Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2765, Solomon Davis, Conn.
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Service
Conn

Davis, Solomon
Mary

Number 
R.2765
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37536
Aug 20 '47
Solomon Davis
Con
Act 7 June 1832

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Jos. H. Bradley
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven

On this eleventh day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate for the district of New Haven now sitting, Soloman Davis a resident of the town of New Haven in the county of New Haven and state of Connecticut aged eighty-two 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 to wit:

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:

That he joined Captain Henry Dagget's company of Coast Guard which were drafted.

To the best of his memory in the year seventeen hundred and eighty somewhere between the middle of August and the first of September.

The regiment to which this Coast Guard belonged was under the command of General Ward. He down not recollect the names of any other of the field officers or of any of the company officers except Sergeant Abraham Pinte of New Haven.

At the time he enlisted, he lived in Fair Street in the town and county of New Haven and state of Connecticut.

He never was discharged but was dismissed at the commencement of cold weather in November. He was in no engagement during the time he was in service
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He was a substitute for his father Thomas Davis. He is corps made no marches but its duty was to patrol and guard the coast and he was occupied in that service in New Haven and vicinity.

Before this corps was raised, the British were in the habit of committing various depredations on the shore stealing cattle etc.

he was never discharged during the war but continued liable to be called upon for duty during the war. He was born in Fair Street in New Haven in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-five.

He has no record of his age.

It was recorded in a family bible which was given by his mother to her sister more than sixty years since.

He was living in Fair Street New Haven Town and County and state of Connecticut when called into service. He since the revolutionary war has been a seafaring man but has made his home in New Haven where he now lives.

He was a substitute for his father Thomas Davis. He cannot state the names of any of the regular officers who were with the troops i which he served and the only officer whose names he recollects are those stated above "Captain Daggett" General War and Sergeant Pinte.

The circumstances of his service are those above stated his corps was called out to repel the invasions and hostile incursions of the enemy.

He never received a discharge from the service. John Skinner, Esra Hotchkiss, Kneas Monson, Timothy P Bears are some of the persons who can testify to his veracity and their belief of his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his
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name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state to his knowledge.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Solomon Davis
His X Mark

We Harry Croswell a clergyman residing in the Town of New Haven in the County of New Haven and state of Connecticut and Ezra Hotchkiss residing in said New Haven hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Soloman Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty-two 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. New Haven the twelfth day of August AD 1847

Sworn to & subscribed the day & years aforesaid.

Harry Croswell
Ezra Hotchkiss 

Mary Bucher of the town and county of New Haven and state of Connecticut being duly cautioned and sworn says that she was eighty years of age on the 31st day of January 1847. That she is the widow of Frederick Bucher formerly of said New Haven, that her said husband died two years ago last March in the Eighty-first year of his age, that the deponent knows Soloman Davis of New Haven well, that she has always understood that he was a soldier of the revolution and that she
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has often heard her husband say that such was the fact, and that said Davis served with him as one of the Coast Guard during the Revolutionary war and that she has often heard him and said Soloman Davis talk together about the war and their serving in the same as Coast Guard and of the various events which occurred while they were members of that company. And she has always understood from other persons that said Soloman Davis was a member of the Coast Guard in the Revolutionary War.

Sworn to and subscribed this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

Mary Bucher
Her X Mark

I Dorcus Bucher of the town of New Haven of lawful age being duly cautioned and sworn deposeth and says that she is seventy-nine years of age, that she was born in West Haven (then so called now Orange) a village four miles west of New Haven that she lived in that village and at ta fence about 3/4 of a mile from the shore and two miles west of said West Haven for many years, that she knows Soloman Davis of New haven who is now making application for a pension and knew him in the revolutionary war, that she has seen him doing duty as one of the Coast Guard frequently that the guard or one company of them were often on duty down on the coast near where she lived and according to her recollection some of them passed the place where she lived for the purpose of keeping guard pretty much every night and that Davis was with them a member of the company. That West Haven was at this time
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a part of the town of New Haven and further she saith not.

Sworn to and subscribed this thirteenth day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

Dorcas Beecher

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Harry Croswell who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of New Haven and that Ezra Hotchkiss who has signed the same is a resident in the said town of New Haven and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Henry G Lewis Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of New Haven in the county of New Haven do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Soloman Davis for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Twelfth Day of August AD 1847.

Henry G Lewis
Clerk

SEAL
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No 15
Soloman Davis

Feb 1853
Weaver & Caffee Atty's
Present
Very Special
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AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY

State of Connecticut
County of New Haven

Be it remembers that on this 17th day of November AD 1852 I George Thompson do make known and declare that I am the husband of Jane A. grandchild and heir-at-law to Mary who was the only wife of Soloman Davis, a revolutionary solder who served blank years under the command of blank in the forces raised by the state of Connecticut and that he and his said wife were married previous to the year AD 1800 that he died about the month of October AD 1848 and that his said wife also died about the month of October AD 1850. No pension has ever been received on account of said services by either or the heirs of either of said parties.

