Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,469, Cephas Child, Conn. Continental
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn
Continental

Child, Cephas

NUMBER
S. 12469
carded
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Vermont 18711
Cephas Child
of Orange Co in the State of Vermont who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Manning of the regt commanded by Col. Putnam in the *Connecticut line for 15 months private.

Reduced from $60
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 50 Dollars ~~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of [cut off month] 1835 and sent to [cut off] at Bradford VT.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1835  $23[cut off].00
Semi-anl. allowance ending ~~

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd
Book E Vol 2 Page 59

*Continental and Conn.
Records completed Aug 16/1858

Let C. F. Elnglely 5 Sept 1832
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No 11

Cephas Child's
Declaration
7659
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Cephas Child

State of Vermont
Probate District of Bradford
For the County of Orange} Ss.
At a Court of Probate holden at Bradford in & for the District of Bradford before the Hon. William Spense Judge of said Court on this 18th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before said judge now sitting, Cephas Child a resident of Bradford in the county of Orange & State of Vermont - aged 77 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.
That in the fore part of May in the year 1775 he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Manning of Woodstock in the county of Windham in the state of Connecticut, for the term of eight months. That said company belonged to the regiment commanded by Col. Putnam the Wolf Man, and according to his best recollection the corps were called Connecticut State Troops. That one Johnson was major in the same regiment. That he immediately marched from Woodstock to Brookline near Boston & was stationed there some weeks. That a short time before the battle of Bunker's Hill the company removed to Cambridge & were encamped about a hundred yards south easterly from the College. That said regiment had no orders to join the combat on Bunker's Hill till towards night - when they proceeded to Charlston Neck where they met the Americans bringing off their dead & wounded all as black as negroes. That the regiment then marched to Prospect Hill & marched hard all night - never minding the roar of the British Cannons from their Barges - as their balls stopped on the side hill below them. That he recollects the names of the following officers - Lieut. Lyon of Capt. Manning's Company - Genl. Washington who, on the [illegible] reunited on our Indian Chief to meeting - Genl. Lee - Genl. Warren - & Lieut Col. Huntington. - That he does not recollect the names of the regiments. - That
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That after the great Battle he was stationed at Cambridge & remained there till the forepart of Jany when the whole regiment was discharged, but had to leave their guns - which were their own private property.
And the said Child further declares that in the month of March in the year 1776 - he enlisted in to the company of Capt. Lyon - in the regiment commanded by Col. Chester belonging to the Continental Line - of Connecticut Troops - as he then understood - for the term of nine months. That he marched to New London - from there went by water to some place east of Hartgate (not recollected) - marched to King's Bridge & from there to the city of New York - then back 5 or 6 miles & lay in an orchard - till the British began to throw barrels from Long Island - where the regiment retreated to West Chester, if he recollects the name - he knows he lay on Valentine's Hill - from there to White Plains - & was there in the battle - from White Plains in the night about two miles back - where they lay till after the British left went back onto [illegible] Island - From there moved to Peeks Hill & from there to King's Ferry & then marched through New Jersey to New Tower in Pennsylvania & that he was discharged at New Tower the 25th day of December. That Ona Child waws Lieut & Mason was Ensign in Capt. Lyon's company & that Genl. Washington was at the battle at White Plains - and Genl Lee commanded the army that went to New Tower but was taken prisoner on the route. That he does not recollect the name of his brigadeer general - but that he was taken sick - and Col. Chester had the command of the Brigade from that time they lay at Valentine's Hill till they got nearly to New Tower when the genl. overtook the army. That he recollects Col. Sargeant - Col. Fry - he thinks Major Talmage - who went to New Tower - But that he does not recollect the numbers of the regiments nor of the Brigades. Also that in April 1777 he was drafted into Col. Sedyard regiment at Groton in the state of Connecticut for three months and that he was stationed near Fort Griswold and that he served nearly thru three months and procured a substitute for the remainder of the three. Captain Williams or Capt. Chandler commanded the company in which he served but cannot be positive which, the names of the other officers he does not recollect nor the names of other regiments. And of that time there was no other regiment there - and we were stationed there - as a guard of the town & fort.
And the said Child further declares that in the spring of the year 1778 he between the first & eighth of April, he left Woodstock - with a view of finding a settlement or business in the new country - Vermont - and New Hampshire. That on his way - at Springfield in Massachusetts - he met
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Capt. Law who was a recruiting officer and had the greatest part of a company of soldiers with him going on to the Fishkills. That said Law beset him to enlist in his company & he enlisted for eight months & went directly on with said Law - to Fishkills in the state of New York.
That when he got to Fishkills there was a great want of mechanics - and he the said Child being somewhat acquainted with carpenter's tools - was immediately put on felling heavy timber, building barracks and mending waggons and continued on and [illegible] during the whole term of his enlistment. That he had but little knowledge of the officers - nor what was going on in camp as he was part of the time in the woods getting out timber and part of the time on the roads mending bridges that he once went over the river of Connecticut to repair bridges to that our baggage waggon could get into camp but he always moved from place to place but Capt. Law's company to cut form Fish Kill to West Point and from there to White Plains then back again to West Point and then to Peekskill and back to Fishkill again then nearly up to Albany he thinks the place was called Queemens Pattens an excellent place for timber where they hewed it and sent it off in hoops he continued there about a month that they drew rations from Albany and then went back in Fishkill where he was discharged in the fore part of December. That he does not recollect the regiment nor officers except that Capt. Law's Lieut was named Stevens. That he never took any discharge. The questions prescribed by the war department can then put by the Court & the following answers given by the applicant - viz.
I was born in Woodstock in the state of Connecticut in the year 1755 & have no record of my age in my possession but I suppose it is recorded in the town of Woodstock when I was born. I lived at said Woodstock when called into the service each time. After the close of the war I moved to Cornish New Hampshire from there to Hartland in this state, thence to [illegible] then to Thetford & from there to Bradford where I have lived & in Newbury in this County the last twenty six years. I was called into service as heretofore stated. The names of the officers, regiments & other circumstances as heretofore stated. I never received any written discharge & have no documentary evidence of my services & I hereby refer the court to Genl. Micah Barrow
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Col. Wm Barrow Geroge W. Prichard Esq & Lieut Joseph Jenkins all of said Bradford residing in my neighborhood as persons who are acquainted with my character for truth & veracity & will testify of the same & of their belief of my service in the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present. & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state & that he has no evidence of his service except his brother Lyne. 
Cephas Child
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year before said.

