Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15622, for Judah Roberts, Connecticut
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(3--1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Roberts, Judah S. 15622
carded
CONTENTS
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10.131
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County Ss Hartford
August the 15th day AD 1832
On this 13th day August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before Isaac Kellogg Esq Judge of the Court Probate for the district of Newhartford in said County. Judah Roberts & resident of the town of Barkhamsted in said Litchfield County & within said Probate district & State of Connecticut, aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 4th AD 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, as a substitute for Jack 
A Roberts, who is deceased under the following named officers & served as herein stated entered as a [illegible] & private for the State troops for the State of Connecticut sometime in the latter part of May AD. 1778 [illegible] cannot [illegible] under the command of Col Roger Eno & was in the company commanded by Capt Joel Gittett & the Lieut was John Burr. that he lived at the time entering the service of the United States in the town of Winchester in said Litchfield County that he went to white plains in the State of New York & from thence to Peekskill & from there to West point in the State of New York, & was there employed in building the forts & in the latter part of then year he went to Greenwich in the State of Connecticut & was then stationed for the purpose of holding the enemy in check, & keeping them from plundering the country - that he was under the command of the same officers during the whole of his service as when he entered the service & that he served as a substitute that he left the service sometime in May 1779 at the expiration of the year [illegible] & has no documentary evidence of this service-
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B and he further declares that sometime in September AD 1779. He entered the service of United States again at Horseneck in the town of Greenwich, as a militia man under the command of Major Devenport, & belonged to the company commanded by Capt Benjamine Mills of New Hartford Connt- Lieut Samuel Banning of Hartland Hartford County Connt that he was a substitute for John Walter went from Greenwich to Stamford
and there placed as guard of our prisoners; that he was in the service at this time three months  [illegible] in camp & has no documentary evidence of this service- And he further declares that in March 1780 he was drafted for two months & sent to Horseneck, from the town of Winchester in Litchfield County. that he was in the Regt commanded by Col Niggatt, & belonged to the company of which the Lieut name was Goodwin & has no documentary evidence of this service that he served two months as a private
C And he further declares that he volunteered at at a place called Titus Mills, near Greenwich in March 1781 as a private for 2 months and served 2 months General Waterbury commanded. & in the company commanded by Capt Hotchkiss & had here a number of skirmishes with the enemy & has no documentary evidence of this service & that he knows of no one who can testify to his service - & that he was in the field & Camp
D. And that in September 1781 he was drafted from Winchester & sent to New Haven, Connt & belonged to the company commanded by Elmander Cottin & Lieut Gaskins & Ensign Galolf, the tour of duty performed was two months, & he has no documentary evidence of this service - & further that he was on this tour of duty at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis, but cannot remember who his General or Colonel was
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E.
And for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provision of the act aforesaid he the said Judah Roberts makes this further declaration, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the last of March or first of April in the year of 1782, & served in the third Connecticut Regt of Connecticut line as a private under the following named officers Col Samuel B. Webb Lieut Col Huntington & Maj. Willis. & belonged to the company commanded by Joseph Walker Lieut Denslow which company has the 4th of said line - that he lived in the town of Winchester aforesaid when he entered the service that he entered the army at the Village huts in the highlands & moved from thence to Danfords fields & there encamped from thence down the north line to Verplancks point & there encamped - & from thence for winter quarters went to West point. & he was detached from the main army & sent away by his General whose name was Huntington, & for these aforsaid services was promised his discharge which is hereunto issued
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present claims & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Judah Roberts
Isaac Kellogg Judge of Probate for the District of New Hartford
We Asahel Morse a clergyman resident in the town of Colebrook in Litchfield County & in the vicinity of Serdak Roberts & Hiram Goodwin residing in the town of Barkhamsted aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Judah Roberts who has sworn to the above declarations, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age & that he is believed & reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Asahel Morse, Minister of the Gospel
Hiram Goodwin
Isaac Kellogg Judge of Probate for the District of New Harford 
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Asahel Morse who has signed to the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Colebrook, & that Hiram Goodwin who has signed the same is a resident in the town of Barkhamsted & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit And I do further certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Judah Robert for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of August AD 1832
Isaac Kellogg Judge of Probate
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town of Coldbrook & that Hiram Goodwin who has signed the same is a resident in the town of Barkhamsted & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit - And I do further certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Judah Robert for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of August AD 1832
Isaac Kellogg Judge of Probate for the District of New Hartford
I James H. Holcomb, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New Hartford do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Judah Roberts for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this 5th day of September AD. 1832.
James H. Holcomb, Clerk
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22558
Connecticut
Judah Roberts
of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Conn commanded by Captain Gillett of the Regt commanded by Col Rogers in the Connecticut line for Two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of October  1833 and Hiram Goodwin Hitchcock [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of September $200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending March 40.00
$240.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 38
Duplicate certificate found and forwd to James Dodd Hartford Cont July 1 1835
Certiore) recd from Agency. July 16. 1836