Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,279, Kellogg Berry, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn       Berry, Kellogg    S. 12,279
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CONTENTS
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17.877
Connecticut

[Illegible Crossed out]  Kellogg Berry
of Shanon in the State of Con
who was a Pri-- in the Com commanded
by Captain ------ of the Regt commanded 
by Col Mead in the Con [Illegible]
["line" Crossed out] for 17 mo [Checkmark]
_________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Con
at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
___________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of October
1833 and sent Dr.
K Berry Shanon Ct
_____________________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Septr 33 $141.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending March 24 -- 28.33
                                         _______________________
                                        $169.99

{Revolutionary Claim.}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by ED Bullock Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 32
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4863

Declaration and testimony of
Doctr Kellogg Berry made
in order to obtain the Benefit
of the act of Congress passed
June 7, 1832
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State of Connecticut }  Probate Court
Litchfield County }  District of Kent
                                ss Kent
On this 20th day of August [Letter Crossed out] 1832 personally  
affiant in [Illegible] Court before the Hon  Nathaniel
P. Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the
District of Kent afores. [Illegible] and holding
said Court now sitting [Illegible] Kellogg Berry a
resident of Sharon in said County of Litchfield
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 7, 1832, That he entered
the service of the United States under the following
warranted officers, and served as herein
stated.  That he entered said service in the
first place as a substitute for his father Joseph
who was drafted                   1780 or
Berry ^ in said Kent in the year ^ 1781 he [Illegible]
[Illegible] the latter part of August, into the Company  
commanded by Capt. Bostwick of [Illegible]
Lieutenant Peleg Chamberlain of Kent of
          Fairfield County
marched to Poquonock ^ through[Illegible]  Milford
Danbury and Reading. -- [Illegible] Clark
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Robert Stuart, Stephen Eaton, Aaron Eaton were among others, in the [illegible] [Illegible]
that he served in the R War
honorably discharged not by any writing
                                        [Illegible]
but all were discharged on parade ^ for the
term of (as he thinks) two months.  nothing
particular occurred while there.  they kept of
a guard upon the sea shore--
[Illegible] he again [Illegible word Crossed out] the year he cannot
remember he entered the said service
of the United States as a substitute for Lemuel
Berry his brother who was drafted for the 
service, his Company was commanded by
Capt Frisbie and  [Illegible] Platt both of Litchfield.
Lieutenant Porter of Woodbury, marched 
to Stratford.  Fairfield County, [Illegible] of Conn
[Illegible] through Newmilford Danbury &
["Litchfield" Crossed out] Reading Norwalk & Darien.  Does not
remember any Colonels or Superior officers names
went down to [Illegible] [Illegible] and by then a
short time [Illegible] Quarterer the great part of
it.  he housed at John Smiths and at
Horse neck he put up at Capt Hobbys.
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and served three months and was discharged
but had no written discharge.  while in the service
fourteen prisoners were taken at Stanford  some
[Illegible] of the [Illegible] [Illegible].  twelve were in one
party and two in another party.  the names
of the latter were Caleb Green & Shubal
Merritt, -- Merritt had but one hand.  That
he the applicant went on one of the guard
and took [Illegible] prisoners, all on foot to Hartford,
in said state of Connecticut. and the prisoners
were put in the Hartford County gaol.
That he again enlisting in the month of
                 Revolutionary
March the last year of the ^ War with the
Company commanded by -- Capt Couch
The Captain's name he is not positive of)
Bostwick of [Illegible] was Lieutenant
Tibbells of Washington, Litchfield County.
was his Ensign, Bull was Adjutant
Jonah Baldwin was quarter master,
Philo Canfield was Quarter Master Lieutenant
William Chichester was orderly sergeant
Samuel Garfield of Newmilford was his
Colonel -- Mead of, Horse neck was
General -- In April he marched
from said Kent, through Newmilford
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Danbury [Illegible] to Stanford and at
said Stanford were a while then, [Illegible]
the quarter part of the [Illegible] [Illegible]
was at Horse neck, in the Winter. [Illegible]
was [Illegible] greater part of the time at
a Fort called "Fort Lawrence in [Illegible]
was on the [Illegible] & in "King Street places
[Illegible] and on the "lines for the whole

