Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15343, Elijah Bradley, Conn
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SERVICE                                           NUMBER

Conn.              Bradley, Elijah             S. 15343

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                   BRADLEY,
                   ELIJAH
                    (CONN.)
                    S15343
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Elijah Bradley  2                           29,958
of Washington in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the Comp commanded 
by Captain VanDeusen  
                  Connecticut State troops
                           Gru pr Artillery

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut 
at the rate of 7 Dollars 50 Cents per.. 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued 8th day of June 1835 and sent Wm Storer
New Haven Ct

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 35           190.
Semi-anl. allowance ending              23.75
                                                       _________
    [National Archives                     $ 213.75
          here]                    {Revolutionary Claim,
                                        Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R. Ela   Clerk
Book E 2  Vol 3   Page 5
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              Declaration
  In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} Js

On this 7th day of October AD 1834 personally appeared before me  Daniel B. Brinsmade Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the district of Washington in said County of Litchfield now sitting Elijah Bradley a resident of the Town of Washington in said County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy two years and four months, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.-
  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated (viz)
That in the month of January AD 1777 he enlisted for the term of one month [two words underlined] into a company of infantry commanded by Capt. Peter Johnson [name underlined] of New Haven in this state and was marched from there to West Chester in the state of New York where he continued untill his term of service expired when he returned home to New Haven aforesaid -
That in the month of August AD 1777 he entered the service as a substitute for one
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Isaac Dickerman of New Haven aforesaid in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Stephen Bryant of Milford in New Haven County aforesaid and were marched from said New Haven to New London in the State of Connecticut and joined a regiment commanded by Colonel Wyllys of Hartford for the term of Two months [last two words underlined] when he returned home to New Haven aforesaid.
That on the 1st day of April AD 1781 he enlisted into a company of Artillery stationed at New Haven & there under the command of Captain of Captain William Van Deusen who commanded said company untill the 1st day of August AD 1781 when Capt. John Warner of New Haven aforesaid  took the command, that  he served in said company his full term of Enlistment which was nine months two words underlined] and was discharged but has no written or printed discharge in his possession - That he served in the whole Twelve months (i.e.) three months in the Militia and nine months in the artillery as aforesaid for which he claims a pension.  That he has no documentary evidence by which to Establish his claim and knows of no person living who cn testify to his services aforesaid except those whose affidavits are hereto appended - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
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present and declares that his name is not on the  pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
   [Signed]  Elijah Bradley

We Gordon Hays a clergyman residing in the Town of Washington aforesaid and Frederick J Tenn residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elijah Bradley who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age & that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - sworn and subscribed to day and year aforesaid
                        [Signed]    Gordon Hayes
                                          Fred. J. Tenn

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 Gordon Hayes who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Washington aforesaid and that Frederick J, Tenn who has also signed the same is a
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resident in said Washington and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit -

I Anthony Smith clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Washington in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elijah Bradley for a pension -  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of October  AD 1834. 
                    [Signed]  Anthony Smith

Seal
affixed
here
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                          15,343
                            INVALID.

File No.  15,343
Elijah Bradley
Pri Rev War

Act:-  June 7" 1832
Index:- Vol 1, Page 347
  [Arrangement of 1870.]


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Feby -14-190
Wm E. Chandler
N. Haven Conn
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                                               32,963
                                           Elijah Bradley
    25
    12

admitt

3 mo pri Infy              suspended
9 mo Artilly                 let Wm Stone  6 April 1835
                                    let same    9 May 1835
$47.50

W. Stone
     New Haven

[Seal affixed 
here]


[Written vertically] 
            Honorable J. L. Edwards 
                 Commissioner of Pensions
                           Washington
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Deposition of 
Hezekiah Bradley,
of Wolcott - Connt
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I Hezekiah Bradley of Wolcott in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut now in the seventy fifth year of my age, testify and say that I am elder Bother of Elijah Bradley of the Town of Washington County of Litchfield in said State, that we were both born in New Haven and lived there on our paternal inheritance in the War of the Revolution and for several years after the War.  I well remember that my Brother Elijah enlisted into Capt. Vondeusens Company of Artillery in the Spring of the year 1781, and that he continued to belong to sd company untill some time in the Winter following, the exact time when his service closed in that company I can not, at this remote period of time, distinctly recollect, but should now think it was not far from, the first of January 1782. -  I recollect that he was brought home, sick, in the fall of the year 1781 and that he was attended by a physician and a nurse was provided, and both were paid by the state, on account of his being a state's soldier.  that sickness continued nearly all winter, and he was not able to labour, untill some time in spring of the year 1782.
   [Signed]   Hezekiah Bradley

   Office of the Court of Probate, for the
District of New Have, in the State of Connecticut
  New Haven County  Js  New Haven
                       April 30th 1833
Personally appeared before e, Hezekiah Bradley of Wolcott, County of New Haven State of Connecticut, signer of the forgoing declaration, and made oath to foregoing statement. 

