Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 21,673, for Phinehas Raymond, Massachusetts
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Service - Mass.


Raymond, Phinehas


Number - R.21673
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4322

Phineas Raymond


Rejected


See Letter Hon. H. Everett
may 16th, 1834



Walter Palmer Esq.
Woodstock
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War Department
Pension Office
April 25th 1833


Sir:  The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus  } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Phinehas Raymond

Period when the service was rendered - 

1779
1782

Duration of the claimant's service - 

3 months
4 months

Rank of claimant - Private

Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served.

Col. Tyler
cannot recollect the other officers


Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.

aged 67 years
entered the service at Middleborough Mass.
lived there at this time

Proof by which the declaration is supported.

no proof

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

J.L. Edwards
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Phinehas Raymond
Declaration
asking a Pension
No. 4322 P.O.

Dec. 17, 1847 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.


Feb. 9, 1849 Adv. 1380

Rev. Capt. Bicknell ?


Jacob Collamer


Phinehas Raymond
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State of Vermont
Windsor County,ss.

On this 11th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Hartford District now sitting, Phinehas Raymond a resident of the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged sixty seven year, 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

In 1779 he lived in Middleborough Massachusetts some time in August or September the said year he enlisted into Capt. Edward Sparrow's Company State Troops months to Providence Rhode Island  then ? the Regiment the Col.'s name he does not recollect Staid there about a month then went by water to Bristol ? Island then went on to Rhode Island the time the British left it staid there untill his time was out which was the months then returned home. in 1782 some time in August he enlisted into Capt. Bucknell (after was a Major) William L. Baran was a Lieutenant in said Company marched to Providence then to Worcester Mass. then to Springfield then to Fishkill New York, staid a short time there to West Point and joined the Brigade he does not recollect the General's name staid there about three months was there discharged having served four months was discharged at the close of the revolutionary war his discharge was given to him by Major Bicknell who signed it he does not recollect which discharge he has lost then returned home in 1779 when at Rhode Island he knew General Putnam who commanded at that time.  he also knows General LaFayette.
he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  He was born in Middleborough Mass. the 20th day of March AD 1765 when it was recorded and he also recorded it in his Bible in 1788 he removed to Pomfret Vermont where he has since time ? by living near the Woodstock is known to most of the inhabitants of both towns in particular to ? Jasper Hazen, and Eben Cox.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Phinehas Raymond

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

L. Marsh
Register


We, Jasper Hazen a Clergyman residing in Woodstock and Ebenezer Cox residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Phinehas Ryamond who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 70 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. 

Jasper Hazen
Ebenezer Cox

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

L. Marsh Resiger

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jasper Hazen who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Woodstock and that Ebenezer Cox who has also signed the same, is a resident in Woodstock and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Lyman A. Marsh, Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Phinehas Raymond for a Pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11th day of August AD 1832.

L. Marsh Register
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Revy.

No. 21673

REJECTED


OLD WAR INVALID


Phinehas Raymond of Vt.
Pri. Capt. Bucknell Mass.

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