term of time of service.  That he served
in this last enlistment in said Lewis
for and during the term of one year
being the time for which he enlisted. &
was discharged by being paraded and 
all were [Illegible] by park by the
Colonel. -- Doctor Huff was their
Surgeon -- served as a Private.
That he was born in said Kent on the
24 day of September in the year 1763.
he has a record of his age in the  Record
of the Town of [ Illegible] ? Kent
Immediately after the Revolutionary War
he ended in Kent [Illegible] & from there
went to Castleton, [Illegible] County [Illegible]
was there about 5 years practising Physin
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from thereto Dover and in that part
which is called Paulings, State of
New York, was there one year, from there to
Cornwall, from there to said Kent.  from
there to said Sharon where he has resided
twenty-five years & where he now resides.
That he has no documentary [Illegible]
or other testimony that he knows of there
[Illegible] [Illegible] except such as  is
herewith transmitted & states 
That [Illegible] [Illegible] Rockwell, Charles
F. Sedgwick, Ancel Sterling, David Gouls
Rev. ? David L Perry.  Col Samuel Canfield
are persons to whom he is known in
his present neighborhood and who
can testify to his character for veracity
and their belief of his services as
a Soldier of the Revolution.
That 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.
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Sworn to and Subscribed this day & year
aforesaid.    Kellogg Berry
Sworn and subscribed  the day of year
aforesaid.  Frederick Chittenden Clerk of Court
[Illegible] George Bull and Lemuel Bull
Residing in Kent, Litchfield County
hereby certify that we are well acquainted

with Kellogg Berry who has sworn
to & Subscribed the foregoing declaration
and we believe him to be sixty
eight years of age that he is Enlisted
and believed in Kent (where he has
resided several years since the Revolutionary
War,)  [Illegible] been a soldier
of the Revolution & that we concur
in that opinion,.
Sworn & Subscribed this day & year
aforesaid.
                       Geo. W Bull
                        Lemuel B. Bull

Sworn to & Subscribed this day & year
aforesaid   
                          Frederick Chittenden
                          Clerk of Court
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There is no settler or residing Clergyman
in said Kent and it would be attended
with trouble and [Illegible] each expense to [Illegible]
or from Sharon. --
And the said Court does hereby declare
its opinion that after the investigation of
the matter & after putting the interrogatories
described by the War Department
that the above named applicant, Kellogg
Berry was a Revolutionary soldier 
and served as he states. And that correct
further Certified that George W Bull and
Lemuel B Bull who have sworn to &
subscribed the foregoing certificate an residents
of Kent aforesaid are credible
persons and that their statement is entitled
to full credit.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk
of the Court of Probate for the District 
of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify
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that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the Law Court in the matter
of the application of Dock Kellogg
Berry for a Pension
In testimony whereof I 
[Illegible] herein to set my hand
and seal of office and the
Court this 20th day of
August AD 1832.

                       Frederick Chittenden
                       Clerk of Court

I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court
of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid
do hereby certify that Frederick Chittenden
is Clerk of said Court duly appointed & sworn
and all of the signatures to these papers purporting
to be his are his genuine signatures
and his own proper handwriting and
full faith & credit is due [Illegible] to be
given & [Illegible]. -- And the seal affixed

is the seal of s Court.
                         Nathaniel P. Perry Judge
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I Cyrenus Clark of the Town of Kent in the
County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut
aged seventy five years being duly sworn
according to Law. do depose Certify and say
that Kellogg Berry of Sharon in aforesaid County
now an applicant for a pension, served in
the service of the United States with me in the
company commanded by Captain Bostwick.

were stationed at Saugatuck in Fairfield County
in State of Connecticut he was at Saugatuck
a short time & then went over to a place
called "Old Well" don't know how long he 
served there for several weeks at any
rate.  I cannot remember the year with
certainty.      Cyrenus Clark

State of Connecticut  }   Probate Court
Litchfield County        }  District of Kent
                                       Ss at Kent --
Be it remembered that on this 20th day
of August AD 1832 Personally appeared
Before Nathaniel P Perry Esq. Judge of the
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Court of Probate for the District of Ken Cyrenus
Clark subscribes to the foregoing deposition
and in open Court made Solemn oath
& the truth of the facts therein stated he
is a credible witness and has always sustained
a good character for truth and
veracity.  
                      Frederick Chittenden
                      Clerk of the Court
                      of Probate for the District
                      of Kent aforesaid.
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I Lemuel Berry of the town of Kent
Litchfield County and State of Connecticut
aged seventy eight years being duly
sworn according to the Law do depose
testify and say.  That I recollect that
{Illegible Crossed out] during ["of" Crossed out] the Revolutionary War
               of Sharon in County's
Kellogg Berry ^ now an applicant for
a pension told me that he went to
Hartford with Prisoners from Hose neck
That I well remember going down
to Horse neck to [Illegible] the said Kellogg
Berry who was then a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and that I went
down some time afterward to Horseneck
& Hartford to see him  I saw him there
in the service of the United States.  I
do not know how long he served &
cannot tell the year he went.  I know
he was there during the winter.
                       his
            Lemuel   X    Berry
                       mark
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State of Connecticut  }        Probate Court
Litchfield County        }       District of Kent
                                            Ss. at Kent