Given under my hand, and the Seal of the Court of Probate for the District of New Haven, day & date above written.
   [Signed]  Nathanial R Clark
                  Judge of the Court of Probate
                  for the Probate District of New
                   Haven

[Seal affixed to left of prior paragraph]
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        Ct - May 7

                                                 free
Honbl  J. L. Edwards
               Commissioner of Pensions
                    Washington D.C.



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Bradley original
papers transmitted
 CWS.   9 May 1835
                     RE
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New Haven Cont. April 30th 1835

Sir, - On the receipt of your favour of the 6th inst. April, requiring more proof and explanation as to the extent of the service of Elijah Bradley of Washington in Capt. Vandeurzens Company of Artillery, in the year 1781, beyond the times of six months, for which Elijah Bradley, of East Haven, who enlisted at the same time claimed to have served in said company - I called on the said Mr. Elijah Bradley in East Haven, who says, that he obtained his .... from the company in the fall of the year about three months before the company was disbanded, in order that he might go a voyage to sea, for the winter, he is uncertain whether he provided a substitute or not he thinks, according to the best of his recollection that the term of the companys service expired, on  the first of Jany. 1782.-
I have likewise conversed with Mr. Nathaniel Downs of this City, whose name is on Capt. Vandeurzens payroll for 1781 enlisted April 2d 1781. he informed me that he receives a pension of $37.50 annually, and that his only claim was for services in that company, from the Date of his enlistment, on that payroll.-
Those gentlemen well remember the transfer of the command of the company from Capt. Vandeurzen to Capt. Warner  who had been 1st Lieut. in said company untill Vandeurzen resigned in the summer. -   Messrs Downs and Tuttle both served in that  Division of the Company which was stationed with the Capt, in what is now the City of New Haven and it is their full belief the term of the Company service did not expire  before the first of Jany 1782 and they each of them served [last four words inserted] in said company untill that time. -Elijah Bradley of East Haven says that he was in that Division of the Company which was stationed at South end, on the East Side of the Harbour, near the Sound under the command of Lieut. Shephards- Elijah Bradley of Washington was stationed with a Division under Lieut. Painter at a place called Savin North, on the West side of the Harbour, bordering on the Sound.  Those men were not known to each other while in the service.  I am sensable [sic] that these statements do not prove the extent, or identity, of the service of Elijah Bradley of Washington, but as two of the gentlemen above named, who enlisted in the same month, that Mr. Bradley did, are now receiving pension which already shows that they were allowed for service, in the same company, which could not have terminated before the first of January 1882. I offer them as corroborative evidence of the justice of his claim to nine months service in that company of Artillery, from the first day of April1781, to the first day of January, 1782, or will as to other three months infantry service, as stated in his Declaration. - I herewith enclose the Deposition of Hezekiah Bradley of Wolcott, with whom I was well Acquainted in my youth, and who is now well known in this vicinity to be a gentleman of strict integrity and
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and of a saived regard to truth, which with the foregoing I believe will remove any doubts which may remain with the Department, with regard to Mr. Bradleys claim -   There is not to my knowledge, and documentary evidence of the service of that company, now extant, other tan the payroll of Capt Vandeuzen. for the first seven months, Viz- from the first of January to the first of August 1781, when the Command was transferred from him, to Capt. Warner - my own recollections of that event, and of the subsequent service of the company, under Capt Warner, have hereto fore been communicated to the Department in a statement which accompanied Capt. Bradleys papers, which I forwarded by your request, in the month of December 1832 to which I beg leave to refer you. - I would furth [sic] solicit your patience Sir, while I request that the payrolls, enlistments, and commissions, of Capt Phineas Bradley, for the three years which he commanded, in New Haven in War of the Revolution, may be transmitted to me, in accordance with your assurance to me that they would be after the payrolls and enlistments, should have been copied at the Pension Office, - Miss Bradley from who I borrowed them, unless the Department are willing to make her some compensation for them.
