Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.15,567, for Deliverance Painter, Connecticut
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Conn.

Painter, Deliverance

S. 15567

Carded
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Connecticut N. 22,867
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Deliverance Painter
of Litchfield Co, in the State of Connecticut who was a Pr. Artil. in the company commanded by Captain Vanduren of the Regt. commanded by ___________ in the Connect. Troops for 1 year
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 50 Dollars ---- Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of December 1833 and sent to C.B. Phelps Woodbury Con.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833              125.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34.  25.00
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                                                                $150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim,     }
{ Act June 7, 1832.           }

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk 
Book E Vol. 3 Page 35

Order to Pay 5 April
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State of Connecticut }
Probate Court           }  District of Woodbury
On this 5 day of November 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury now in session at Woodbury in Litchfield County Deliverance Painter of Roxbury in said County of Litchfield and said District of Woodbury the said Painter being a resident of said Roxbury aged sixty nine years 25 Aug 1833 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 session 7 June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and service as herein stated viz.  That on the first day of January 1782 I enlisted into the company of the State Guards stationed at New Haven Connecticut commanded by Captain William Vandusen some times call Van Duzer for the period of one year.  said company was a company of Artillery.  Van Duzen continued to command said company until about the first of August.  John Warner was Lieutenant Lamberton Painter my father was Ensign.  This encampment of officers (continued)
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until about first of August when Capt. Van Duzen left the company and Lieutenant John Warner was made Captain of said company and my father was promoted to be Lieutenant.
I did duty as a private in said company until about the last of August 1781 or fore part of Sept. and was one night on guard at Lavin Ruch with seven others of the company under Nathaniel Kimberly the corporal when we were surprised by a party of British from Long Island and carried prisoners of War to Long Island and was imprisoned at Loyd's Neck in close prison and was kept and imprisoned until about the first week in January 1782 when I was exchanged.  All the party who was with me on guard are now dead except myself.  I did duty in said company from the 1 January 1781 to my capture consistently.
I was born at West Haven Con. now called Orange on 26 August 1764 I know of no record of my birth
I resided at West Haven now Orange until I removed to Roxbury in 1783 and have resided at Roxbury since and now reside there.  I lived at
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New Haven at the time of my enlistment no higher officer commanded than a Captain in the state guard at New Haven.
I did not receive any discharge from service.  I cannot find the pay or muster roll of the company after Van Duzen left it.  I can find no proof of my service after I was captured than Jeremiah Smith and Ezra Smith and William Storer whose depositions are annexed.
I am acquainted with Rev Fosacic Harrison of Roxbury Nathanial Sherman of said town (illegible) Jonah R. Eastman and others.
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The said Deliverance Painter hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.  Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Deliverance Painter
Edw. M. Phelps, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury
We, Fosdic Harrison, a clergyman, residing in the town of _______________ and Nathanial Sherman, residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Deliverance Painter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 69 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.  
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Nathaniel Sherman
Fosdic Harrison
Edw. M. Phelps Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury

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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Fosdic Harrison who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Roxbury and that Nathaniel Sherman who has also signed the same, is a resident of the town of Roxbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edw. M. Phelps, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury.

I Edward M. Phelps Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Deliverance Painter for a Pension.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Probate office, this Fifteenth day of November 1833.
Edw. M. Phelps, Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section.
3-525

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington D.C., Aug 1, 1921

In reply to your request of ___________________, received _________________ for a statement of the military history of Deliverance Painter a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for a pension on the file in this Bureau.  S. 15567

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Jan. 1, 1781

Length of Service.
1 year

Rank
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain.
Wm. Van Deursen
Jno. Warner

State.
Conn.

In Aug or Sept. was captured by British and held prisoner on Long Island until January 1782 when exchanged.

Battles engaged in, none stated.

Residence of Soldier at enlistment, West Haven (later Orange) Conn.

Date of application of pension, Nov. 5, 1833 Cl. Al.

Residence at date of application, Roxbury Litchfield Co. Conn

Age at date of application, B. Aug 26, 1764 in West Haven, Conn.

Remarks:  Soldier was the sun of Lamberton Painter - no further family data.

Respectfully, Commissioner
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15567
File No. 15567
Deliverance Painter
Pri. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 290

1921, Aug. 1 Hist. to Mrs. H.O. Pope, EW
Letter in S.18536 Thos. Painter
1921 Apl. 27 Hist to Mildred Painter EW
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Deliverance Painter
Conn. 
Coast Guard Artillery
28669

Admit 12 Mo private and artillery
$50

Reply to W.B. Phelps Esq.
Woodbury Co
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State of Connecticut, County of New Haven New Haven Oct. 30th AD 1833

