Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 109, Eliphalet Allen, Conn.
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Conn.
Allen, Eliphalet
R.109
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Original Claim
State of Ohio
Hamilton County
Court of Com Pleas
State of Ohio
On this 19th day of August 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of record expressly made so by the laws of this state for the said county Eliphilet Allen resident of said county ager sixty one years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st May 1820, that he the said Eliphilet Allen enlisted, for the term of during the War in the spring of the year 1778 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Swift in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bradley in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until he was placed, in Capt Wrights co. in the regiment commanded by Col Swift of the Connecticut Line on Continental Establishment, that he served in this co. and regt. until he was transferred, or drafted to Capt Comstocks co of Col. Scammels regt of infantry, that he served in this regiment until after the taking of Cornwallis when he joined Swifts regiment again and belonged to it until the end of the war when sometime in June 1873, he was discharged at Harlam Heights New York. That he was in battles of Kings Bridge & the seige of Yorktown and that he has no other evidence, now in his possession
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of his said services, except his own declaration his discharge having been lost or destroyed.  And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or any manner, disposed of any property, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; not have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me me subscribed. and I further declare under oath that I am a laborurer by occupation, that I have a wife now living aged sixty two years, and a sone aged fifteen years who is a cripple in consequence of an injury he received a while he was a small boy. And finally I declare that in consequence of my indigent circumstances, and old age, I need the assistance of my country for support.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 19th day of August 1823.  Eliphlet Allen
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Danl. Gano, Clerk
Schedule of property of Eliphilet Allen an applicant for Revolutionary pension, taken sworn to & subscribed this 19th day of August 1823.
                                     Amt Brot up        $61.25
1 cow worth    $12.00     1 saw & shoots    7.00
1 heifer               8.00      1 table worth       1.50
1 Yoak of steers 25.00     2 chairs                .37 1/2
1 cart                 5.00      1 bench              .12 1/2
1 plow                5.00      1 pot                   .75
1 old sled             .50       1 dish Kettle      1.25
Old harness        2.00     3 knives & forks .37 1/2
1 old saddle         .50   3 tea cups & saucers .25
1 pr bridal bit .12 1/2 several Ethan crocks .37 1/2 
1 log chain     2.00     Amount of debts due to me 
                                                                $3.00
1 ax                   .50
1 [illegible]   .62 1/2    1 bake kettle    .50
    
(Subtotal)  $61.25      Total Amt $76.75

Eliphalet Allen

Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court on the day and date above written.
 Danl. Gano, Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Hamilton County
I, Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of common pleas within and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and schedule exhibited by Eliphelet Allen are truly copied from the records of said court and I do further certify that it is in the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property in said schedule is seventy six dollars and seventy five cents.
In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court at Cincinnati this twenty second day of November eighteen hundred and twenty three.

