Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8049, for Edward Pease, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Pease, Edward
Rhoda.

NUMBER
R. 8049

CONTENTS
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Typed document completed in handwriting

Let to Hon to Hunt
Apl 30 ‘44

17.515
Vermont
Edward Pease
County of Chelsea in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Allen in the Reg’t. commanded by Col. Wells on the Conn’t troop for 20 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Aug’t 1833 and sent to J. W. Smith Chelsea Vt

Arrears to the 4th of Mch ’33.            133.52
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4. Sept.   33.23
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                                                                  166.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by J McDuffie Clerk
Book E vol. 3 Page 84
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3Z

M’r Edward Pease
Chelsea Vermont
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I Charles Pease of Somers in the county of Tolland in the State of Connecticut of Lawful age Testify & say that about the first of June 1779 I Enlisted in a Company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Capt. Daniel Allen of Ashford in aforesaid State Liet Knowlton of Ashford Ensign Simon Forbes of Somers in aforesaid State. I served as a drummer in recruiting before we marched into Service. I well recollect that and Edward Pease then residing in Enfield in aforesaid State now said to be residing in Chelsea in the State of Vermont Enlisted into aforesaid company & served with me in aforesaid company as follows viz we marched to New London & commenced our service there as a guard on the first day of July 1779 in the Regiment Commanded by Col Levi Wells. we continued in the service at New London according to my best recollection untill the 17th of Nov’r when we marched east along the Sound & the companies separated for winter quarters our Company (Capt Allens) were quartered at East Haven new New Haven where we continued untill the forth of March 1780 when we were discharged & returned home having been in actual service Eight months. Said company were mostly Enlisted about the first of June but with an agreement that the service should not commence untill the 1st of July & then continue Eight months according to the best of my recollection Said Edward Pease served with me in said company during the whole term of Eight months and further this deponent saith not
Charles Pease
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss 
Enfield 29th May 1833

Then personally appeared Charles Pease who being duly cautioned examined & sworn according to law made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him Subscribed taken at the request of Edward Pease to be and in his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

before me Lorrain T. Pease Justice of Pease And I further certify that said Charles Pease is well known to me that he resides in the Town of Somers in said State of Connecticut and that he is a credible person & that his Statements are Entitled to credit
Lorrain T Pease Justice of Peace
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I Elias Pease of Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut of Lawful age testify & say that I was born Sept 28th 1755 at Enfield in the State of Connecticut where I have ever since resided & where I now reside that Edward Pease now residing in Chelsea in the State of Vermont and a applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 is my Brother, said Edward is about four years younger than myself he was born at said Enfiel & resided there untill several years after the Close of the Revolutionary War. I well recollect that he performed four different terms of Service as a private in the Revolutionary War. he lived in the same House with me at the time of commencing & returning from Each of said terms of service. he first Enlisted in May or June 1789 & left home to Enter the service soon after, & returned home in March 1780, I understood he served at New London. In April 1780 he again Enlisted under Capt David Parsons of said Enfield as I understood for the term of Eight months he left home to join the Army in said April & returned according to my best recollection in the month of Jany 1781. his service this term was as I understood with the main Army near West Point. In the spring of 1781 I believe in the month of April he left home to go into the service at Horse Neck & returned in the month of July following. he performed one other term of service at or near West Point of about four months according to my best recollection under a Capt. Holcomb. I cannot tell the year. I received the pay for him for his service at New London & at Horse Neck & for these terms I can be positive as to the time. that the first was Eight months & the last three months. I have a perfect recollection of Each term service of my Brother I am not & have been for more than forty years a member of a community called speaking quakers & have had during that time very little intercourse with the world.
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but my recollection of events of those Early times are very clear & distinct & further this deponent saith not
Elias Pease

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} 
Enfield May 27th 1833

Then Personally appeared before me Lorrain T Pease a Justice of Peace for said County Elias Pease who being duly Examined cautioned & sworn according to Law make [strikethrough] oath to the [strikethrough] affirmation to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him Subscribed. Taken at the request of Edward Pease to be and in his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and I further certify that said Elias Pease is well known to me that he resides in said Town of Enfield, that he is a credible person & that his statement is Entitled to credit
Lorrain T Pease Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss.