I Jn Beach, Clerk of the County Court in and for said New Haven County, hereby certify that Nehemiah Kimberly is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New Haven County, and duly qualified to administer oaths, and that his name written and subscribed to the affidavits or depositions hereto annexed is his genuine official signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court the day and date above written
Jn Beach Clerk
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I William Stover of the City and County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged sixty eight years and six months, depose and say that some time in the month of July 1832 I obtained of William Vandeursen of the City of Middletown in said State the loan of a copy of the pay roll of a company of artillery State guards raised by the authority of the State of Connecticut in the year 1781. and stationed at New Haven in said state and in the command of the Capt. William Vandeursen (father of the said William Vandeursen Esq) in the War of the Revolution for the term of seven months from the first day of January 1781 to the first day of August, 1781.  On said pay roll I find the name of Deliverance Painter, returned, enlisted January 1st 1781.  Served until August 1st 1781.  Term of Service returned, seven months, and I further depose and say that I personally knew said Capt. Vandeursen at the time he commanded in New Haven in the year 1781.  His company was stationed at the same ports, which Capt. Bradley's company (of which I was a member) was stationed the year before, and I well remember that in consequence of a general disaffection in the company toward Capt. Vandeursen that he left the company in the summer, and John Warner, who was 1st Leut under Capt. Vandeursen was appointed Capt. of said company and continued in command until the expiration of the term for which said company was enlisted, which according to my best recollection was on the 1st day of January 1782.  
William Stover
New Haven County at Orange 30th October 1833 the aforesaid deponant was cautioned and sworn according to law by Mr. Nehemiah Kimberly Justice of the Peace
This may certify that I am well acquainted with said Deponant and that I know him to be a man of truth and veracity
Nehemiah Kimberly Justice of the Peace
I William Stover to farther depose and say that Capt. John Warner the last commander of the above mentioned company in 1781 has been dead many years, and I have made diligent enquiries at the proper office in Hartford of the relatives of his family in New Haven and of the successors of his administrations but cannot find any papers related to his military services and further this deponant saith not 
William Stover
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I Jeremiah Smith of Orange in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged eight seven years, depose and say that in the War of the Revolution in the year 1781, I was an enlisted soldier in the company of artillery, State guards, raised by authority of the State of Connecticut and stationed at New Haven in said State, the fore part of the year, under command of Capt. William Vandeursen, and the latter part of the year, after Capt. Vandeursen had resigned, Lieut. John Warner was appointed Capt of said company, and I served under him the remainder of the year, and if my memory serves me our whole term of service in that company was twelve months, from Jan 1st 1781 to Jan 1st 1782.  Ad the Deponent further saith that to his personal knowledge Deliverance Painter was an enlisted soldier and did duty in said company the whole term of one year, with the exception of three or four months the latter part of the year, when said Painter was a prisoner on Long Island, the guard then on duty at Savin Road of which said Painter was one, were surprised and taken prisoner with several inhabitants, by some armed vessel from Long Island, and were there held as prisoners until they were exchanged several months after
Jeremiah Smith (X his mark)

New Haven County at Orange 30th October 1833 the aforesaid Deponant was cautioned and sworn according to law by me -
Nehemiah Kimberly Justice (illegible)
This may certify that I well acquainted with the said Deponent and know him to be a man of truth
Nehemiah Kimberly Justice of the Peace
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I Ezra Smith of Orange in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged sixty-nine years, depose and say that from early youth I have been well acquainted with Deliverance Painter now of Roxbury in said state of Connecticut, we were born in West Haven now a part of the town Orange and were intimately acquainted, untill said Painter moved to Roxbury some years after the close of the War of the Revolution. Altho I was never a soldier with him, yet I well remember that in the war of the Revolution, in the year 1781, said Painter did enlist into a company of Artillery then commanded by Cap't Vandenuzen, but the latter part of the year commanded by Cap't John Warner, Cap't Vandeurzen as I then understood having resigned on account of a disaffection in the company towards him, as a part of said company was stationed in West Haven under charge Quiet Lamberton Painter, Father of the said Deliverance I frequently saw him on duty, and know that he served in said company, untill he was taken a prisoner with the whole guard then on duty with him at Savin Rock and several of the inhabitants of West Haven were taken with them, among whom was the Father of this deponant - this guard was taken by some armed vessels from Long Island in the month of Sept 1791. and were holdin as prisoners about four or five months until they were exchanged. 
Ezra Smith.
New Haven County ss Orange 30th October 183? The aforesaid Ezra Smith was cautioned and Sworn according to Law by me Nehemiah Kimberly Justice of the Peace
This may Certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponant and that I know him to be a man of truth + veracity
Nehemiah Kimberly Justice of the Peace
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Stamp:

Record Division
MAR 27 1922
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Eugene Whiting
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Fulton County
Lewistown, Illinois

March 24, 1922

Commissioner of Pension,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Can you give me any information about the Revolutionary War Record of Deliverance Painter, who was a member of Van Deursen's Company of Connecticut State Guards and enlisted in 1781?
Mr. P.C. Harris, Adjutant General at Washington tells me that their records are incomplete and that perhaps you could give me some additional information.
If you will advise me what your charges are I will remit at once.
Thanking you for an early reply, I am
Yours respectfully,
Mildred Painter

 [Stamp affixed, lower right corner of letter]
                                    PENSION
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                                        MAR
                                 U.      27       S.
                                        1922
                                       OFFICE
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Painter, Edward
Private
New York

Warrant Number 7621
Acreage 100
Issued Jan. 5, 1791
to Jonathan Shephard, Assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.