Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R., Alpheus Baker, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
CONTENTS
Baker, Alpheus
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BER
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State of Ohio } Washington County Ss } On this fourteenth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Washington personally appeared. Alpheus Baker aged fifty five years resident in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war.  That he the said Alpheus Baker Enlisted in the Town of Woodbury in the State of Connecticut on the [unreadable]  of July 1781 in the company Commanded by Capt Eli  Leavenworth in the Brigade Commanded by Brigadier General Waterbury his Capt whose name he has forgotten and that he continued to serve in the said corps nine months against the common enemy in the Connecticut line in the Continental establishment when he was given a regular discharge which discharge he has since thrown away, and that now he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.   
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid  
Ezekiel Deming
I Ezekiel Deming associate judge &c as aforesaid do certify that Appears [unreadable]  
in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of [unreadable]  months on the continental establishment and I do further certify that he is now at work for me and he has no visible appearance of property but he having lately came from the State of New York it cannot be as well asertained what he may be worth.  He has a large family and I believe in very low circumstances I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress Ezekiel Deming 
State of Ohio 
Washington County Ss } Personally appeared Before me Ezekiel Deming Associate Judge Alpheus Baker junr of lawful age who deposeth and saith that the aforesaid Alpheus Baker is in indigent circumstances having a family of seven children to support and no property except a little household furniture and some few tools and further this deponant saith not.
Alpheus Baker Jnr
Rejected, Militia service 
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me this 25th day of August 1818 
Alpheus Baker the Declarant is satisfied that he is not entitled to a pension 
E Deming
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State of Ohio                    }
Washington County     Ss} 
On this fourteenth day of May 1818
before me the subscribed [illegible] of the Associate
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within
and for the County of Washington personally 
appeared John Gosset aged Sixty five years resident in said County
who being before first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in [illegible] to obtain[illegible] provisions
made by the late Act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary war That he the said John
Gosset Enlisted in the Month of October 1776 as a private in
the State of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Captain
Crobur Sullivan and Regiment Commanded by Colonel John
Gibson in the Virginia line and that he continued to serve in
the said corps or in the service of the United States about six 
Years and nine months when he was discharged from service
which discharge he gave to Charles Richards to enable him
to Receive the balance of his pay then owed [?] him which was
about 80 Dollars  During said term of service he served under 
Capt. Benjamin Harrison Captain Isiah Springer and Colo
Richard Campbell and that he belonged to the Light 
Infantry the whole of the aforementioned time and in the
continental establishment and from his reduced circumstances he
Stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
and that he has no other [illegible] now in his [illegible] his
aforementioned services by
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Ezekiel Deming
This Case will be admitted when made 
separately--
Ezekiel Deming Associate Judge [illegible], do certify that
it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Gosset did serve in the
Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against
the common enemy the term of nine months & no more on the
Continental establishment and I do further certify from my
own knowledge that he is in reduced circumstances and in abject
poverty and that it in [illegible] expected that he will become a
Township charge he not being able to perform but very little
labor and I now transmit the recordings taken and laid
before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant
to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Ezekiel Deming
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Woodstock, Virginia,
August 19th, 1925

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-

I am anxious to obtain information from the paper in the Revolutionary War pension claims as to a Private Alphens Baker of Connecticut. He served in that war and I wish to have complete data regarding his service et cetera, his parentage, birthplace and date, and time and place of his death.

The same is desired for material in a supplementary claim to the Sons of the American Revolution.

Thanking you for your courtesy and kindness in giving me the above information, believe me,

Very respectfully yours
[signed] Ray E Harris
Ray E. Harris
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
R.---

October 6, 1925

Ra E. Harris
Woodstock, Box 224
Virginia

Sir: I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau it appears that ALPHEUS BAKER applied for pension on May 14, 1818, at which time he was fifty-five years of age and was living in Washington County, Ohio, having recently moved there from the State of New York. He stated that he enlisted at Woodbury, Connecticut, in July, 1781, and served nine months in Captain Eli Leavenworth's Connecticut Company. His claim was not allowed as the alleged service was in the militia which was not provided for under the Act of March 18, 1818, under which he applied.
In 1818 he had seven children, no names given. There is no further date on file relative to his family.
The above noted is the only soldier named Alpheus Baker found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner