Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15373, John Church, Conn. Green Mountain Boys. Mass.
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Service - 
Conn.
Green Mountain Boys
Mass.

Church, John


Number - S.15373


carded
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Mrs. Eddy N. Smith,
Berlin, Conn.
Madam:
February 8, 1924.
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim S. 15373 it appears that John Church was born August 3, 1755, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and while residing at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, enlisted in August 1775 as a private in Captain Cochran's Company, Colonel Easton's Regiment, and was at the storming of Quebec, returned to Ticonderoga in July 1776 when his company was placed in Colonel Elisha Porter's Massachusetts Regiment, and he served
until January 15, 1777. In July 1780 he enlisted in Captain Matthew Grant's Company, Colonel Canfield's Connecticut Regiment and served
two months and twelve days. He was allowed pension on his application executed August
7, 1832, while a resident of Winchester, Litchfield County, Connecticut. There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
CHURCH, JOHN (CONN) S-15373
 [round black seal] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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22563
Connecticut

John Church
of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Cothren of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Caster in the Connecticut 
line for 19 months and 21 days

Green Mt. Boys and Mass. and Conn.


and Conn. line Records corrected August


Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 65 Dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Oct. 1833 and 
Mills Norfolk

Arrears to the 4th of Sept.    $164.13
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March  $32.43


$196.58

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 30
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To the Secretary of War
The Declaration of John Church of
Winchester in Litchfield County State of Connecticut for the benefits granted to him under the act of the 7th June 1832
State of Connecticut, Litchfield County
Norfolk Probate District On this 7 day of August AD 1832 before the Probate Court for John Church of Winchester in said County & State Resident in said town County & State aged who was seventy seven years of age
on the 3d day of August 1832, 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he in listed in the army of the United States  at Walpole in the
State of New Hampshire near the beginning of the month of August 1775 [for five - struck out] to continue until the 1st day of January 1776 being as well as remembered five months, or a fraction short, Lieutenant John
Graves of said Walpole was the inlisting [enlisting] officer, that thence he marched under said enlistment to Ticonderoga, and was in the company commanded thence by Capt
Cothrain, marched to St Johns & then at Ticonderoga on at St Johns, was placed in the regiment under Col Easton of Pittsfield, and thence about Novr [November] marched to Sonell, whenever took 9 sail of Merchant craft passing from Quebec, whilst at Sonell, St Johns was given up, He embarked from
Sonell with Gen. Montgomery under Capt Cothrain for Quebec arrived them before the River shut up say 1st Dec or thereabouts. Lay on Abrams Plains to the last night of December under Major Brown, who
was afterwards killed at the Cedars, when we stormed Quebec and Mongomery was killed. On the next day 1st January
1776 my inlistment [enlistment] being out I again inlisted [enlisted] until 1st May 1776 under Lieutenant Seth Wheeler of the Company
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of Capt. Cothrain, and continued on the plains of Abraham to the sixth day of May and retreated under General Thomas to Chambly,  where Gen. Thomas died, and Gen. Sullivan took command, got back to Ticonderoga early in July and on the route had heard of the Declaration of Independence, thence he and his company was placed into Col. Porter's regiment and was ordered to Mount Independence, lay there to about 1st Nov. there under Col. Porter went to Morristown New Jersey, whilst in New Jersey drove the British out of Elizabethtown, and took a schooner near the town under Lieut. Darmuly Allen in a detachment with about 60 prisoners men and women and a quantity of arms, returned to Morristown, remained there to 15 January 1777 at which time his enlistment had expired, and 15 days more than ? - when I was paid off, and returned to my native State Connecticut; this finishes his services in the line - 


And the said John further declares under oath as aforesaid in open court as aforesaid, that he is of the age aforesaid and for the purpose aforesaid, that in the month of July 1780 he was drafted by Timothy Benedict orderly sergeant from Captain Benjamin Benedicts' company of Winchester county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, where he then and now lives, for a three month service in the militia of said state under Capt. Matthew Grant's company and command, and Col. Canfield's Regiment, and were rendezvoused at Horse Neck in Connecticut near the border of New York on the Sound, was then taken sick, and sent to the Hospital at Stanford, and remained there until his company was discharged - and in the whole either in the line or militia he has never had or has not preserved any regular discharge - It is believed that the Company was discharged a short time say 2 weeks before the 3 months had expired, making in the whole 21 months as he supposes
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and hereby he relinquished every 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.

And further that he is acquainted with the  Rev. Daniel Coe a clergyman and Lemuel Clark residents of said Winchester and that they are well acquainted with him and can testify as to his character to truth and veracity on their belief as to his being a soldier of the Revolution.

Signed John Church

Sworn and susbscribed before me
Michael F. Mills Judge of Probate for 
Norfolk District

We Daniel Coe a Clergyman residing in the town of Winchester and Lemuel Clark residing in the same Town hereby certify we are well acquainted with John Church of said Winchester who has subscribed and sworn to the above and within declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven 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.

Daniel Coe
Lemuel Clark

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
 Michael F. Mills Judge of Probate
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named John Church applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Coe who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Winchester and that Lemuel Clark who has signed the same is a resident of the Town of Winchester and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Michael F. Mills Judge of Probate


I Jonathan H. Pettibone Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Norfolk do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings by the said court in the matter of the application of John Church for a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th AD 1832.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 7th day of Aug. AD 1832. 