We Silas McKean a clergyman residing in the town of Bradford aforesaid & Geo. W. Prichard a resident of the same town, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Cephas Child, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be 77 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Silas McKeen
Geo W. Prichard
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department & haring the depositions of Lyne Child, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution & served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that Silas McKean who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman of said Bradford & that Geo W. Prichard who has also signed the same is a resident of said Bradford & is a credible person & their statement entitled to credit.
I Simeon Short Clerk or Register of the said Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of Cephas Child for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 18th day of August AD 1832.
Simeon Short C & R
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commanded by a Captain Williams, but cannot be positive relative to his name.
Lyman Child

State of Vermont
Windsor Ss.} Windsor July 14th 1832. Then personally appeared Lyman Child, the above named affiant and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me
Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that, at the date of the certificate, on the sheet to which this is annexed, of the oath administered to Lyman Child, my acquaintance with the said affiant, Lyman, was of so recent origin as to render it improper for me to speak of his claim to credibility; my subsequent acquaintance, both personal and by reputation, has satisfied me of his character for truth, and I take pleasure in certifying that said Lyman Child is a credible witness - I add here too, which was inadvertently omitted, that Martin Cabot, whose affidavit is upon the sheet to which this is attached, is a credible witness.
June 12th 1833
Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace
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County of Windsor Ss} I, Marston Cabot of Hartland, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged forty-three years, depose and say that I have been for many years acquainted with the above named Lyman Child, who has recently removed from Maitland to Windsor, and that said Childs is a credible person.
Marston Cabot

