Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12675, Timothy Carpenter, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Carpenter, Timothy

NUMBER
S. 12675
B.L.W. 26546-160-55

carded
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Connecticut 31.151
Timothy Carpenter
of Tolland in the State of Connt
who was a Private in the Company command
by Captain Woods of the Reg, commanded
by Col in Ct.
line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connt.
at the rate of 20. Dollars -00- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of July
1837 and sent Sepe
Charlton East Windsor Ct
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 10.00
$130.00 
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 3d Page 8
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County
S Ellington
On this 21st day of March 1837
Personally appeared before the Probate
Court for the District of Ellington in said
Tolland County, Timothy Carpenter a
resident of said Ellington, a credible person
aged 72 years, & 7 months, who being first
duly sworn according to law doth make
the following Declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
of June 7th AD 1832. 
That he was born in Tolland on the 2nd day of August
1764, there is a record of his age in
the Town Clerks office in the Town of Tolland
He further declares, that his father
Comfort Carpenter then a resident of
Tolland in said Tolland County was
drafted to perform a tour of duty in
Capt John Woods company of Militia,
to go to New London in said State to do
duty as a private soldier in guarding
the town of New London aforesaid; That
it being very inconvenient for his said
Father to leave home at that time, he
the declarant, offered to go in his stead,
being then but in his fifteenth year, but as
he was well grown for one of his age, the
said Captain accepted him as a substitute
in the place of his said father, and on
or about the first of September 1778 he marched
with the said Company from said Tolland
thro the towns of Windham & Norwich
to New London aforesaid where he performed
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a tour of Military duty, in assisting to guard
the town of New London; that he continued
in said service, at this time till about
the last of October or first of November in
said year, and for a period of not less than
two months, when his time having expired
he received a verbal discharge, or dismission
returned home.
And he further declares and says, that
his father was drafted in the year 1780
to perform a tour of duty as one of the military
Guard kept at the State Prison in Granby
then Simsbury in the State of Connecticut and
he deponent went as his substitute
It was a Serjeants Guard, then under 
the command of Serjeant Samuel Blodget,
consisted of twelve men: The prisoners
were a part of them, men who were taken up
for enlisting or attempting to enlist men
to join the British army & were condemned
to imprisonment during the war two
I remember, were Gorton and Beckwith
of Lyme in Connecticut; Then noted traitors 
against their country: I was drafted
for two months and then and then performed 
a tour of military duty for a
period of not less than two months, when 
I was verbally dismissed.
And he further declares and says, That his
Father was again drafted in the month of September
1781, to go to New London in said State
immediately after it was taken & Burned
by the Traitor Arnold. That he deponent was as substitute he joined the
company, under the command of Captain
Wales
we marched from Tolland
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& marched thro the towns of Hindham
& Norwich to said New London 
& were attached, according to my best recollection 
to Cole M Lellands Regiment: we
were the first company which were ordered
across the river to Groton, after the Massacre
in the fort; the dead were removed but
nothing more was done toward cleaning out
the fort until our company was ordered
into it; the impressions on the ground where
the dead bodies lay was distinct and the quanity
of clotted gore which we scraped up
and carried away in this renewed recollection 
sickens my heart: we were employed
during the time we served, as a guard
& to assist in repairing the fortifications
we served during this tour or detachment
for a period of not less than Two months
& were then honorably dismissed by a
verbal discharge, he does not remember
that he ever had a written discharge if
he had, it is now lost he has no documentary 
evidence he has resided in Tolland
County in Connecticut ever since the
termination of the Revolutionary War
& resides there now; He relinquishes every claim to a
pension or annuity except the present & his name is not on the
pension roll in any State
He is aquainted the Rev Elisha Frink
a Clergyman & with Mr Nelson Lewis
of the same town of Ellington who can testify as
to his character & their belief of his services as 
a
Soldier of the Revolution
Timothy Carpenter
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first
named before said court of Probate
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We Elisha Frink a Clergyman residing
in Ellington in Tolland County and Nelson
Lewis residing in said town hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Timothy
Carpenter who has subscribed and Sworn
to the foregoing declaration that we believe
him to be more than 72 years of age that he
is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a Soldier of the
Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Elisha Fink
Nelson Lewis
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department that the above applicant 
was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states and the
