Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,442, for Job Phillips, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Phillips, Job
or Philips
Mary

NUMBER
W. 17,442

CONTENTS
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Job Philips
of Plainfield in the State of Connt. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dirgg [Durkee] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dirgg  [Durkee]  in the Connt. line for 6 months 11 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Connt. at the rate of 21 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of June 1833 and sent to Joseph Eaton, Plainfield, Ct.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 42.44
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 11.11
$54.95

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by T. T. Franciosi Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3d Page 34
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Connecticut - 3464
Mary Philips
widow of Job Philips who was a pensioner under the Act of 7th June '32 and who died on the 23d December 1833 of Tolland in the State of Connecticut who was a Pri. in the Compy commanded by Captain Dirgg [Durkee] Conn of the Regt. commanded by Dirgg [Durkee] in the Connt. line for 6 mos 11 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 21 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of July '39 and sent to Elisha Stearns Tolland, Con.

Arrears to the 4th of March - $63.66
Semi=anl. allowance ending    10.66
$74.32

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk
Book A Vol. 1 page2
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8256
Job. Phillips

on Roll
paid - 29th July 1780
dischd. 10 Dec 1780

dischd. 10 Dec 1780 4 mo 11 day

Admitted
Private. Connt. Line
6 mo & 11 days

Joseph Eaton 
Plainfield
Connt
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BRIEF in the case of   Job Phillips 
of Plainfield in the  State of  Connecticut
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he?    69 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period.  1 June In 1780   Duration of Service.   6 Months 4.11   Rank.  Private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Colonel Dirgy [Durkee]  Genl Parsons
Period.   1782    Duration of Service.  2 Months  2  Rank.  Private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt. Dirgy [Durkee]
5. In what battles was he engaged?   none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Plainfield Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   Pay, living witnesses
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 
Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk
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Ck Apl 12
Add’l proof 
Mary Phillips
7 July No.
Tolland Ct
April 9
Free
J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
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I Erastus Phillips of Willington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged forty nine years testify that the annexed family Register is the family Register of my father Job Phillips now deceased,  that it has been in the possession of my father’s family in my remembrance and that the entry of his marriage with Mary Kee is in his hand writing and is dated the 29 of March AD 1887, which I have always understood to be the time of his marriage.  
Erastus Phillips 
Tolland County ss Tolland April 9th  1839 
Personally appeared Erastus Phillips the above named deponent & made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by him subscribed and I certify that he is a credible witness.  Before me 
Elisha Stearns Justice peace
[unreadable] Phillips was married [unreadable] October the 5 178
Job Phillips and Mary Kee was married march the 29 AD 1789
[unreadable] Dexter and Phillips was married [unreadable] September the 13th 1787
Ebenezer Platt and Mary Phillips was marryed together November the 28th 1790
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I Erastus Phillips of Willington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged forty nine years testify that the annexed family Register is the family Register of my father Job Phillips now deceased, that it has been in the possession of my father’s family in my remembrance and that the entry of his marriage with Mary Kee 
the 29 of March AD 1887, 
understood to be the time 
Erastus Phillips 
Mickel Phillips was born March y 14th 1681 
Mary Phillips his wife was born March y 8 [unreadable]
Ruth Phillips was born September y 9th 1707 a Tuesday
Joseph Phillips was born December y 9th 1709 a Monday
John Phillips was born y 27 1712 a Saturday
Job Phillips was born April y 23rd 1717 a Wednesday night
William Phillips was born [unreadable] 26 [unreadable] 
Phillips was born [unreadable] y 27th 1729 [unreadable] morning 
Tolland April 9th 1839 
Erastus Phillips the above 
made solemn oath to the truth 
by him subscribed  
he is a credible witness. 
Elisha Stearns Justice peace
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William Fanner and Sabrina Phillips was married together October the 5th 1786 
Job Phillips and Mary Kee was married March the 29th AD 1787
Thomas Dexter and Leah Phillips was married together September the 13th 1787
Ebenezer Hall and Mary Phillips was married together November the 28th 1790
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Tolland Conn, April 9 1839

