Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,196, for William Patch, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Patch, William

NUMBER
S. 11,196

carded

CONTENTS
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9082
Connecticut
William Patch
of Danbury in the State of Connt [Connecticut] who was a Pri [private] in the com command by Captain Clark of the Regt command by Col Meigs in the Connct line for 12 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connt at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of March 1833 and sent-
Edward Taylor Danbury Connt
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Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep 4 " 25
                                                    $105.--

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded By E.D. Bullock Clerk
Book # Vol. 3 Page 34
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Wm Patch
Wm Pertch enlist 28 Feby des 31 Dec 1778
12 mo private
$40
Edward Taylor
Danbury Ct
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ⎬ SS
On this 24th day of July 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State, now sitting at Danbury in the said County the same being a War Record William Patch a resident of Danbury aforesaid aged Seventy one years, who being first duly Sworn according and to law doth say on his oath make the following declaration in order
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he was born in the year 1760 - He has no record of his age but his parents always informed him during their life time that that was the period of his birth. He was born in said Danbury and has ever resided there-
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated
About the 1st of March 1778, he was drafted 
to send in the Continental Army for months &
be ready at a moments hearing. On the
his Monday of May allowing being called upon he joined a portion of drafted took at New [illegible] in Connecticut, where Captain Leavenworth of Meigs Regiment in the Connecticut line assumed the command during the same week he in company with a number of others who had been drafted in the same manner, returned by Captain Leavenworth order to said Danbury and on Tuesday of the following week assembled
at the dwelling house of Captain James Clark
where they were placed under the command of a Sergeant, and marched to Peekskill in the
state of New York - thence immediately to Robinson farm on the Hudson River, nearly opposite the Point where they joined the Regiment
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commanded by Colonel Meigs then stationed
there. He was there enrolled as a Private Soldier in the company commanded by Captain Prentiss in the Regiment commanded by said Colonel Meigs - and that he continued with, and served in the said Company and Regiment as a private Soldier until the last day of December following

During his said service he knew General Gates
and General Parsons Captain Mansfield
Leavenworth Ely and and of said Meigs Regiment besides the officers under whose immediate command he served. The officers of his Company were Captain Jonas Prentiss Lieutenant Potter and Ensign Barclay-  The following is a narrative some of the principal events of his said service. From the time he joined said Regiment at Robinsons farm as above stated of remained with the same at said Farm performing the ordinary duties of a Private soldier until some time in the month of
June 1778, when he marched with said regiment to White Plains in the State of New York where they encamped with the exception of one or two short expirations until the month of September following. He recollects that Pardon's Brigade was there. Meig's Regiment, he believes belonged to said Brigade. The Corps commanded by
General Huntington was there as was also
General Gates the British there occupied New York. At one time, about the month of August, the American troops marched in the night and East Chester procured a quantity of provisions and returned to their former position on the following day-- But he was in no engagements or battles with the enemy. About the middle of September Parsons Brigade including Meigs Regiment marched from White Plains to Quaker Hill
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in the Town of Pawlings in Dutchess New York
and on the following day he was detached on
fatigue duty with about thirty other soldiers 
under the command of one Lieutenant Grovesnor he believes said Grovesnor belonged to Colonel Myly & Regiment of the Connecticut line - He proceeded with said party to Hoterberry in the State of Connecticut and they were there employed in repairing roads, until late in the month of November following when the party returned to Danbury, where he joined his said Regiment which was encamped about four miles from Village of Danbury and performed his duty in said Regiment, until he was honorably discharged by said Colonel Meigs at Reading in Connecticut on the 31st day of December 1778 - said Regiment went into winter quarters at Reading as he believes about the 10th of December 1778- Said Meigs Regiment  belonged to the Connecticut line -