Be it remembered that on this 20th day
of August AD 1832 Personally appeared
before Nathaniel P Perry Esq Judge
of the Court of Probate for the District of
Kent aforesaid Lemuel Berry and
who subscribed the foregoing depositions
and in open Court made solemn
oath to the truth of the facts therein
contained.  The P Berry is a credible
witness and retains a good character
for ["with" Crossed out] veracity is to be believed
                        Frederick Chittenden
                        Clerk of the Court
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State of Connecticut      }     Probate Court
County of Litchfield       }     District of Kent
                                             Ss at Kent

On this 22d day of January AD 1833 personally
appeared before Nathaniel P Perry Esquire
Judge of the Court of Probate for the district
of Kent aforesaid holding open Court now 
sitting in open Court Kellogg Berry of
and residing in Sharon in said County of
Litchfield and is the same identical Kellogg
Berry who has heretofore made declaration on
oath before this Court and sent the form to the
War Department and there entered on file as per
letter for J. L. Edward and said Berry now
in open Court 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 AD 1832.  That
the former declaration by him so sent is either
misunderstood or this Court has made out the
declaration in [Illegible] expressions or mistaken
what he the applicant meant to be understood
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The declarant did not mean to be understood
                said that he     in
that when he ^ served    ^ the last year of our
Lord 1783 only, but that he served the whole
of the last year (that is part of the whole of the
year 1783.  but the whole of the last twelve months
            excepting from the 1st of April to 11th April 1783 excepting 
              these few days
months which terminated the war ^ for he
knew and meant to be so understood
that he enlisted in Capt Couch's Company
in March of 17825.  That he has no remembrance
of ever stating that he enlisted in March 1783.
and if is was so stated in his declaration
heretofore sent on, it is an entire mistake,
and now under his said oath doth deliberately
and unhesitatingly say that he
did serve at least the whole of the last
twelve months of the war in the army of
the revolution in the service of the United 
States as a private, and that he served in
said service at least seventeen months
in all.  He was discharged the first
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day of April 1783.
                         Kellogg Berry
Sworn and subscribed the day & year
aforesaid
                     Fank Chittenden
                     Clerk of Court
And the said Court doth hereby certify
that in the examination of Kellogg Berry
who subscribed sworn to the above declaration
and in drafting his declaration hereunto
sent on to the War Department.  The said
Berry did state that he served for the
term of one year at one time and next preceding the close of the Revolutionary War.  This
is the opinion of the Court and it must
have been a mistake of the declaration
was so drawn as to admit of a different
inference.  The applicant is well known
to the Court and is a man who has always
sustained a good character for truth &
integrity, and it is the opinion of this Court
that he did serve as he has stated in
his preceding declaration.
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I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court
of Probate for the District of Ken aforesaid
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the Court in
Connection with those heretofore sent on
and refer to by Letter of J L Edwards of
31st Dec. 1832 now herewith returned.
in the matter of the application of Kellogg
Berry for a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand &
the seal of said Court this
22nd day of Jany. AD 1833.
       Frederick Chittenden
       Clerk of Court 

I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court of Probate
for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify
that Frederick Chittenden is clerk of the Court and
the signatures foregoing purporting to be his are his
and genuine, and the seal is the seal of said Court
   In testimony whereof I have herein set my hand
this 22nd Jany. 1833
               Nathaniel P. Perry  Judge
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17279
INVALID.
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File No. 17,279
["Dock" Crossed out] Kellogg Berry
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 82
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 423