State of Vermont
County of Windsor Ss} Windsor August 1, 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Marston Cabot and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace
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I Lyman Childs of Windsor, in the county of Windsor, and the state of Vermont, of the age of seventy two years, depose and say, that at Woodstock in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut which [missing] my native place my brother, Cephas Childs, time at said Woodstock, about the eighth of May in the year 1775, in the Connecticut State troops, I do not now recollect the names of the Officers, but think the captains name was Manning, my brother was absent from home at this time, until sometime in the month of December of the same year, when he returned to Woodstock. Also, (in addition to the time stated in my former deposition, sent on to the War Department some years since, I further depose and say that the April 1777, my brother said Cephas and myself, were drafted for the term of three months service, into the Regiment of Connecticut State troops commanded by Col. Ledyard we marched to Groton and were stationed in the neighborhood of Fort Gris-wold do not recollect whether my brother Cephus continued there the whole three months, or not according to my best recollection, our company was
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In reply to your request of Aug 23.
, received Aug 25, 1910, for a statement of the military history of Cephas Child, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 12469.
Date of Enlistment or Appointment
May 1775
Mch 1776
April 1777
Apr 1778- 1779
Length of Service
7 mos
9 mos
2 mos
8 mon
Rank 
Pvt.
.
.
Officer
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered
Captain
Ephraim Manning
Stephen Lynn
{Williams
Chacelier
Low
Colonel
Putnam
Chester
Ledyard
State 
Connecticut
Battles engaged in, White Plains
Residence of soldeir at enlistment, Woodstock Conn.
Date of application for pension, June 15 1825. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application
Bradford Vt.
Age at date of application, b. 1755 Woodstock, Conn, d. Sept 30, 1836
Remarks: After the Rev. soldier and in Corner A. H. Hartland V. Fairlee Telford and Newbury.
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3-871
Record Division
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Briefed by A. Mar D 29/8/10
Claim No. .....
Certificate No. .....
Claimant Ms: West Perlee, VE
Soldier Cephas Child
Service VT.
Assitional Service Rev. W 1812 
State records.191
No claim, combination records 191
Remarks: No 1812, Sur, or, Wed, 11 O.W. Sur. or Wid, 
Sir. 7. 12, 46 { County or Country
No other FW. any service
Wid
Ry
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Miss Harriet A. Fox
Chicago, Ills,
1910. Sept. 2. Hist to J.C. Haselton
Moses Chaimberlain Peter Wed F. 4692
M.B. H.
File No.
12469
INVALID.
12, 469
Cephas Child
Priv. R.
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 66
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Any by
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Department
. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary
War may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
Madam;
REVOLUTIONARY.
L. W. B.
I. 12469.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
August 9th, 1897.
Replying to your request for information concerning Cephas Child,
a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an
application for pension on August 18, 1832, at which time he was
years of age and residing at Bradford, Vermont, and his pension was
allowed for eighteen months' actual service as a private in the Conn.
troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt.
Manning and Col. Putnam. He enlisted at Woodstock, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Miss Harriet A. Fox,
Chicago, Ills.
Commissioner
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Old War & Navy
Jul 31 1897
Files
P
6. M. & N

Pension 
B
July
29
1897
Office
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Henry Clay Elaine
[Unlegible] Pension
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Payments to be made
at Burlington by Rev + USB BK
Agent for paying Divisions in the Agency of Vermont
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the June, 1832, Cephas Child of the State of Vermont who was a private during the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive sixty dollars and -- cents per annum duing his natural life, com-mencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year
Given at the War Office of the United States this 27th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Law Cap
Secretary of War}
Examined and Countersigned} 
J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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I Stephen May of West Fairlei in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of lawfull age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Cephas Child formerly of Woodstock in the State of Connecticut, while he was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, he served in the Company of Capt Stephen Lyon in Col. Chester's Regiment. I always understood that he enlisted for said Service for the term of nine months, & served said term faithfully and in the month of January in the year 1777, I saw the Cephas at Peeksill when in his return to Connecticut after his discharge
Stephen May
State of Vermont}
Orange County}
At West Fairlee in said County on the first day of March 1825, personally ap-peared the above named Stephen May the signer of the above officiant & made solemn oath that facts therein con-tained are just & true.
State of Before me Elisha Thayer, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates was on the first day of March last and still is one of the Justices of the Peace
State of Vermont
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[handwritten]