In the year 1780 and about the first day of May in said year being enrolled in the Militia and residing in said Danbury he was again drafted to serve in the Militia for the term two months. He proceeded immediately [illegible for he seek] in said County of Fairfield and there served as a Private soldier in the Militia
service during said term of two months then
next serving in the company commanded
by Captain Hurlburt Lieutenant Deforest
was an officer in the same company there
were only about two or three hundred
militia at said station, and they were under the
command of Colonel Mead of the Connecticut
Militia- The duty of said Corps was to guard
the coast and the lines. He recollects that
said Lieutenant all forest was taken prisoner
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during his last mentioned period of Service
by a detachment Delaney Corps at the
expiration of his said term of service he
was dismissed by said Colonel Mead and
returned home to said Danbury - That
he resided in Danbury aforesaid at each time when he so entered the said service:- That the discharge given him by said Colonel Meigs is lost. That he has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure one who can testify to his said service excepting those whose Depositions are hereto annexed
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The said William Patch 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.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm Patch

We , Levi Osborn a clergyman residing in the town of Danbury Fairfield County and Samuel H. Phillips residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Patch
who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Levi Osborn
Sam H Phillips
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Lee Osborn who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Danbury aforesaid and that Samuel H. Phillips who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Danbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
I, Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for Danbury District in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Patch
for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said Office
24th day of July 1832.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ⎬ S.S.
I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the said County Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State do hereby certify to all whom it may concern
that Edward Taylor who hath signed and certified the foregoing proceedings of the said Court is Clerk of the said Court of Probate, and was Clerk as aforesaid at the time of signing and certifying the same, and that the said signatures above written which purport to be the signatures of the said Edward Taylor, are in truth his hand writing-- and that full faith & credit are due to his official acts as such Clerk
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in Danbury aforesaid this 24th day of July AD 1832
Reuben Both Judge of the Court of Probate
for the District of Danbury Connecticut
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I Ebenezer Nichols of entering in the County
of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged Seventy four years being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I am well acquainted with William Patch of said Danbury - I have known him from his earliest youth. He and I we from and brought up in the same neighbor
hood in said Danbury.
During the Revolutionary War, and I believe
the Spring of the year 1778, the said Patch 
entered the Army of the United States, whether he enlisted or was drafted I did not know or if I did have forgotten. He served as I believe Eight months, and understood
at the time, that he so served in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs
though did not serve with him, I well recollect his entering the service,  and recollect seeing him in the said service when said Regiment was encamped at said Danbury for a few days. It was well understood and was a fact of notoriety among all his friends at that at the time that he was in the said service, and in the said Regiment
Ebenr Nichols
July 24th 1832 Sworn and subscribed in open Court and said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I Eleazer Hoyt of Waterbury in the County
of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, aged seventy seven years being duly sworn do depose and say, that during the Revolutionary War I was well acquainted with William Patch of Danbury in the said State, and have been acquainted with him ever since.
About the 1st of March 1778 he was drafted to serve ten Months in the Continental Army
and not far from the 1st May following
being called on in pursuance of said draft
he entered the herein as fully believe and
served until about the 1st of January 1779.
I was not with him in the said service but resided at the time in said Danbury. At the time about three miles distant from him was connected with his family, having married in Lister and well knew that he was so drafted; that he left home for the purpose of joining the Army. Letters were received from him
by the family while in the service and he was discharged at Reading in said County after having fully served out his time.
His service was in the Connecticut line in the Regiment commanded by Col Meigs-
Eleazer Hoyt
July 24th 1832 Sworn & subscribed in open Court and said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth, and is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I Ebenezer Benedict of Danbury in the County
Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy four years being duly sworn do depose and say that during the Revolutionary War, and in the spring of the year I live in the month of November but am unable to say in what year I was drafted to serve in the Continental Army for the term of ten months.  I then resided in said Danbury and William Patch who hath applied for a Pension and who there also resided in said Danbury  was at the same time drafted to serve in the said Army for the same term of time. There were several others in said Danbury drafted in the same manner, all of whom are dead soon
afterwards, and within a month or two, they were called into service and marched with said Patch to New Haven in Connecticut and found some drafted troops there commanded by Captain Leavenworth who was an officer in Meigs Regiment He remained there a few days & he was sent home and ordered to rendezvous at the house of James Clark Esq. in said Danbury on some day of the following week which was designated by the said Captain-- On the day appointed he met there - and were marked under the order of a Sergeant to Robinson Farm near West Point in the State of New York
The Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs
has then there, and we joined it and entered the said service in the company commanded
by Captain Prentiss  I remained there in
the said Company and Regiment one month
At the expiration of said term of one month
my father having hired a substitute, lead him
to said Robinson Farm to take my place
and I was thereupon discharged. The said
William Patch Marched from Danbury to said
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Robinsons farm at the same time I did
and served as a Private in said Company the
whole time I remained there I left him the said service at the time I was discharged. And although I was not personally present with him in the said service during the
residue of the Campaign, yet I understood
from him and others at the time and then
and ever since believed that he served in
said Regiment until the end of the Campaign.
Eleazar Benedict
July 24th 1832 Sworn and subscribed in open Court and the said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I, Lemuel Taylor of Denton in the County of 
Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged Sixty
six years and [illegible upwards] being duly sworn to depose and say, that during the Revolutionary war and believe in the year
1778. I [illegible]  a company of recruits for
the Continental Army, at the dwelling house
James Clark in said Denton which
was a place of rendezvous, the number was
about eight or ten. They assembled at said
place of rendezvous, prepared for marching
with knapsacks and other military equipments William Patch with whom I was then  acquainted and  I have known over time, was one of the said recruits had his knapsack and was in the [illegible 20 Sharts] equipped as the other recruits were and marched thence with said other recruits to join the Army. I noticed 
the said Patch more particularly from his 
having been employed as a hired man in the residence of the same [illegible] (the Rev. Mr. White) with whom I had lived the year before - and from then the Deponent saith not
Lemuel Taylor
December 14th 1832 Sworn & Subscribed in open Court and the said Court of Probate certifies that the deponent sustains a good character for truth & is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I, John Gregory of Danbury in the County
of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged
Seventy one years, being duly sworn do depose and say that I have known and been intimately acquainted with William Patch of Danbury, who hath applied for a Pension
or more than sixty years

