Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,288, Jonathan G Bristol, Conn.
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Bristol, Jonthan G.      
SERVICE - Conn.
NUMBER - S. 12,288
                                                           carded
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2832
Connecticut
Jonathan G. Bristol
Cheshire in the State of Connect
was a Private in the commanded by 
Captain of the commanded by
in the Connect State Troops for 
for 20 mos

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Decem 1832 and sent to Saml A Foot. 
Senate U.S.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                   $99.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 33.33
                                                             $133.32

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Eras D. Bullock Clerk,
Book D Vol. 3 Page 33
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of Connecticut County of New Haven} SS
town of Cheshire
Probate District of Cheshire
On this 11th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire said Court being a Court of record and having by the laws of this State a Clerk and seal & now sitting - Jonathan G. Bristol a resident of the town of Cheshire County of New Haven and State of Connecticut aged seventy two years the first day of August 1832 - 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 officer and served as herein stated
In the early part of the month of September 1777 or the latter part of August - Applicant then belonging to one of the Militia Companies of the town of Cheshire proceeded with his whole Company to the North River to prevent the junction between the enemies forces at the City of New York and the forces under Burgoine - The only officers who held a commission and who were out with this company that Applicant can remember was Lucius Tuttle now living in said town of Cheshire - There was a Zach who was an officer in the Company Applicant thinks that he was not out with the company because said Lucius Tuttle took the charge of paying the Company- 
In this Company Applicant proceeded to Fishkill - staid[stayed] there some time and then proceeded up the river to redhook[Red Hook] where news reached us of the Surrender of Burgoine - & the Enemy's repel put about -
and we soon went down the river and were discharged at Fishkill - At Fishkill when we first reach there after having come on - we quartered in huts, the barracks
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being filled. And When Applicant went up the river his company
was divided and a part of them went down towards Peekskill
On this tour Applicant was out he thinks at least two months.
When on this tour Applicant saw Genl Putnam who had
the charge of a Regiment of Regular troops who were
along with the Army. There was a great many militia
Applicant cannot remember the officers. In the year 1778
and in the early part of the Spring - Applicant enlisted into
a company commanded by Jonathan Curtis - David
Hitchcock of said Cheshire Lieutenant. This was a company
of State troops and their duty was to guard the shores of the 
Sound in the vicinity of New Haven - after our enlistment
and we were marched to New Haven and joined the
Company - Capt Curtiss with about one half the
Company was stationed at West Haven, and
Lieut Hitchcock of Cheshire with the men he had
there service were stationed along the shore eastwardly
from New Haven - Applicant was a part of the time on
five mile point when the light house now is - and
a part of the time at Black rock fort and their
main duty was keeping guard on the shores to prevent
the depredations of the Enemy who warned us by alarms-
One of their boats effected a landing about 3/4ths of a
mile East of us and carried off some sheep & they
were assisted & encouraged in this by their friends
whom we called Tories. The term of Applicant enlistment
on this tour was one year. But his part of the Compy
and he supposes the whole company was discharged
about the first of the winter after we enlisted, and
therefore applicant was in service this tour just about
eight months-- tho the term of his enlistment was
for a year if their services were wanted. And the
Officers had a right to discharge them he supposes if their
services were not wanted. Applicant was discharged by Lieut
Hitchcock with the whole of his command in the Street
about half a mile East of the light house. This
was the ground where we were [illegible] every
morning for roll call - Applicant doesn't know whether
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he was attached to any Regiment at this time or whether
this was an independant company. Samuel Talmadge
now living in said Cheshire and now having a
pension certificate was with him this tour.  In
the early part of the summer of the year 1777- Lent
Hough residing near me, & belonging to the militia
horse and drafted for a tour at horseneck either of
six weeks or two months, and he had me as his
substitute and furnish me with horse saddle bridle &
Regimentals including sword and Pistols. The company was
commanded by Capt Woodruff of Milford beyond New Haven.
and the company rendezvous at his house- and we
proceeded to Horseneck- just above the Church
where we quartered - near Putnams Steps - We march
there just at night and early next morning an
alarm came that the guard was cut off and
this troop of Horse went immediately down to both
guards, one on the road to New York. Byrams. The
other Therwoods about two miles west of the Meeting house
The enemy was all gone when we reached the Stations
But at Therwoods guard Josiah Smith of Cheshire was
Cut up & at Byrams Pitt Andrews of Wallingford
was killed. The next day the Lieut of the Company
from Middletown - Invited all the Company after
roll call-- that were willing to accompany him in
pursuit of the Enemy- Applicant preference, remaining
with the captain but about forty went, and
the enemy came suddenly upon them and four or
five of them were killed & some were taken. we were
verbally discharged at Horseneck on the end of our tour
almost immediately after applicant reach home from this
first tour in this year - he thinks about midsummer of
the year 1779 - he was drafted by orders sent by Col [illegible - Shuldroy(?)]
