Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,549, for Truman Platt, Connecticut
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Platt, Truman

NUMBER
S18.549

carded

CONTENTS
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Truman Platt
Addison Co. Vermont, 22d February, 1820
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There was no Cof. of the name of Sullivan, which was attached to the Connecticut line,
during the revolutionary War. -
It is required, that two or more disinterested and credible persons, Certified as such by the judge, prove explicitly, on oath, from their own knowledge, 9 mos. Service of the applicant, in continuance, on Contl [continental] Establ (establishment], designating the Col.'s name and line in which he served.

Worth $2. 66/100
Wm Slade, Junr [junior] agt [agent]
Middlebury, Vermont
Recd [received] 10 Augt [August] 1820,
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STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS. -- On this Fourteenth day of June 1820, personally
appeared in open Court, being a Court of record (having the power of fine and imprisonment) for the said County Truman Platt aged sixty five years,  resident in New Haven, late in Maybridge in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:-- he enlisted in Sillimons [?] regiment of the Connecticut line, in the company of
Capt. Bostwick in the month of June 1776 Served from that time nine months, and that he served, on [seven?] short enlistments, at times previous, was at the retreat from Long
Island & at the taking of Burgogne

that the date of his original declaration is the 22nd day of February 1820, [text crossed out: the number of his pension certificate is]  and he has not received a pension Certificate.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day
of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of
my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so 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, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

1 [Ad?]  1 Hoe1  old pine table 1.30
3 old chairs, 3 earthen plates.   .62
3 Teacups [?], 1 Tea pot.            .20
3 knives & forks.                         .24
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                                                  2.66

Truman [his mark X] Platt

And the said declarant further says, that he has a wife aged fifty eight years, who has been four years under the care of a physician, and during that time he not been able to do any work; he has one daughter aged 30 years,  on whom be depends to take care of his family
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and also one son aged 11 years dependent on him for support, and that he himself is feeble in body, and unable to do more that half a day labour, when well, & that he cannot support himself without the assistance of public or
private charity. He is by occupation a labourer [laborer]. 
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Sworn to & declared the 14th day of June 1820, before the Court aforesaid

Sam'l [Samuel] l Swift Clerk


I, SAMUEL SWIFT, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property, exhibited in the aforesaid schedule
is Two Dollars and 66 Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and
affixed the seal of the said Court on this 18th
of July 1820. 

Saml [Samuel] Swift
Clerk of the County Court for  the County of Addison.
[Seal]
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Addison County ss.

I EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain
the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Truman Platt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14th day of July A.D 1832
Edward D. Barber Clk [clerk]
[seal]
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and always has been a citizen of the United States.  Truman [his X mark] Platt 

Sworn and subscribed to in open Court, this 3d day of July A.D. 1832 
E. D. Barber, Clerk Pro tem.

And this said Court do hereby declare the
opinion, after the investigation of the matter,
and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states; and the said Court also certify that from personal acquaintance with Josiah Clark and Jos Hayward, whose certificate is herewith transmitted, they consider them persons of veracity
and entitled to credit; and the Court further certify that it has been made to affirm to these by competent testimony that Miller
Honr. [honorable] whose certificate is herewith transmitted, is a person of veracity and entitled
credit
Edward D. Barber Clerk
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Miller Stone, Josiah Clark and Jas. HayWard as Certificate

Truman Platt's Case
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We the undersigned certify that we are well acquainted with Truman Platt of New Haven in Addison County Vermont and some of us have been acquainted with him for many years & lived near him and we further certify that said Platt has always since our acquaintance with him been considered and reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and we further certify that sd [said] Platt is reputed and esteemed among his neighbors to be an honest inoffensive man and tho' [though] poor is considered as sustaining a fair character for truth and veracity.
Miller Stow
Josiah Clark
Jas Hayward
Sworn and subscribed in open court this 4th day of July AD 1832
E.D. Barber clerk
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No 1183
[D]eclaration of [T]ruman Platt
Aug 6 1832
Jan 23
admitted per Mr. E
2 yrs
$80
for Hon. W Slade
2 Mch 1833
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No 1183
[illegible]
send to E. D. Barber
Susp 11 Dec 32
Obj. 11 12
E. D. Barker Middlebury Vt
2yrs $80
Hon. W. Slade 
P147
return this brief
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BRIEF in the case of Truman Platt of Addison County in the State of Vermont 
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In the County Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
[ blank]

3. How old is he?
78 years

4. [unreadable under the crease] the form annexed.


