Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,128, for David Peck, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Peck, David

NUMBER
S. 14128

carded

CONTENTS
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Connecticut 31762
David Peck decd payable
to his widow Althea Peck
of Fairfield Co. in the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Green of the regt commanded
by Col. Mead in the N. York*
line for 6 months
* Conn Records corrected Aug 20/06

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & ending
23 April 1834, the day of his death.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of June
1840 and sent to Hon J. B.
Osborne House of Representatives

Arrears to the 23d of April 1834 $62.82
Semi-annual allowance ending

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. 2. Vol. 3 Page 35
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Hartford Dec. 1. 1834
J.L. Edwards Esq.
I forward papers for a pension
for David Peck dec'd within for his widow
the applicant was a Clergyman of the Baptist 
persuasion - I obtained for him the certificate
of the Hon. E.W. Lockwood residing at present in this town, because of his former familiar acquaintance with Mr. Peck & his knowledge of the reputation of his services in the neighbourhood where he lives - the Clergyman of Greenwich resides at a distance of several miles from the late residence of the applicant. are all were recently settled in the ministry, there & probably not one of them ever knew the applicant personally. 
Judge Lockwood who took one of the depositions is probably well known in his official capacity to your department He took
testimony as he informs me on the application
of Eliathen Weed- Asahel Scofield, Amos Dixon, Eleazer Stason, Joseph Manson, Orrion Marshall, Joseph Webster & Nathan Stason.
Please inform me of the results.
Yours respectfully [unreadable] 
Cha Hawley
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield} ss Probate District of Stamford on this 27th day of March AD 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate in the said District now sitting the Revd David Peck a resident in the town of Greenwich in the County of Penfield & State of Connecticut aged eighty 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -   That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated: In the Revolutionary war in the year 1776 I belonged to the militia company in said Greenwich (militia of Connecticut), commanded by Capt James Green & Lieut. Andrew Miller, [unreadable] was a sergeant & I think the first Sergeant in the company. In August (as I think) of that year said company commanded by said officers was ordered to & went to the city of New York & joined Washingtons army there against the British - I went with the company & served in it as a Sergeant in said City - from the time we got there till after the battle on Long Island after the retreat from the city. I was myself injured the night before the retreat, shortly after the retreat was taken sick & came home, but served one full month on this tour in the City, my whole term of service was more than a month but I cannot recollect certainly how much more I claim for only one month; knowing that I served one month in the City - Col. Jno. Mead aforesaid had command of our regiment - Putnam or Silliman (I dont recollect which) had command of one brigade, - after this & as I think Early in January 1777 (for I recollect it was very cold weather)  the same company of militia under the same officers was ordered to guard duty at Rye Bridge in the State of New York & I went again in and company as a Sergeant & steadily served as a sergeant with & in said Company at said place for the space of three months when we moved up to Byram Bridge (between New York & Connecticut) & there did guard duty, for the term of one month - when we were dismissed with orders to be ready & to turn out again at a minutes warning. Col. John Mead had command of us as our Superior officer during this time, making four months almost immediately after this I believe in the month of May 1777 tho I cannot specify the time with certainty said
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Company under the same officers was then ordered out – I myself being the [unreadable] still as a Sergeant. We were stationed this time in Quaker Ridge in said Greenwood & did Guard duty there, our Quarters being at Deacon Silas Meads - this tour continued for one month & we were Steadily in service at that place for that time. - I believe confidently for six weeks but I cannot say certainly for that time,  I fix the period at one month knowing it was for that time at least - Immediately after a guard left Quaker Ridge said company was ordered into a service similar to that performed by Rangers & I recollect we were called Rangers. I think the whole company was ordered into this service & that the company was not raised by enlistment - Jn Green & Miller were the Capt & Lieut. Still I was a Sergeant & as such Sergeant had command of a part of the company on excursions - we served beginning as I think near the first of June, & ending in the following September. The total being three months - This was steady service & such as entirely took me away on all civil pursuits.  The service was rendered in said Greenwich & in the neighboring parts of New York at Rye, Mamoroneck, White Plains & in scouting & looking up & following the convoys of British. whether those troops were properly termed Rangers I cannot say but were so called then according to my recollection - Immediately after the termination of this tour & without any interval of any length said Company under the same officers were ordered still to continue in this services & did continue their service in said Greenwich & the said neighboring part of New York for the space of four months - I am enabled to fix this time by recollecting distinctly that I served in said Company under Capt. Green & Lieut. Miller in the whole one year & served my allotted time. - This latter time ended in January 1778 as I think - the services in this tour were the same events as the one last before stated - I was also in this tour all the while in service in said Company as a Sergeant The year of which I have spoken above is one year in the whole, exclusive of the services in the City of New York. Col John Mead was our Superior officer all this time. - The services I have stated above were all steady services rendered either in the field or garrison & such that during all the time stated I could not follow
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& did not follow during any of them any Civil pursuit [unreadable] as the enemy swarmed in this quarter & made constant incursions for the purpose of plundering or making prisoners 
our lives were very severe & harassing - all the services stated except that when engaged in the  two last tours as the services were rendered a part of that time in the neighborhood of my home I could now and then snatch an opportunity for a night at home.
The said company was a regularly organized & embodied corps of troops, raised & in each of the occasions specified ordered out to the public service against the enemy by the regularly constituted authorities of Connecticut.  
I am unable to specify the times when my tours began or ended more particularly than I have done, but am confident in asserting that I served for 9 during all the different tours stated.  
I was born in and Greenwich on the 14th day of Jany 1754. have a family record shewing my age & it is recorded the public records of said Greenwich and I resided at all times when I entered the service as aforesaid & have always resided in that place from my birth to this time.   I was called into service by being ordered out with said Company in manner as stated above -  went always on my own account & never as a substitute.  I can not state the name of officers or circumstances of service more particularly than I have done without being prolix to no good purpose.  With the exception of the service in the City of New York our company was alone in service on the occasions stated - that is there was no company with them at the same places.  I had a regular Sergeants warrant, probably signed by Capt. James Green, and have no distinct recollection of the signature - I have lost it many years ago having them no interest in preserving it.  My pursuits for many years have been those of a parish clergyman.  I have not mingled much into the world about & therefore may not be able now in my extreme old age be able to find as such testimony to prove my services as I otherwise might. But I do not how know a single person living of any of those who were with me in service in said Company during any of the
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tours stated, nor can I now refer to any person as a witness who has any knowledge of my services except my brothers Solomon Peck & Thomas Peck. The latter was in service at the same time with myself a part the time but in a different company commanded as I think by Capt Matthew Mead. 
I refer to Benoni Peck of said Greenwich of the Revd Nehemiah Sherwood late of said Greenwich & formerly a neighbor of mine & for the better part of two years and inmate of my house, now of Stamford, as witnesses to prove my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.   
The declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
David Peck
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
Cha Hawley Judge
We Nehemiah Sherwood a clergyman residing in the town of Stamford in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut (late a resident in the town of Greenwich in said County & for years a near neighbor of the Revd David Peck who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & for the greater part of two years an inmate in his house) & Benoni Peck residing in said Greenwich, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Revd David Peck who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution that we concur in that opinion- 
Nehemiah Sherwood
Benoni Peck
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Cha. Hawley Judge
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss  Probate District of Stamford   
On this 18th day of August AD 1834 before the Court of Probate aforesaid District personally appeared Solomon Peck of Greenwich in said District who being duly sworn doth according to law doth on his oath 
testify in open Court that he knew David Peck late of said Greenwich now dec’d - was a brother of the deceased.  Deponent is now sixty eight years old.  Said David died in Greenwich on the 23rd day of April 1834. Deponent saw him after his death & attended his funeral.  He left a widow, Althea Peck, who is now living & his widow in Greenwich.  Deponent further testifies that in the Revolutionary War in the year 1776 & in the latter part the Summer said David then was Sergeant in the Connecticut Militia commanded by Captain  James Green then of said Greenwich now dec’d.  [unreadable] and went in the said Company and under Said Captain to the city of N. York to serve against the British & served there being constantly absent from home in the service until after Washington retreat from the City.  He was engaged in this tour for as much as three months, or there about according to Deponents recollection – certainly for more than one month.  I then lived with my father in said Greenwich & know this to be the fact. I further well recollect that after this & in the early part of 1777 according to my memory said David again was ordered out in said Company and under the same Captain & went as a Sergeant and did guard duty at Rye & Byram Bridge for a time, how long I can not now recollect but for some months – [unreadable] I think as three or four at least - I well recollect this because I lived at our home during this time & know of his going & being absent on guard Duty as stated.  
Of his services in guard unit I have no Doubt from my recollection hence continued for four months at least.  I also well recollect the said David after [unreadable] was out  for a very considerable time in  Service under the same Captain that I am unable to state how long or in what stations but his services were rendered in said Greenwich & the
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neighboring towns of N. York - & all his services he was a Sergeant of the Company.   While he was engaging in these services I know he was taken away from all civil pursuits & followed none – for I recollect we were much trouble to get along at home for want of help.  Said David was eighty years old at his Death.
Solomon Peck
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me – I certify that Deponent is a credible person.
Cha Hawley Judge
And on the same day before said Court personally appeared Benoni Peck of said Greenwich who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath in open Court certify that he is forty three years old is son of the Rev’d David Pork above named being the applicant for a pension who on his original Declaration hereto attached under Date March 27th 1834.  Said David died at his residence in said Greenwich n the 23rd Day of April AD 1834.  Deponent saw him after his death & attended his funeral.  He left a widow Althea Peck who is still living in said Greenwich & is still his widow.  Said David was eighty years old at his decease.  
Benoni Peck
Sworn & subscribed the Day & year aforesaid & I certify that the Deponent is a credible person.
Cha Hawley Judge
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32.970 Decd
David Peck
Conn
Act June 7, 1832
Let 13 Apr 1835
to C Hawley

