Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17973, Eleazer Gilson, Conn.
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Conn.
Gilson or Gillson, Eleazer
S.17973
carded
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Ohio Pittsburgh
Eleazer Gilson 
in the State of Ohio

who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Strong of the Regt commanded 
by Col Swift in the Connecticut 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg 
at the rate of 80 Dollars  -- cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834 [crossed out]

Duplicate 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of October 1839 and sent to all & Canfield OH 

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Clerk, 
Book| Vol.| Page
Act 15th May 1828
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I Eleazer Gilson of Canfield Trumbull County Ohio on solemn oath do declare and say that I enlisted in the month of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven at Rye in the State of New York into this Army of the United States as a private soldier to serve during the war then waged by Great Britain against the United States. A Company commanded by Captain Solomon Strong, in a Regiment commanded by Phillip B Bradley but this deponent does not distinctly recollect whether select company was numbered second or third company of the Connecticut lines and served under different commencements of companies between the times of enlistment and this year when the Regiments commanded by Bradley and Col Heman Swift were blended, and the commands of said consolodated Regiment under in the said Heman Swift under whom this deponent served in a company commanded by one Captain Chapman, but the number of this company on the Christian name of the commandment is not now in the recollections of this deponent until this close of this war except when absent on furlough
This deponent further states that in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three he thinks in the month of March he received a furlough from the said Heman Swift to retire from the service to regain his health and went from the encampment on the Highlands where said Regiments were then stationed to Sharon in the County of Litchfield state of Connecticut and was sick from the date of said furlough untill this eighth of June of this same year when this army was disbanded and this deponent was discharged by a regular discharge executed by his excellency Gen Washington which was forwarded to this deponent at this place of his confinement at Sharon aforesaid.
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The deponent further states and declares that he faithfully served this Country during all these periods and that he has not received a pension from the United States and that he's delivered his discharges soon after the close of this war to one Jabez Hamlin to whom this deponent sold his title to such under as were one might be granted by the United States. 
This deponent further declares that he is very infirm by reasons of diseases contracted during his servitude in the Revolutionary War and needs assistance from his country for support by reasons of his medical circumstances in life. 
[signature] Eleazer Gilson 

State of Ohio
Trumbull County 
Canfield March 9th 1818
Be it remembered that on the day and year above mentioned Eleazer Gilson signee of the above and foregoing depositions and declarations personally came before me this subscriber one of the associate judges of this Court of Common Pleas for the County of Trumbull aforesaid and made solemn oath that these facts stated therein are true and correctly stated according to the best of his recollections, and I hereby certify to whom it may concern. That it is apparent to my full and entire satisfaction that the said Eleazer Gilson served for the period mentioned in his depositions or declarations made above, in the Continental services and from my personal knowledge of the circumstances of the said Eleazer Gilson he needs assistance from his country for support by reasons of his medical circumstances in life
[signature] Herman Canfield
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The subscribers hereby certify and make known to whom it may concern that we have for many years been acquainted with Eleazer Gilson signer of the within and aforesaid depositions or declarations and that we consider him a man of strict truth and veracity. That from various sources we have understood he was a faithful soldier during most of the Revolutionary war and was honorably discharged at the close of said war and that his circumstances in life and medically that he is aged and very infirm and he needs assistance from his country
Canfield April 9th 1818
Elisha Whittlesey
Herman Canfield 
Comfort S Mygott
Jno H Patch 
Cyrenial Pruggle
Benajah Tulnor

I declare on the honor of an old Revolutionary officer that I know the above named Eleazer Gilson to be a private soldier in the 5th Connecticut Regt [?] in the army of the U. States from the year 1777 until 1790 when I was discharged + have had personal acquaintance with him seventeen years last month + know him to be a man of truth + that he is unable to support himself
Tryal Tanner Cote Lieut. + adjutant in the 7th [?] Regt 2nd 15+ year US Army
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The State of Ohio 
Trumbull County 
George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Herman Canfield Esquire, whose signature appears to be affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same one of the associate judges of said Court in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn agreeable to the laws in said state in such case made and provided and on such his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit in court and country.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the sixth day of May 1818.
Geo Parsons
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
Invalid file
#42.143
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Canfield Trumbull County Ohio
June 25th 1828

Sir
I enclose and transmit to you the application of Eleazer Gilson for a pension under the act of May 15th 1828 which I hope will be found to be in accordance with the former prescribed on so nearly so, that any departure from them, ill not be fatal. Mr. Gilson does not recollect and cannot state, whether he received the bounty of eighty dollars or not. The law only contemplates that he should have been entitled to it.
Mr. Gilson formerly lived in this town, and is at present on a visit here to his children and requests that the amount to be transmitted to him as directed to him at this place.
He wishes also that it may be in a draft on the United States Bank at Pittsburgh. A draft on the bank at Cincinnati will be inconvenient for him, and he could not negotiate it without a discount. It as from the remote distance of Cincinnati to this section of the state, that caused the passage of the law for the payment of pensioners residing in the northern part of the state of Ohio, at Pittsburgh.
Most Respectfully
yours
E. Whittlesey


Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D. C., ...............,19....