I Jared Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for said County of Hartford, do hereby certify that Lorrain T. Pease & Charles Pease before whom the foregoing affidavits of Elias Pease was taken, was on the 27th day of May A.D. 1833 a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hartford, duly commissioned & qualified according to Law, & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court this 30th day of May A.D. 1833.
Jared Griswold, Clerk

There is an affixed seal.
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W. Edward Pease

Sir your Brother Elias Pease requests that these papers should be forwarded to you with the Intelligence.  That after spending several days in the pursuit, he can find no other Evidence in your care than is herewith forwarded.  The whole expense he has incured. he says amounts to $6. which he requests you to send him by mail.

I am your s [illegible]
L T. Pease
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I Erastus Pease of Brookfield in the County of Orange & State of Vermont aged 45 years depose testify and say that my late father Edward Pease who was a pensioner of the United States under the Pension Act of 1832 died in this town on the 12th day of July 1840.  I attended his funeral and well recollect the time of his death.  his widow Rhoda Pease, I understand is still living and now resides at Lockport in the State of New York.  I am his son, and he lived with me several years after he was married to the said Rhoda
Erastus Pease


Sworn to and subscribed this 2d day of September 1843. before me  
John W. Smith Justice of the Peace

I also certify that the said Erastus Pease is a person well known to me as a credible witness.
John W. Smith Justice of the Peace

I, Amos S. Hatch, Chelsea in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of Lawful age depose testify and say that I am town clerk and keeper of the town records in said Chelsea and that I find on the Record book of marriages the following record.

"State of Vermont
Orange County }
Be it remembered that at Chelsea this (twenty fourth) 24th day of January (one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven) AD 1827 -  Edward Pease of Brookfield in said County and Rhoda Waldo of this town were duly joined in marriage by me.
Calvin Nable minister of Gospel."
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marriages the following record.

"State of Vermont
Orange County }
Be it remembered that at Chelsea this (twenty fourth) 24th day of January (one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven) AD 1827 -  Edward Pease of Brookfield in said County and Rhoda Waldo of this town were duly joined in marriage by me.
Calvin Nable minister of Gospel."

I Amos S. Hatch above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk of said Chelsea and the above is a true Extract from the records of said Chelsea with the Exception of the date which is Expressed on the record in fair higher figures to which I - have added the same date Expressed in words - 
Amos S. Hatch Town Clerk 

Sworn to and Subscribed this 4th day of September AD 1843 before me 
John W Smith Justice Peace

I also Certify that the above named Amos S Hatch is a person well known to me as a crdible witness
John W Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss}

I Percy C Jones Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that John W. Smith is a Justice of the peace in and for said Orange County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated on the 9th day of November AD 1842 and will expire on the 30th day of November AD 1843 as well as the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.  Given under my hand and the seal of said Orange County Court this 5 day of September AD 1843
Percy C Jones Clerk of
Orange County Court
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Edward Pease No 9.
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3588
Edward Pease
Declaration
Chelsea
V.T.


Make return to John W Smith Chelsea Orange County Vermont
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Typed document completed in handwriting

State of Vermont,
ORANGE COUNTY ss. }

At Chelsea in said County on this 21. day of August A. D.  1832, personally appered in open Court, before me the Hon. Silas Hilioar and David Cobb and Shaias Lanz Justices of the County [strikethrough] the [strikethrough] Court of said Orange County, now setting, being a Court 0f Record Edward Pease a resident of Chelsea in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, aged 68. years, 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 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 in the year 1779, about the first of June. he enlisted in the service of the United States in the Company commanded by Capt - Allen & Ensign Forbes in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wells called Col. Commandant. that at the time of his Enlistment he resided in Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut - he thinks this period of Service was called the - State Service - that their duty was to guard the State - that immediately after Enlisting he was ordered to New London in said State & was mustered at Somers, Connecticut by said Capt Allen that he was employed at said New London as a Guard to protect the town till some time in the Month of December of that year & then the said Regiment went to East Haven in said State and then remained in Winder Quarters until about the first of March 1780 when he was verbally discharged at said East Haven - that while his Regiment lay at New London aforesaid a Regiment of 3 months Militia were also stationed there. that he enlisted, was mustered, and discharged for nine Months.