                                      I am Sir
                                       Very Respectfully
                                           Yours ds
                             [Signed]     William Storer
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New Haven March 30th 1835.
Sir: - In your letter to the Honbl Nathan Smith of the United Stats Senate, Dated March 2d 1832, which he has obligingly permitted me to peruze [sic], and copy for the applications benefits  you say that the claim of Elijah Bradley. stating himself to belong to East Haven, was admitted for various services, one term of which that in Capt. Vondeuzens Artillery Company, is possible the same with that states by the person with the same name, in the Declaration enclosed in my letter to Mr. Smith. - That the rolls of that company have been heretofore shown by me, to be in existence, - And if two individuals, both named Elijah Bradley , belonged to it, the fact may be conclusively shown, as well as the precise [illegible word] of their services. - And that, the agent at Hartford has been directed to make no further payments to the person already inscribed, as from the absence of the details required by the regulations, as to the places of residence of the claimant, and other circumstances, a strong presumption has arisen, that both their claims have been [illegible word] by the same individual.-  In the application of Elijah Bradley of the Town of Washington, County of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, which I enclosed to Mr. Smith, is stated by you, to have been placed on file, in the pension office.- I will now state for the information of the Department, and for the furthervance of Justice, both to the public and to the claimants, that on the pay  Roll of Capt Vondeurzens Company, which is now raised and stationed at New Haven, in the year 1781, which I have heretofore shown to the Department, was in existence, and which I had for a time in my possession, and of which I have now before me a transcript which I copied from the original [last two words underlined] , while in my possession, there are two individuals by the name of Elijah Bradley [last five words underlined], the first on the pay roll is Elijah Bradley Jr, enlisted April 17 1781 and directly under him on the payroll. stands the name of Elijah Bradley Esqr of East Haven. I have been acquainted with both the applicants of this name, - with Elijah Bradley Esq, I have been acquainted about twelve years past as I am informed, he was born there, and there has been  his domicil [sic] from his birth, to this day. His rank, is with the most reputable in the community where he resides, -   With Ebenezer Bradley of Washington, whose application is now on file in the Pension Office, I was Acquainted in my childhood and youth he lived with his parents in New Haven, in the dame neighborhood with my maternal grandparents where I lived when a child, and often visited in my youth. our acquaintance was broken off, by my removal to Vermont in the year 1878, and was not again renewed untill the year 1834 when he called upon me at my residence, in this city.  He informed me, that he lived in New Haven at each time of his entering the service, and that he continued to reside in the house where he was born (on the 27th of May,1762 in the town of  of New Haven, about two miles west of the City,) for about ten years , after the close of the War of the Revolution when he removed to Woodbury, in the County of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, where he lived at a term of years, and from there he removed to Washington, in said County of Litchfield, where he resided for 12 years, last part.-  Mr Bradley is considered by his acquaintances her to be a man of truth, and reputability, and I have no doubt of his having performed the services for which he now claims a pension, and that both he and Elijah
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Elijah Bradley of East Haven, are the identical men whose names stand on the pay roll, of Capt Vondeurzens company, for the year 1781.--- Believing that this informal statement of facts, to which I shall make oath before some proper Authority.  Will relieve your mind from any doubts , which may have arisen, as to the Justice of the claims. of both, or either of the applicants, named within, and of assisting them, to prove their claim to that Annuity, which a grateful public has awarded, to the few surviving, faithful soldiers of the American Revolution. -
                              I am Sir,
                                 Very Respectfully
                                   Yours etc.
                        {Signed]  William Storer

Honbl J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
    Washington D.C.