That from the month of March 1778 until the middle of the mouth of September of the same year I served with the Revolutionary Army as a [illegible banter] principally with the Regiment and the command Colonel Mylyo: In the latter part of the month of June or early
in the month of July of the same year 1778 I was in the said service at White Plains  in the State of New York, and in the Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs, came to White Plains encamped on an elevated piece of ground. I assisted in transporting the baggage of said Regiment up hill to their place of encampment. Said grant
Colonel Meigs remained at White Plains until  said month of September and during that time the said William Patch was a private soldier in the said Regiment but as I was engaged in another department of the service I did not know who commanded the
Company in which he so served and for the the deponent saith not
John Gregory
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December 5th 1832 Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court, and the said Court of Probate certifies
that the Deponent sustains a good character
for truth and is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I, Daniel Dikeman of Hanfield in the
County of Warfield and State of Connecticut
aged Seventy Six years, being duly sworn
do depose and say that I was born in Danbury 
 and resided there until about twenty four years since, and have since that time resided in said Fairfield that during the Revolutionary War, I well knew William Patch, there and now of  Danbury in said County, and have been
acquainted with him over time that in the spring of the year 1778 my father Daniel Dikeman then of said Danbury but since  deceased was drafted into the service of the United States to fill up the ranks of the Continental Regiment then commanded by Colonel Meigs. and some time after being so drafted he left said Danbury for the purpose of joining the said Regiment near West Point in the State of New York
My Fathers family received information some time in the month of July or August of the same year that he was sick at Crump Pond or near said Pond in the present County of Putnam in the State of New York. went to see my said father found him in the service in the said Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs, which had the halted for a few days near said
Crump Pond and on the next day, my Father having obtained a furlough returned with him to said Danbury - The said William Patch
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was then in the service as a Private soldier in the said Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs. I saw him there
He belonged to the same company with
my Father, and the same [illegible me]. The
said Regiment went into Winter quarters in the month of December of that year at Reading in said County of Fairfield held
and said Patch was [illegible disnalded] from
the said service and returned home about the 1st day January 1779
My Father Joined said Regiment the spring of the year 1778 and I should think about the month of May, in the early part of said month
.
Daniel Dikeman

