Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8083, for Freeman Pelton, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Pelton, Freeman
Prudence
NUMBER  R. 8080
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Jesse Pelton born June the 4 AD 1800
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Freeman Pelton 
Married November the 3s in the year 1783
Elisabeth Pelton born march the 16 in the year 178
Hannah Pelton Born may the 16 in the year 1787
Martin Pelton born July 31st in the year 1789
Persey Pelton born March the 25 1792
Seymour Pelton Born may 11th AD 1795
Am
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No
Prudence Pelton
Widow of Freeman
Vermont
July 7 1838 &
J. L. Edwards Present}
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Freeman or
Prudence Pelton
For Pension Acts Feby 2d & July 29 1848
Vt
Original
Cole
Filed by John S. Edwards
21 May 1856
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STATE OF [VERMONT]
[WINDSOR COUNTY]  I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Jared Marsh and William Felch, each, was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a,  Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowlements of deed, and that signature of each respectively foregoing is genuine. 
[In testimony whereof I] hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 17 day of May A. D. 1856. 
Norman Williams  Clerk
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State of Vermont 
Windsor Probate District 
Windsor County ss }  On this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, personally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court for the District of Windsor in said County of Windsor Prudence Pelton, a resident of Plymouth in the state of Vermont, aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of Congress approved July 29th A.D. 1848, and July 2, 1848.  
That she is the widow of the identical Freeman Pelton, (deceased) who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that the said Freeman Pelton, was a native of Chatham Connecticut, and that he either enlisted or was drafted at said Chatham, She further States that she has heard her said husband the aforesaid Freeman Pelton tell of having served in said war at different periods, and that he served a portion of the time as a teamster, and she has also heard him tell of having served in Captain Phelps company, and Cole Penfield’s Regiment, she cannot State particularly, as to her said husbands military services in said war, only from recollection of what she has heard him tell in his lifetime.   She further states that she verily believes that her said husband the aforesaid Freeman Pelton, was a soldier in the war of
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of the Revolution. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Freeman Pelton on the thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three (1783) that her husband, the aforesaid Freeman Pelton, died at Plymouth Vermont, in the thirteenth (13) day of January 1847, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January eighteen hundred  to wit, at the time above stated.   
She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the said Act. and is still a widow, and that she has never before made application for a Pension.  
Prudence Pelton x her mark
Attest Jared Marsh 
Martin Pelton 
Hannah Pelton x her Mark  
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written  Before me 
Salmon F. Dutton Judge of said Probate Court 
I Salmon F. Dutton Judge of the Court of Probate for said District of Windsor do hereby certify that the fore going contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Prudence Pelton for a Pension.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Cavendish this fourteenth day of May A.D. 1856 
Salmon F. Dutton Judge
[Freeman Pelton was a soldier in the War of]
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Know all men by these presents that I Prudence Pelton of Plymouth Vermont and widow of Freeman Pelton late of said Plymouth deceased do hereby constitute and appoint Josiah Q. Hawkins of Felchville Vermont my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and behalf to prosecute my claim against the United States Government, for a pension under any acts of Congress heretofore passed as the widow of Freeman Pelton who was a Revolutionary Soldier.
Witness my hand and seal this first day of May AD. 1856 
In presence of 
Jared Marsh   
Prudence Pelton x her mark 
State of Vermont 
Middlesex County ss }  At Plymouth this first day of May AD 1856 before me a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, personally came the above named Prudence Pelton, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney, to be her act and deed.  