In reply to your request of ..............., received.......... for a statement of the military history of Eleazer Gilson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's [crossed out]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S.1797.3

[column titles]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
LENGTH OF SERVICE
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.
Feb 1777 to close of war. Pvt. Captain Solomon Strong, Captain Chapman, B. Colonel Philip Bradley, Col Heman Swift, Conn.

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rye, NY
Date of application for pension, Apl 8, 1818 his cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Canfield, Trumbull Co., Ohio
Age at date of application, not stated

Remarks: He was alive in 1839 date of death not stated.

Respectfully
Commissioner.

Above is for tombstone
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17973
INVALID.

File No. 17.973
Eleazer Gilson
Pri. Rev War

Act: May 15th 28

Index: - Vol. 1, Page 109
(Arrangement of 1870.)
ctf no 307

1920 Aug 5 Hist to
Effie Teemer. En
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consolidated with O. W & N. File 17.973.

42743

INVALID
Revy

File No. 42.743
Eleazer Gilson
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March 18
Index: Vol. 3, Page 195
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Eleazer Gilson decd
Ohio Pittsburgh roll
Act May 15 1828

Let to Hon E Whittlesey
Apl 19, 1841
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4503

Ohio
Eleazer Gilson
Col Swift Private 4
Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Nov 1818 and sent to Herman Canfield Esq
Judge Trumbull County
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4. 26/30 = 38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 = 40.00
________________
$86.93

1777 War
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Canfield Trumbull Co

[crossed out "Duplicate certificate issued 30 Sept 1839 and sent to M. C. Canfield Canfield Ohio"]

Pensioned under act May 15 1828
Copies of papers to Hon E Whittlesey
10 Feb 1837
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[crossed out "Paid to Mar. 4, 1820 at $8 p m"]
L. A. H.
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Eleazer Gilson, Ohio Pittsburgh Roll, Act 15 May 18
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid.
Pension office
Apl 19, 1841

p at 4 Sep 1840
J. H.
1 qt 41 not in
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Eleazer Gillson Act 15th May 1828.
Ohio Pittsburgh
To what time last paid
Pension Office
30th Sept 1839} p at 4 March 1839
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm on Pensions
Washington

Apl 19, 1841
Eleazer Gilson
O. Pitt. Roll
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Washington April 19th 1841

Sir
Eleazer Gilson a pensioner of Canfield Trumbull County Ohio deceased before the 4th of March, I believe, and his heirs wish to know, how to proceed to obtain the amount due from Sept until his death, if anything is allowed. He left no widow. If forms are necessary be pleased to send a copy and I will forward on.
Respectfully
Yours
E. Whittlesey

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com on Pensions
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Elisha Whittlesey
Asking for copy
of 
Declaration
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Treasury Department
Comptrollers Office
February 4th 1857.

George C. Whiting Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
I received a paper yesterday from Ohio in which was published a correspondence between Mr. Habersham Post Master General and Captain Elijah Wadsworth, concerning the establishing of a mail route from Pittsburgh on the South side of the Alleghany River to Georgetown thence to Brauer, thence to Canfield Trumbull County Ohio on what was known as the Connecticut Western Reserve and from thence to Warren, and for the establishing post offices and the appointment of Post Masters. In preparing the letters for publication Frederick Wadsworth son of Captain Wadsworth says that a man by the name of Gilson was the post mail carrier from Pittsburgh north west of the River Ohio. The man to whom he refers was Eleazer Gilson
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a soldier of the Revolution. He was a pensioner under the act of March 18th 1818 and paid at first I believe at Cincinnati Ohio.
I drew up his application and unless it was copied, it is in my hand writing. I do not now recollect how far his services were set forth but I want a copy of his application to publish in connection with the publication mentioned, and if not too much trouble, I will thank you to cause the application to be looked up. I will not give you the trouble to have it copied if not intruly convenient, as I can send and have a copy taken. The Old Soldier carried the mail on his back most of the time from the year 1801 until the road was cut out for waggens.
Most Sincerely
Yours
Elisha Whittlesey
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Free