Sam Lockwood Clk

Hon T. B. Osborne
HR
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State of New York 
Westchester County } ss. On this tenth day of November in the year 1834 Personally appeared before me Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Thomas Peck of Poundridge in said County, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say.  That he is seventy three years of age.  That David Peck late of Greenwich in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut dec’d was a brother of this deponent. - That the said David Peck was a Sergeant in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt James Green & Lieut Andrew Miller - that the said David Peck was in said company, called into the American service some time in the month of August in the year 1776 and as the deponent then understood was in Gen Washington's Army in New York City when they retreated from said City and for some time afterwards.   Col. John Mead commanded the Regt - That said David continued in the said service one month and upwards at that time - That in January following (1777) the said David was called out into service in the same company and under the same officers, he still being a sergeant, and done guard duty three months or more at Rye Bridge in the State of New York and then was ordered to Byram bridge and there did guard duty one month or more.  The deponent was a Soldier in the same Regt at the same time.  That immediately after this and as this deponent believes in May 1777. the same Company, under the same officers, and the said David as Sergeant was ordered out and did guard duty one month or more at a place called Quaker Ridge in said Greenwich.    
That in June afterwards (1777) the same Company, under the same officers & the said David still being Sergeant, was again ordered out and did Rangers duty ending some time in September following, scouting in Greenwich, Rye, Mamaroneck, White Plains, New Rochelle and other part of Westchester County - this service was three months or more. 
That the said David, shortly after the last mentioned service, still being Sergeant, was again called into service under the same officers and continued in the same duty for four months more -
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The deponent further saith that he was a soldier in the same Reg’t and that said David was actually on duty as a Sergeant one year or more in the several tours aforesaid and that during the terms aforesaid the said David was not engaged in any civil pursuit.  That the said town of Greenwich and parts adjoining was the scene of continual warfare and skirmishes with the enemy.   That the said Capt James Green's company belonged to the Connecticut Militia and was ordered out to do guard and Rangers duty. That the deponent was a soldier in the same Regt with his said Brother during the whole time above mentioned and more, and for which he now receives a pension. 
Thomas Peck
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me 
Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges in & for Westchester County  
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with deacon Thomas Peck who has subscribed and sworn to the above Deposition - That he is a credible person and his statement is entitled to full Credit 
Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges in & for Westchester County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Revd Obediah Slawson who has sign the presiding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town Stamford in Enfield County in Connecticut & that Benoni Peck who has also signed the same is a resident in Greenwich above named & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. &  this Court further finds that the applicant David Peck died at his residence in said Greenwich on the 23d day of Apl 1834 & that he left a widow Althea Peck who is still living in said Greenwich – 
Cha Hawley Judge
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I Samuel Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Probate in the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing certains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the Revd David Peck (now decd) for a pension.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 2nd day of December 1834 
Sam Lockwood Clk 
32.970 dec’d
David Peck
Conn
Act Jun 7, 1832
Let. 13 Apl 1835 to C. Hawley
Hon T. B. Osborne HR
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Issue a certificate for 6 mo. & send to Hon. T.B. Osborne H. R
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Pension Office 
May 28. 1840. 
Sir 
I have examined the claim of David Peck dec’d under the act of June 7, 1832, and have placed the papers upon our files. 
In his declaration in 1834. Mr Peck declared that he was a member of a militia company commanded by Capt. James Green from August 1776, until about January 1778, and of that during that period he performed the following services, to wit; from Aug. 1776. 1 month: from January 1777, 4 mos: from May 1 mo.; and from June 7 months. The last mentioned tour of 7 mos is in admissible, for the reason, that continuous service of that extent, was never required of or performed by the militia. Mr Peck also declared, that he was during the whole time a Sergeant; and so stated his witnesses. 
I have found two of Capt. Green's original rolls, and upon the first, I find
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that a David Peck served in Aug. and Sept. 1776, 16 days; and from Nov. of that year, to January 11th 2 mos 11 days, as a private and not as a Sergeant. From this fact, it would seem that Mr Peck from his advanced age at the time of making his declaration, was not able to give a very correct account of his services; nor of the dates when the same were performed. We are willing, however, to allow mos. as a private, and should it be thought best by the widow to accept that amount, a certificate will be issued in her name, up to the time of her husband's death.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt 
J L Edwards 
Hon. T. B. Osborne House of Representatives
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David Peck dec’d Apl 23 1834 
Aug 76. 1. S’t Jas  Green. In Mead 
Jan 77  3    S’t Jas Green. In Mead
1 May 77, 1  S’t Jas Green. In Mead
June 3   S’t Jas Green. Rangers 
        4        S’t Jas Green. Rangers
13 mo.
– continuing serv. Mead Green in all 12 mo
Born in 1754 
1834
80
1754
Maj Allan 6 mo pri
[unreadable] 2 11 L
16 a
2.27 Bradle 20
No 5 &6
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Aug Sept 76 on pri City
Nov 1 76 pr 2 m 11 d pri
To Jan 11 77
[unreadable] Apl 20
2.11
16
2.27
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Revy War 
14128
INVALID. 
OWN
File No. 14,128
David Peck
Priv  Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832 
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 293 
[Arrangement of 1870.]