book out of one of the militia companies in Cheshire
for the term of eight months-- and he thinks there was
but one other besides himself himself from this place
drafted at that time. His name was Theodore Frisbie, He
was Applicants fellow apprentice and he died about
three months since at Bristol. He was sent to Horseneck
and there he was offered the bounty if he would enlist
for the term of eight months - and he did enlist for
that term and he served in the company commanded
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commanded by Capt Allen of Berlin and in the Regiment
commanded by Col Mead. We staid in tents untill
cold weather when the officers got us into houses-- There were
eight in Applicant mess-And we drew Indian meal
for bread a considerable part of the time. We kept
guard at Bryam & Sherwoods bridges, we sometimes
Patroll in all directions-- After winter came on we drew
off our guards from Byram & Sherwood-- and kept
guard near head quarters at Guard house -
We had no battle to fight but this was one of the most severe
Campaigns of the war-- It was the hard winter, and our
provisions were scarce and of inferior quality-and previous
to our going into winter quarters there was a rising among
the troops-- we were marshalled under drums & fifes and
led off some distance by an orderly Sargeant. Col Illead
& other officers came on to beg us to return. We stated
we would if they wd give us any thing to live on & they promised
we should live better and we returned immediately to
duty - Applicant thinks a similar affair took place
again - We were discharged by a written discharge which
Applicant kept for some time but he has now lost it and he
returned just the last of the cold weather. It was sloppy
bad weather getting home - Applicant thinks this was that year
quite the last of March. In the year 1781 month of May Applicant
enlisted to go on orders under Captain Seymour of Hartford who acted
under orders from the Gov of this State. we went aboard a number
of whale boats run into South bay Long Island Cut out a
Sloop and afterwards while there was a party of us on the
Island we were surprised and fifteen of us taken Applicant
among the rest. He is very confident that he was thrown into the
Sugar house a prisoner in the City of New York & was incarcerated
there the the summer months and was liberated the last of the
fall evening had a pass to go to Peekskill to recruit - while others
for the were two or three hundred prisoners were sent on to Washington's
Army then in pursuit of Cornwallis provisions were
supplied him at Peekskill and after a short stay he returned
home - He claims for all his tour including three month his first
twenty months service - In reply to queries of Department Applicant
first. He was born in the town of Wallingford now Cheshire
August 1st 1760 - 2 I have a record of my age from records of
Wallingford given me by town Clerk & Applicant always lived in
what is now the town of Cheshire 4th Question he has previously
answered 5th & 6th likewise as far as able 7th Saml Talmage
Hon Saml A Foot Dr Thomas T. Cornwell Elias Gaylord, Stephen
Parker - Cheshire - Ichabod Ives Wallingford are gentlemen
to whom he refers as to his character for veracity and
as to his reputation as a soldier of the Revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity edict
the present & declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to & subscribed Jonathan G. Bristol
the day & year aforesaid
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Rev War
12288 Invalid
File No. 12288
Jonathan G. Bristol Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 47
[Arrangement of 1870]
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12511
In the case of Jonathan G. Bristols
Appl. for Pension
I certify that every person whose name is inserted as applicant or witness Justice Judge of Probate and Clerk and personally known to me, individually and officially and applicant an witnesses are respectable and credible.
Sam'l A Foot, U.S. Senat
20 mo. $66.66 per annum
Cheshire 15 Sept. 1832
B. a deposition of Leut [Lieutenant] Hough a credible witness was omitted in these depos. but sent on afterward and is now in the Dept to which reference is made by applicant if necessary.
S.A. Foot
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James L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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Cheshire 25th Aug 1832
Sir
The enclosed deposition should have been enclosed in the application of John Bunnel and Jonathan G. Bristol but were by mistake mislaid.