Court further certifies that it appears to them that Rev
Elisha Frink who has signed the preceding certificate is
a Clergyman resident in the same and that Nelson
Lewis who has also signed the same is a resident
in the town of Ellington and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Albert Tinney Clerk of the court of Probate
for the District of Ellington aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Timothy Carpenter aforementioned for a Pension
And I further certify that Walter R Kibbe Esq
before whom the certificate of Jonah Cooley was taken
was at the time of administering the oath to said
Cooley Viz on the 30th day of July 1832 a lawful Justice
of the Peace for said Tolland County & that his signature 
to the said certificate purporting to be his
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is his genuine signature well known to me
and I further certify that Loren P Waldo
Esq before whom the certificate of Samuel
Caswell was taken was at the time of administering 
the Oath to said Caswell a lawful Justice of
the Peace for said Tolland County and that the signature 
of said Lorin P Waldo to said Certificate
purporting to be his is his genuine signature
well known to me And I further certify
that Elisha Stearns as before whom the certificate 
of Abner Ashley was taken is at this
time & has been for more than six months last
past a lawful Justice of the Peace for said
Tolland County & that the signature to said
certificate purporting to be his is his genuine 
signature. And I further certify that
Elisha Stearns Esq before whom the certificate
of Oliver H Isham was taken is at this
time & has been for more than six months last
past a lawful Justice of the Peace for said Tolland
County & that the signature of said Justice
Stearns purporting to be his is his genuine
Signature well known to me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate
Court this 21st day of March 1837
and before the signing & Oath there was an alteration 
on the 3d page the word of six was altered
to Two & an interlining of the words "Pension roll in any
State." & "his Father" & "he the deponent went as a substitute"
Attest Albert Pinney Clerk
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Bounty Land
160 ACRES
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
This hereby Certified that under the Act of March 3rd 1855
[illegible] "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain
[illegible] and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military [illegible] of the
United States," Timothy Carpenter, Private
Revolutionary War
is entitled to locate ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES, at any Land
Office of the United States, in one body, and in conformity to the legal [illegible]
divisions of the public lands, upon any of the public lands
"subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduated
prices." Given under my hand and the Seal of the
Department, this 17th day of May 1856
No. 26546
Died before issue
June 23/56
Cancelled
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6800. Act 3rd March 53
March 23d 1855
Timothy Carpenter Private
Conn
Revolutionary War
[illegible] 160 ac May 15/56
Boyton
A. P. Hyde
Tolland
Conn.
Set to A. P. Hyde May 10th/55
June 23/56 sent to Conn Genl Land Office
July3/69 sent to N York office RM
July 3/69
Warrant Cancelled
[illegible]
Vol. C - 14.
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Timothy Carpenter
Declaration for Bounty Land
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State of Connecticut
County of Tolland Tolland
On this 17th day of March AD one thousand Eight
Hundred & fifty five personally appeared before me
a Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State
aforesaid Timothy Carpenter aged Eighty nine years
a resident of Ellington in the State of Connecticut who
being duly sworn according to law declares that he is
the identical Timothy Carpenter who was a private in
the war of the revolution, and who is now inscribed on
the pension roll of the United States at the rate of Twenty
Dollars per annum. That he served two tours at New
London and one at Simsbury during said war, that
he continued in actual service in said war for a term
exceeding fourteen days to wit for the time of six
months, and was honorably discharged from said
Service - That owing to his extreme age & consequent
loss of memory he cannot now name the officers
under whom he served as describe him particularly
his periods of service and he would refer to the
evidence now on file in Washington filed by him in
his application for a pension under the act of June 7th
1832 for proof of his said service
He makes this declaration for the purpose of
obtaining the bounty land to which he may be
entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855. He
also declares that he has not received a warrant
for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress
nor made any other application therefor
his
Timothy Carpenter
his X mark
We Geo S Hastings of Tolland and Ezra A Ladd of
Ellington in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths
declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and
acknowledged by the said Timothy Carpenter in
our presence and that we believe from the appearance
and statements of the applicant that he is the
identical person he represents himself to be
G. S. Hasting
Ezra A Ladd
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and
subscribed before me on the day and year above written and
I certify that I know the affiant to be credible persons and that the claimant
the person he represents himself to be & that I have no interest in this claim
Alan P. Hyde Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
TOLLAND COUNTY,
County Cler's Office
ss.
