Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,572, for Joseph Porter, Connecticut
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Conn.                                            Number
Continental     Porter, Joseph   S. 35.572

Contents
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Joseph Porter
Connecticut
S 35,572
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Joseph Porter haveing served Three years the Term for which he enlisted - as a good & faithfull Soldier is hereby Discharged from the American Army 
Given under my hand at the Guth Highlands this 12th day of February 1781 -  
Saml B. Webb Col. 
3d Connect. Regt.
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(255) 
Connecticut. 4 
Joseph Porter 
Private 
Colo Webb
Connecticut line 1778. 3 years 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 14th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of April 1818 and sent to Hon. S. Baldwin, Judge New Haven, Connect 
Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818 22/31 mo    $37.67 
$37.67 
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}
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35572 
Revy   INVALID. 
File No. 35,572 
Joseph Porter 
Priv Rev War 
Act: 18” March 18 
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 485 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mch. 6 / 96 Ex, by Mr. Aspinwall B of 1  
1924 Apr. 3 Hist. to 1724 Mr. Frank F. Starr 
MCS
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Joseph Porter 
Apr. 14. 1818 
Capt Ten Eych's Co 3 reg’t Conn’t line 
Exd. & fd. to be correct.
3/3
17
31 [unreadable] 22 8 
22
8.60
31/176 9567
210
186
240
1818.9.4
1818.4.13
4.22
8/31
32
5.67
$37.67
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State & District of Connecticut, SS 
On this fourteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of said State, personally appears Joseph Porter,  aged 61 years, resident in Woodbridge in the said State, 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 Joseph Porter enlisted in February 1778 in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Henry Ten Eyck of the 3d Reg’t in the Connecticut line; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 12th of February AD 1781-, when he was discharged from service in the Highland state of New York, that he was in the battles of Monmouth, was on the Forlorn Hope at the storming of Stoney point 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 except his discharge which he produced. 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. Joseph Porter 
Simeon Baldwin 
I, Simeon Baldwin, Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Porter 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. 
New Haven April 14 1818 Simeon Baldwin 
State of Connecticut 
New Haven County, SS  New Haven April 14. 1818 – 
Dyer White Clerk of the Supr. Court of said State for said County do certify that the signatures of the name of Simeon Baldwin to the above certificate is known to me to be the signature & proper hand writing of Simeon Baldwin, who is one of the Judges of said court. 
In testimony whereof I affix the seal of Court 
Dyer White
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FRANK FARNSWORTH STARR,   Starr's Ancestral Register 
GENEALOGIST AND FAMILY HISTORIAN.
MIDDLETOWN, CONN.

March 5, 1924

Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.,

Gentlemen:
STARR'S ANCESTRAL REGISTER.

I wish to obtain a statement of the services in the War of the Revolution of Joseph Porter of Connecticut who was placed on the pension rolls April 24, 1818. Also any information about his family that the files may disclose.

Respectfully,
Frank Farnsworth Starr
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

April 3, 1924

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Mr. Frank F. Starr
Middletown
Conne

Sir:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35572, it appears that Joseph Porter enlisted in February 1778 as private in Captain Henry Ten Eyck's Company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Monmouth and Stony Point and was discharged February 12, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24,1818, while residing in Woodbridge, Connecticut, aged sixty-one years.
There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
Commissioner