I Stephen May of West Fairlee Orange County & State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do depose testify and say that I was knowing to Cephas Child (then of the Town of
Woodstock State of Connecticut) enlisting into Capt Lyons Company and Col Chesters Regiment as a private in the spring of the year of 1776 I saw him when he came home at Pittskill on his way home the next winter
the last of Dec or first Jany. I think he enlisted for Eight or nine months and we both belonged to one Brigade and frequently saw each other and further I say not
[signed] Stephen May
West Fairler Mareh 6th 1835

State of Vermont
Orange County ⎬
West Fairlee March 8th 1835 When Stephen
May of West Fairlee in the County of Orange
personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the above deposition by him
subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me
[signed] Elisha May Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Orange County ss}
West Fairlee March 6th 1875. I hereby
certify that Stephen May the signed
of the above deposition
is a man of truth and veracity
[signed] Elisha May Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Grange County}
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Aug 31st
Vt
Cephas Child
Bradford & Aug 25
Commisioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
Free
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[handwritten]

Bradford August 24. 1835
Sir,
I received your letter dated the first
day of July last, informing me that you
had received in my letter of the 26th of June
last a deposition of Stephen May; showing that
I had served in the army of the Revolution
nine months, in the year 1776 in Col Chester
Regiment and Capt Lyon's company. You wrote
that the witness must be mistaken as to the time, for Col Chester Regiment was raised in June and discharged in December, and was out but six months; it may be so by the records, but I am well satisfied. I served the nine months. I enlisted in the spring of the year about the time the British left Boston, as our intent was to follow them wherever
they landed on our shores, and I served from that time, untill the last of December following but I would be glad to have you allow me for the six months if not for the nine. I also wish you to consider the two months service, that I performed, when a drafted soldier, in the year 1777. The evidence of my two months service is ^now^ in the pension Office, and the eight
months that I served in Capt lows company of artificers in the year 1778 or 1779. I cannot as yet find any evidence of my service on the Massachusetts Records, and I have lately
thought that the troops might have belonged to New Hampshire
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I have returned my certificate included in this letter, agreeable to your directions, in hioe that you will send me a  new one, and allow me for my services in the years 1776 & 1777, and in 1778 & 1779, such a sum as you may find correct in addition to the seven months service performed in the year 1775, and you will greatly oblige a poor man and a patriot of the Revolution.
Cephas Child
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[handwritten]

I Lyman Child of Hartland, in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say: that in February or March 1776 myself and Cephas Child then, both of Woodstock in the State of Connecticut enlisted into Capt Stephen Lyons Company in Col. Chesters Regiment for the term of nine months - & We were both in the battle of White Plains and at the battle when the Americans evacuated New York; I know that the said Cephas was in the service during said period of nine months, & served faithfully therein during
said term -
[signed] Lyman Child


State of Vermont 
Windsor County  ss⎬
At Houlton in said County
on the twelfth day of February
1825 personally appeared the said
Lymon Child the signer of the above
affidavit and made solemn oath that the
facts therein contained are just and true
before me
[signed] Isaac N. Cushman Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the said Lyman Child is
titled to full credit as a witness
Attest Isaac N. Cushman Just of the Peace
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State of Vermont. Secretary of State Office
Woodstock June 8 1825
I certify that Isaac N. Cushman, whose name is subscribed to the within certificates, made on the 12th day of February last, and still is,, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windsor, duly appointed and acting under the authority of this State, and to his of-ficial attestations full faith and credit to be given. In testimony whereof, I, Norman Williams, Secretary of State, do hereunto subscribe my name and office and seal of offices, the day and year above
Norman Williams
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June 30
20
Bradford VT June 25 Free
J.L. Edwards- Commissioner of pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
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[handwritten]
Bradford Vermont June 24th 1835
Sir
I Recd a letter from you dated on the 14th of
Feby last stating that the only actual service
recognized at the war department that I actually performed in the Revolutionary War was seven months in the year 1775 and that the agent at Burlington Vt.
was instructed to make me no further payment
untill further instructions from the war department --
for the further proof of the actual service that
I performed in the year 1776 for a period of
Nine months ---- I have inclosed the deposition of Stephen May in this letter which is all the additional proof that is in my power at present to obtain
and for the proof of the actual service that I performed for two months at Groton fort in the year 1777 is out of my power at present to obtain any additional proof the deposition of Lyman Child to prove the service of the aforesaid two months in 1777 I sent to the pension office when I obtained my pension
certificate and his deposition for the nine months service in the year 1776 I sent it to the war department when I made an application for a pension about 10 years ago
and I suppose that said proof was found there
I obtained my pension certificate No 18711 Dated 27th Sept 1833 under the act of the 7th June 1832--
and for the services that I actually performed in the year 1778 in Capt Lows Company of Artificers for the period of 8 months
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[handwritten]