Jonathan H. Pettibone Clerk



John Church 
7210
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7th of June AD 1832.

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County

Norfolk Probate District
on this 9th day of July AD 1833 Personally appeared in open court before me Michael F. Mills Judge of the Court of Probate and holding said Court John Church of Winchester in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That in addition to his former declaration made before the Court on the 7th day of August 1832 that as it ? the first enlistment which was in the month of August 1775 that he was twenty years old on the 3rd day of that month and is very confident that he enlisted in a very few days of that time should say within two days and served four months and twenty three or four days and that as ? in his former Declaration he enlisted on the first day of January 1776 until the
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first of May 1776 being four months and when his time was out on the first of May 1776 without leave he again enlisted in the same company his place until the first of January 1777 and served until the 15th of January 1777 being eight months and fifteen days and that  as to being drafter in 1780 as stated he is confident from some circumstances he served two months and twelve days. 

that he was born on the 3rd day of August 1755 in the Town of Saybrook Connecticut that he has no record of his age that he lived in Westmoreland at the time he enlisted and that since the year 1779 he has lived and resided in the Town of Winchester in said State of Connecticut.

That he never received a discharge as he recollects and has no documentary evidence and that he does not know of any evidence except the Depositions herewith forwarded 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

John Church

Sworn and subscribed in court before me Michael F. Mills Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Norfolk
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I Michael G. Mills Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Norfolk do hereby certify that that the within and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Church of Winchester for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th day of July AD 1833

Michael G. Mills Clerk
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

John Church S.F. 15373

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment - 

Aug. 1775

July 1776
July 1780


Length of Service - 

July 1776

January 15, 1777
2 months 12 days


Rank - 

Private


Officers under whom service was rendered - 

Capt. Cochran/Col. Easton

Capt. Cochran?Col. Elisha Porter
Capt. Matthew Grant/Col. Canfield

State - 

Green Mt. Boys

Mass.
Conn.


Battles engaged in, Storming of Quebec Drove English out of Elizabethtown and took a schooner

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Westmoreland N.H. 

Date of application for a pension, Aug. 7 1832 the cl. al. 

Residence at date of application, Winchester Litchfield Co. Conn.

Age at date of application, Born Aug. 3, 1755 - in Saybrook Conn.


Remarks:



Church, John S-15373
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3 

Bureau of Pensions 

Finance Division

May 19 1920


Chief of Law Division


Sir:

I have this day received from C.W. Church M.O. No. 711,835 for $1.30
requesting copy as per letter herewith


Copies mailed 
and Law did notify
Jun 1, 1920
AW

Very respectfully,
W.N. Campbell 
Chief of Division
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Date May 29 1920
Name John Church   No. Sur. File 15373

Rev. War

Photographic copies wanted of 3 pieces, consisting of 7 pages.

Remarks:

A. E Wilson   W. F. Waits Chief of Record Div.


Serial 2192  T.F. Dennis
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Phone 1634

C.W. Church
Special Agent
63 Bank Street

Frederick Frelinghuysen, President

Arthur J. Birdseye
State Agent

Waterbury, Conn. May 19th '20

Pension Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,



Agreeable to your letter to Hon. James Glynn I am inclosing a P.O. for $1.30 for which please send me a certified copy of the application of John Church for a pension, Survivor File No. 15373.

C.W. Church
63 Bank St.

Waterbury, Conn.
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April 23, 1920


Hon. James P. Glynn
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Glynn:

In reply to your personal inquiry of the twenty-second instant, relative to the Revolutionary War pension claim, Survivor File No. 15,373, of John Church who lived at Winchester, Connecticut, I have the honor to advise you, that under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, photostat copies of the original declaration of said soldier for pension will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page with twenty-five cents extra for certification if that is desired.  The number of pages to be copied is seven.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by check drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.

Very truly yours,

G. M. Saltzgaber

Commissioner
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Soldier John Church


April 14, 1920.


Hon. James P. Glynn,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Glynn:

In response to your letter dated the 10th instant, and the enclosed letter from C.W. Church, of 63 Bank Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, I have the honor to advise you that in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. File No. 15,3737 it appears that John Church was born August 3, 1755 in Saybrook, Connecticut and while residing at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, enlisted in August 1775 as a Private in Captain Cochran's Company, Colonel Easton's Regiment, and was at the storming of Quebec, returned to Ticonderoga in July 1778 when his Company was place in Colonel Elisha Porter's Massachusetts Regiment and he served until January 15, 1777.

In July 1780 he was drafted in Captain Matthew Grant's Company Colonel Canfield's Connecticut Regiment and served two months and twelve days.

He was allowed pension on an application executed August 7, 1832, while a resident of Winchester, Litchfield County, Conn. There is no data on file as to his family.

Very truly yours, 

Commissioner
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Bureau of Pensions



Soldier John Church


Information Desired.

P.O. Winsted Conn.
Pensioned 1832


also over the phone Apr. 22 1920
when he asked for letter
as to cost of copies.

Hon. James P. Glynn