Also that he Enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780 with the Continental Army and he served in the said Regiment of Huntingtons Brigade of the Connecticut line under the following named officers that about the first of April 1780 he enlisted in the Company Commanded by Capt. Parsons - Lieut. Parsons & Ensign Kulin in the Regiment called Butlers Regiment but commanded by Lieut. Col. Hoit in Gen. Huntingtons Brigade that at the time of his enlistment he resided in Enfield, Connecticut that he together with one Samuel Gaudy & one Asa Wilson all of said Enfield enlisted as aforesaid for the term of nine months. that they were mustered at East Hartfield & also at Danbury Connecticut.

that immediately on his enlistment he was ordered to join the Army at Nelsons Point in the State of New York. that all the recruits were ordered to join the Army as soon as possible after Enlistment. that he joined his company & the Main Army at Nelsons Point aforesaid and remained there about one month as near as he can recollect & from there he marched with the Main Army to Kings Ferry crossed North River & proceeded on south to Orange Town in the State of New Jersey to Totowa to Paramus to the English neighbourhood and to other places which he cannot recall until the Last of November on the first of December of that year when they proceeded back to what was called then Highlands Easts of Nelsons Point in the State of New Jersey at said place called then Hatch, & to Tappan. that they were marched back & forth until the Last of November or the first of December of that year when they proceeded back to what was called the Highlands Easts of Nelsons Point in the State of New York - that he was present and an eye witness to the execution of Maj Andre - that while in New Jersey and after he had - he had been in the service then as four months the Regiments were filled up by a large number of Recruits entering the Army from the different States - that after his Regiment had marched the highlands as aforesaid he assisted in erecting barracks and quartered there until he was discharged at aforesaid place by a written discharge signed by Col. Sawyer a Col. in the first Regiment in said Brigade as he thinks. that he made application for a pension under the act of Congress of the 15 of May 1828 and that he resides at this time in Brookfield in the County of Orange & the State of Vermont or in Randolph in aforesaid State he does not recollect which - that his discharge was sent to the War Department - and that the secretary of War informed him that it appeared by his discharge that he belonged to the five months men & was therefore not put on the Pension Lists - And the said Pease further declares that he Enlisted was mustered & was discharged for nine months thinks the recruits above mentioned who entered the Army & his Regiment among those entered and then discharged for five months and were discharged at the same time with him at the said Highlands in New York the last of December or the first of January following: and thinks he had served in the Company & Regiment aforesaid about four months before the said recruits … {the page is cut off}
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months thinks the recruits above mentioned who entered the Army & his Regiment among those entered and then discharged for five months and were discharged at the same time with him at the said Highlands in New York the last of December or the first of January following: and thinks he had served in the Company & Regiment aforesaid about four months before the said recruits joined the Army. That he knows of no persons who entered the service with him in April 1780 & served this term for nine months except the aforesaid Gandy & Wilson & he know not whether they are either of them are living - that his company was often he had been out three months, fitted up by six months men that when he was discharged for nine months service - Also that he was drafted & entered the service of the United States about the middle of the - Month of April in the year 1781 in the Company commanded by Capt Wright of Wethersfield, Conn and Ensign Lessing in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Mead of Horse Neck & Adjutant Mead of the same place. that he was drafted for three  months and was immediately ordered to Horse Neck in the State of Connecticut to guard the place to prevent the British coming in and to prevent the tories & Cow boys, so called from driving cattle & conveying provisions to the Enemy - guard as aforesaid untill about the middle of July following as near as he can recollect when he was discharged verbally at Horse neck aforesaid and returned home - that while stationed there they were once attacked by the British light horse and a party of Tories and about 15 were killed & five or six wounded in the skirmish

Also that he entered the service of the United States in the year 1782 under the following named officers and served as herein Stated that about the middle of July 1782 he was drafted to serve for four months in the militia in the company commanded by Capt Hocomb of Simsbury, Connecticut, Lieut Esels & Ensign Sessions he cannot recollect the Regiment at or Staff Officers but that he thinks the Co. name was Lace. that he was immediately ordered to West Point in the State of New York and remained there about a week and that a company were there detached from the Regiment of Militia consisting of About sixty men of which number he was one and they were sent up the River about five miles to Pollipets Island under the Command of Capt Reid & Continental Officers. that Capt Hocomb & Lieut Esels & himself were detached from the company to which he belonged & that they were employed them about three months at work digging & excavating a Prison or dungeon called as he thinks a “Provost”

that at the expiration of the aforesaid three months the said detached company returned to West Point and they were employed in repairing the forts and works there about three weeks.  that being so detached he cannot recollect the Regimental or field Officers. that he was verbally discharged at West Point aforesaid on or about the 20th day of November following. that he was drafted and discharged for four months. that at the time of entering the service in such of the above terms of service he resided in Enfield in in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut that he has no documentary evidence except the discharge above mentioned and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except Mitchell Bughee.

