Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35625, for Peter Richards, Connecticut
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SERVICE  Conn.
Richards, Peter
NUMBER  S. 35625
CONTENTS
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5389.
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Connecticut
Peter Richards
Capt. Tuttle      Private
Connecticut line 1776_ 1 year
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In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of [handwritten] Connecticut [end handwritten]
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 18th of Jany 1819
and sent to Theodore North E[abbreviation, illegible]
at Goshen, Litchfield County Count[obscured] [end handwritten]
Arrears to 4th of [handwritten] Sept. 1818.  4 25/30 M. $39.72 [end handwritten]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [handwritten] 4th Mar. 1819 $48.00
[sum of the 2 figures] $87.72 [end handwritten]
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
[handwritten] Litchfield County
[very faint] Connecticut

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[handwritten]  Dead. See letter to E Parsons
P. Agt Apl 22. 1834
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A.B.
Died Jan. 26-1832-
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Notification sent [very faint, illegible] 1820 to
Frederick Wolcott, Litchfield, Connect
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[handwritten]
Peter Richards
April 6
Peter Richards
Private
Decr. 75 to 76
Webbs - Connect.
Rept. Admitted
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[handwritten]
I Peter Richards of Goshen in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, depose and declare that in the Month of January 1776 I entered the service of my country in the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy as a private Soldier in Capt. Tuttle's company in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Saml. B. Webb and jointed the army at Bunkers Hill and continued in said service on this military post untill the March then next following - from there I marched to New York in the Company and Regiment abovementioned was in the battle of White Plains where I was wounded in the right shoulder which has hitherto in a great [inserted addition] degree [end insertion] disenabled me from labor, not having a relative in this country, and not knowing the regular manner of Petitioning for a pension I have never received any assistance from my country -- I continued in said service the full term of one year from the time I entered the service [insertion] being the term of my commitment [end of insertion] on the continental establishment and at the end of said term was discharged in the hospital of North Carth church about fourteen miles North of White Plains -- I further depose and declare that I am seventy two years of age and by reason of my reduced circumstances in life stand in need of the assistance of my country for support.
[large X mark; to the left of the X is written] Peter [to the right of the X is written] Richards [above the X is written] his
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[handwritten]
State of Connecticut p. Litchfield County, Litchfield
On this 30th day of December Ad. 1818 personally appeared before me Peter Richards, the same person who heretofore made the written declaration, and being duly cautioned of sworn [blurry, hard to make out] ma... made, that through forgetfulness from age and length of time, he was under a mistake as to the Christian name of the Col. of the Regiment in which he served during the Revolutionary War, & that he now is convinced & recollects that the Regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Col. Charles Webb, & not by Saml. B. Webb as stated in his written affidavit
Augustus Pettibone Judge of Litchfield County Court
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Mark
State of Connecticut [squiggle] Litchfield County April th 6 day Ad 1818 Personally approved Peter Richards Signer of the above affidavit and made Solomn Oath to the truth of the same before me
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge,
Litchfield County Court [small squiggle]

State of Connecticut Litchfield County [squiggle] I Augustus Pettibone Esqr. Chief Judge of the Country Court for the said County of Litchfield do hereby Certify the foregoing affidavit [mark indicating inserted text] was regularly taken before me [end insertion] and [inserted in the margin] from the Evidence [end insertion] [crossed out] that [end of cross out] it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Peter Richards Served in the Revolutionary war as a [underlined] private Soldier [end underline] against the Common Enemy for more than nine Months That by reason of his reduced Circumstances in life he is in my Opinion in need of assistance [written using long s] [insertion mark] for [end insertion] [cross out] of [end cross out] Support from his Country
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Caused the seal of said Court which is a Court of Record to be affixed this day of April Ad 1818
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge
To the Hone. Secretary of War
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Peter Richards belonged [part of word obscured, ends with empt.] Nathaniel Tuttle's [partly obscured] company 19th Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb
Joined the Company at Temple's Farm in the vicinity of Boston [insertion mark] in Jany. fourth [illegible] 1776 [end insertion] & continued in said [cross out and insertion] service near Boston and at [illegible] [end insertion] till the British evacuated Boston in March following -- continued to serve in New York Long Island and White Plains and was in the Battle at the latter place -- from there soon went to North Castle Church to attend upon the wounded.

[Words on the bottom of the page written upside down]
Signature to the foregoing Certificate in his handwriting, & that the Seal hereto annexed is the Seal of Said Court
May 7th 1818
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court in the Count of Litchfield & State of Connt. certify that Augustus Pettibone by is Judge of Said Court that the Signature to the foregoing Certificate in his handwriting, & that the Seal hereto annexed is the Seal of Said Court
May 7th 1818
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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State of Connecticut  ss..
Litchfield County Woodbury ---
Be it remembered that on this 21 Day of December 1818. Personally appeared before me a Charles B Phelps Esquire a Justice of the Peace [unclear] and for said Litchfield County Amos Johnson Esquire of Southbury in the County of New Haven to me personally known to be Magistrate [unclear] and for said County and a gentleman of [unclear] and respectability Who being such duly sworn suposeth and sayeth he was an Ensign in the 2 Company 19th Regiment. commissioned by Congress to serve from the 1t Jany. 1776 to the [blotted out] the 1 Jany. 1777. Said company commanded by Nathaniel Tuttle the Regiment under the command of Col. Charles Webb. and that Peter Richards as it appears from papers of said Company now in my possession enlisted into said company on the 28th [unknown abbreviation] 2
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[Unknown abbreviation] 1775 and joined said Company at Winter Hill near Boston Mass. about the 1st Jany. 1776 and that he continued to serve in said Company until the end of the year 1776 when the Regiment was disbanded  He was engaged with the enemy at White Plains in the latter part of October soon after he was sent to [insertion mark] the [end insertion] hospital to take care of the [unclear] and some time after said Richards fell sick & was not able to [insertion mark] do [end insertion] duty the residue of the campaign.
Sworn before me
Charles B Philips Justice of Peace
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I James Baldwin of Litchfield in Connecticut being duly sworn do depose & say that Peter Richards now of Goshen in Litchfield County in said State was a soldier in Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle's Company of the 10th Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb in the year 1776 and that in the first part of January of said year he joined said Company  at a place called Temple's Farm or Winter Hill near Bunker's Hill in the vicinity of Boston, and continued with said Company at that place and at Roxebury & other places near Boston till sometime in the month of March following and afterwards marched with and continued to serve in said Company at New York, Long Island & White Plains and was in the Battle at the latter place on [insertion mark] the 28th [end insertion] October of said year and soon after went to the Hospital of North Castle Church to assist in taking care of the wounded & afterwards [several lines crossed out, unreadable] according to my recollection he did not do duty in said Company during the remainder of the Campaign & further the deponent saith not.
James Baldwin
State of Connecticut & Litchfield County
January 1st Ad. 1819.
Personally appeared [word struck out, perhaps says "before me"] James Baldwin of Litchfield in Litchfield [crossed out "in said"] County & subscribed and made oath to the foregoing Deposition, & said Baldwin is reputed to be of good character & credibility [dash]
Sworn before & certified by
Theodore North Justice of Peace
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I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, certify that Charles B. Phelps and Theodore North, Esquires, are Justices of the Peace within said County, legally commissioned and qualified, & that their signatures to the preceding Certificates are to me well known to be their hand writing.
Li [rest of word illegible] ? Jan.y 2d 1819
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

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A Johnson Esq.
Deposition

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Paid A Johnson Esq.
Deporter
.50
75
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$1.25
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District of Connecticut ss. County of Litchfield, [handwritten] County [end handwritten] Curt.  On this [handwritten] 5th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] July [end handwritten] 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison [handwritten] Peter Richards [end handwritten] aged [handwritten] 73 [end handwritten] years resident in [handwritten] Goshen [end handwritten] 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: 
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That in the month December 1775 he enlisted as a private soldier in the company of Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle belonging to the Regiment of Col. Charles Webb of the Connecticut line for the term of one year that soon after he joined the American Army near Boston & that he continued to serve in said Company & Regiment during one year. This period of his said enlistment that pursuant to the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 for obtaining a pension the No. of his certificate being 5589 and his original declaration was stated the 8th day of April 1818

