Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3552, Elijah Whipple, Conn. Continental
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Service
Conn
Continental

Whipple, Elijah

Number
S.3552

Carded
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+ O. Pittsbg
+ Connecticut. 22502
Elijah Whipple

of Preston in the State of Conct
who was a Private in the co. commanded
by Captain Tyler of the Rgt commanded
by Col. Huntinger in the Connect.
line for 10 mos.

Conn Contl: Records corrected Mar 14 '04
Inscribed on the Roll of Connect. C
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to James Leaman, Norwich, Ct

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833           83.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 dec 34, 16.66
$99.99
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm R Palmer Clerk
Book E Vol. 8 Page 47.

Ani Hon. N. Barber March
21, 1834

Transfer circular sent to P. Agt
at Hartford, Con. Aug 12. 1835

To O. Pittsburgh,  fr 4 Mar. '35
-Sept. 2 1835
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State of Connecticut, County of New London
 Ss City of Norwich

On this day the tenth of September AD 1832. Personally appeared in open court before the city court of said city being a Court of Record. Elijah Whipple a Resident of the town of Preston in said  county and state aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare and make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 4th AD 1832.

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

In the month of May AD 1775 the day of the month is not recollected he enlisted as a soldier under lieutenant Ebenezer Brewster in the Revolutionary War at a village in said town of Preston called Paquattannock, he thinks, at the house of Capt. Jonathon Brewster for the term of seven months in the company of Lieutenant Col. John Tyler as it was called, and belonging to the Brigade of General Samuel Holden Parsons, all then of Connecticut and as he believes now deceased. that he went through Groton and crossed the river Thames at New London immediately after said enlistment, having staied in Groton meeting house the first night and the next morning pitched our tents at Winthrops Point in New London under command of said Parsons after serving a short time there, say two or three weeks, as well as
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he can recollect. He moved on by companies thu the towns of Groton, Johnstown, Providence, and  Dedham, to Roxbury immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill, which he thinks was on the 16th day of June, and encamped about half a mile west of the meeting house in Roxbury and continued on or about the same station either in tents or barracks under the command of said Parsons during the whole term for which said enlistment was made an adjutant of our Regiment was James Day. Said Day was, it is believed. as Englishman brot to this country by Capn John Lamb from Gibraltar where he had been in military service, and had acted as it was said as a drill sergeant. The troops while at Roxbury, were always ready for any duty but were engaged in no action. The declarant was discharged at Roxbury about the 10th of December following, he thinks by writing, but the discharge is lost. He returned home to his mother who then lived in Stonington immediately there after.
Afterwards he the said Whipple enlisted to service as a soldier in the Continental Army for one year from the last day of December 1778, unless sooner discharged. The paper annexed here unto containing the name of said Whipple with thirty other persons is dated October 1778 but the day when said Whipple signed it, he does not recollect, but of this he is certain that about the first of January AD !&&^ he proceeded from home, on horseback accompanied by Joseph Ames, to the town of Providence. Said Ames returned home with the horse. The declarant rode, and he proceeded to Roxbury on foot to join the troops. He joined the Regiment of Col. Frederick Huntington, then in Barracks not far from the meeting house in Roxbury. Here he served
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until the month of April following, during which time no conflict occurred with the enemy other than occasional cannonading. The troops left the declarant among the sick when they broke up and about a week after they left. The declarant returned home to Stonington. His widowed mother requested him to remain with her and the declarant, accordingly procured a substitute whose name was Simeon Denison. Said Denison was to serve the residue of the term of Sd Whipple, and he thereupon joined the army in the state of New York whither it had moved and died in the service about the month of October following.
Our Captain during the second campaign was Jonathon Brewster. Ebenezer Huntington he thinks was a major in the Regiment.
Said Whipple relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state.
Interrogatory 1:
Where and in what year were you born?
Answer: In the year 1753. June 16th.
2nd: Have you any record of your age and ifso where is it?
Answer: I know of no such record.
3rd: Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer: I lived myself at the village of Paquatannoc in the town of Preston, but my mother lived at Stonington. Have lived in Preston chiefly ever since, and now reside in said town.
4th: How were you called into service; did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer: By voluntary enlistment as above stated.
5th: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops, where you served, & each Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the General circumstances of you services?
Answer: As far as recalled I have stated them in  the foregoing declaration.
Answer to the 6th interrogatory: I can add nothing further than is contained in my foregoing declaration other than that I believe, James Lord Col by last clerk signed the deposition
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Signed by Elijah Whipple
Sworn and Subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open court
Attest Alex Lathrop  Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Ames who has signed the preceding Certificate is a resident in the Town of Preston and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit and the Court further certified that Peter Williams who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Groton and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to Credit