it has been as yet out of my power to obtain
any proof-
All which I must submit to your wise Consideration and grant me such relief in the premises as you may think just and equitable and send me a certificate that I may be restored to the pension list for the whole of said service which I have actually
performed or such part of them as you
in your opinion may think proper and send
me a return as soon as possible and you will
greatly oblige your friend to serve
[signed] Cephas Child

To Hon J. L. Edward
Washington City
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[handwritten]

Depos.
Jonathan Mason



Depos.
Jonathan Mason
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[handwritten]

I Jonathan Mason of Lyme in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire being of the age of Seventy five year depose 
and say that I am well acquainted with Cephas Child now of Bradford in the County of Orange & State of Vermont and formerly of Woodstock in the County of Windham & State of Commitment I was acquainted with said Child
in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy five  we both there lived at said Woodstock. In the month of April 1775. I know that said Child inlisted a private Soldier for the time of seven months in Capt Ephraim Mannings
Company of the Connecticut State troops
I belonged to the same company at the time. we were mustered in the Spring of the year 1775 and Marched to Rocksbury in Massachusetts and there our company joined the Regiment of Col Durgy Commonly
called Puth Regiment. I continued in said Company with said Child until about the middle of September AD. 1775. I then enlisted out of said Company and left it, and from information have no reason to
believe said Child had not served out his full term of said seven month enlistment-
[signed] Jonathan Mason

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. Orford June 13th 1833 
Sworn to and
Subscribed the day & year above written
Before me A. G. Britton Justice of peace
I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Jonathan Mason Esq the above deponent for many
years and know him to be a man of good & fair character and a creditable witness
Orford June 13. 1833. [signed] A.G. Britton -
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[handwritten]
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss

I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that on the third day of June current & long before Abiathar G
Britton Esqr. before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, was an acting Justice of the peace that his attestations as such are entitled to credit, and that his signature is genuine being his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Haverhill in said County this seventeenth
day of June Anno Domini 1833-
[signed] S. P. Webster Clerk
[to the left of the signature is a seal that has illegible print around the edges]
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[left side of document]
[printed and completed in handwriting]

Vermont. 18.711
===============
Cephas Child
of Orange Co in the State of Vermont 
who was a private in the Compy. commanded
by Captain Manning of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Putnam in the Conn. Ma. 
line for 18 months
================
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 60 Dollars ______ cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
================
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Sept
1833 and sent to Pensioner
Bradford. Vt 
============
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33      $150.00
Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar. '36  30.00
=====
$180.~
=====
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}.

Recorded by E.W. Brown Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 57

[right side of document, handwritten]
let to agen supervosr 
& to pension [illegible]
reasons for order
16 Feby 1835
let pensioner 1 July 1835
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[handwritten]
19.681
Cephas Child
Orange County
Vt

H.E.G. McLaughlin Esq
Chelsea
Vermont

Cephas Child
Declaration
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[handwritten]