Sir
I now forward the evidence required of the marriage of Mary Phillips whose application for a pension has been a long time pending. Evidence of the marriage which has been often judged sufficient had been previously forwarded but I have been so fortunate as to find also the register and I trust now there will be no further delay in granting the pension. I have not procured the county clerk's certificate of my being a Justice of the Peace for you have it now with the papers relating to this application & numerous other cases.
Permit me to call your attention to this pension application of Mrs Hyde of Coventry which has been many months, in your office undecided - I have reason to believe that more service was performed that that stated in her decln. and also of a former communication - May I request your attention to the Rolls to ascertain these facts - but it seems to me to be a new principle that a credible witness swearing directly to the services alleged is not sufficient to prove such service.
Very respectfully
Your Obed Servt
Elisha Stearns

James L Edwards Esq.
Comr of Pensions
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I Jonathan Dexter of Killingsly in the County of Windham aged forty one being under oath do depose and say that I am the town clerk of the town of Killingsly in the County of Windham and as such have in my custody the records of said town especially the records of marriages, and that I have this day at the request of the widow Mary Phillips now of Coventry in the County of Tolland & State of Connecticut made diligent search and examination amongst the said records for the record of her marriage with Job Phillips formerly of Plainfield in said Windham County deceased, and that I can find no such record, and that from such search and examination I do believe that no such record exists. I do further say that having been informed that the said Mary's name prior to her intermarriage with the said Phillips was Mary Kee, or Keys, and that the said marriage took place in the year 1787 or about that time I looked amongst the records particularly of that year and of a number of other years previous to that time and from that year down to the present time & have not been able to find any record of the marriage, and further saith not.
Jonathan Dexter Town Clerk

Windham County SS Killingsly Nov. 3rd 1838 
Then Jonathan Dexter who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit personally appeared before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Dexter that he is a credible witness
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and that he is the town clerk of the town of Killingsly duly sworn and acts as such
Certified by
Thomas Backus Judge of Probate 
for the District of Killingsly

I Sabrina Tanner of Killingsly in the County of Windham being under oath do depose and say that I am seventy one years of age and upwards. Job Phillips formerly of Plainfield in said County was my brother. The widow Mary Phillips now of Coventry in the County of Tolland was formerly his wife and is now his widow. I have a distinct recollection of being at their wedding and seeing them married. They were married in the town of Killingsly about fifty two years ago & I believe in the year 1787. I am sure it was after the termination of the revolutionary war and before the year 1790. They were married by the Rev. Israel Day then a settled minister in said town of Killingsly. The said Mary's maiden name was Mary Kee or Key. My said brother died at Plainfield in the month of December 1833 - & I was present at his funeral - and his said widow has remained single and unmarried ever since and is still single and unmarried - and further saith not.
Sabrina Tanner X her mark

Samuel Cooper
Thomas Backus
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Windham Cunty of Killingsly Nov. 3 1838
Then Sabrina Tanner who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit & who is personally known to me as a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath to said affidavit before me
Thomas Backus Judge of Probate
for the District of Killingsly

I Gideon C Segur Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Killingsly do hereby certify that the foregoing signatures of the name of "Thomas Backus" are the genuine signatures and the handwriting of the said Backus and that he is the Judge of Probate of said District. And I do further certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of the widow Mary Phillips for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 3rd day of November 1838.
Gideon C. Segur Clerk
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(checkmark)
3485
Mary Phillips
3,464
widow of Job
Con
act of 7 July 38

m 87. d 33
admd
6 mo 11 ds pri
$21.22/100
No deduction

Elisha Stearns
Tolland
Con
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 3d section of the Act of 4 July 1836 and of the Act of 7 July 1838

