Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,441, for Moses Pelton, Connecticut
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Conn.
Pelton, Moses
Phillips, Dorothy 
or
Phillipps, (Former widow)
W 17,441
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1493
Connecticut
Dorothy Phillips
formerly
widow of Moses Pelton
who was a private 
in the Conn. line Conn. 
for 6 mo & 23 days.
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 
22 dollars 55 
cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
16th day of August 1843
and sent to Jesse Charlton
East Windsor Conn
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 74

Rev Aug 16
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No 8434
Dorothy Phillips
formerly widow of
Moses Pelton
Connt.
Act 7 July '38 
and 
23 Aug '42
m 78 d 09
Comf 5.75  6.23.[illegible] 
Admd
6 mo 23 ds/[illegible]
22.55/100
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County}ss Somers
On this 21st day of September AD 1842
Personally appeared before the court of Probate for the District of Somers in the county and state aforesaid Dorothy Phillips former widow of Moses Pelton deceased, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 7 AD 1838 and its amendment of August 23rd AD 1842.  Her age is eighty eight years last February.  That she was formerly the widow of Moses Pelton of Tolland County Connecticut who was a soldier of the Revolution who enlisted in April 1775 into a company of state troops which was revised in said Tolland and put under the command of Captain Solomon Wills, then of said Tolland that they marched to Roxbury and there performed a tour of duty for more than seven months.
He also performed a tour of duty in the army of about nine months but as she can find no surviving witness, she omits or waives this part of her claim until she can find further evidence and because in her present state of poverty and infirmity she needs. And she further declares that she was married to the said Moses Pelton then of Tolland in Connecticut by the Reverend Nathan Williams, then Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Tolland on the twenty fifth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy eight; and he the said
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Moses Pelton died in said Somers on the 19th day of June 1809, and she further declares that she was married again on the _____ day of September 1813 to John M. Phillips then a resident of the town of Somers in Connecticut and that the said John Phillips died in Stafford in Tolland County, Connecticut on the 22nd day of February 1838 and she has remained a widow ever since that period and is now a widow, all of which will more fully appear by reference to the evidence sent with this declaration.
Dorothy (her mark) Phillips
In presence of Lois Pelton, Cordelia Pelton
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first named, before said probate.
In testimony whereof, i do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said probate court at Somers aforesaid on said 21stday of September AD 1842.
Orson Wood, Judge of Probate
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"Married March twenty fifth seventeen hundred and seventy eight, Moses Pelton of Somers to Dorothy Benton"

I, William Williams of Mausner, Lucas County, Ohio, being now seventy three years of age on oath depose and say that I am a son of Nathan Williams, [illegible] for many years a pastor over the Congregational Church in Tolland, Connecticut, that I have in my possession the original record of marriages subscribed by him and that the above is a true extract from said records with the exception of the date which I therein expressed in fair and legible figures  as follows:  to wit "March 25th 1778".
My father was a pastor over said church from the year 1760 to the year 1829, the time of his death.
William Williams
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The State of Ohio
Lucas County
I James Myers Clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Horatio Conant was on the eighteenth of June AD 1839, and still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.1839.
James Myers,Clerk
Jerome Myers, J of Peace
Given under my hand and the seal of said court the 17th day of June AD 

Dorothy Benton
March 25, 1778
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I Eunice Wallace, a resident of Somers in the county of Tolland and state of Connecticut, do hereby depose and say that I was well acquainted with the late Moses Pelton formerly of Tolland aforesaid often heard him tell of  his service in the Army in the Revolutionary War, at Roxbury under Capt. Wills of said Tolland, I am also well knowing to the fact that the said Moses Pelton was the husband of the present widow Dorothy Phillips.  And I am knowing to the fact that the said Moses Pelton died at said Somers in June 19th eighteen hundred and nine thirty three years last June. And I am also knowing to the fact that the said widow Dorothy Pelton was married to John Phillips of Somers, they were married as I was informed soon after it took place, tho at the time I was then absent from Somers, but on my return to Somers I heard that they were married, but I know they lived together as man and wife several years.  And I am well knowing to the fact that the said Phillips died in Stafford in Tolland County Connecticut on the 22nd of February eighteen hundred and thirty eight; four years last February.  And his widow, the forer widow of said Moses Pelton, still remains a widow and has never married since the death of the said John Phillips.
Eunice Wallis

State of Connecticut
Tolland County] ss Somers
On the 20th day of September 1842 personally appeared before me the subscribing authority. Eunice Wallis
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a resident of Somers in Tolland County and State of Connecticut a credible person who made solemn oath then and there to the truth of the foregoing certificate by her subscribed before me.
Jesse Charlton, Notary Public