Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,550, Joseph Wilkinson, Conn.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Wilkinson, Joseph

NUMBER
R. 11.550
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CONTENTS
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Joseph Wilkinson
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Roger Huntington's
Certificates
July 1834

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[   ]th  Esq
Danbury
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Reuben Booth Esq.

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Roger Huntington
Certificates
July 1834
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State of Connecticut
Comptroller's office
Hartford  July 9th 1834

On examination of the Books of this office, it appears that Colonel John Mead commanded a Regiment of militia at Horseneck in 1779 and that his accounts for payrolls, bounties, expresses, barracking [  ] of his Regiment while in said service were settled by the committee of pay table and charged to, and allowed by the United States.
That Colonel John Mead commanded a regiment of Militia at the same place in 1780 and that the accounts were not settled until after his death, and then blended with General Silliman's, also dead,  that there cannot be anything definitive found  in relation thereto.
Certified by Roger Huntington
Comptroller of Public Accounts
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War Department
Pen. Office
May 7, 1834

Sir
I have examined the papers of Joseph Wilkinson and herewith return them for further explanation and proof.  The applicant will find in the comptroller's office at Hartford  Connt. some evidence which  may corroborate his statement., to whom I would [    ] [   ]  [ ] make application.

I am Respectfully,
YObSt 
J L. Edwards

R Booth Esq.
Present
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Jan; 4 '38

Mab

Vachel Metcalf, Pa
Jos Wilkinson,  Ct.

Hon. T. T. Whittlesey
HR

J. L. Edwards Esq.

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House of Rep.
Jan. 4, 38

J. L. Edwards Esq.

Sir,
I will be obliged to you to know your reasons for rejecting the claim of Vachel Metcalf, State of Penny.  He has now a Petition before our Committee, claiming a Pension for six months service & for which he says he was paid by the state of Va. being for militia service from that State.
I, also, request the Depart. to inform me the reasons of their rejection of the claim of Joseph Wilkinson, Ct, and also a copy of the papers in his case in the Depart. or the original at the discretion of the Depart.

Yours very respectfully
T T Whittlesey
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Tully, Onondaga County ss.

I, Daniel Vail, a Justice of the Peace of the town of Tully in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, do certify that I am well acquainted with Zachariah Beers, that he is a person of credit and is entitled to be believed under oath.
Daniel Vail  Justice
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State of New York}
Tully, Onondaga County ss}

Zachariah Beers of the town of Tully in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Joseph Wilkinson, the person who is applying for a pension.  That during the Revolutionary war the said deponent and the said Wilkinson resided in Woodbury, Litchfield County in the state of Connecticut and that the said Wilkinson left the said place and enlisted into the army and was absent from home for a considerable time and was generally believed to have been in the service of the United States as a Soldier.  That after his return home the deponent  saw him repeatedly and was shown a scar which the said Wilkinson had upon his head which was about two inches long, and which he the said Wilkinson stated that he had received from a British light horseman.  That the said Joseph Wilkinson in appearance was about five feet nine inches in height, black hair and crippled by being lame in his ankle or foot.    And the deponent further says that he verily believes  that the said Joseph Wilkinson at the time he was absent from the said town of Woodbury was a soldier in the service of the United States, and that he received the wound aforesaid while in the said service  And further the deponent saith not.
Zachariah Beers

Sworn this 27th day of}
March 1834 before me}
Daniel Vail, Justice
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State of New York}
Onondaga County} ss.
Clerk's Office}
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I, Alanson Edwards Jr. Deputy Clerk of said county and of the court of Common pleas of said county do certify that Daniel Vail Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the sme a Justice of the peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the jerat of said affidavit and to the certificate hereon written to be his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the court of Common pleas of said county this 5th day of August 1834 .   A. Edwards, Jr.  Dep. Clk.
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Connecticut
Joseph Wilkinson
rejected
letter  Hon. L. Smeedy

9 Jany 1835 to Hon. T,
T, Whittlesey,  Jan 20, 1838
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(First part crossed out) 3, 1873.

11.550
P.O. ________________________________________
(Crossed out)  Joseph Wilkinson
Service:   Joseph Wilkinson

Enlisted:    REJECTED       , 18
Discharged: __________________________, 18

AOT/ Aug. 29, 1906

Application filed: _____________________,  18

Alleges: _________________________________________
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Re-enlisted: _____________________________________
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Attorney: ________________________________________
P.O. _____________________________________________
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___________Recognized.   _________________ Cont
_______Cert. of Dis.  Searched for __________, 18