[Arrangement of 1870]
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I Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge, Franklin
County and State of Vermont, aged seventy years
the 22" day of Sept. [Illegible] do restify and say that I
have formerly been well acquainted with Doctor Kellogg
Berry of Sharon Litchfield County, State of Connecticut.
That in the year 1872 in the month of April I entered
into the service of the United States, in the town of Goshen 
County & State aforesaid at which time, place & in which service
I first became well acquainted with Doct. Berry, we belonged
to the Regiment Commanded by Col Samuel Kinfield of
New Milford Litchfield County.  Said Regiment was stationed
for one full year in the Town of Stamford, State aforesaid at
a place called Fort [Illegible]; I am positive we remained
in actual service at the above named Military Post
one full year from my enlistment, which enlistment was
at the time I entered the Army.-- The time & place of his
Enlistment I have no knowledge of.  I know he was one full
year from my Enlistment, in actual service, and also [Illegible]
Recollect that on the first day of April 1783 the whole
Regt Commanded by Col Kinfield Received a verbal
Discharge from Service.  the same day we were discharged
I started for home in Company with Doct. Berry--the
second day we arrived at Doct. Berry's Residence in the town
of Kent, County & State aforesaid took with him some refreshment
pursued my Former home in the Town of Cornwall an adjoining
Town in L. County seven miles distance from P. [Illegible]
and further say not.
                                    Salmon Willoughby
State of Vermont     }  Cambridge June 8th 1833
Franklin County Ss   }  he personally appeared before the
undersigned authority Salmon Willoughby of [Illegible] Cambridge
County of Franklin & State aforesaid a credible witness, who
made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing deposition
by him Subscribed as therein contained, one time according
to his best knowledge information and belief.
          Before me, Oel Safford, Justice Peace
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State of Vermont    }   St. Albans June 8th 1833.  I Horace Janes
Franklin County Ss  }   Clerk of Franklin County Court do hereby
                                    certify that Oel Safford whose name is
Seal:                             affixed to the foregoing certificate is a
[Illegible]                      magistrate, duly appointed by the
                                     Legislature of this State and I believe
                                     the same is his genuine signature. 
                                 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed  my name and
affixed the Public seal of said Court the day and year above
                                      Horace Janes Clerk
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I Laura Chittenden of Kent in the
County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut
age sixty years do testify & 
say that before my marriage my name
was Laura Canfield  I am the Daughter
of Lawrence Canfield who lived &
died in New Milford in [aforesaid] County and
who was Colonel in the Revolutionary
war.  He died more than twenty years
ago.  I remember Capt Couch and Capt
Isaac Bostwick and Jonah Baldwin
who I believe was Quarter Master sergeant
& Capt. Ingersoll
they are all dead.  Oliver Bostwick left
New Milford a great many years ago
have not heard from him in 15 or 20
years  I do not know of any officer 
living who served in my Fathers Reg't
[Illegible] at that time. I Further affirmed
[Illegible] [Illegible].
                              Laura Chittenden
State of Connecticut }   
Litchfield County       } Ss at Kent. June 29. 1833
                                      Probate Court District of
                                                      Kent
Personally appeared Laura Chittenden 
who subscribed the foregoing & made solemn 
oath to the truth of her [Illegible] in open Court
the Deponent retains a good character for
truth & veracity  Frederick Chittenden Clerk of Court
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I [Illegible] [Illegible] I have affixed
the Seal of the Court  & set my hand
at Kent this 29" June 1833
Frederick Chittenden  Clerk
                                   of Court
Seal: [Illegible]
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                     War Department
                      Pension Office
                       31 December 1832

Sir,
     On examination of the
evidence in support of your claim to a
pension under the act of 7 June 1832
it does not appear that you served a
period of six months during the war and
of course the claim is rejected. The
services previous to the year 1783 do
not at their utmost extent exceed five
months.  In March 1783, -- the last year
of the war, -- you declare that you enlisted
in Capt. Couch's Company.  As no day
of the month is specified, the last must
be taken to be the day of enlistment and
as the war was ended by the proclamation of 
Congress on the 11th day of April following,
sufficient service could not have been
                    performed
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performed to bring your case within
the terms of the Act of Congress.
    The papers are retained on
filed at this office.
            I am, respectfully
                yours  [Illegible] [Illegible]
                             J L Edwards
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17 [Illegible]
56 66
Claimant
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                     War Department
                           Pension Office
                           18th April 1833

Sir,
    Your additional statement relative
to your claim to a pension has been examined.
In your former declaration the
allegation is made with distinctness and
 precision that you enlisted in the month
of march of the last year of the war.
There is no ambiguity in this statement
which does not refer to 1782, but to 1783       
The proper course for your to pursue
is to procure testimony of the period of
your enlistment.  One or more of the officers 
referred to are believed to be still alive.
At any rate the rejection of your claim
will stand until a more satisfactory
explanation of your several terms of service
as well as more direct and conclusive
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evidence in support of your claim is
adduced.  The papers are still retained on
file
                   I am Respectfully
                      Your  Ob. Sevt.
                           J.L. Edwards