Office of the Court of Probate for the Probate District of New Haven in the State of                        Connecticut
       New Haven, April 1st, 1835
Personally appeared before me William Storer, Signer of the foregoing instrument, and made Solemn Oath, to the truth of the declaration therein contained.
  Given under my hand, and the Seal of the Court of Probate for the Probate District of New Haven. Day & date above written.
                      [Signed]  Nathaniel R Clark
                                   Judge of sd Probate

[A sea  is affixed to the left of the last paragraph]
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                                       May 25



          Honbl  J. L. Edwards
             Commissioner of Pensions
                             Washington, D.C.
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                                  State  of Connecticut
                                         Comptrollers Office
                                               Hartford
                                        18th May 1835

On examination of the books oof this office it appears that on the 21st day of August 1781, the 
Governor and council of safety "Resolved that the nomination of John Warner to be the captain of the Sea Coast Guard stationed in New Haven in the room of William Van Deurson resigned and Lamberton Painter to first Lieutenant in the room of Captain John Warner promoted, Joseph Peck to the Lieutenant in the room of Lieutenant L. Painter promoted, and John Clause to ensign in the room of Lieut J. Peck promoted. ne accepted and approved, and that they can be commissioned accordingly their commissions to bear date from the first day of August AD 1781.
   That on the 26th day of Jany 1782 Captain William Van Deurson rendered his account for his company Coast guard amounting to L117..9..7 1/2 -
    That on the 28th day of February 1781 Captain John Warner received an order on the treasurer for the amount of his pay roll for his company New Haven guard  L1128..16..11 -
   That in Feby 1781 the General Assembly directed that the guard for the sea coast be held in service untill the first day of January then next -
                                 over
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That the payrolls for said service were delivered to E. Haskill commissioner for the United States and have not been retained by this office -
   Certified by  Roger Huntington
  Comptroller of Public c/o courts
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                                        New Haven - Cont-
                                            May 20th 1835.

Sir-
   On the recept [sic] of your letter of the 9th of May inst. I applied to the Comptroller of the Public Accounts in Hartford, and pronounced from him the annexed statement, from the books in that Office, which I confidently believe will satisfy the Department that the same men who composed the Company commanded by Capt Willam Vandeursen and stationed at New Haven, from Jany 1st 1781 to August 1st 1781 were held in service under command of Capt, John Warner from the 1st day of August 1781 untill the 1st day of January 1782. And that Mr Elijah Bradley of Washington is justly entitled to a pension for nine months service which he performed in that company of Artillery from the first day pf April 1781 to the first day of January 1782, and for three months infantry service, which he had previously performed and has stated in his declaration, now on file in the Pension office
                         I am Sir
                           With due esteem
                                   Respectful  and
                                          William


Honbl J. L. Edwards
    Commissioner of Pensions
                    Washington, D.C.
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Application of Elijah Bradley
  for a Pension -




Hon. N Smith
        Senate U.S.
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I Elijah Hotchkiss of New Haven, County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, aged seventy two years, testify and say that I was a soldier in a company of drafted Militia under the command of Capt Stephen Bryant of Milford, in New Haven County, in the summer of the year 1777 in the War of the Revolution and that Elijah Bradley was a Soldier in the same company.  We marched in the month of August 1777. to New London, and joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Wyllys, where we served two month the term for which we were Drafted, and were dismissed   Said Bradley returned home with me, we then lived in the same neighborhood, in New Haven
                        [Signed]  Elijah ... Hotchkiss
New Haven County Js  at a Court of Probate
holden at New Haven, within & for the Probate District of New Haven, September 17th a834.
   Personally appeared before me Elijah Hotchkiss Signer of the foregoing declaration to whom he made Solemn oath.
        [Signed]     Nathl Clark
                                Judge of Probate

I Punderson Hotchkiss, of the town, and County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, aged [ink blot] years Testify and  say, that in the War of the Rev [ink blot]   4th day of March 1781, I entered the service [ink blot]  States by enlisting into a company of Artillery [ink blot] by the Authority of the State of Connecticut, and stationed at New Haven, under command if Capt. William Vandeursen, untill the 1st August 1781, when Capt. Vandeursen left the company, and Capt. John Warner took the Command, untill the 1st of January 1782 the term for which the company was enlisted. - I well remember that Elijah Bradley, the present applicant was a soldier in sd Company with me, and it is my full belief that he served the whole time, as he has stated in his declaration.  I have known Mr. Bradley from his youth, and believe him to be an honest and upright man.
     [Signed]  Punderson Hotchkiss

New Haven County Js at a Court of Probate holden at New Haven within & for the Probate District of New Haven September 17th 1834
Personally appeared Before me, Punderson Hotchkiss signer of the foregoing declaration, to which he made Solemn oath -
   [Signed]  Nath. R Clark Judge of Probate