Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15514, for Eleazer Lyman, Vermont
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(S - 1776)

SERVICE
Vt.

Lyman, Eleazer

NUMBER
S 15514
carded

CONTENTS
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28271
Vermont N. 28271

Eleazer Lyman 
of Rutland in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Fish ___ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Flecher in the Vermont line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 30 Dollars ---- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of April 1834 and R. Temple 

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834...3 0.00
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4. Sept."... 15.00 
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 75

Let to agenet [re: arrr's] pay & [notice] to pension 1 July 1835
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This may certify that Eleazer Lyman was a soldier in the fort in this town which was kept in this town [illegible insert] in the year 1781 and that he was often at our house to get baking and washing Dun for his Brother Isaac Lyman who was a Lieut. at the same time and place in Col Fletcher's Regiment.
witness my hand Rebeca Hickok
Dated
Castleton
July the 10
Day 1832
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Eleazer Lyman
9 Mo.
2449

9w Private 
30

R Temple Esq
Rutland
Vt
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State of Vermont
Rutland ss --- 3

On this 18th day of July 1832, personally came
Jonas Rice Esq. to me well known & a credible
witness, who being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is acquainted with Eleazer Lyman
who made the foregoing declaration & all
acquainted with him during the Revolutionary
War -- and that he recollects him as a soldier
in Capt. Fish; Company of said Regt in 1787
most of the nine months as stated by him &
has no doubt he served nine months as he
States, & was a waiter to his brother Lt. Lyman
Sworn before me the day & year aforesaid
R. Temple per. Diem 

State of Vermont 
I, Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of the County Court do certify, that Robert Temple before whom the above aforesaid was taken, to in Justice of the new Diem duly Commissioned, & that his name
thereto is in his own hand writing

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said County this 18 day of
July 1832
R. Pierpoint
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STATE OF VERMONT,
RUTLAND COUNTY, ss. }

On this 18 day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland is now sitting, Eleazer Lyman, a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 65 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 7, 1832.

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

In 1781 he lived in Halifax, Vermont & his
brother Isaac Lyman was a Lieut. in Capt. Josiah Fish: Company in Col. Fletcher: Regt of Vermont troops, & in March of the year the deponent enlisted into said company for nine
months & served as waiter to his brother during said term of nine months-- marched to Castleton, where he served & assisted in building the Fort then-- Lieut. Rice who is now present belonged to the same Regiment. There were no other troops there-- he has no documentary evidence, but Lieut. Rice can
testify to his services. He was born at Lebanon
Crank, Connecticut 30. Jany. 1781 where he understood his birth was recorded-- it is also recorded in a book at home. Since the revolutionary war he has lived in Vermont
except five years he resided in Hartford, New York, about 30 years ago, and for the last twenty years he has resided in Castleton. He is known to the Rev. W. Steel, of whom Church he is a member & to most of the inhabitants of that town.
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He 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.

Eleazer Lyman
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. C. Royce Regr

We, Joseph Steele a Clergyman residing in Castleton
and David Eaton residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Eleazer Lyman who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be 65 years of age; that he is reputed and believed,
in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

David Eaton
Joseph Steele

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. C. Royce Regr

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 Joseph Steele who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Castleton and that Daniel Eaton
who has also signed the same, is a resident in Castleton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Rodney C. Royce Regr of the Court of Probate
do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of Eleazer Lyman
for a Pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this
6th day of August A.D. 1882
R. C. Royce Regr
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Eleaser Lyman
additional proof
Get Rejected case
Vermont
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I Elias Hall of Castleton in the County of Rutland
and State of Vermont of lawful age, being duly
sworn, depose testify and say, that in the year
1781. I was a Lieutenant in Capt. James Brookin’s
 Company in Col. Samuel Fletcher’s regiment, and
stationed in Carleton aforesaid, and that I there
knew Isaac Lyman who was then a Lieutenant
in Josiah Fish's Company in the same regiment,
and that his brother was then his water, whose
Christian name I since find to be Eleazer, and
further say that the said Eleazer Lyman was an
Able bodied man and was mustered and did duty
as a soldier whenever called so to do, in said Fish’s
Company and said Fletcher's regiment for the time
Of nine months in said year 1781, and that said
Eleazer Lyman now lives in said Carleton and has
lived there for about twenty years last passed
and further say not.
Elias Hall