Period | Duration of Service |Years, Months, Days  | Rank | Name of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1776 May | 9 (months) | private | Capt. Bostwitk Col. Simmisman

---- | 3 (months) | do [ditto] | addition al to the last service - 

May or June 1777 | 1 (years) | do [ditto] \ Capt. Shipman Gen. Arnold

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Burgoyne's Capture __

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
New Milford Connecticut

7. Is his statement [unreadable under crease] by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By tradition

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.

G. M. Duffield Examining Clerk
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18549
INVALID.
File No. 18,549
Truman Platt
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 298

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8283
P. O. Truman Platt
Service: 
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18
Discharged:     , 18
Application filed:   , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.

[written sideways] See G. W. Inv. File 18549.

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[stamped] FREE


Hon J. L. Edwards
Cmr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City.

Truman Platt
Vo rill [?] '32.  32
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[illegible] 
Boston [Marj.?] June 24th 1845

Sir,

Truman Platt of Addison County in the State of Vermont who was a pensioner under the act of june 1832 filed his declaration with the Secretary of War far is alleged under the act of March 18 1818 and that his claim under that all war did allowed for want of proof of service -  
His heirs think they are entitled to the pension from the time he made his declaration under the act of 1818. to the 4th of March 1820, provided they furnish proof of 9 months service on the Continental [illegible] - meal -
Will you please inform me whether they are entitled to such pension on making the proof.
I am very respectfully, 
[illegible]
A S Campbelle
Hon J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
PS Please also inform me whether there is a declaration on file under the act of 1818 - Truman Platt is now deceased.  ASC
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Sir
It is made my duty to invite your attention to the enclosed papers in relation to which you will report to the Hon William Slade June of Middlebury Vermont should the case not be acted upon until after the close of the [illegible]
Yours respectfully
Charles Rich

J. L. Edwards Esqr
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J. Doolittle
Statement
to accompany T. Platt
application for pension
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Middlebury Vt. Nov 28 1832

At the request of Truman Platt an applicant
for pension, I make the following statement to
accompany his application to the Depart of War. 
Soon after the passage of the act of the 18 March 1818 said Platt applied to me, as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, to take his declaration of service [?] which I did, & transmitted to the War Depart [department]. - The papers were returned, [crossed out "not allow"] application rejected, but on what particular ground I do not now recollect, probably the want of evidence of service - 
at a subsequent period he sent me some affidavits going to prove some part of his service, a term less, I should think, than would have entitled him to a pension under the
act above referd [referred] to -  the name or names of the officiants not recollected> 

Said Platt has, I believe, been unceasing in his endeavors to procure evidence of this services, always declaring they were sufficient, if the proof could be found, to entitle him to a pension. 

The papers returned from the Department of war to me,  were afterwards taken from me by 1s Matt, and he does not appear to have any recollection about them __ he is now laboring
under a more than ordinary degree of
[imbecility?] of mind & Memory even for a man of his advanced age -

Joel Doolittle

Hon. L. Cap [?]
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Middlebury February 13. 1821

Hon. Charles Rich

Dear Sir

Your [unreadable]  of the 2d Instant is just and accompanied by the papers of [unreadable] Darby, I am under the [?] of again troubling you in the same way by forwarding to you the [?]  papers of Mr. Truman Platt. 
They were returned, some time since, from the Pension office, for proof of service. The proof has been obtained and is annexed to the declaration. I send the papers to you because
I think it possible that you may get them passed the pension office before the 4th of March, so that if a pension should be granted, the money may be drawn before the 4th of Sept.
The [unreadable] property of the applicant is my only apology for taking this course-

I am, Sir, very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
William Slade [Jun.?]
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[crossed out - Col. Sussman]
[crossed out - affidavits]
T. Platt, case
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I William B. Sumner of Middlebury in the County of Addison & State of Vermont of lawfull age testify & say, that I have been acquainted with Truman Platt, of New Haven, in the same County & State, applicant for pension for many years, and I think for eighteen or twenty years last past, and have always understood from him that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and said Platt has in frequent conversations with  me & others in my hearing spoken of and related incidents & events of that war, which, from the manner, & minut[illegible] of his relations, left no reasonable grounds of doubt, that he must have been personally knowing to & acquainted with those events.