State of Connecticut County of Tolland SS Coventry Nov 28 1838
On this 28th day of Nov. 1838 personally appeared the widow Mary Phillips a resident of Coventry in the County of Tolland & State aforesd aged 78 years before the subscribing authority & the said Mary Phillips being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 1836 & the Act of 7 July 1838 That she was married to Job Phillips late of Plainfield in the County of Windham in sd State deceasd the (black smudge) 1787 That the said Job Phillips was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war and performed six months service therein as stated in his declaration for a pension now in the pension office & the evidence accompanying the same for which a pension certificate was granted him and said certificate has since been lost & cannot now be found. That the said Mary was married to the said Job Phillips on the twenty ninth day of March seventeen hundred eighty seven That her said husband died the 23d day of December 1833 & that she has ever since remained a widow.
Mary Phillips X her mark
3485

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written
Elisha Stearns
Samuel Cooper

Before me and I certify that the said Mary Phillips is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court
Elisha Stearns Judge of the County 
Court for the said County of Tolland
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That the said Job Phillips [unreadable] 
the Revolutionary war and performed six months service therein as stated in his declaration for a pension now in the pension office & the evidence accompanying the same for which pension Certificate was granted him and said certificate has since been lost and can not now be found.   The the said Mary was married to the said Job Phillips on the twenty ninth day of March Seventeen hundred eighty seven,  that her said husband died the 23d day of December 1833 & that she has ever since remained a widow.   
Sworn & subscribed on the day & year above written 
Mary Phillips her mark
3485
Elisha Stearns
Samuel Cooper
Before me and I certify that the said Mary Phillips is unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court.
Elisha Stearns Judge of the County Court for the said County of Tolland 
State of Connecticut 
County of Tolland} ss County Clerks office 
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the County in the County of Tolland aforesaid Certify that the Hon Elisha Stearns of Tolland is Judge of the County Court within and for said Tolland County duly appointed and  acting in said capacity. That his commission bears date in May 1835 and will continue untill the 20th day of June 1839 - also that the signature to the above certificate purporting to be the signature of said Judge Stearns is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & seal of office this 28th day of November 1838 
Jenniah Parish Clerk
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I Jonathan  Dexter of Killingly in the County of Windham aged forty one being under oath do depose and so that I am the town clerk of the town of Killingly in the County of Windham and as such have in my custody the records of said town especially the records of marriages and that I have this day at the request of the Widow Mary Phillips now of Coventry in the County Tolland & State of Connecticut made diligent search and examination amongst the said records for the record of her marriage with Job Phillips formerly Plainfield in said Windham County deceased, and that I can find no such record, and that from such search, and examination I do believe that no such record exists, I do further say that having been informed that the said Mary's name prior to be intermarriage with the said Phillips was Mary Kee, or Keys, and that the said marriage took place in the year 1787 or about that time I looked amongst the records particularly of that year and a number of other years previous to that time and from that year down the present time & have not been able to find any record of the marriage and further saith not. 
Jonathan Dexter Town Clerk 
Windham County ss Killingly Nov 3rd 1888 The said Jonathan Dexter who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit personally appeared before me and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.  I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Dexter that he is a credible witness.
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and that he is the town Clerk of the town of Killingly duly sworn and acts as such.  
Certified by 
Thomas Backus Judge of Probate for the District of Killingly 
I Sabrina Tanner of Killingly in the County of Windham being under oath do depose and say that I am seventy one years of age and upwards – Job Phillips formerly of Plainfield in said County was my brother. The widow Mary Phillips now of Coventry in the county of Tolland was formerly his wife and is now his widow. I have a distinct recollection of being at their wedding and seeing them married.   They were married in the town of Killingly about fifty two years ago & I believe in the year 1787.  I am sure it was after the termination of the revolutionary war and before the year 1790.  They were married by the Rev. Israel Day then settled minister in said town of Killingly. The said Marys maiden name was Mary Kee or Key. My said brother died at Plainfield in the month of December 1833 & I was present at his funeral and his said Widow has remained single and unmarried ever since, and is still single and unmarried and further saith not.
Samuel Cooper 