I Wm. Sumner Clerk of the County
Court, within and for the County of Tolland and keeper of the Seal thereof,
and of the Commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby
certify that Alvan P. Hyde Esquire,
was on the 17th day of March 1855 ever since has been, and now is, a Justice of the Peace
within and for the said County duly appointed, commissioned and sworn with power by the laws of this State, to
administer OATHS, and take acknowledgment of DEEDS and other Instruments:  that I am acquainted with his
handwriting and that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his genuine, official signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Tolland
this 19th day of March 1855
Wm. Sumner Clerk.
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a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension 
on file in this Bureau. Timothy Carpenter Sur File 12675
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain. Colonel. STATE.
Sept. 1.1778. 2 mos Prt John Wood Conn.
June 1780 2 mos Sgts Guard under Sgt Samuel Blodget
Sept. 17812 mos Wales McLellan
Said substituted for his father
Battles engaged in
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Tolland Conn.
Date of application for pension, March 21 1837 his d was al
Residence at date of application, Ellington Tolland Co Conn
Age at date of application, born at Tolland Aug. 2, 1764 Died in 1855
Remarks: Solder was the Son of Mary & Comfort Carpenter
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1906 Aug. 6. History to Arthur N. Kelley
1909 Oct 27 Hist to Florence E
Wakefield V.L.K.
1918 Feby 27 Hist to Alice McMorris
1918 Mch.14 Hist to Arthur N. Kaley
Rev War
12645
INVALID
file No. 12.675
Timothy Carpenter
Prit Rev. War
Act: June 7th 183Index: -- Vol.
Page
Arrangement of 1870
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26,846
Roxbury
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East Windsor Hill Office.
D Sir Hartford County, Conn.
June 21st 1837
On opening your letter, respecting the
application of Timothy Carpenter of
Ellington, in Tolland County Con.
I was more disappointed than I have
ever been in regard to an application for
a Pension. The objections were that
part of the service was performed when
he was but 14 years of age; We know 
that men were not subject to be drafted
at that age. But where the officer
who had a right to decide did decide
in this case to accept Timothy Carpenter, 
as a substitute for his Father so
Timothy (being a Smart rugged farmers boy)
and where this service is distinctly & fully
proved; I know on a patient review of
this case, you cannot reject this part 
of the claim; In the application of Elijah 
Denslow of Windsor Con, where he stated
that he was but 14, but was accepted he
being a stout well grown land & proving his
service by a Credible witness you granted
his application as you can see by referring 
to his papers
As to the service at
New Gate prison, it will appear by
the Proof, now sent. That it was a
Military force; lawfully raised a draft
from the Militia under regular officers
embodied with arms. & without any connection with any civil pursuit. and
for which War was charged on the
Public Books. And for which E Haskell
commissioner from Congress gave his
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receipt to Oliver Wolcott when he
took the vouchers to carry to Congress
with all the other military acts relating
to the War
This guard was employed,
Solely to take care of traitors & Rebels
against the United States. The prison
at Newgate was not at that time used
at all as I have uniformly understood
to confine any other class of Prisoners
& not until some years after the war closed
Viz 1790 was it made a Public Gaol & Work
house for the use of this State. See Statutes
of Connecticut, Hartford Edition, By Hudson
Goodwin. 1808.