Yours respectfully
Sam'l A. Foot
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I Samuel Talmage of Cheshire County of New Haven aged seventy to years depose and say thus In the spring of the year 1778 I enlisted into a company of troops commanded by Gotham Curtiss for the term of one year and I was in service in this company for the term of about eight months thru the spring summer and fall of that year and was stationed under Lieut [Lieutenant] Hitchcock on the court in East Haven and vicinity during this tour of service I was then and am still acquainted with Jonathan G. Bristol of said Cheshire and do aver that he was a member of this same company under Captain Curtiss and he served out said tour in said company at or near that place and further deponent saith not.
Samuel Talmage
New Haven County ss Cheshire Aug 1832
Personally appeared Samuel Talmage subscriber of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same according to his best knowledge and belief
before me
Jno A. Foot Just Peace
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New Haven County ss Cheshire Sept 12th 1832 I certify that Samuel Talmage subscriber to the foregoing deposition and taken before me in August 1832 is a credible person.
Attest Jno A. Foot Just Peace

[illegible] J G Bristol
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Mr Joseph Whiting a clergyman residing in the town of Cheshire and Samuel Talmage residing in the same town hereby certify that we are acquainted with Jonathan G Bristol of said Cheshire who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy 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 we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Whiting
Samuel Talmage
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 hem that Joseph Whiting who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Cheshire and that Samuel Talmage who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Cheshire and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and the court further certify that applicants declaration so far as respects the tour upon the North River in the year 1777 is confirmed by the oral testimony under oath of Lucius Tuttle as resident of said Cheshire a credible person and was applicants officer in that campaign.
Silas Hitchcock Judge of Probate for the District of Cheshire
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I Clement Peck clerk of the court of probate for the district of Cheshire do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Jonathan G Bristol for a pension and I further certify that John A Foot Esq before whom the deposition of Samuel Talmage purports to have been taken is a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County and that his signature to the same is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Probate Office this 21st day of August 1832
Clement Peck clerk
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I Samuel Talmage of Cheshire County of New Haven of the age of seventy two years depose and say that Jonathan G Bristol now living in said Cheshire and for whom I have given an affidavit of service in the year 1778 was until after the revolutionary war commenced an apprentice and made  his home at my wifes brothers Jonathan Hull  I was therefore very well acquainted with him and altho [although] I know nothing personally I well remember to have heard that at the time that sd [said] Jonathan G Bristol was confined a prisoner in the Sugar house in New York this was towards the close of the war and further deponent saith not.
Samuel Talmage
New Haven County ss. Cheshire of 141832 personally appeared Samuel Talmage to me was known as a credible persona and made solemn oath to the truth of the same 
before me
Jno A Foot Just Peace [Justice of the Peace]
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Lent Hough Deposition for J G Bristol 
12511
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I Lent Hough of Wallingford County of New Haven of the age of eighty two years depose and say that during the revolutionary war I was and am now well acquainted with Jonathan G Bristol sometime in the course of that war deponent cannot recollect when he was drafted for a two months tour to go to Horseneck he then belonging to the Ho[illegilbe] and he heard said Jonathan G Bristol to go on said tour as his substitute and said Bristol went and served it out I suppose because I furnished him with a home and accoutrement and he was absent the whole of the time he answered for me and I paid him a handsome sum besides giving him the wages said Bristol is now before me and I know him to be the same person that I hired as my substitute as aforesaid and further deponent saith not.
Lent Hough
New Haven County ss. Cheshire Aug 11 1832 personally appeared Lent Hough signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the trust of the same before me
Jno A Foot Just Peace [Justice of the Peace]
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I Lucius Tuttle of Cheshire County of New Haven of the age of eighty three years depose and say that in the latter part of August AD 1777 or the first of September of the same year. I then holding the commission of ensign in one of the Militia companies of the town of Cheshire which paid commission of the town of Cheshire which said commission is now on the files of the department I took the command of said Militia company and led them to the North River and commanded said company being the only commissioned officer out thro[ugh] the tour which I think was about three months in length In this company at that time Jonathan G Bristol now living in said Cheshire was a private and he went out with said company and service thro said tour in the same under my command. It was during this tour that Burgoine's army was taken and further deponent saith not.
Lucius Tuttle
New Haven County ss Cheshire September 13th 1832 personally appeared Lucius Tuttle signer of the foregoing deposition known to me as a credible person and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
before me
Jno A Foot Just Peace [Justice of the Peace]
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I Clerment Peck clerk of the court of probate for the district of Cheshire do hereby certify that John A. Foot esq before whom the accompaning [accompanying]  deposition of Samuel Talmage and Lucius Tuttle purport to have been taken is a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County and that the signatures to the same are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Probage office this 14th day of September AD 1832
Clement Peck clerk