Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6405, for Reuben Lockwood, Connecticut
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Lockwood, Reuben R. 6405.
CONTENTS
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By the Court - Have you any record of your age
and if so, when is it -
Answer, that he has none
By the Court. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live
Answer - that he was living in that part of said town of Fairfield, which is now the Town of Weston & he has lived there ever since & still lives there-
By the Court - how were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; and if a substitute, for whom -
Answer - that he entered the team service as above stated as a substitute for Gideon Lockwood who had enlisted in that service & entered his team - said Lockwood has been dead many years, that he was drafted for the two months service as above stated-
By the Court - State the names of some of the regiment officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your Service -
Answer - that the aforesaid Peter Sturges was captain of the ten team, & my team he chose was one of the
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We Ezekiel Sturges residing in the neighbourhood of Reuben Lockwood who signed this declaration and Eli B. Godfrey residing in the Town of Weston hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Lockwood of said Weston who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that he sustain a good moral character and is entitled to Credit and that we concur in that opinion
Ezekiel Sturges
Eli B. Godfrey
Sworn to and Subscribed at Weston in open Court this 4th day of August 1832
Att Oliver C Sanford Clerk
I John Hayes of the County of Newfield in the Town of Weston & County aforesaid, a clergyman, being duly sworn depose & say that I was [illegible] as a minister of the gospel in said County in 1786, that it has long been a common report in & about the neighborhood, where I live, that almost every man capable of bearing arms in the time of the revolutionary war & living in said County the Towns & [illegible] about, was in the service, somewhere a part of the time, during the revolutionary war, but I cannot say that I can distinguish, so far as to say, that any one portent individual, is reputed & believed to have been in the service more than others except [illegible] papers who obtained performs more years and, I was not living in said  County during the war, which is probably the [illegible] I cannot make such distinction-
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I Samuel Stuart of Wilton in the County of Fairfield Eighty six years of age this present month depose and say that I was in the United States Team service in the year 1778 to the best of my recollection and well recollect that Reuben Lockwood of Weston was in said service at the same time we were both under Capt Peter Sturges we both quartered together, and made head quarters at Danbury at Major Ezra Starr, drove our teams from there to Fishkill and other places transporting provisions and other articles, and further the Deponent saith not
Wilton August 1 AD 1832
Samuel Stuart
Fairfield County ss. Wilton August 1 AD 1832 Personally appeared Samuel Stuart and made solemn Oath to the truth of all the facts stated in the above Deposition before me and subscribed the same in my presence
Erastus Sturges Justice of Peace
I certify that the above named Samuel Stuart who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing deposition is a man of fair character for truth that he is very aged & infirm & cannot attend Court without great inconvenience if at all
Erastus Sturges Justice of Peace
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Connecticut 14.104
Reuben Lockwood
rejected
6405
See letter E Swift
25 Sept 33
Let. to D. D. Addison Nov, 12 '46
Oct 7 June 32
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6005
P.O. Reuben Lockwood
Service ;
REJECTED
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18