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Connecticut ss.
I Elias Stillwell a native citizen of the United States, now residing in New Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, do declare under oath that I served my Country in the revolutionary war from its commencement to the close that I marched to Cambridge on the alarm of the Lexington Battle & never quitted the service till the close of the war - that I received a Commission as Ensign under the State of Connecticut on the 15th of July 1775, was commissioned a second Lieutenant under Congress on the 3d Jany 1776 & on the 3d of Jany 1777 was commissioned a first Lieutenant in Col. S. Wyllys regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment- that on the 16 of Mar. 1779 I was promoted & made a Captain Lieutenant & on the 5th of Septr. 1780 I was commissioned a Captain in the same, being the third, Connecticut Regiment & continued to serve as such till the close of the War- 
And by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I now need assistance from my country for support.-
I therefore pray that I may be placed on the pension list of the united States according to the provisions of the act of
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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.- New Haven March 28th 1818.- 
Elias Stilwill 

New Haven County ss 
I certify that on the twenty eighth day of March AD 1818, personally appeared Captn. Elias Stillwell above named to me well known & made oath to the the [sic] truth of the foregoing declaration by him in my presence subscribed 
Simeon Baldwin a Judge of the Supr Court of Connecticut 

To the Hon. The Secretary of the Department of War 
I certify that it appears to my full satisfaction that the above named Elias Stillwell served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as he has stated in his Declaration- I therefore transmit the evidence & proceedings in his case accompanied with his last Commission- 
New Haven April 6th 1818- 
Simeon Baldwin a Judge of the Supr Court of Connecticut 

State of Connecticut 
New Haven County ss New Haven April 6th 1818- 
I Dyer White Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut for the County of New Haven & keeper of the Seal thereof, do certify that the preceeding [preceding] signatures of the name of Simeon Baldwin are in the proper handwriting of Simeon Baldwin a Judge of the Supr Court of State[?] to me well known- 
I[n] testimony whereof I affix sd Seal - 
Dyer White