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 to his knowledge
Edward Pease

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
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Connecticut that he has no documentary evidence except the discharge above mentioned and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except Mitchell Bughee.

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 to his knowledge
Edward Pease

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H.E.G. McLaughlin clerk

We, Calvin Nable Clergyman, residing in Chelsea in said County of Orange and Josiah Biglow residing in [strikethrough] in said [strikethrough] Broadfield in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Pease who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be 68 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 to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Calvin Nable
Josiah Biglow
H.E.G. McLaughlin 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 certify that it appears to them that Calvin Nable who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Chelsea in said County, and that Josiah Biglow who has also signed the same, is a resident in [strikethrough] in the same place, [strikethrough] Brookfield aforesaid County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk

I H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk of the Court of Orange County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Pease for a pension. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 24th day of August A.D, 1832.
H.E.G. McLaughlin CLERK
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20985
Edward Pease

Declaration & Schedule
Copy of Record

found on rolls for six months in Parsons Co of Butler regt

5 mos by [?]

Rejected

$329

[strikethrough] rejection [strikethrough]
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State of Vermont}
Orange County Ss}

On this 26 day of March 1829 personally appeared before H. E. G. McLaughlin Clerk of the Supreme and County Court and Notary Public in and for the county of Orange and State of Vermont, Edward Pease aged sixty five years Resident in Randolph in the County of Orange, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. - I enlisted in the last of February or the first of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty for the Term of nine months in Capt David Parsons Company in Col Hoyt, or Col Butlers Regiment, being the second Connecticut Regiment in the Continental line and served the time of my Enlistment and was Discharged on the 8th of Dec 1780 at Camp Highlands in New York by Col. H. Swift as per discharge accompanying will appear - owing to the great length of Time since I left Connecticut I do not know as I can procure any other Testimony of my service, than the discharge. -  I never have made application for a pension untill this Time on account of my having a small farm in my possession and being possessed of the pride of an old soldier. But a series of sickness by which the wife of my youth was confined and helpless about six years previous to her death has so involved me in debt, that I was under the necessity of selling my little farm to pay my Just Debts. - 
And I solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and
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that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within provisions of an act of Congress entitled “The 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 1818. - 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 hereunto annexed and by me Subscribed; That is to say, -  
one cow worth - $18.00
household furniture Except my Bed and bedding not to exceed - 10.00
one ax and one hoe - $1.00
and I have Twelve Notes for Twenty five Dollars Each, the first falls due on the first day of January next, and so on are the first day of January each year untill they are all paid. } $300.00
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$329.00

Notes on Title which is all the assets of my little farming tools & after paying all my first Debts, which Comprises all the property of which I am possessed of any name or nature Except my bed and bedding and necessary clothing. -  My family Consists on my self and wife Rhoda aged 45 years, not in very good health - and her sone Lewis Waldo aged 17 years in poor health. - I am by occupation a farmer but owing to my advanced age
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and a canser tumour with which I have long been Troubled I am able to Labour but very little, 
Edward Pease -

Sworn and declared on the 26th day of March AD 1829, before H E G McLaughlin clerk and Notary Public

I H.E. G. McLaughlin Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Orange do certify that the foregoing Declaration and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of this Court; and I further Certify that it is my opinion that the total amount in value of the property Exhibited in the annexed schedule is Three hundred and Twenty nine dollars. -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court on this 27th day of March 1829 
H.E.G. McLaughlin Notary Public & Clerk of O. County Court, VT

Affixed paper to the above affidavit
Camp Highlands 8th Dec. 1780
Edward Pease [blot on the paper] soldier in the 2d Connecticut Reg’t is hereby Discharged the service of the United State - 
H. Swift Col Con’t
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3588
Edward Pease


Adm’d
Index
20 mos
$66.66
J W Smith Esq
Chelsea
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Typed document completed in handwriting

WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE
23 April 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus : } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
_________________________________________
A Statement, shewing the Service of

8 column table
|Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant’s service. Years. | Duration of the claimant’s service. Months. | Duration of the claimant’s service. Days. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported. |

| 79; June |--- | 10 | --- | pri |Capt Allen, Col Wells | --- | --- |
| 80. July | --- | 6 | --- | pri | Capt Parsons, Col Swift | --- | --- |
| 81. Apl | --- | 3 | --- | pri | Wright, Meade | --- | --- |
| 82. July | --- | 4 | --- | pri | Hocumb - Sgt Lewis | --- | --- |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J.L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions

 Mr Edward Pease
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service
4. Indian Spies

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of
Count of     } ss.

