Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23241, Ellis Griffeth, Mass.
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S 1776
Service Number 
Mass. Griffeth, or Griffith Ellis S 23241
Contents
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Revolution
23241.
Invalid.
File No. 23241
Ellis Griffith
Pri Rev War 
Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol. 2, Page 161
Arrangement of 1870.
1912, Mar. 25. [illegible]
Mrs. N. M. P. Akeley. (Setter in el. Bennannel Pratt N. 78,781)
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RECORD DIVISION     3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., _________, 190__

In reply to your request of __________, received ____________ for a statement of the military history of Ellis Griffith, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) (crossed out) application for pension on file in this Bureau
S. 23,241

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Length of Service.
Rank.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain.    Colonel.
State.
Aug. or Sept. '76
2 wks.  Pvt.  Joshua Perkins [checkmark] Mass
[asterisk] June 1777 to Jan 1, 1778  [ditto marks for Pvt] Sparrow [checkmark] [ditto mark for state of Mass]
[asterisk] Summer 1778  6 wks [ditto marks for Pvt.] Cotton [captain] Denny [colonel] [ditto marks for state of Mass]
June 1779 to  Jan 6, 1780 [ditto marks for Pvt.] Tisdale [captain]  Griatou [colonel] [ditto marks for state of Mass]
Battles engaged in, Spencers expedition to RI and retreat from RI under Gen Sullivan
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Plympton, Plymouth Co., Mass
Date of application for pension, July 31, 1832 -- C. A.
Residence at date of application, Dummerston, Windham Co Vt
Age at date of application, b Rochester, Plymouth Co. Mass. 1760
Remarks: Date of death not stated. No family data.
156563m 10-08
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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1093
Vermont
Ellis Griffith
of Dummerston in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Tisdale of the Regt. commanded
by Col Graton in the Massachusetts
line for 13 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per an.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of October
1832 and sent to P. White
Putney. Vermont.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th of March 1833
64.99 [+] 21.66 [=] $86.65

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by M Duffield Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 59.
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No 1483

Ellis Griffith

Dummerston, Windham Co
Vermont
Admitted
Private 13 months
$43:33.

Sent to P. White
Putney
Vermt
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Brief in the case of Ellis Griffith
of Dummerston, Windham Co in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?
In open court (Probate Court)

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3) How old is he?
70 Years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Fall In 1776 Sept.
Summer 1777 June
~1778
*1779 June

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
                            15
               6
               1            15
               7
 1            3            0

Rank.
As a 
Private

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Cap.' Perkins
Cap.' Sparrow, Col. Spencer Regt
Cap.' Colton, Col. Denny + Maj Clapp
Cap.' Tisdale, Col. Graton Regt
Mass.'' 

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Battle of Rhode Island

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Plympton, Plymouth County, Mass.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary Evidence - ^does not comply with the requisition of the legality of the War Department - not having the Clergyman Ceiliper

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
They are not

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

*Served only 5 months under this enlistment
See Greatons Regt.. 
Allowed for 13 mo in all

Robt Fowler
Examining Clerk.
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No. 25 Windham Co. Vermont- 
Ellis Griffith
Dec. 8th for Pension.
July 31. 1832.
No. 1483

Please & mark return to
P. White Putney VT
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**INCOMPLETE**
State of Vermont

County of Windham ss.
Probate District of Marlborough- 
At the Probate Court, within and for said District, being a Court of Record. 

On this 31st day of July - A.D. 1832- Personally appeared in open Court, - At New Fane, in said District, -
Present- Hon. Marshall Miller, Esquire, Judge - 
Before the said Probate Court, within and for said District, - now sitting- Ellis Griffith a resident of Dummerston in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged Seventy one 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 made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832- That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following officers, and served as herein stated.

and the said Ellis Griffin declares and says that in the month of August or first of September 1776 he volunteered at the town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth Mass and was sent to Rhode Island, in the company of Capt Jonathan Perkins, and was there guarding the coast [illegible] the British arrived off Rhode Island and after two weeks service was dismissed. Afterwards in the month of June 1777 he inlisted
for the six months in the company commanded by Capt. Sparrow was attached or Col. Spencer's Regiment on the private
expedition, so called, was stationed at a place called Boston Neck-if he rightly remembers-- below North Kingston- the private expidition
failed afterwards went to Providence and kept guard there till the 1st of January 1778 when he was dismissed at Providence
And afterwards in the summer following he voluntered + inlisted for the term of six weeks and entered the company commanded by
Capt Cotton in the Regiment commanded by Col. Denny & Maj Clark, if he rightly remembers- on to Rhode Island and there at the time
of the Battle -and relivated off with the army under Gen Sullivan and stayed at a place called [illegible] Ferry till the expiration of said
time of six was when he was dismissed- And afterwards enlisted in the month of June 1779 for nine months and [illegible] through Worcester to Springfield Mass
and there purse muster- went as guards for some waggons to Fishkill and there joined the company of Capt. [ ] in Col. Greaton's
Regiment of the Massachusetts
and Fishkill
regularly dis
Margate
knows of no

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.
To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers upon his said oath, as follows:
1. He was born in the town of Rochester County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts in 1760
 2. He has a record in his family Bible, which he made himself.
3. He was living at the town of Plymton when [ ] out- moved from Plympton in the 1780-came to New Fane VT stayed about 3 years then moved to Dummerston where he has resided since where he now lives
4. He volunteered and inlisted for each campaign.
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6. He never received any written discharge except after end of his Cont Campaign - When his name and the names of William Gardner & Ebenezer Wright were put into the same discharge - being fellow soldiers in the [?] Regiment Garndner took it - knows not what has become of it.
7. names his neighbor Nthaniel Bixby and James Chase, re, [?] into name there being no clergyman in the Parish.
Ellis Griffith
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Marshal Miller Judge of Probate
We Nathaniel Bixby residing in the town of Dummerstown in said [?] and James Chase of Dummerstown in said [?] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ellis Griffin who has subscribed and swarn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldieer of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid James Chase Nathaniel Bixby
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the ivestigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a resident in the said town of Dummerstown and that Nathaniel Bixby, who also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Dummerstown in said county, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I James Elliot, Register of the Probate Court, within and for the District of Marlborough aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Ellis Griffith for pension.
In testimony whereof, I have herunto set my hand and seal of office, this thirty first day of July A.D. 1832.
James Elliot, Prob. Register.