Warren OH
May 9

Hon J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War 
Washington City

Herman Canfield Esq
Judge for the Dist 
Trumbull Ohio
Recd 20 May 1818
one Case
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828
I Eleazer Gilson of Boston Portage County State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service untill its termination, at which time I was a private in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by Col Heman Swift but who commanded the company I cannot  now recollect as I was absent from camp, sick from January until the army was discharged and as the Captains were frequently changed. And I also declare that I cannot say after this lapse of time that I did or did not afterwards receive certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed May 15th 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this the twentieth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight at Canfield in the County of Trumbull, State of Ohio.
Eleazer Gilson

Before me Andrew Perkins a Justice of the Peace in the County of Trumbull in the State of Ohio personally appeared this day Ebenezer Bastwick of Rootstown in the County of Portage State of Ohio, and Tryal Tanner of Canfield Trumbull County Ohio who did severally make oath that Eleazer Gilson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. The said Bastwick says he was acquainted with the said Gilson in the summer during the war. And the said Tanner says he was acquainted with said Gilson in Bradleys Regiment when he said Tanner left the service in said Regt and said Tanner a Lieut until 1780.
Witness my hand this the twentieth day of June in
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The year of Our 6 and one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight - Andrew Perkins Justice of the Peace

I, George Parsons,  clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Trumball, State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Andrew Perkins before whom the foregoing officiants were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths - In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this twenty fourth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight.

George Parsons, Clerk
for Ralph Hickox, XXXX

Canfield, Trumball County Ohio June 20th, 1824
I certify that Ebenezer Bastwick, Tryal Tanner and Eleazer Gilson are all known to me and I can sat they are men of the strictest truth and veracity.

E. Whittlesey
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2`4
335.

No of orig pay 314

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
26 July 1828

Eleazer Gilson,
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State of Ohio
County of Trumbull Ss}
On this twentieth day of September 1839 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Trumbull, personally appeared Eleazer Gillson who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Solomon Strong in the regiment commanded by Colonel Philip B. Bradley in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut. That he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate on or about the first day of May 1839 at or near Boston in the County of Portage, he lost together with other papers of value.
Eleazer Gilson

Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid.
John R. Church Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
County of Trumbull Ss}
On this twentieth day of September A. D. 1839 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared H. B. Brainard who on oath declares thus - he well knows Eleazer Gilson the subscriber of the above affidavit to be the same person described in said affidavit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day and year aforesaid.
John R. Church Justice of the Peace

And I the said John R. Church magistrate as aforesaid do hereby certify that the said
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H. B. Brainard is a person of truth and veracity. Witness my hand this 20th day of September 1839. 
John R. Church Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County Ss}
I John Hutchins Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Trumbull County, certify that John R. Church is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 21st day of September - in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
John Hutchins Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Trumbull County
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Free

Canfield O


J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

J. W. Evans
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Canfield September 21st 1839

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir:
Enclosed is the duly authenticated application of Eleazer Gillson for a new pension certificate. Mr. Gillson is the same person concerning whom Mr. Whittlesey wrote you on the 7th inst. He stands in much need of his money. & will be obliged to you for an early attendance to the matter.

Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
M. C. Canfield
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Eleazer Gilson
private
Connecticut line
9th April, 1818

Bradleys Regt
Correct

Thomas Canfield, Esq
Judge,
Warren, Trumbull Co.
Ohio
Recd 20 May, 1818.
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Teemer
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[stamped]
U. S. 
PENSION 
OFFICE 
D
JUL 12 1920

Rev Sec.

1957 - E. 31st
Loraine O.
July 9 20

Pension Office
Washington D. C.
I would be pleased to have a copy of the pension of Eleazor Gilson born 1754 died 1825. Buried in Canfield, Ohio.
When Mr. Gilson applied for a pension Tyral Tanner made this sworn statement.
I declare on the honor of a Revolutionary Officer that I knew Eleazor Gilson to have been
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a private soldier in the Fifth Regiment - Second Brigade in the army of the United States from 1777 to 1780.
I cannot give this mans birth place. I ran across this and as Chairman of Rev. Service Western Reserve, wish to locate and mark the grave.
Send tombstone data only.
I enjoyed my visit to the Pension Office very much and would be pleased to spend my time with Mrs. Draper working on old
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Connecticut pension papers.
I was in Washington about two weeks ago and surely the work assigned me by my chapter will be done with renewed interest.
Sincerely yours
Effie Teemer