Mr Carpenter I believe has truly
stated the reasons for his delaying to make
application for a Pension until this
time,
As to Mr Carpenters character I
can only say if you knew him you would
want no vouchers for that He is a
man of uncommon purity a rectitude
I send a letter from a Gentleman who has
been intimately acquainted with him for
years
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I Samuel Caswell of Tolland in the County of Tolland and
State of Connecticut do testify and say that in the full
the year 1778 I should think in the month of September
and October I was a member of Captain John
Woods Company of Foot under the command of Lieut.
Jonathan Wills and was stationed at New London Connecticut
 two months in the service of the Army of
the Revolution. I was there acquainted with Mr. Timothy
Carpenter of Tolland in Tolland County aforesaid now
a resident of the town of Ellington in said County and
know he was a member of said Company & did duty
therein during said term of two months when we
were discharged from the service.- And further
the deponent with not.
Lemuel Caswell
Tolland County town of Tolland August 7, 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Lemuel
Caswell and made solemn oath to the truth of
the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in
my presence. I further certify that I am
well acquainted with the said Lemuel Caswell
and know him to be entitled to full credit as
Witness.-- Before me
Loren Waldo Justice of Peace
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I Jonah Cooley of Lamers in Tolland County, in
the State of Connecticut testify & say that in the year
1780 or 81. I was drafted from the Militia in January
to perform a tour of Militia duty, was stationed, at Simsbury
Connecticut in a company of Militia called a
Sergents Guard, under the command of Sargent Samuel
Blodgett of Stafford Connecticut, consisting of
[illegible] Men the Business of the guard was to guard
& keep safe, four prisoners, who had received commissions
from the British Government, & were [illegible] to the
american Government, & were entered to be confined 
at the Simsbury mines, during the war
I performed a tour of duty in said Company at
said Simsbury for the period of two months and
was then discharged I continued at Simsbury during the months of June and
July in said year. In the same Company. Timothy
Carpenter of Ellington, Ct, was a private or
Soldier, & performed duty with myself, in said
Company, for the term of two months; and was
dischared at the same time, with myself & further
the Deponent saith not
Jonah Cooley
State of Connecticut Tolland County 
On this 30th day of July AD 1832 personally appeared
Jonah Cooley the aforesaid Deponent & being duly
and examined & sworn made oath to the truth of the
Deposition aforesaid by him subscribed & taken
at the request of Timothy Carpenter of Ellington et
for the purpose of obtaining a pension. The said
Deponent is now correct to his bed aged 70
years attest Walter R Kibbe Just of Peace
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I hereby certify that I personally know Jonah
Cooley the aforesaid Deponent more than forty years
before the taking of this Deposition & that he was sustained 
a good moral character the said Deponent
died a few days after taking this Deposition
[illegible] March 6th 18373
Tolland County
Attest Walter Kibbe justice of peace
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Compt Certificate
Timy Carpenter
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County  To Ellington
On this 19th day of June 1837 Personally
appeared before the Court of Probate for the
District of Ellington in sd Tolland County
Timothy Carpenter, a resident of said Ellington
aged 72 years a credible person, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on
his oath make the following Declaration
in addition to & explanatory of his former
Declaration, sent in April last, to which he
begs leave to refer. 
In the letter of the Commission
to Jesse Charlton the Declarants attorney of May
27th Their objections are made to the granting
the prayer of his Petition viz that two months
of the time alledged was as a guard at New
gate prison. That a part of the service was
performed when he was only 14 years of age
And that it has been so long
delayed. To the first he answers that he
has truly sworn in his former declaration
That he went as a substitute that being
the son of a Farmer & strong will grown for
his age, he was accepted in lieu of his father
who was drafted, in two of the tours.
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that he faithfully performed his duty as a
Soldier exposed to the perils of camp duty
he believes that it can be satisfactorily proved
before any tribunal that many persons as
young as himself, tho not subject to be drafted 
was, (where they were of suitably sized of cornpetent strength,) accepted, and performed camp
duty: he has distinctly proved this service
by a fellow soldier who has been & will
not be impeached. He has furnished all
the traditionary evidence, which he understand
is required. But he will endeavor to get some
further testimony that he is not an imposter
He will obtain a certificate from the
comptroller of Public accounts which will he
thinks show the subject of the service
at New Gate prison to have been a legitimate
Branch of the Military service, and so
recognized and paid for; and a Branch
of the service often fraught with imminent
danger.