State of Vermont
Orange County ⎬
On this 15th day of June AD 1825
personally appeared in open
Court being the County Court for the County
of Orange, and having the power of fine and
Imprisonment, Cephas Child aged 70 years
Resident in Bradford in the County of Orange
aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions
made by the acts of the 18th day of March
1818, the first of May 1820 and first of March
1823, and that he the said Child enlisted for
the Term of nine months, in the Month of March 1776 in the State of Connecticutt in the company commanded by Capt Stephen Lyon
in the Regiment commanded by Col Chester
in the line of the State of Connecticut on the
Continental Establishment, and that he continued to serve in the said Corps untill the
25th day of December 1776 when he was discharged from the said service in Newtown in the State of Pensylvania, and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820.-
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March AD 1818, and that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed
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[handwritten]

of my property or any part thereof with Intent
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provisions of an act of Congress
Entitled an act to provide for certain persons
Engaged in the land and Naval service of
the United States in the Revolutionary war
passed on the 18th day of March 1818.-
And that I have not, nor has any person
in trust for me any property or securities
contracts or debts due to me; nor have I
any income or property whatever

Neither have I any family, and that
I am by occupation a farmer, but on
account of old age, and of Ill health and
lameness, occasioned by a Cart wheel running
over my ankle, I am entirely unable to
Labour, and I am now entirely dependent
on the charity of my friends and the
public for a maintainance.-
[signed] Cephas Child

Sworn in Orange County Court before the Court this 15th day of June 1825. [signed] H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk 

State of Vermont}
Orange County ss} 
I H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk of the County Court for the County of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule
thereto annexed is truly copied from
the Record of said Court: and I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the sd Court
that the applicant is entirely destitute of [illegible] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of sd Court at Chelsea this 15 day of June 1825. [signed] H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk
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[handwritten]

Lymon Child's
Deposition 
In the case of 
C. Child
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[handwritten]

State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss}
Woodstock County Clerks Office August 4th 1832
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify, that Carlos Coolidge is one of
a Justices of the Peace within & for said County
and that the foregoing are his signatures -
In Testimony whereof I hereto affix the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name the day year
above--
Benj. Swan
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[handwritten]

State of Vermont
Orange County ss ⎬ 
At Bradford in said Orange County on the 5th day of July 1833 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Orange Cephas Child who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and
the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades-that since the 1st day of June last I have travelled more than 10 miles and have
made diligent inquiry to find some of the old soldiers who were in the army with me and have been able to find only one-- Jonathan Mason Esqr of Linea New Hampshire whose affidavit is annexed. by conversing with said Mason I am enabled to recollect that the regiment in which I served near Boston in the year 1775 was commanded by Let. [illegible] which I did not before recollect. (But said regiment was was called Potts regiment) That I had no doubt before I saw said Mason that I served at that time eight months and to it
still seems to me-- but I now say that I served at that time not less than seven
months as a private in Col. Durg's regiment. And I further declare that I served as a private in Col. Chester regiment in the year 1776 not less than nine months- that in the year 1777 I served near New London as a private in Col. Ledyard's regiment not less than two months- that I served as a mechanick in the year 1778 in Capt Low's Company (and I now
believe that Capt Low's Company were all mechanicks and all the company drew half a ration more a day and received more pay on account of constant fatigue) a term not less than eight months  that one Low a brother
of Capt Low was foreman of the squad to which I belonged, and for all the time
during which said service was performed I was not employed in any civil pursuits
but was constantly on duty as a soldier as set forth in my declaration of Aug. 
18.1832. I am unable to recollect any more particulars as to the names of officers under whom I served or the place where I served and that I know of no person living who can testify to my service but I do hereby refer the pension
office to my declaration and the evidence thereto annexed sent on to the department several years ago and do humbly request said office to consider that declaration and evidence as a part of my present case and for the  [illegible] I claim a pension
[signed] Cephas Child
Sworn to before me this 8th day of July 1833
[signed] J. W. D. Parker Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont, Orange County Clerks Office
I Harry Hale, Clerk of Orange County
Court, do hereby certify, that J. W. D. Parker is a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Orange, and that the within writing purporting to be his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and affix my
Seal of Office, at Chelsea in said
Orange County, this Sixth day
of July A.D. 1833
[signed] Harry Hale, Clerk
[a round seal is affixed to the document to the left of the signature. It appears to have a human figure with some illegible print]

[written below the above certificate, in a vertical orientation]
Sept 3. 1835
1st term     7 mos
2 "              6
3                 2
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                  15

admd. 15 mo