Thomas Backus
Sabrina Tanner x her mark
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Windham County ss. Killingly Nov. 3 1838 
Then Sabrina Tanner who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit & who is personally known to me as a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath to said affidavit before me 
Thomas Backus Judge of Probate for the District of Killingly 
I Gideon C. Seger Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Killingly do hereby the certify that the foregoing signatures of the name “Thomas Backus” are the genuine name of signatures and the hand writing of the said Backus and that he is the Judge Probate of said District. And do further certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court in the matter the application of the Widow Mary Phillips for a Pension.   In testimony whereof have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 3rd day of November 1838  
Gideon C. Seger Clerk
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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 WINDHAM, } SS. Probate Court, Plainfield District 
On this 18th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court in the County of Windham aforesaid, now sitting Job Phillips a resident of the town of Plainfield in the County Windham and State of Connecticut, aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make 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 as herein stated:  
That he enlisted in the year 1780 about the first of June  in Plainfield for six months and joined the continental troops on the North River in the State of New York in Capt Bull Company, and Col Dirgy [Durkee], Regiment, and Genl Parsons Brigade and served in said Company the said six months, in the State of New York and State of New Jersey, at this Time Major Andre was taken.  We were encamped in Orange Town in the State of New Jersey; I saw Major Andre after was brought in, and the day he was executed was on the [unreadable] N Guard, and on the first December I was dismissed.  A number of my Neighbours enlisted with me & joined the army at the same time, but now they are all dead & gone.  
In the year after New London was burnt, the year 1782 I served as substitute for George Dunworth who was drafted, and served in the fort below New London called Fort Trumbull, Capt Dirgy [Durkee] commanded the Fort and I served under his command. He entered into the Fort about the Middle of July, and was dismissed about the middle of September.  The term of Service being for two months which then expired.  And  
He 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. 
The following interrogatories were by said Court propounded to said applicant viz: 
1. Where and in what year were you born? In Plainfield 1763 
2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it? I have at home on my Family Bible 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? in Plainfield, a short time in Killingly & now in Plainfield 
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom? I have stated above.   
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. I refer to the above statement.  I would state that a part of the above time, Capt Buel was removed to different command, & the Company was then commanded by Capt Phelps.   
6. Did you receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?  
I rec’d a written discharge from my first service above,  West Point, by the Col. Dirgy [Durkee].  It was [unreadable] to me by Capt Moses Tracy who is now dead & I have 
7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief in your services as a soldier of the revolution. Aud Peleg Peckham & Daniel Wheeler Esq.  Job Phillips
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Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the Probate Court in and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut. John F Gordon Clerk
We Peleg Peckham a clergyman, residing in the town of Plainfield in said Windham County, and Daniel Wheeler residing in (the same,) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Job Phillips who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 69 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. 
Daniel Wheeler   Peleg Peckham 
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County of Windham in the state of Connecticut.  
John F Gordon Clerk 
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 Peleg Peckham who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the said town of Plainfield and that Daniel Wheeler who signed the same is a resident in the said town of Plainfield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
I John F Gordon Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Phillips for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 13th day of August A.D. 1832 
John F. Gordon Clerk Probate for the district of Plainfield
That he has no documentary Evidence of his service except what is to hereunto annexed
8256
lost the same, at New London Received no written discharge  
This Return is requested to be directed to Joseph Eaton Plainfield Conn
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Probate Office  ss Plainfeld District August 13th 1832 