He delayed the application this
long, because he found the witnesses scatter
in different places, that it was like to be attended with a considerable trouble & expence
no attorney or Justice of the peace lived near
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him. He lived in a lonely place where
there was but little intercourse with places
where pension business was done. He understood that one witness at least was necessary
to every tour; which for some time he did not
find so great a proportion of the soldiers of
the Revolution are gone from the Stage
of action. He had a moderate property,
a farm on which he regularly labord and
being of temperate habits was not driven
by necessity to get it, to keep him from the
Alms House. He had no son living
with him to assist him either to take care
of his business while he was gone from home or to
go forward and obtain the evidence necessary
In the past winter he was informed
by one of his neighbors that had stated
his case to a person acquainted with the
law of Pensions & the requirements as to proof
that he might obtain a pension justly
He resolved to make the application
which he has done, he believes he is entitled
to it by law and justice, he is not to be 
Judge in his own case, if he is fairly
entitled to it, he will be glad of it, if
he is not, he neither expects nor desires
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it Timothy Carpenter
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year first named, before said Probate
Court
And the said Court have more fully
declared their opinion in the Declaration
to which this is in addition & explanatory
that the above applicant was a revolutionary 
soldier, & served as he has stated in his
former Declaration, and the court do further
add, that if Timothy Carpenter is not to be
believed, they know not who is.
I Hiram S Belcher Clerk of the Probate Court
for the district of Ellington aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings 
of the said Court in the matter of the additional 
& explanatory declaration of Timothy Carpenter above
named for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
Seal of Office this 19th day of June 1837
Attest, Hiram S Belcher Clerk
Probate office Ellington June 19th 1837
hereby testify that Hiram S Belcher has been
duly appointed Clerk of this Court and has taken the oath
presented by Law
Benjamin Pinney Judge
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1780 September 25
& of Monday
At a meeting of the Gov
Present his Excellency the
Governor
Wm Williams
Wm Hilhouse
Nath Wales,
Jesse Root
Jabez Perkins
Esq
Resolved that the
Governor order a guard to be stationed for
the safe keeping of the Persons committed to
New Gate Prison to prevent their escape
which may be occasioned by evil minded
persons assisting the Prisoners from abroad
to effect such escape. The guard not to exceed
Forty effective men well attached to the Independance 
of the United States, & to be as much
less in number as the Governor shall think
fit; he, (at present) to appoint proper
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officers for the Same
And in the Books relating to the War of
the Revolution, there is the following entries
15 March 1781 War is charged
To amount of New gate Committe
acct, rendered, L M 1343132
1784
Jan 12
War is charged
To amount of acct rendered by New
gate Committee for Expenditures for New Gate
prison, Continental currency $ 2934 " 8
To amount of acct rendered by New Gate
Committee expenditures of New Gate H. M.
Prison $639"15-8
To amt of acct renderd by Newgate Committee
Expenditures of Newgate prison
Specie. $518-1-7
And in Haskells Receipt Page 109
There is the following entry
1781 
Nov 16 
Lt John Thrall Militia Service
Newgate Specie $27 " 19 " 6
Lt Seth Smith Do.- Do $207-1 " 8
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I Royal R Hinman in the absence of the Comptroller 
of Public accounts, hereby certify that
in the Journal of the Council of safety
remaining in the office of the Comptroller, 
find the entries hanscribed upon
the two last pages [illegible],
In testimony of which I have at the
office of the Secretary of the state 
of Connecticut June 21st AD 1837
affixed the seal of sd State and
signed the same
Royal R Hinman
Secretary
of State
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34046
Timo Carpenter
Cont
Adm for 6 mo $20
[illegible]
Cont Militia
Jess Charlton Esq
East Windra Court
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I Abner Ashley of Tolland in the
County of Tolland and State of Connecticut
aged eighty three years depose and say that
I served two months in Capt Wales company of
Connecticut militia in the revolutionary war
at New London & Groton and according to the best
of my recollection Timothy Carpenter who resides in
Ellington Tolland County & there resided in
said town of Galland was at New London & Groton
at the same time & during the time I was there
and I believe in the same Company - this service
was performed soon after New London was
burnt but can not tell the year
Abner Ashley
State of Connecticut SS
County of Tolland March 10 1837 Personally
appeared the above named deponent and made
Solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by him
subscribed and I certify to the capacity & Competency
of the said deponent as a witness
Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
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Timothy the Son of Comfort Carpenter and of
his wife Mary was born August 2d. 1764
The foregoing is a true copy
of Record Attest. Oliver K. Isham Town Clerk.