And I do solemnly [handwritten] swear [end handwritten] that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; 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 to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitles "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
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Sworn to and declared on the [handwritten] 5th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] July [end handwritten] A.D. 1820 before [handwritten] said Court and Frederick Wolcott, Clerk [end handwritten]
[written vertically on right margin] Peter Richards 3 Con March [unclear] 19

I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing [handwritten] Oath [end handwritten] and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is [handwritten] two [end handwritten] dollars and -- cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this [handwritten] [unclear, possibly 7th] [end handwritten] day [handwritten] of July [end handwritten] 1820
[oval but unreadable seal imprinted on left]
[printed wording crossed out: "Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield"]
[signature] Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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And I have no property of any kind except wearing apparel & two old scythes with a scythe snath of the value of two dollars.
My occupation is to work at farming business by the day when I am able-- but my right arm was injured in the any & has ever since been lame & infirm, and for a few years past I have been sick at times & my health is so much impaired that previous to obtaining my pension I was in part dependent upon public charity-- I have a wife who is 78 years old and is almost helpless-- I have also two daughters (being all my children one aged about 40 and the other 38 years, both unmarried, and without property sufficient to render me much assistance although I live with them.
Peter Richards his Mark
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December 11, 1936.

Mr. Wilbur D. Brown                      BA-J/ILL
                                                       Peter Richards
West Barrington, Rhode Island.      S. 35625

Dear Sir:

The data given herein were found in pension claim, S. 35625, based upon service of Peter Richards in the Revolutionary War.

Peter Richards enlisted in December 1775, served one year as private in Captain Nathaniel Tuttle's company, Colonel Charles Webb's 19" Regiment, Continental Infantry, during which service he was first stationed near Bunker Hill, marched from there to Long Island, was in the battle of White Plains, in which engagement we was severely wounded in his right shoulder, and was discharged in the hospital in North Castle Church near White Plains. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he resided in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The solider was aged then seventy-two years; the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

In 1820, Peter Richards had only two children, daughters, unmarried, aged forty and thirty-eight years; his wife was then aged seventy-eight years. Their names were not given. The date and place of the soldier's marriage were not stated. 

He died January 26, 1832.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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35625
R [?]
INVALID.
File No. 35.625
Peter Richards
[?] [?] [?]
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: -Vol. 2 Page 342
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Dec. 18-1903 Hist to
W. F. Clark - Present
1936 - Dec. 11. Hist. to Wilbur D. Brown- ILL
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1 fare
Peter Richards
Admitted
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Washington City
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Jany 1st 1817.
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
The inclosed affidavit of Peter Richards has been once forwarded to the War department, and was returned for further evidence, his name not being found on the Rolls & is now forwarded accompanied with Depositions of Ensign Amos Johnson & Mr James Baldwin, which had not before been procured[?].
It is requested that return may be made to the Subscriber at Goshen Litchfield County, Connecticut
Your obedient Servant
Theodore North
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Apr. 22d, 1834
G,C.
Reco. vol. 24
Page - 115
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War Dept
Pension Office
April 22d 1834

Sir 
The papers in the cases of Peter Richards, decd, and John Wadsworth, decd, are herewith returned. You are at liberty to pay the amount due on the filing the usual vouchers.

Parsons, Esq
Pres U.S. Br. Bk & Pension Agent
Hartford Con.
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West Barrington, R. I., November 28, 1936.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C. 
Revolutionary War Pensions
Dear Sirs: -
Will you kindly mail me the War Record and all additional information for genealogical purposes of the following Soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

Pierce Parkhurst  S 34463

Peter Richards     S 35526

Thanking you for your attention.

Very Truly,
Wilbur D. Brown 
Wilbur D. Brown
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December 11, 1936.

Mr. Wilbur D. Brown                    BA-J/ILL
                                                     Peter Richards
West Barrington, Rhode Island.    S. 35625

Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Pierce Parkhurst, S. 34463, and Peter Richards, S. 35625.

The records of Pierce Parkhurst and Peter Richards are furnished herewith from pension claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours,
A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.