And I further testify & say, that in the month of Feby 1819, according to my best recollection as to the time, I was present with said Platt when he processed the affidavits of two witnesses, their living in Peace, in the County of Clinton & State of New York, going to prove the services of said Platt in said war.  The name of one of the witnesses was Buck, Christian name not now recollected, the name of the other witness was Platt, a female, whose christian name is not now recollected.  both of said witnesses were then old persons.  Those witnesses testified to a considerable time
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss

I Elias Hurlbut, [illegible] of Way bridge in said County, now of Ludlow in the same State, a Clergyman of the Baptist Church, do testify & say that I have for many years been acquainted with Truman Platt of New Haven in the County aforesaid, an applicant for pension and have lived in the same neighborhood, & I further say that I beliee the said Platt to be seventy eight years of age, and that said Platt has been & is respected, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and in that opinion I fully concur.

Elias Hurlbut Clergyman

Sworn & subscribed this
27th day of December 1832

Saml Swift Clerk
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State of Vermont ⎬
Addison County ss}
We Barzillai Stewart, Israel March Elias Palmer, Saml D. Braynard, Joseph Hayward & Silas Harrington, all residing in New Haven
Weybridge in the County aforesaid, do testify & say that we have for many years been acquainted with Truman Platt, of said New Haven, & have lived the same
neighborhood with & we further testify & say  that the said Platt has. been and is respected,
the neighborhood when he resides,
to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary
and in that opinion we fully concur-
Barzillai Stewart
Israel Marsh
Elias Palmer
Samuel   D Braynard
Jos Hayward

Sworn & Subscribed this 27th day of December 1832.-
Saml. Swift, Clerk
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I Truman Batt of New Haven in the County of Addison & State of Vermont applicant for pension, do in addition to my former declaration, testify & say that there is not any Clergyman settled or residing in said town of New Haven which is the reason why the affidavit of a clergyman was omitted in my first
application-  Truman [His X mark] Platt

Sworn & subscribed this 27th of December 1832                                Saml Swift Clerk

State of Vermont }
Addison County ss} County Court, 27th December 1832. The Court hereby certify, that it appears to the annexed certificate them that Elias Hurlbert, who has signed & sworn to a
Clergyman, lately resident in the town of Weybridge in said County, and his statement is entitled to credit. And the said Court do further certify, that William B. Summer, Burrillai Stewart, Israel Marsh, Elias Palmer Samuel L.
Brainard, and Joseph Hayword, whose affidavits are annexed are credible persons.
Saml Swift Clerk
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State of Vermont}
Addison County ss.}  I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Truman Platt for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 18th day of January 1832

Saml Swift Clerk
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Truman Platt
Explanatory Declaration
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State of Vermont}
District of Addison ss} On this 27th day of November 1832 personally appeared before the Probate Court for said District of Addison, in open Court personally appeared Truman Platt, residing in New Haven in the County of Addison, who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to & explanation of his former declaration made before the County Court for the County of
Addison, on the 3d day of July 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That since the passage of the said act of Congress, I have made the most diligent enquiry for some evidence to prove my service in the revolutionary war, and have
not been able to hear of any person living, who has knowledge of my service. And now say, that I have not and cannot obtain any direct evidence of the same.
And I further say that I am not able to recollect the name of the Colonel, under whom I served in 1777. -and that through I have to a great extent lost the use of any memory- more so that persons generally of my age.-- And I further say, that ever since the passage
of the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, I have been trying with the assistance of my hands to procure evidence of my said service; and I proceed a friend to go to New Milford Connecticut, where Insided at the time of my
service, a year ago last fall, for the purpose of proving evidence; but he found that every person was dead who acknowledge of his same years ago I found two persons residing in Perce, County of Clinton, New York, Joel Buck & Sarah Platt, who had knowledge of my service in 1776, and took their affidavits. I know not what has become of said affidavits, They were sent on, but I
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do not know whether they were returned. Both said  witnesses have since died. Truman [His X mark] Platt

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Saml Swift, Judge

State of Vermont
District of Addison ss}  Harvey Bell Register of the Probate Court for the foregoing are the original providing Court in the matter of the application of man for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
Middlebury this 27th day of November 1832
                                         Harvey Bell Register
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Truman Platts
Declaration-
Addison County,  VT
22nd February, 1820,
Col. Sullivan's regt
Connect line, April
1776, to February 177.