Town Clerks Office
Tolland Co. March 7th 1837
State of Connecticut
Tolland County SS Tolland March 7 1837-
Personally appeared the above named Oliver K Isham
and made solemn oath to the truth of the above
certificate and I also certify that the above signature
is the proper hand writing of said Isham and that
he is town Clerk of the town of Tolland
by & before me Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
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Power of Attorney.
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855, AND MARCH 3, 1869.
Timothy Carpenter
Private
Capt. Co.
Col. Regt.
Militia.
War of the Revolution
DAMON E. CHENEY
ATTORNEY,
ORANGE, MASS.
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County,
I Ephriam Demmick, a resident of Stafford in the County and State above
named, do depose and say I am Executor on the Estate of Timothy Carpenter
late of Ellington deceased
That the said Timothy Carpenter was an applicant for Bounty Land, Act of March 3d, 1855.
That his Application No. originally filed by A.P. Hyde
of Tolland Conn
That Timothy Carpenter served as a soldier in
the war
called the war of the Revolution
I Hereby Constitute and appoint DAMON E. CHENEY of Orange, Massachusetts, my Attorney irrevocable
to prosecute and perfect the claim of the said Timothy Carpenter, and to receive
the warrant when issued. Authorizing my said Attorney to do all things that may be necessary in the prosecution
of the said claim, as I might if personally present.
G. A. Mulbery
Ephraim Dimmick Executor
Attest Charles L. Dean on the Estate of Timothy Carpenter
Tolland County, SS.
On this the twenty sixth day of June 1867 personally appeared Ephriam
Dimmick to me well known, and acknowledged the Power of Attorney to
be his act, and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, and I certify that the said Ephraim Dimmick is
Excecutor on the Estate of the said Timothy
Carpenter deceased.
Frederick J Batchelder Judge
of Probate for Stafford District
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PROBATE CERTIFICATE. NATHAN PECKHAM, Stationer, 16 State Street, Hartford,
State of Connecticut, ss Ellington
Probate Court, District of Ellington 
June 25th A. D. 1869
I Caleb Hopkins Judge of said Court, hereby certify
that Ephraim Dimmick of Stafford Springs, Conn,
was by said Court, on the fourteenth day of April 1855, appointed
Executor of the last Will & Testament of
Timothy Carpenter late of Ellington in said district,
deceased, and having accepted said appointment and executed bond according to law, (said
appointment being unrevoked and in full force,) is legally authorized and qualified to
administer on said estate, and his acts as such are entitled to
full credit.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court, the day and year first
above written.
Caleb Hopkins Judge
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Probate office Ellington Tolland County Connecticut
I have been acquainted with Timothy Carpenter
many years, he lives in the same Town with me, but of
a distant not in a place called the equivalent, & miles
the Center of the Town & over the mountain, when the
Intercourse with neighboring place is very small I have
formerly been a constable for the whole Town and subsequently
a select man & assessor of Taxes became acquainted with
every householder in the place and with said Timothy Carpenter
I became very intimately acquainted and can most then
say that for strict integrity of Character & for Christian and
primitive simplicity no man goes before him he has on
him a professor of Religion of the Methodist set and of any
man was to be selected among us a model of the Christian
virtues it would be Timothy Carpenter
Ellington June 12th 1837
Benjamin Pinney Judge
To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Probate
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East Windsor Connt
April 4 1837
Sir I herewith transmit the
application of Timothy Carpenter
of Ellington, County of Tolland
Con,
for a pension under the Act of June
7th AD 1832.
