Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,548, for Drake Lockwood, Connecticut
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Conn           Lockwood, Drake              S.17,548    
                                          
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28176
Connecticut N. 28,17[6]
Drake Lockwoods
of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lockwood of the Regt commanded by Genl Mead in the Con. 
[illegible] line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of March 1834
and
C. Hawley Stamford Ct.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834. 240.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 40
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$280.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk
Book E2  Vol... Page 24.
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield } SS. Probate District of Stamford 
On the 14th day of September AD 1833 before the Court of Probate in for said District now sitting personally appeared Drake Lockwood of Greenwich in said District who being first duly sworn doth on his oath in open Court declare in addition to his former declaration under date of August 30th 1832 that enquiries of others who were with him in service have called him to state the term his enlistment; he says that his first engagement beginning about April 1st 1780 ended at or near said year 1781. That immediately after viz about  Jany. 1 1781 he enlisted in the same company and the same officers for six months & served out the whole time in said Greenwich, the engagement ending July 1st of that year or within day two of that day that time. Immediately thereafter viz  about July 1 1781 he again enlisted in the same company under the same officers  for the term of nine months & Steadily served out the whole term in said Greenwich, his engagement ending April 1st 1782 or within one on the days of that time.  Immediately thereafter  he enlisted under Capt Waring for nine months as stated in said original declaration and served out the whole in said Greenwich, his engagement ending at the begining of the year 1783. These guards in which the Declarant served were regularly constituted of embodied troops & created  for the defence of the Court by the public authority of the State Connecticut &  the services of the declarant and all of said engagements were constant continued actual service for all the periods mentioned in the field viz  in guarding & protecting  the court & county against the enemy of said state, [unreadable] during said enlistments or periods follow any civil pursuit. Declarant says that he was [unreadable] already as satisfactory testing as he can find of his services [unreadable] in his power & conceives he has already proved the truth of all his statements.   
And Declarant says he can swear positively to the precise length of his services & that he served as a private in every instance by him stated - & that he knows that he served as follows & in the following grade: 
For nine months I served as a private (in 1780 as in my original declaration stated) – For six  months I served as a private in 1781 (as before stated) - for nine months I served a private (in 1781 & 1782 as before stated), & for nine months served as a private in 1782 under Waring (as before stated),  making in all two years & nine month, & for such service I claim a pension.
Drake Lockwood
Sworn to subscribed the day & Year aforesaid 
Cha Hawley Judge
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On the same day before said Court personally appeared Enos Lockwood of said Greenwich who being duly sworn doth on his oath in open Court depose & say in evidence to [unreadable] position given on this application that the tours of Duty rendered by him & said Drake together as stated in said deposition were as follows:  the first was of nine months in 1780 beginning on the 1st of April & ending the 1st of January 1781 or there about – Immediately after that we both reenlisted in the same Company the same officers for six months & served out that term in said Greenwich ending July 1st 1781 or thereabout - immediately thereafter we again enlisted in the same Guard under the officers for nine months & served out the whole of that term in said Greenwich, ending on the 1st Jan 1782 or within a day or two of that time & all this was actual & constant Service such that neither of us followed during those periods any civil pursuits. I have been able to state terms of enlistments  to my brother taking my our recollections & by conversing with others who were with us in the service 
Enos Lockwood
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid  & certify that Enos Lockwood I well know said Enos & that he is a credible person 
Cha Hawley Judge 
We Daniel Smith a Clergyman residing in the town of Stamford State of Connecticut & Enos Lockwood residing in the Town of Greenwich in said state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Drake Lockwood who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be seventy years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution of that we concur in that opinion 
Daniel Smith
Enos Lockwood
Sworn & subscribed the day of year aforesaid} 
Cha Hawley Judge 
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion the the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the aforesaid applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev’d Smith who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Stamford in Connecticut and Enos Lockwood who has also signed the same is a resident in Greenwich & is a credible person & that their statement is titled to credit 
Cha Hawley Judge
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7239
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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open court before the Court of Probate for said District, Drake Lockwood a resident of Greenwich now sitting, in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged sixty nine years, who being first 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 herein stated: viz, In the last of March or beginning of April 1780 he enlisted for nine months under Cap. Timothy Lockwood & Lieut. Oliver Ferris in a company of state troops of Connecticut Cutter Troops or Coast guard in said Greenwich which were ordered and he thinks attached to no particular corps but were under Gen. John Mead regt Greenwich who had command on the lines - The Captain & Lieutenant are both dead - served out the whole of said term in said Greenwich in guarding the Coast & repelling invasions which were very frequent. Enos Lockwood belonged to the same guards. 