Jared Marsh Justice of Peace 
Freeman Pelton, was a soldier in the War
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I Martin Pelton of Plymouth in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged sixty six years, testify and say That I am well acquainted with Prudence Pelton now a resident of Plymouth Vermont, the identical Prudence Pelton  who is named in the foregoing declaration for a Pension under Acts of Congress July 29, 1848 & Feby 2d 1848, and that I know her to be the widow of the identical Freeman Pelton, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and was a native of that Chatham Connecticut, I know the said Freeman Pelton died at said Plymouth on the thirteenth day of January A.D. 1847. I was present at the time of his death and attended his funeral.   That the said Prudence is, and has ever remained the widow of the said Freeman Pelton. The said Freeman was my father, I have frequently heard the said Freeman in his lifetime tell of having served in said war and at several different times; and as having served as a teamster a part of the time, have heard him speak of having served in Capt. Phelps Company - also served under Col. Penfield, and Col. Robinson's - about forty years ago I was at a place called Clarendon Springs in Vermont, in company with my father the said Freeman Pelton, and there at said Springs saw a man by the name of Robinson, and the said Freeman then recognized him, the said Robinson, as an acquaintance of the Revolutionary war, and as the identical Col. Robinson under whom the said Freeman Served as a waiter for him, in the said war, the said Col. Robinson and 
Freeman Pelton, was a soldier in the war of
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Freeman Pelton then had considerable conversation in my presence, about their having been out and served together in the said war, and in the same Regiment, a portion of the time. The said Robinson the told me that my said father was a soldier in the same war with him as a waiter for him & that he knew him well while in said war; they expressed much joy & satisfaction upon the occasion not having seen each other for quite a number of years previous.  I think I have heard the said Freeman give names of other officers under whom he served, in said war, but do not now recollect the names. 
I further say that the paper hereto attached marked A. containing the marriage of Freeman Pelton is a leaf that was taken from the family Bible of the said Freeman and Prudence, and that I know the said Freeman and Prudence to live together in the lifetime of the said Freeman as husband and wife and that they were so reputed from my earliest recollection up to the time of his death.   I have often heard the said Freeman tell of having been present at the execution Major Andre. 
Martin Pelton 
Attest J. Q. Hawkins 
Wm Felch 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County } ss At Plymouth in said County on this seventeenth day of May 1856 personally appeared Martin Pelton & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affadavit by him subscribed.  I further certify that he is a credible witness.  
Wm. Felch  Justice of Peace
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I Hannah Pelton of Plymouth in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged sixty nine (69) years testify and says, That I am daughter of Freeman Pelton deceased; and that Prudence Pelton named in the foregoing declaration for Pension under acts July 29 1848 & Feby 2d 1848,  is the widow of the said Freeman Pelton, my said father, the aforesaid Freeman Pelton, was a native of Chatham Connecticut; I further say & believe that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, I have often heard my said father in his lifetime tell of being in said war and at several different times, and of having served as a teamster a part of the time - have heard him speak of Captain Phelps & Col. Penfield officers under whom he served, also of having served in Col. Robinsons Regiment, and give names of other officers whom he served under in said war, sometime about the year 1816 or1817, my said father returned from a journey to a place called Clarendon Spring Vermont; and when he got home he told of having seen and had conversation with Col Robinson, an officer that he knew when he was in said war, and that he was Col. of the Regiment to which he (Freeman  Pelton) belonged a part of the time when he was in said service.  Freeman Pelton died at said Plymouth on the thirteenth day of January 1847. I was present at the time of his death and attended his funeral.  I further say that I know the said Prudence Pelton has ever remained the widow of the said
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Freeman Pelton.  I further that the paper attached to the foregoing affidavit of Martin Pelton, containing the marriage of Freeman Pelton is a leaf that was  taken from the family Bible of the said Freeman and Prudence, said paper marked A.  I further say that I knew the said Freeman and Prudence in his lifetime to live together as husband and wife and were so reputed.  
Hannah Pelton x her mark
Attest } J. Q. Hawkins 
Wm Felch 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss} at Plymouth in said County this 17 day of May 1856, personally appeared Hannah Pelton and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed.   I further certify that she is a credible witness.   
Wm Felch Justice Peace
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June 7 1856 
Prudence Pelton widow of Freeman Pelton for Revolutionary Pension 
Vermont suspended file act July 1848 
to be in hands of [unreadable] went west more than one month ago so reported.  
J S Edwards 
Aug 4. 1856
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No
Prudence Pelton
Widow of Freeman
Vermont
Let J. S. Edwards June 13 / 56
8083
July 7 1838
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REJECTED
8083
Prudence Pelton