Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 907, Ambrose Blakeslee, Conn.
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Service 
Conn. 

Blakeslee, Ambrose 

Number 
R. 907
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and Seal of Office, this 8th day of August 1842.
Samuel T Salisbury 
Clerk
No.35.382
Ambrose Blackslee
Con:
act 7 Jan ‘32
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State of Connecticut 
County of Litchfield 
On this 8th day of August 1842 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the district of Plymouth in said County now sitting Ambrose Blakeslee a resident of Plymouth in said County and State aged Eighty 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 is, I the said Blakeslee testify declare and say the I entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as a private soldier as herein stated. 
About the middle of July 1779 imm3ediat3ly after the burning of Norwalk in Connecticut I was drafted for one month and entered the service of the United States under Colonel Andrew Adams then of Litchfield in this State. Capt. Josiah. Phelps of Harwinton. In this State, being commander of the company in which I served. The name of the Lieutenant and Ensign I cannot recollect. Colonel Noah Phelps of the Linsbury [?] commanded another Regiment of the State troops at the same time stationed in the vicinity where I served. Immediately. After being drafted I marched from said Harwinton. Where I then resided, to said Norwalk and served as a patrol and sentry along the coast on Long Island Sound to Stamford, and HorseNeck in the State of New York, and at Horseneck having served the one month for which I was drafted I was discharged by parol [?] about the middle of August 1779.  
I was in no battle at this time and did not know any Continental officers and served with no Continental regiments or Companies. I have no documentary evidence of the service and know of no person living. By whom I can prove the same from age and consequent loss of memory
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I cannot state the precise time when I entered or left the service at this time but know and do testify that I served one month from about the middle of July to about the. Middle of August in the year 1779  and for that claim a pension. 
I was drafted again about the middle of July 1781 and immediately entered the service under Capt. Alexander Cathie, Lieutenant Gogg, and Ensign Rettle and orderly Sergeant Harrison. Immediately after being. Drafted I marched from Harwinton aforesaid where I then resided to New Haven in this State and kept guard the. And along the coast on Long Island Sound and did patrol duty till the middle of December the same year. At this time I was with no continental Regiment or companies, and did not know any Continental Officers, and had no written discharge. I was in no battle. I have no documentary evidence of this service and do not know of any person living by whom I can prove the same from age and consequent loss of memory.  I cannot state the precise time when I entered or left the service at this period but know and do testify then a served as a private soldier five months from about the middle of July 1781 till the middle of December 1781 and for this claim a pension.  
The reason why I have not heretofore applied for a pension is that till within a short time I supposed I must prove my services by two witness which I could not procure.
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I was born in Harwinton in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut on the 21st day of. June 1762, but my birth is not recorded except in the old family bible of my father, and I resided in said Harwinton when called into service and continued to reside there until about the year 1785 when I went to reside in New Marlborough where I resided about ten years when I [illegible] to Plymouth in Connecticut where I still reside.  I am known to William. Watson and Giles Fenn of said Plymouth who can testify to my character for truth and veracity as a soldier of the Revolution.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that. My name is. Not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed the and year aforesaid 
Ambrose Blakeslee
We M Watson, a clergyman residing in the town. Of Plymouth aforesaid, and Giles Fenn residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ambrose Blakeslee who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be eighty 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, 
Wm. Watson
Giles Fenn
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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, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Watson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Plymouth aforesaid, are that Giles Fenn who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Sam T. Salisbury Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Plymouth aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Ambrose Blackslee for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this 8th day of August 1842.
Samuel T. Salisbury
Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield      S S
On this 18th day of February
1852 before me a judge of the court of probate in and for the District of Stratford in the court 
will aforesaid, personally appeared Asa Blakeslee of the town of Stratford in said county. Who being duly sworn declares and says he that he is the child of 
Ambrose Blakeslee of the town of Plymouth
in the county of Litchfield, the identical 
person who was a soldier of the war of the Revolution and who applied for a pension under act of the 7 June 1832, and whose claim was suspended.
? or rejected, that he died on the 10th day of December 1846, leaving the following surviving 
children only Mrs. Aseph H. Blakeslee and Mindwell? ngee?, and leaving no widows,
That the object of this declaration is to ask 
that the proofs in and by clerk by the said Ambrose Blakeslee claim during his life time may be examined and that the amount due at the time of his death may now be allowed to his surviving children.  
Asaph H. Blakeslee
Main card was given up 
John Goulding
Judge of Probate
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield SS


I John Goulding  Judge of the Court of
Probate within and for the District of Stratford
in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it has been satisfactorily proved before me by [illegible] on a credible testimony, that Ambrose
Blakeslee formerly of the town of Plymouth in
the County of Litchfield, was and is reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and an applicant for pension from the United States; that he died on the first day December 1846, leaving no widow, and that Aseph H Blakeslee and Mindwell Forge are the children and the only surviving children of the said Ambrose Blakeslee
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of this
Court of Probate this 18th day of [illegible]
1852
John Goulding
Judge of
Probate of the District
Stratford
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Ambrose Blackslee
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No35382
[illegible]
Let to Calvin Butler Aug 25, '42 [checkmark above]
Hon H Bennett 8 June 1832
907
Act 7. June '32
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Aug 24. 1842 [superimposed on stamp]
Ct.
[signature] Ambrose Blakeslee

[written sideways] S. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Plymouth Conn. August 22, 1842
Dear Sir
Please communicate with me
at this place
Yours very Respectfully
Calvin Butler
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[Signature] Ambrose Blakeslee
[illegible]
Act '32 [illegible abbreviation] [illegible; seems to be initials]
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Be it known, that on this 16th day of January A.D. 1854 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared 1 Asaph H. Blakeslee
resident of 2 Stratford in said County, and made oath according to law that 3 he is the legal heir of Ambrose Blakeslee the ^ identical man who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 4 [blank]
that 5 he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of 6 said Ambrose Blakeslee for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes therein expressed and do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. 
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
7 Asaph H Blakeslee
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe said 8 Asaph H. Blakeslee to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Bradley Gould  Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Courts of Fairfield County that 8 Asaph H. Blakeslee the party who has sworn to and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the 10 Identical son & ^child of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that 11 Bradley Gould Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my and affixed my seal of Office, this Sixteenth day of January 1854
12 [signature} Nigel Coble [handwritten] Clerk
[shown but illegible is the Seal of the Clerk]

1. Claimant's name or names in full 2. Post Office address.
3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man" or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c, &c.
4. Leave this line blank. 5. "He is," "she is," or "they are." 6. Revolutionary soldier's full name. 7. Claimant's signature 8. Claimant's name 9. Magistrate's signature.
10 "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."  11. Magistrate's name. 12. Clerk's signature
N. B. - Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.