After this declarant continued constantly in said guard till the conclusion of hostilities - he enlisted twice afterward under the same officers, but when or for what particular periods he cannot now tell but he knows he served under those officers in said guard from the expiration of his first enlistment above until the spring of 1782 when he enlisted in said guard for nine months then under command of Capt. Henry Waring now decd & served out the whole of that enlistment. All these services were rendered in said Greenwich & doing guard duty as stated above.  During this time the British came to Horseneck & declarant was out with his company & assisted in driving them back – There were frequent incursions by the enemy from Long Island in boats & we had occasional skirmishes with them - some of this the declarant can’t particularize, but he conceives a detailed statement would be of no benefit - the times then were peculiarly [unreadable] to those who lived in said Greenwich & the region round about.
Declarant was born in said Greenwich August 10th 1763 - has a record of his age in an old family Bible - resided in said Greenwich at all times when he entered the service & has ever since resided there up to this time - enlisted voluntarily as stated above. He cannot state the name of any other officers or give any account of any of the regiments except that he thinks (this he is not positive) Oliver Ferris was Waring's Lieutenant - They guarded - or challenge was given & they met men near the meeting house in said Greenwich & fight a duel but were separated without having fought - cannot detail the circumstances of his service more particularly than he has done - never received a written discharge as he recollects - Never has been for many years had any clergyman settled in the parish where declarant resides & he knows of no one who knows any thing of his services or has been about then - he can therefore refer to none, but refer to Peter
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[Peter] Lockwood, Enos Lockward & Messenger Lockwood all of said Greenwich all and & near neighbors of his are witnesses to his character for truth & their belief or knowledge of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
Declarant says that he know positively that his services taken together during the said war exceed three years. 
These guards were distinct separate corps, were not a part of the regular militia of the State.   
The said Drake Lockwood 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. 
Drake Lockwood 
Cha Hawley Judge
We, a clergyman, residing in the town of and residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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. and that the town.  
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 Aaron Peck, Peter Lockwood, Enos Lockwood & Messenger Lockwood who signed the depositions or preceding certificates are residents in the town of Greenwich in Connecticut and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Cha Hawley Judge 
I, Samuel Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Drake Lockwood for a Pension.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 14th day of September 1832 
Saml Lockwood Clk
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J. L. Edwards Esq
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Stamford Sept. 14, 1833 
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Sir 
Enclosed are the papers of Drake Lockwood. The objections taken will I the same be found to be obviated - The papers being duly authenticated - the length of service - & the diffuse tours of service of the grade all being shown & proved by the associate Soldier as well as by the other depositions - The other requisites pointed out by the master passage being as I believe all complied with the Credibility of all the witnesses was certified at first  as will be seen on the 2nd page of the printed form. However as the want of such a certificate is to be amont the exceptions taken (by the marked pages) - I have again certified their credibility.
Your respectful svt.
Cha Hawley
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State of Connecticut  
County of Fairfield} Ss  Probate District of Stamford 
On this 30th day of August AD 1832 before the Court of Probate of said District personally appeared Peter Lockwood Green in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth his oath in open Court depose & say that he well knows Drake wood of said Greenwich in applicant for a pension - believes to be sixty nine - his character for veracity is perfectly good.   In the revolutionary war said Drake as deponent well recalls was [unreadable] Town Guards in said Greenwich & was much of two years according to deponents recollection, this as he was him self a boy & not in the guards, he cannot state the particulars nor can he be more specific as to the time of said Drakes service than he has been  - the time spoken of was the last two or three years of said war. Deponent then lived in said Greenwich [unreadable] of said Drake & he has always been a near neighbor since.