State of Vermont  Castleton 13 November AD 1833.
Kirtland County  Then personally appeared Elias
Hall the Subscriber to the foregoing affidavit and
made solemn oath that the same is true
Before me.  S.H. Merrill Justice of the Peace
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I, Jonas Rice, of [Wells] in the county of Rutland,
State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do
depose testify and say that in the year 1781 I was a
Lieutenant in Col Samuel & Fletcher’s Regiment and stationed
in Castleton in the County aforesaid. And that I then knew
Eleazer Lyman now of Castleton aforesaid who was mustered
and did duty as a soldier in Josiah Fish’s Company
and on the said Fletcher’s Regiment for nine months in
the year aforesaid. That the said Lyman was an able bodied
man and an efficient soldier during the time aforesaid
And I further say that said Lyman enlisted as a waiter to
his Brother Isaac Lyman who was a Lieutenant in
Captain Josiah Fish's Company and said Fletcher’s Regiment, 
Yet said Eleazer did soldier’s duty whenever called so to do
and was fully equipt as a soldier.
Jonas Rice

State of Vermont
Rutland County SS
[Onwell] Novr 10th 1833 then personally
heard Jonas Rice the subscriber to the foregoing affidavit
and made solemn oath that the same is true
before me Roswell Bolton Jr Justice Peace

State of Vermont
I, Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of Rutland
County Court do certify, that Roswell
Bolton & Selah H. Merrill, before
whom the foregoing affidavits were
taken are Justices of the Peace for
said County, duly commissioned and
that their names thereto, are in their
own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
& fix the seal of said Court this 14 Nov. 1833
R Pierpoint
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This testimony has been
Returned because the
Clerk’s Cert is not attached
by tape & passed under the
seal as prescribed.
by pension regulation.
Mr. Leigh will [have] the
[Gen??] to correct it
& return it to [him] at
Rutland, Vt.
R. Temple
Aug. 17, 1883

This sheet of paper has never
been separated
R. Temple
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State of New York, County of Washington ss
On this Eleventh day of June 1833 before me Slade D Brown a
 Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally appeared
Deidamia Arnold a resident of the Town of Hartford in the County
Of Washington aforesaid aged Sixty ['years' is crossed out and referenced on next page] Eight years who being first duly
sworn according to law doth depose & say that she is
well acquainted with Eleazer Lyman who is aged about Sixty Six
Years & who is now a resident of the Town of Castleton in the State 
of Vermont. That she well knew said Lyman in the time of the Revolutionary 
War & from Childhood. And further that said Lyman enlisted as a soldier in the
 Revolutionary service in the year 1881 & sometime in the Spring of
that year but she cannot tell the precise day or month. That she was in the
room at the house of Benjamin Lyman the father of said Eleazer at the time of
 said enlistment. That said Eleazer Lyman enlisted for the term of Nine Months
under Lieutenant Isaac Lyman whose company belonged to the 
the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Samuel Fletcher
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That said Eleazer Lyman resided in the
Town of Halifax in Vermont at the
time of his said Enlistment & that
he went into service soon after & was
absent & reputed to be serving out
said term while absent & she has
no doubt did serve it out fully.
& that said Eleazer returned to his
family in December 1781 or in
January 1782. The word ’years’ erased
in the 6th line from the top before sworn
to & the word ‘enlisted’ interlined between
the 16th & 17th lines from top before sworn to.

Deidamia Arnold

Sworn to this 11th June 1833. Before me.
Slade D Brown Justice of the Peace 

State of New York, Washington County ss
I certify that on the 11th Day
Of June 1833 Before me personally
appeared the above named Deidamia
Arnold who is well known to me & who made
solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition &
also certify that she is a credible witness & in my opinion
 her statement is entitled to full faith & credit.
Slade D. Brown
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County SS
 I, Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the said County do certify
that Slade D. Brown Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit
purports to have been sworn was at the time a Justice of the
 Peace of said County and that I am acquainted with his hand
writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said
affidavit and to the above certificate of credibility of the said
Deidamia Arnold, to be his proper hand writing & signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said
County this 12th day of June 1833
J. S. Leigh Clk
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Castleton
Feb 11
[25 is lined out] 
Free 

To Mr. J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Aft [affadavit?] Feb 16
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Castleton Vt. 10, Feb. 1835.
To J.L. Edwards Comr of Pensions,

In consequence of your letter to Mr. Slade M.C. I write
the following statement. That I enlisted in the spring of
1781 in Capt Josiah Fish’s company in Col. Samuel
Fletcher’s Regt of Vt. State troops, as a private, in the town
Halifax in the County of Windham in this State for a
 term of nine months. Was stationed in this town at Fort
Warner for the time aforesaid.  That the Regt I belonged to
with others, was under the command of Genl Enos.  That I belonged
in said Halifax during my service aforesaid.  Was engaged
 in no action. That I resided in this town when I applied for
 a pension and the testimony taken for me
was exhibited to the Probate Court in the district of Rutland.
The amount of my pension is thirty dollars per annum, and
 has been paid up to the 4 Sept. last.

