Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,736, Joseph Giddings, Conn. Continental New York
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Conn.   
Giddings, Joseph
S. 10.736
Continental
New York
carded
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield,
Probate District of New Milford
On this 30th day of July AD.
1832. personally appeared in Open Court before
the Court of Probate for said District now
sitting New Milford in said District and
County Joseph Giddings a resident of Washington in said County & State aged seventy
three 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 provision of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832-
that he enlisted in the Army of the
United States in the month of December (as he
believes) in the year 1775 with Sargeant Rufus Cone and served in the Regiment commanded
by Col Chas. Willis' of the Connecticut line
under the following named officers, that
he enlisted in the town of New Fairfield in
Connecticut for the term of thirteen
months and marched to Boston when he joined
Col Willis' Regiment, and remained in
Boston till March 1776 and from thence he
marched to Norwich Landing in Connecticut
where he remained two or three days and
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then marched to New London when he remained
three or four days. He & the Regt then
went on board a sloop and sailed for New York
and landed at a place (then) called Horns Hook in April 1776 about five miles east of New York
& marched from thence to New York
where he remained two or three or four weeks, (he
correct tell exactly how long) and then hired
a substitute for the remainder of the Campaign
who was accepted & he (the declarant) left the service
That about two months after he left the Army
in the  Spring of 1776 he again entered the service of the United for the term of five months as a substitute for the
person whose name he does not now recollect
who was drafted in Fredericksburgh in the State of
New York (now) called Patterson and Marched directly
to New York and went from thence to Long Island where he remained about 48 hours and returned to New York and from thence retreated to the neighborhood of Kings bridge where he remained till the enemy took possession
of New York and marched to White Plains in the
month of October 1776 and in the same month
he (the declarant) was kept in reserve at the battle of
White Plains - He was then taken sick and
in consequence, had a permit from the Col.
who then commanded the Regt but who name
he does not now recollect to return home
which he did and remained till after the
term for which he entered the service have expired
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not being able in consequence of illness return to the service - The permit which he had from his Col.
he has lost - the following is the names of some of the officers under whom he served as far as he can recollect -
Capt. Wm Peam, Lieuts Butler & Elliot & [illegible] Loveless
In the latter part of the Winter or early in the
spring of the year 1777 (to the best of his recollection)
he again entered the service of the United States as a
Volunteer and marched to the saw pits and remained
there and in that vicinity for the term of two months -
the officers (as for as he can recollect) under whom
he served were Col Eaton & Capt Carr
In the month of April 1780 he again entered
the service as an enlisted soldier in the Connecticut
State troops for twelve months and marched
to Stanwick in Connecticut and remained there
& in that neighborhood till the month of July
of the same year when he marched to White
Plains and to Frog's Point at which place
he was in the action in July 1780. He then marched
back to Stanwick when he remained till about
six months from the time he entered
the service at which time he had left the
service with the consent & approbation of the
commanding officer & hired a substitute for
the remainder of the term - the officers under
whom he served (as for as he can recollect) were
Genl Waterbury - Majors Shipman & Humphry
Capt Chas Smith. Lieut. Hoyt- Ensign Smith
Sergeants Barnes & Sellick
That he was born in Newforfield January 22d