Peter Lockwood 
And on the same day the said Court personally appeared Messenger Lockwood of said Greenwich who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath in open Court depose & say that he has known Drake Lockwood who has subscribed of sworn & the foregoing declaration  - In the Revolutionary War deponent well recollects that said Drake was a soldier in the Town or Coast Guards in said Greenwich & was out on duty in said Guards -  but in how long a  time he cannot say – Deponent [unreadable] belonged to said guards himself, but he has no recollection of having been on duty at the Same place with said Drake & therefore presumes they must have belonged to different detachments - said Drake’s character for respectability is perfectly good – Deponent thinks he was in the service during a considerable portion of the war but he cannot state the particulars – has seen him on duty repeatedly- 
Messenger Lockwood 
And in the same day before said Court personally appeared Enos Lockwood  Greenwich in said District who being first duly sworn according the on his oath in open Court deposes and says he well knows Drake Lockwood who has subscribed & Sworn to the foregoing declaration – believes him to be sixty nine years old - his character for veracity is perfectly good -in the year 1780 in the Rev
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Drake Lockwood – do 11-15
Revolutionary war said Drake & this deponent both were enlisted is in a company of Town Guards in said Greenwich Conn by Capt. Timothy Lockwood & Oliver Farris Lieut both now dec’d – both enlisted  in March or April for nine months & served out the whole term in said Greenwich and guarding the shores & after this both said Drake & this deponent reenlisted [unreadable] five occasions into the said Guards but deponent give the particular times or periods  of service; but they covered the whole time from the expiration of the first enlistment till the spring of 1782 when Capt. Henry Waring took command of said Company said Timothy & Oliver [unreadable] in command of the Guards while deponent continued in them & said Drake continually did duty in said guard during the time aforesaid. Deponent has understood said Drake enlisted nine months in said Guard under said Capt. Waring but he has no personal knowledge of this.  Deponent does not know that said guards were attached to my other corps - they were [unreadable] with the militia along the lines under the command of General John Mead, now dec’d.  
Enos Lockwood 
Sworn to subscribed by the said Peter Lockwood, Messenger Lockwood, & Enos Lockwood respecting the day and year aforesaid.
Cha Hawley Judge   
I certify that I well know Peter Lockwood, Messenger Lockwood, & Enos Lockwood above named & that they are credible persons  Sept 14 1833
Cha Hawley Judge
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I Samuel Lockwood clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stanford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Drake Lockwood for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 14th Day of September AD 1833. 
Samuel Lockwood Clk
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield } ss. Probate District of Stamford 
On this 12th day of September AD 1832 before the Court of Probate in & for said District personally appeared Aaron Peck of Greenwich in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath in open court despose and say that in the revolutionary war in the year 1781 & 1782 he thinks in 1782, exponent of Drake Lockwood of said Greenwich who is applicant for a pension were both enlisted of Connecticut State Troops called Town Guard in said Greenwich under command of Capt. Henry Waring now dec’d - enlisted he nine months in the Spring & served said Term out in defending the coast against the enemy in said Greenwich.   Deponent has always well Known said Drake - his character truth has always has been good - deponent believes his age to be fifty nine years 
Aaron Peck 
Sworn & subscribed the day year aforesaid Before me 
Cha Hawley Judge
I certify that I well knew Aaron Peck the above Deponent, (now dec’d) & that he was a credible person  Hampton Probate office Sept 14, 1833 
Cha Hawley Judge
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17.548
INVALID.
17.548

File No. 
Drake Lockwood
Pri    Rev War

Act:  June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 228

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7239  
Connecticut 
Revol.  
Drake Lockwood 
Suspended 
See letter Charles Hawley 18 Octr 1833 
see let to Hon Mr. Foot March 5th 1834 
2 years private 
C Hawley Esq
Stamford 
Act 7. June 1832