Personally appeared in open Court, Frederick Gray aged sixty five next December of Plainfield and Joseph Phillips aged sixty seven of Stirling, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that during the revolutionary War, we lived in the neighborhood with Job Phillips, who has been ever same and is now well known to them, and that they well remember that he enlisted, and joined the Continental army in the year 1780. There were other of our Neighbours that then  inlisted, to wit Samuel Tracey, John Phanging, Thomas Simms and James Fuller, who are now dead and we well remember that he the enlistment was for six months, and that was from home for that time, and returned home in the Beginning of the Winter following.  And I the said Phillips do further depose and say that I well know that said Job Phillips in the year 1782 performed a Tower [Tour] of military service to New London, and was gone about two month & I understood that he served as a substitute for George Dunworth then living in Plainfield, & the said Gray well recollects that the said Job Phillips performed a second tour of Service, and was gone from home a short time, but cannot say how long or at what time he returned.   
Frederick Gray 
Joseph Phillips 
Windham County ss Probate Office, Plainfield District 
Personally appeared in open Court, the above Deponents Frederick Gray & Joseph Phillips and subscribed with their own proper hands the same, and being duly sworn, made oath to the truth of the facts therein contained, and it is hereby certified the said Frederick Gray & Joseph Phillips are well known to this Court and that they are  credible witnesses & their statement is entitled to full Credit & Belief.   
In witness whereof I have hereunto
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set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 13th day of August AD 1832 
John F. Gordon Clerk of Probate for  district of Plainfield
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section 
W. 17442 
MCS/HMM 
July 9, 1929
Mr. Roy C. Phillips, 
2021 Wirt Street, 
Omaha.  Nebraska. 
Dear Sir:   
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17442, it appears that Job Phillips (pensioned as Philips) was born in 1763 in Plainfield, Connecticut.   
While a resident of that place he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops as follows: From about the 1st of June 1780, six months in Captains Buell's and Phelps' Companies in Colonel Durkee's Regiment; from the middle of July 1782 until the middle of September 1782 under Captain Durkee. See Comm in Pen. P. 182  
After the Revolution he lived in Killingly and Plainfield. Connecticut. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Plainfield, Connecticut. 
He died there December 23, 1833. 
The soldier married March 29, 1787, in Killingly, Connecticut Mary Kee, Key or Keys. 
She was allowed pension on her application executed November
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28, 1838, at which time she was seventy-eight years of age and was a resident of Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut. 
A son, Erastus, was living in Wellington, Connecticut, in 1839, at which time he was forty-nine years of age. 
The above noted is the only soldier from Plainfield, Connecticut by the name of Job Phillips (search made under all spellings of the name) that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau and there is no record of John or Jonathan Phillips as described by you. 
Valuable information may be obtained from the Congressional Library. 
It is proper to add that the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 records of this Bureau are open to the public for research work and you, or anyone designated by you, may examine and collect data from the papers on file by calling at the Bureau. 
Respectfully, 
EARL D. CHURCH, 
Commissioner.
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 17442 
Mary Phillips Job 
Widow  of Job Phillips 
Priv. Rev. War 
Act: July 7. 1838 
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 128 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1929 July 9 hist to Roy C. Phillips MCS
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I George Dunworth of Hampton, Connecticut of the age of Seventy three years the 26” day of Octr AD 1831, testify and say that according to the best of my recollection I was drafted in the summer of the year 1782 to perform tour of duty of two months in the State service at New London in said State of Connecticut and I hired  Job Philips then of Plainfield in said State to perform said service for me which he did. The officers commanding the Company from which I was drafted I have forgotten.   
Dated at Hampton Aug 28 1832, George Dunsworth 
Windham County ss Hampton August 28th 1832 
Personally appeared George Dunsworth Esqr Gentleman well known to me the of the first respectability and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed  before me.
Chauncey F. Cleveland  Justice of Peace
I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Chauncey F. Cleveland Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for the County said Windham County, that foregoing signature of his name is in his hand writing and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 5th day of Sept A.D. 1832 
Armin Bolles Clerk
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June 25
Jarat 
Ct. 
Tolland Ct
June 22
Philips
Free
J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
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Tolland Conn June 22 1839 
Sir 
I am informed by the friends of Mrs Phillips whose declaration for a pension I have heretofore sent you that her name is Mary & that she is the widow of Job Phillips.   