State of Connecticut
City of Norwich

I Alexander Lathrop clerk of the Court of the city of Norwich do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elijah Whipple for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said city court this 10th day of September AD 1832
Alex Lathrop Clerk
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at a city court of the city of Norwich in New London County holden in said city on the 8th day of July 1833

I her by certify that the court found the facts in the annexed declaration of Elijah Whipple to be all true and I do further certify that Hon James Lanman is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of New London and residing in the Town of Norwich
And that the Revd Nathan B Burgiss is a clergyman and Jonathon Brewster who have signed the preceding certificates are credible persons and that Joseph Ames and Peter Williams who have signed the preceding certificates are credible persons. The reason of the first certificate being canceled is the subsequent preceding of the said Court and new certificate and finding under seal all which will fully appear.
Certified by
Alex Lathrop Clerk

State of Connecticut
City of Norwich

I Alexander Lathrop Clerk of the city court of the city of Norwich do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Elijah Whipple for a pension.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 8 day of July 1833
Alex Lathrop Clerk
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I hereby certify that I am the Episcopal Clergy man settled in the town of Preston and village of Poquatannock in New London County. That I have been here but about five years and that I verily believe by reputation that his age ^ of Elijah Whipple is eighty years and that the general belief in the neighborhood is that he was engaged in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary service. dated at Preston July 5th 1833
Nathan B Burgiss, Rector of St James Church

sworn before me

I hereby certify that the general belief in this neighborhood is that he was ^ Elijah Whipple aforesaid
engaged in the revolutionary service in the army of the United States in the time of the war for independence and that I verily believe that he is eighty years of age in testimony whereof I bearunto set my hand this fifth day of July AD 1833
Jona Brewster

State of Connecticut
New London County Ss
Preston July 5th AD 1833
Personally appeared the above named Revd Nathan B Burgiss and Jona Brewster Esq both of whom are known to me to be persons of much respectability and made solemn oath to the truth of the declarations aforesaid by those severally inscribed
which I attest
James Lanmen Justice of the Peace for
New London County Aforesaid.
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the declaration of Elijah Whipple made under oath and before the city court of the city of Norwich aforesaid, in addition to that heretofore made in answer to the 4th brief objection in the terms following: viz
4th: Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
His answer is that he served seven months in the first year of the war, as a private soldier, and that the next year being the second year of the war he actually served four months, at Roxbury, and was there when our army left Roxbury, and as applicable to the 5th brief objection, he says that he served in the grade of a Private only and for the term of four months the whole of which period of service was at Roxbury.
Elijah Whipple

Sworn and subscribed to in open court this 8 day of July 1833
attest
Alex Lathrop Clerk
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To the 
City Court in Norwich
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Elijah Whipple
12.138
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I Peter Williams of Groton and county of New London and state of Connecticut of seventy seven years of age being duly sworn do depose and say that I enlisted as a private in Capt. Abel Spiers company and annext to Col. Samuel H Parsons Regiment for the term of seven months in the year 1775 and stationed at Roxbury & about Boston in Massachusetts.
During which time I was well acquainted with Elijah Whipple of Preston in the aforesaid State & County and knowing to his service in the revolutionary struggle for a term of seven months at Roxbury in Massachusetts and served in the same regiment with myself
And further the deponent saith not
Dated at Groton July the 14th AD 1832
Peter Williams

New London County ss: Groton July the 14th 1832 personally appeared Mr. Peter Williams and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me 
William M Williams Justice of the Peace

The court are of opinion that the fore going affidavit is true and entitled to credit and belief
Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk

memorandum
There is no clergyman in Whipples Parrish acquainted with him
The former minister White is deceased
Certified 
James Lanman 
Mayor of Norwich
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Warren
Aug 6

Elijah Whipple
for transfer 
Ct to Ohio
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Application for a Transfer
The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
On this 30th day of July 1835 before the subscriber a justice of the peace for the said county of Trumbull personally appeared Elijah Whipple who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Brewster in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension rolls of the state of Connecticut from where he has lately removed that he now resides in the county of Trumbull and the state of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future (Pittsburgh). The following are his reasons for removing from Connecticut to Ohio his children living in Ohio removed to live with them
Elijah Whipple

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Linus Tracy Justice of the Peace
Also personally came Joseph Whipple who on his oath declares that he is personally acquainted with Elijah Whipple the pensioner who has subscribed the above affidavit and knows him to be the identical person he represents himself to be
Joseph Whipple
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I hereby certify that the witness Joseph Whipple names in the foregoing certificate is a man of truth and veracity
Linus Tracy Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify yjay Linus Tracy Esquire whose signature in his own proper handwriting is subscribed to the above and foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said state and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at the Town of Warren this sixth day of August Anno Domini 1835
George Parsons Clerk
By Geo Parsons Jr Deputy
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12.138