There was no Colonel Sullivan belonged
to the Connecticut Line -
Returned for amendment
 2nd June 1820
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State of Vermont Addison County ss

On this 22 day of February A.D. 1820, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the County Court of the County of Addison aforesaid, personally appears Truman Platt of Weybridge in said County, aged sixty four years, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the 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. That he the the said Truman State enlisted for the term of nine months,
into the service of the United States, in New Milford in the State of Connecticut.  sometime in the latter part of March or the fore part of April 1776, in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Bostwick of the Connecticut line & was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colo.
Sullivan of said line, that the continued to sever in said company & Regiment until sometime in February 1777 when he was honorably discharged from service at or near a place called New Rochelle in the State of New York
that he was in the battle on Long Island, and at White Plains in the summer of 1776 - and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance


[1111] 1111
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State of Vermont}
Addison County ss} I Saml Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that the above named William Slade Jun was on the  said 22d February 1820, a Judge of said Court and his name above written is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
23rd day of February 1890- Saml Swift

Clinton County ss}
 State of New York Pen January 12th 1821
Personally appeared before me John Platt
and after being duly sworn deposeth and
saith that he was personally acquainted with Truman Platt at the time he enlisted that he enlisted in the Town of Newmilford in the State of Connecticut in the year 1776 and that he was in the service of the United States Nine Months and that he was discharged in the year 1777 and that he was Personally acquainted with the said Thomas Platt- While he was in the Service of the United States and that he was acquainted with Capt Reuben Bostick in the year 1776 and he knew that he was Recruiting officer in the town at the time that Truman Platt enlisted and that he is confident that there was No other recruiting officer in that place in that year and that he is Now personally acquainted with the said Truman Platt and that he believes that he lives in the town of Middlebury in the State of Vermont-
Addison County           John [His X mark] Platt

And I hereby Certify the above in my opinion is a credible witness
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town of Middlebury in the State of Vermont
Addison County-  John [His X mark] Platt



And thereby Certify the above in my opinion is a credible Witness- Luis Elderkin Justice Peace

I Charles Platt Clerk of Clinton County do certify
that Luis Elderkin is a Justice of the peace duly sworn and acting under the authority of this State in Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County & set my hand this 24th of January 1821,-John Platt, Clerk of Clinton County

State of New York}
Clinton County ss} January 1821 Personally appeared before me Sarah Platt and after being duly sworn deponent saith that she was personally acquainted with Truman Platt Now Resident in Middlebury in the State of Vermont
in the year 1776 - that she well recollects that the said Platt resided in her family in the spring of that year and that same time during said spring he Enlisted into the service of the United States in New Milford in the State of Connecticut the town where she resided-
that he enlisted in a Company commanded by
Capt Reuben Bostick and was as she understood attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Silly or Silliman and
that she understood he served in said Regiment until some time in the latter part of the Winter 1777- the only [the only] means she had of knowing that he served during that time was that he occasionally returned to her family
on furlough during said time at one of which return she well recollects that he brought her some spirits-- which she used as medicine
 having been recently confined by the
birth of a son and that he returned to her family or being
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stationary returned to her family on furlough during said time he well recollects that he brought her some spirits-- which She used as Medicine having been recently confined by the
Birth of a Son and that he returned to her family or being discharged which according to her best recollection was at a place Near the North River in the State of New York

Sworn to before me at Peru this 24th day of January 1821.- Sarah [her X mark] Platt
And Thereby Certify the above in my Opinion is a credible Witness -Luis Elderkin Justice Peace


Clinton County ss} I Charles Platt Clerk of Clinton County do certify that
Luis Elderkin is a Justice of the peace for said County duly sworn and acting under the authority of the State in testimony whereof I have unto set the seal of said County & set my name this 24th day of January 1821-Chas. Platt of Clinton County


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Clinton County ss} Personally appeared before me Luis Elderkin Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and after
of Clinton and State of New York at Birth of Penn and after being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that He is personally acquainted with Truman Platt [and] Now and was personally acquainted with the said Truman When he enlisted in to the service of the United States that He enlisted in the town of New Milford in the State of Connecticut and that he the said Truman enlisted in the year 1776 and that