Daniel Gano, Clerk

[sideways note: (illegible) 21 July 1882 Rejt.
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Eliphalet Allen
Chau. Co. New York
26273
On rolls-Bradley 
March 1.79 (war) deserted
July 21,'80
Rejected
T.A Isborne
Mayville
Chautauqua Co. 
New York
Agent
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Declaration of Eliphalet All, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 June 1832.
State of New York
Chautauqua County ss On this twelfth day of February Eighteen Hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before the  judges of the court of Common Pleas in & fir said county, and state aged seventy seven years the twenty fifth day of November last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1770 with Lieutenant Bradley, a recruiting officer, and served in Col. B.  Burr Bradley's regiment of the Connecticut Line under the following named officers. 
At the period of his first enlistment he resided in Old Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut as an apprentice under Joshua Disbrow, to the tanning and shoemaking business. Declarant enlisted without the consent of his master, under Lieutenant Daniel Bradley, in the fall of 1776, but his master forbid his leaving his service, & he was prevented from joining the regiment that fall. His master was Sergeant Major in Col. Meigs Regiment, & in the spring of 1777 he having received enlisting orders prevailed on declarant to enlist under him in Col. Meigs regiment, his master dividing with him his bounty and wages. He thinks this last enlistment was in the latter part of the summer of 1777. He marched from Fairfield , through Stratford & Milford to New Haven. Previous to this declarant saw Lieutenant Bradley under whom he first enlisted & who also resided in Fairfield, & told him that he had enlisted under his Master Sergeant Major Disbrow (Dubois crossed out). Lieutenant Bradley then told him that as his master had now consented that he should enter the service he should claim declarant as his soldier, & ordered him to meet him in New Haven. He therefore marched to New Haven in a detachment enlisted by said Lieutenant Bradley, and remained there some weeks when he was marched to Reading and joined the regiment under Col. B. Burr Bradley. The controversy between lieut. Bradley and Sergeant Major Disbrow, in relation to their respective right to the services of declarant was finally settled in favor of Lieutenant Bradley, and declarant served under his first enlistment. The period of his enlistment was during the war. In the fall & winter of 1777 & 78, he served under the following officers. Gen Huntington, Col. Bradley, Maj. Woodbridge, Capt. Samuel Hoyt, lieut. Bradley, Sergeants Palmer & Brown. Winter at Reading, and in the Spring of 1778 marched to Peekskill on the Hudson River, & encamped on Peekskill's hills, & from thence marched to Dunford's landing near West Point, & win
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(win)tered in the Highlands the winter of 1778 & 79. During the summer of 1779 the marches were confined to the vicinity of the Highlands, & the winter of 1779 & 80 was spent in the same quarters as the preceding. The season of 1780 he was marched through different parts of New Jersey, frequently changing positions, but he is not able to recollect the names of the different places they occupied. the winter of 1780 & 81 he wintered at Morristown, New Jersey and shared in the severe sufferings of the Army through that memorable "hard winter". Until the spring of 1781 declarant had been with his regiment under the same officers as before stated. In the spring of 1781 a committee of Congress arrived at the American Camp, & declarant was detailed as one of a guard called Col. Peabody's guard to attend upon the  orders of said committee. Subsequently, declarant was detailed to serve in an Infantry Regiment under Col. Scammel & marched through different places not recollected but remembers being stationed some time at White Plains, & at other times at Sing Sing, & marching to head of Elle, when he embarked on board a a fleet & landed at Williamsburg on James River in Virginia & proceeded thence to Yorktown, & assisted in making the first entrenchments at the siege of Cornwallis & continued through the whole siege which lasted about nineteen days, & was in the party which stormed the out works of Cornwallis & present at his surrender. The winter after the surrender of Cornwallis, declarant spent at Annapolis, when with 38 others he was inoculated for had the small pox. . He was here under the care  of Lieut. Jackson. From thence he returned to the Headquarters in the Highlands on the Hudson, & from thence he went to Harlem Heights when he was discharged at the close of the war, by Col. Swift, in whose regiment he had served after his return from Annapolis. This discharge he has lost. Besides the battle at Yorktown declarant was in an engagement at Kingsbridge near New York between the Americans and a party of Hessians. That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot sear positively as to the correctness of the above dates or as to the precise length of time he actually served, but the facts set forth he does remember & know to be true and that he served a period of not less that five years, as a private in the Army. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of any agency in any state. 
Sworn to subscribed this day & year aforesaid in open court.
James B. Lowry, clerk
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
I James B Lowry Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Eliphalet Allen for a pension In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 3rd day of July A.D.
James B Lowry Clerk
[seal
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Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879. [line crossed through this]
No 109
REJECTED
Elephale Allen 
P. O. 
Service:
Enlisted:   ,18
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Ex'r.  INVALID.
No 110
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879. [this line is crossed through]
REJECTED
Elephale Allen
P. O.
Service:
Enlisted:   , 18
Discharged:  , 18
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19063
Pension Office
2 cases.
109
Eliphalet Allen
[crossed out Ga]
[crossed out Wm Gamount]
Hamilton Co Ohio
Saml F. Hunt,
Cincinnati Ohio
Recd [illegible] 1823
Rejected See letter
20 Jan. 1824 -
J C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Recd Dec. 11. 1823
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New York
Revol  110
Eliphalet Allen
Rejected
see letter to
J. A. Osborne
18 Sept 33
rct 7.June '32
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Cincinnati Nov 26th 1823,
Sir
Enclosed you will receive, certified copies
the declaration and schedule of property
of four applicants for Revolutionary Pension
to wit. William Gannon, Eliphalet
Allen, Francis Kelsimere & David Pearson
Gannon, and Allen, are original applicants
by which I mean to say that they have never
before applied.
Kelsimere was placed, of on the Pension List
under the act of Congress of the 18th March.
1818, and did not apply after the
passage of the act of the 1st May 1820.
Pierson was placed, on the Pension
List under the act of the 18th March
1818, and received his application
under the act of the last May 1820.
and, was, refuted. He now renews.
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his application for a pension under the act
of Congress of the last Session,
Please to communicate to me your decision,
on these cases, as early as convenient
Very Respectfully in
your most obt Servant
Samuel
J. L. Edwawds, Esquire
Pension Agent
War Department
Helen
&
ers filed with a
with claims
March 1823
schedue
half, Hunt