Mr Carpenter has delayed
a good while to present his application
he lives in a very retired & lonely situation 
& where he has little intercorse
with Society, & did not obtain all the
proof he wished to sustain his claim
until a few days since he is esteemed
a man of excellent character I understand
by those who have been acquainted with
him; and I trust, you will find
his case a sound one.
I am Sir, respectly your
humble Servant
Jesse Charlton
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Tolland March 19th 1855 
J P Waldo Court of Pensions
enclosed I send declaration of
Timothy Carpenter an old revolutionary pensioner who I [illegible]
is personally known to you. If there be anything more needed 
please write me & when the warrant is issued please
forward to me.
Yours Jno Ruff
A P. Hyde
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Orange Mass.
29" June 1869
Hon. H. Van Aernam
Com. of Pensions
Washington DC
Dear Sir
Herewith I submit Power of Atty
in the Bounty Land claim of Timothy Carpenter
soldier in the war of the Revolution.
As near as I can judge from a report made
by the heirs, a warrant issued to this soldier
after his death, and that the warrant was returned
to the Pension office as there was no one competent
to make the assignment at the time.
Respectfully Yours
Damon E. Cheney
G. A. W
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President ALAN D. GRAVES
Vice President E. W. HERMAN
Secretary ELIZA SHAFER 
Treasurer ALAN KALEY
Accountant GEORGE W. DOLL
Trustees: W. C. KOONS, ALAN D. GRAVES, DR. WM. A. DAUGHERTY
Deputy L. G. GRAVES-Phone: Bell 949X, Ohio R575
Massillon Circle, No. 31, Protected Home Circle
BEST INSURANCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Pays Death Benefits $500.00 to $3,000.00; also Total Disability and Old Age Benefits Admits Both
Men and Women. Managed by Fraternal Men of Business Principles.
Massition, Ohio, March 7 1918
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
Gentlemen
Will you please send
me the record of Timothy Carpenter
a Revolutionary War pensioner from
Tolland County, Conn. [illegible]
Very Respectfully
Arthur N Kaley
509 North
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Jewett City conn Oct 19, 1909
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
I understand
Ebenezer Luce who
went to the Revolutionary war from
from Windam County Conn recieved
a pension can you give
me his war record
Timothy carpenter of Ellington
Conn also received a 
pension can you give
me his Revolutionary record
Florence E, Wakefield
Jewett City
Conn
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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by George M. Moore
Claim No. Oct 22, 1909
Certificate No.
Claimant
Solder Timothy Carpenter
Service Rev
Additional Service.
from Ellington, Conn
No. claim, State records. 190.
No claim, combination records , 190
REMARKS:
No O. W. I. W. or Rej. as above except
I F. No. 12675 From Ellington, Conn
Rej  F. 15627.
O - 8 Chief Division
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U. S. Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
I would like for you to send me
the pension records of the following men who
served in the War of the Revolution;
Timothy Carpenter, Ellington, Tolland Co., Conn.
S. 23, 151
Eliphal Carpenter, Ashford, Windham Co., Conn. In 1840.
Yours very truly,
Alice McMorris
402 Morgan Street,
% Mrs. A. R. Davis,
Harriman, Tennessee.
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THE WOLFE TAVERN
Daniel H. Fowle & Son
NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS
Date August 1906
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
Dear Sir
Will you kindly send
me the Revolutionary war
Record of Ephraim Warren
of Middlesex County, Mass.
gratly oblige?
Will you kindly advise me
when the first pensions were
granted to Revolutionary
Soldiers?
I am in receipt of War Record
of Timothy Carpenter of Conn 
forwhich accept my thanks
very respectfully
Arthur N Kaley
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O.W. & N
July 19.1906
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington DC
Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me
Revolution War Record of
Timothy Carpenter of Ellington
or Coventry, Tolland Co. Conn
who was a pensioner under
act of 1832 gratly oblige?
Yours [illegible]
Arthur N Kaley
Wolfe Tavern
Newburyport, Mass