I sent you last winter a family record of her marriage with Mr Phillips which I hope you received. It is possible that I sent it to Gen. Holt then Rep in Congress to present to you  & that he may not have presented it.    If received by you I hope for a speedy decision of her claim.   If not received, it is because he hath neglected to present it & he has probably lost it.  In that case I beg that she may not in that account lose the pension as there is his deposition proof of the marriage.  She is entirely destitute & dependent on her friends for support.  
You say that you have recd no additional evidence on the application of Olive Hyde widow of John Hyde.  I sent a deposition to the are of Gen Holt early in the last session, obtained at considerable expense, testifying to repeated statements made by John Hyde the husband, of the same services mentioned in the declaration of Mrs Hyde & also of other service performed by him & also of his having held a commission. That deposition it now appears Gen Holt never presented to you & I regret that I have imputed to you any improper delay in this case. If Gen Holt can find the deposition I will obtain and forward it 
Very respectfully 
Your Obt Sevt
Elisha Stearns
J. L. Edwards Com of Pensions
(turn over)
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P. S. Since writing I have heard directly from Gen Holt, who says that he delivered the deposition at your office & all the papers entrusted to him.  So that if the family register in Mrs Phillips case was sent to his care it must have been received at the pension office.   I hope therefore in both cases Justice will at length be done to these poor widows.
Yours &c Stearns
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Omaha Neb. June 22, 1929. 
Mr. Earl D. Church Commissioner 
Bureau of Pensions  
Washington, D.C. 
My dear Mr. Church 
I trust you will overlook my seeming presumption, which was, however merely ignorance on my part, in asking your genealogical aid on about 20 of the Phillips family. I realize it was quite a list!
I am going to take advantage of your kind offer to look into the records of two of these, however, for every bit of data helps. Although each record is important to me, I shall select:
[stamp] OFFICE OF THE COMMISIONER  JUN 24 1929 U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
John Phillips
Job Phillips
1)  John born Feb 2 1722 – 3, Either Jonathan Jr., son of Jonathan & Esther (Ayers) Phillips,  Preston, Conn. Wife not known, or death. b) 6r John, son of Joseph & Mary of Plainfield, Conn. born 2/12/ 1735. Wife or death not known.  
2) Job.  Born Aug 5 1863 (July 1)  son of William and Temperance (Branch) Phillips of Plainfield, Conn. 
I regret that I have no other data on these men, except that in the Conn. Military Record. May I ask you if I would be permitted to use the Libraries at Washington?
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hope to return East in about three weeks, and should very much like to take advantage of the rare opportunity the government records must give for getting genealogical data not procurable in any other way.   If any special procedure is necessary to get access to the files of these libraries, I should appreciate very much knowing the steps which are necessary to be taken.  Perhaps I wrote you before - I am endeavoring to compile a genealogy of the Phillips families of Preston and Plainfield.   
Thanking you for your kind letter.  I remain Cordially yours 
Roy C. Phillips
2021 Wirt St.
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Omaha, Neb. June 14, 1929. 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D. C 
Dear Sir:  
I note the following, which I believe are members of my genealogical family, served in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. They came from and around Plainfield, Conn.  
Revolution:
1)  John Phillips 
2) Nathaniel Phillips 
3) Job Phillips 
4) Elijah Phillips 
5) Michael Phillips 
6) Jeremiah Phillips 
7) James Phillips 
[stamp]  OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS JUN 24 1929
War of 1812 
1) Benjamin Phillips 
2) Edward Phillips 
3) Freeman Phillips
4) James Phillips 
5) Jeptha Phillips 
6) John Phillips 
7) Martin Phillips
8)  Philip Phillips 
9) William Phillips 
10) Samuel Phillips 
11) John Phillips  (Mass.) 
12)  Michael Phillips 
I should appreciate greatly all the genealogical data you may be able to give me on each of these names. 
Very truly yours 
Roy C. Phillips
(2021 Wirt St.)
Home Address Laurel Hill Ave, Norwich Conn.
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[stamp] OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS JUN 24 1929
Rev War Section
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IN REPLY REFER TO Rev.&1812 Wars Section 3-1865 
MMHF 
UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS 
WASHINGTON   June 19, 1929.
Roy C. Phillips, 
2021 Wirt Street, 
Omaha, Nebraska. 
Sir:  
In response to your letter of June 14, 1929, requesting information relative to about twenty soldiers of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, I advise you that due to the very large number of requests similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, the bureau is unable to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of those wars, for one person. 
If you will designate two soldiers whose histories you most desire and furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to each: approximate dates of birth and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow, a careful search of the records will be made in your behalf and their records furnished, if on file. 
Kindly return these letters with your reply. 
Respectfully, 
Earl D. Church 
EARL D. CHURCH, 
Commissioner.