January 2d 1833 Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court & the said Court of Probate certifies
that the Deponent sustains a good character
for truth & is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County 

On this 9th day of January 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the district of Danbury in the said County and state, now sitting at Danbury in the said County the same being a Court of Record 
William Patch a resident of Danbury aforesaid aged Seventy one years & upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declararation in order to obtain the benefit the Act of Congress [illegible paped]  June 7th 1832. Supplementary to his declaration did before said Court, or the same object on the 24th day of July 1832.
That since the passage of the said Act he hath made diligent enquiry testimony to prove the service stated in the said original declaration that all who served with him or had knowledge of his service in the year 1780, at Great Neck are dead excepting one Clark
with who was a Corporal in the service in the same company with him: the said [illegible] he has now as ascertained, left his family and absconded from Brookfield in said county twelve years ago to parts unknown and has never since been heard from - He cannot therefore produce any evidence of his said service
Having been informed that his name
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does not appear on the rolls of the
Regiment commanded by Col. Meigs
in the year 1778, he reiterates his declaration of the fact that he so served and now exhibits the Depositions of John Gregory, Daniel Dikeman and Lemuel Taylor, which togetther
with the depositions of Eleazer Nichols, Eleazar Benedict, and Eleazer Hoyt are all the evidence in his power due
In his enquiries for evidence to prove the acts dated this declaration, he had spent several day of amounting in all more have one week and he does not believe that he beable to procure the testimony to the fact of his said last mentioned service
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

Wm Patch

Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true record of the proceedings of Court in the matter of the application of William Patch for a Pension & contains the original proceedings of Court in the matter.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said office this 10th day of January 1833
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County S.S.

I Reuben Booth of Danbury in said County Judge of the Court of Probate of the District of Danbury in the County and State do hereby certify to all whom it may come that Edward Taylor who hath signed and certified the foregoing proceeding at said Court and attested the taking of the foregoing Depositions is Clerk the said Court of Probate and was Clerk for Court duly appointed and sworn at the several times when the same purport
I have been signed and certified by him and that the preceding Signatures purporting
die the signature of the said Edward Taylor
are in his proper hand writing and full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of January 1833
Reuben Booth
Judge of the Court of Probate for the District
of Danbury Connecticut
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War Department
Pension Office
August 23d 1832
Sir
The evidence in support of the claim of [torn paper] liam Patch to a pension under the Act of [torn paper] 1832, accompanying your letter, has been received.
The name of Mr Patch not appearing upon the Rolls of [illegible] Regiment, in which he states himself to have served upwards of eight months, it is necessary that he prove that service by two credible witnesses who must set forth the time of his entering and the time and manner of his leaving this same, as well as the regiment company and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate before whom this testimony is taken must certify to the credibility of the witnesses; and the signature and official character of the magistrate must be certified by the proper authority under his seal of office. A notary public is not within the
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latter description.
With regard to the two months service of Mr Patch in the Militia, it must be proved that the Corps in which he served was called into service by the proper authority.
The papers are hereintto returned to you
I am respectfully your obedient ser't
JL Edwards

Edward Taylor Esq
Danbury
Con.
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Rev War
11.196
INVALID.
File No. 11.196
William Patch ┃
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. A, Page 289.
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