And that claimant is now 60 years of age and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of pension and other claims due for said services: Now, therefore, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower Alfred J Words of New Haven City and county State of Connecticut as my attorney with power of substitution to investigate, substantiate, demand and receive the avails of said claim or claims and to say and do all things relative thereto as amply as I might do; hereby ratifying everything said or done by my said attorney or his substitute in virtue hereof; also revoking all powers of attorney or other authority previously given for any such purposes.

Attest
Wm Goodwin
Henry Peck Jr

I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal day and date first above named.

George Thompson

Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me the day and year first above indicated.

Wm Goodwin
Notary Public

SEAL
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December 21, 1936

BA-J/ILL
Soloman Davis
R.2765

Mr. Raymond E Van Syckle 
1729 Ford Building
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Sir;

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the revolutionary war record of Thomas Davis of Sommers, Tolland County Connecticut and his son, Soloman Davis.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of the Thomas Davis describe above. The record of only one Soloman Davis of Connecticut has been found. The date given herein were found in his claim for pension, R.2765 based upon his service in the revolutionary war.

Soloman Davis, son of Thomas Davis, was born in the year 1765 at home on Fair Street, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut and live there during the period of the revolutionary war, the name of his mother was not given.

Following the revolutionary war, he was a seafaring man with his home in New Haven Connecticut.

Soloman Davis applied August 11, 1847 while a resident of New Haven Connecticut for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the revolutionary war. He stated then that he enlisted between the middle of August and first of September 1780 and served in Captain Henry Daggett's company of the Coast Guard and was engaged in patrolling the coast in the vicinity of New Haven until about November and that he held himself in readiness for that duty whenever he might be called. This service was rendered as substitute for his father, Thomas Davis.

His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish
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proof of service as required by the pension aw under which he applied.

The soldier died in October 1848 survived by his widow, Mary who died in October 1850; they were married previous to 1800, but her maiden name and the date of their marriage were not given nor the names of any children.

In November 1852, the soldier's granddaughter, Jane A Thompson was the wife of George Thompson both of New Haven Connecticut he was then aged forty years.

There are no further data regarding the family of Soloman Davis.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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2765
Solomon Davis
REJECTED
Printed Volume - Rejected suspended Pensions page 78
Reason for suspension - no admissible evidence of service

1936 - Dec 21 - Hist to Raymond E Van Syckle - ILL
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211

Pension Office
August 23, 1847

Sir

The papers left here a few days since insufficient of the claim of Soloman Davis to a pension under the act of 7 June 1832 have been examined and filed.

Before any satisfactory adjustment of this claim can be made, Davis must set forth his service in more detail specifying the commencement and duration of each tour with the names of the field and company officers under whom he was rendered, the probable number of troops embodied, the battles in which he was engaged, where stationed, how substitute quartered and paid and particularly his daily log of duty. And also, the same of his time as a substitute and the amount rendered on his own account which should be sustained by the records in the company office at Hartford or by the testimony of two or more witnesses who were themselves in service with him, He must
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show also by satisfactory proof that he had arrived at an age that rendered him liable to be called on to perform militia duty.

A compliance with these requisites is rendered the more necessary in this case as it appears from claimants statement that he was but 15 years old at the time he entered the service as a substitute & that his service was rendered at home as a patrol for the purpose of guarding the neighborhood which must be shown to have been and to amount as the least of 6 months of actual military service come within the pension of the act of 7 June 1832.

No evidence that can be admitted has been provided in support of claimant's service

J.H. Bradley Esq
Present

J H Bradley
Aug 23, '47
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LETTERHEAD

Detroit Chapter
Sons of the American Revolution

Office of the Secretary
Detroit Michigan

STAMP RECEIVED Dec 17, 1936
Vets Admin

December 14, 1936

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Please advise revolutionary services and family date of Thomas Davis (wife Mary who with 3 sons enlisted from Somers, Tolland Co Conn" the names of his sons were:
1. Thomas Davis
2. Soloman Davis
3. Kitteridge Davis bn July 15, 1760, at Mansfield, Conn, mar Ann Beebe in Wilbraham Mass pensioned Aug 1, 1832, while res Enosburg VT died Feb 27, 1840 (Certif No 18880) S-10537
4. Daniel Davis bn 1764 died 1850

I have the Bureau of Pension record on No 3 Kitteridge Davis (1760-1840) of Enosburg, Vermont and particularly desire the record at this time of Soloman Davis.

Yours truly

Raymond E Van Syckle
Secretary
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37536
Soloman Davis
Con
Let to J H Bradley Esq
August 23, '47

2765

Act 7th June 1832
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