Respectfully yours
Eleazer Lyman
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15.514
INVALID.

File No. 15.514
Eleazer Lyman
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7"" 32
Index: -- Vol.  1 Page 231
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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This may testify that i have been personally
acquainted with Mr. Eleazer Lyman for the last
 twenty years. He has always been reputed as
one of the Revolutionary soldiers. And that he
served six months [or more] in the Military
 garrison in this town. And that he is considered
 a man of truth and veracity.
Benjm Carver
Castleton [illegible insert] July 1832

Subscribed and sworn
before me 31 July 1832
S.H. Merrill Jus. Peace
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Eleazer Lyman
Ad. declaration & proof
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I Jonas Rice of Orwell County of Rutland and State of Vermont
of lawful age being duly sworn do depose testify and say
that although in a former affidavit of mine I said that
Eleazer Lyman did duty in the army of the Revolution as a
waiter, yet I did not mean to be understood that he enlisted
as such, but that he was detailed as such from the ranks
and served as a waiter. I stated in my affidavit (I think)
that he was young, perhaps not over sixteen years of age
when he enlisted, which was the facts yet he was large
Stout and able bodied. healthy and fully able to do military
duty. He was enroll’d and mustered, and did perform duty
in the ranks as a soldier untill he was detailed as a waiter
and afterwards he often did soldier’s duty and carried a
Musket. At one time I recollect the officer on whom he waited
was absent from the army on furlough in consequence of
health near three months, during which time he said Eleazer
did soldiers duty in the ranks, and I have no doubt but
that he was regularly enlisted as a soldier and had ought
to be allow’d as such. I further say that Col Fletcher's Regiment
was raised in the year 1781, for nine months, by the State or
then territory of Vermont and served out their time at the
Fort in Castleton Vt. and was employed to garrison the Fort,
and in scouting to protect the frontier and that from the
difficulty in obtaining men, it was a common occurrence
that boys who were stout and able bodied were enlisted at
the age of fourteen & fifteen years. That they were frequently
as good and effective soldiers for such service as men and
further I say that I served as a Lieutenant in the same
Regiment with the said Eleazer and that a good share of the
 time I quartered in same Barrack with him. And further
I say not.
Jonas Rice

State of Vermont
Rutland County  Orwell March 28th 1834. then personally
came Lieut. Jonas Rice the signer of the foregoing affidavit and
made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
Roswell Bolton Jr Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland
On the 29 day of March 1834 personally
came before the undersigned Authority, Eleazer
Lyman of Castleton in said County, to me well known,
who being duly sworn doth on his oath declare & say
in addition to & explanation of his declaration
July 1832 - that he served nine months in 1781 in
Col. Fletcher’s Regt of Inf’y, which was raised by the State of
Vermont for nine months to garrison the fort at
Castleton & guard the parties that he was regularly
enlisted & passed muster, being a stout healthy person
& able to do the duty of a soldier though not old
enough to be able to be enrolled in the militia.
but was desirous of fighting for the liberty of his
County - that he belonged to Capt Fisk’s; company
& was detailed to serve as waiter to his brother
Isaac Lyman who was Lt of the company; but
as his brother required but little waiting upon, he
did considerable duty in the ranks. He lived in
Halifax, Vermont when he enlisted, which he believes
was in March & was discharged in December.
Taken before me the day & year aforesaid and I
certify that I have been acquainted with said Eleazer
Lyman many years, & that he is a credible person.
R Temple Jus. Peace
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Eleazer Lyman
Ad. declaration & proof

State of Vermont
I, Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do
certify, that Roswell Bolton Jr & Robert temple, before
whom the foregoing papers were taken, are Justices of the
Peace for said County, duly commissioned, and that their
names subscribed thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of said Court at Rutland
this 31 day of March 1834
R Pierpoint