Elijah Whipple
12 302

66.66
16.67
83.33

Red 4.5.14

Please return 
the brief

Adm 10. months
$33.33

James Lanmer
Norwich. Connt
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Brief in the case of Elijah Whipple
of Preston in the state of Connt
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. how old is he?  Seventy nine years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period-
enlisted in 1775 May
(1776)  1778 Dec 31 to Apl

Duration of Service-
7 months

Rank-
_

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served-
Gen.
Lt. Brewster, Col Tyler, Genl Purney
Capt J Brewster, Col Huntington

5. In what battles was he engaged?  none

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Preston, village Paquatannoc

7. ---his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by ---incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Peter Williams proves the 7 mos service in 1775.
---cidental evidence a paper dated in 1775 & a cert of Jas Ames

8. ---the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

D Rintz Examining Clerk
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10. An enlistment paper signed by thirty persons and bearing date October, 1775. The applicant for pension, whose name appears thereon, states that he enlisted in December, 1775, and served in Jonathon Brewster's company, Colonel Jeddiah Huntington's regiment, in the Continental Army. Taken from the claim of Elijah Whipple, No. 3,552.

War Dept
Apr 20 1904
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Return This
29 Oct 1903
Dear Sir
Kindly give me the Pention Record of Elijah Whipple whose wife was Elizabeth Demmien 
he was born in Groton & died in Preston Conn
& O___

Mrs F W Shafer
183 Regent St
Saratoga Spgs
N.Y.

over page
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Elijah Whipple served in the Revolutionary War in Col Samuel Holden Parsons 6th Reg; 2nd co from 8 May to 16 Dec 1775 and in Capt Jonathon Brewsters co. Col Jedediah Huntingtons Reg 1776 & drew a pension in 1832.

Mrs FW Shafer

Nov 6 1903 

US Pension Office
Nov 4 1903
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3552
INVALID
File No. 3552
Elijah Whipple
Privt Rev War

Act: June 7 1832
Index:- Vol. A, Page 402
[Arrangement of 1870]

Nov 13 - 1903 - His to 
Mrs FW Shafer
Saratoga Spgs N.Y.

Apr 3 of 04 Paper to War
Dept. memo within

1920. Nov 20 Hist to
Elizabeth W White - En
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BRIEF objectives to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Elijah Whipple which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  YES

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  YES

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so ?  ---

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  NO

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  NO

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  YES

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  YES

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  YES

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  YES

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  YES
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  NO

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  A memorandum record only

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  YES
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  YES for p__
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  NO

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  YES

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  ANSWERED

EXPLANITOTY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. 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; For ___ year ____months, and ____days. I served as a ____ Fo r___months____and ____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for claims merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in he field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are requires to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

Elijah Whipple
August 15 1835

James Dodd
Transfer

D. Conl.
Aug 18
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Pension Agency
Hartford 15th August 1835

Sir
Elijah Whipple (private) a pensioner on the roll of this Agency under the Act of 7th June 1832 at $33.33 per annum was last paid to the 4th of March 1835

Very Respectfully,
Your Mo Obedient Servant
James Dodd
By H Fowler Clerk
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Elijah Whipple's
declaration
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I Joseph Ames of the town of Preston do certify that I am acquainted with Elijah Whipple. the aforesaid applicant & that I [am pers]onally acquainted with his [---] of the duty specified [---] December tour to Roxbury - & that his statement aforesaid is entitled to full credit & belief.

September 10 # 1832
Joseph Ames

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk

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 named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Ames who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Preston and that Peter Williams who has also signed the same is a resident on the town of Groton and are credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
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I Alexander Lathrop clerk of the city court of the city of Norwich do hereby certify yjay yje foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elijah Whipple for a Pension: In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this 10th day of September AD 1832

Alex Lathrop Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section  3-525

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C. Nov 20, 1920

In reply to your request of ___, received ___ for a statement of the military history of ELijah Whipple 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.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
May 1775

Dec 31, 1775

Length of Service
7 mos.

4 mos.

Rank
Pvt

Officers under Whom Service was Rendered
Captain

Lt Ebenezer Brewster
Abel Spicer
Jonathon Brewster

Colonel

Jno. Tyler
Saml H Parsons
Jedidiah Huntington

State
Conn.

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Paquatanuck, Preston, New London Co, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Sept 10,1832, cl al
Residence at date of application, Preston, Conn
Age at date of application. b June 16, 1753
Remarks: He refers to returning to Stonington, Conn in 1776 to live with his widowed mother, names of parents not stated, and in 1835 refers to having removed to Trumbull Co, Ohio to live with his children, name sof wife and children not stated
Respectfully,

Commissioner
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Fitch's Point
South Norwalk,
Conn.

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly give me the data of family of Elijah Whipple Conn - Continental Armies - Pensioned Sept 28th 1833
S.3552 New London County
Conn

Thanking you the farm, I am yours truly
Elizabeth Strevs White

US Pension Office Oct 20 1920