On this    day of   personally appeared (a) before    A. B. a resident (b) of    in the county of    and State, Territory, or District of     aged (c)    years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)   , with    and served in the   (e) regiment of the     line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. *This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency of the State of        

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                            A. B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                       of the Court of                 do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                for a pension,
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of                      &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declarations, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will made and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the             and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with             , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be    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 the days and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 A.B. and that C.D., who has also singed the same is a resident in the     
I,     Clerk of the Court of     do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of               for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this      day of     &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, of possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person.

The claimant will be allowed a pension for six months, serve and appear by the Rolls of the Continental army. His other served 18 March 1818, cannot be allowed unless satisfactorily proven.
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribed and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you live now?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And is a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officer, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
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 of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion if the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons if a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he serve; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reasons of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades: For--------- year -------- months, and ---- says, I served as a ----------. For ------- months and ---------days, I served as a ----------; and for such services I claim a pension."
It is important in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served; and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places, where the service was performed, that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority, that he was either in the field or in garrison, and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h[ The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix the seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which mist pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
*Notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops. The proof required by rules [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must be all written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

in Col Bullers regt which was the service referred to in his discharge [unk] which were not alluded to in his declaration under the act [unk]
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[strikethrough] Acts of July 14, 1882 and March 3, 1876 [strikethrough]

8049
P.O. Rhoda Pease
Service: widow Edward Pease

Enlisted: --- , 18--.
Discharged: ---, 18--.

Application filed:---, 18--.

Alleges:---

Re-enlisted: ---

Attorney: ---
P.O. ---
---Recognized. --- Contract.
---Cert. of Dis. Searched for---, 18--.

{Stamped over the top of the document}
REJECTED

Oct. 23 - 1902
Mrs. L. G. Trumbull
Hartford, Vt.
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P  15569
Revy INVALID.

File No. 15569
Edward Pease
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32

Index:- Vol. 1, Page 294

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen

Can you furnish me with information of one Edward Pease, who served in Revolutionary War, supposed to have enlisted from Conn.

Afterwards drawing a pension, and living and dying in Vermont in year 1840.

Would like to know if possible, time of service and command.

Very truly

Mary Pease Trumbull
(Mrs. Leonard G. Trumbull)

Hartford, Vermont
August 4, 1902

There is an overlying stamp
NAVY
AUG 7 1902
FILES
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House of Representatives
March 14, 1844

Sir,

I have rec’d the enclosed document with a request that I will obtain a Pension for the widow of Edward Pease therein mentioned. I should be very glad to comply with this request but I do not suppose the document of which they rely is sufficient to bring her case within the law. The object of the present is to request that you will examine the paper, and inform me if any thing further is necessary beyond the deposition of the widow, to entitle her to a pension. I will then return the enclosed to her with the necessary directions. Your reply to this will greatly oblige me.

Very respectfully &c &c

W Hunt

Col. J. L. Edwards
Com’r &c
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Wm Wight
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I William Wight of Tunbridge in the county of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy one years being duly sworn depose and say -  that I am acquainted with Edward Pease who now lives in Brookfield and late in Chelsea in said county, - that in the years 1779 and 1780 I served a tour of eight months in a Company Commanded by Capt. Daniel Allen in Col. Levi Wells Regiment - this Service was performed at New London Ct and East Haven. - I am also knowing to the above named Edward Pease performing duty as a Private in the same Company for the same length of time. - I distinctly recollect that he performed Eight Months Service at the aforesaid place and times as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War.
William Wight

State of Vermont
Orange County ss.} Randolph June 4, 1833

Then personally appeared the above named William Wight and made solemn oath that above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. 

Before me
Abner Waldo Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William Wight, and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
Abner Waldo Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss.} County Clerks Office June 15th 1833

I Harry Hale Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that Abner Waldo is a Justice of the Peace, within and for this county, and that the within writing purporting to be his signature is in my opinion genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Chelsea, the day and year aforesaid.

Harry Hale Clerk
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Mr Mehitable Bugbee
Deposition
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I Mehitable Bugbee of Randolph in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy one years, on oath depose and say that Edward Pease who now resides in Chelsea in said County is my Brother and younger than myself, and that during the Revolutionary War he was a Soldier and did duty in the Revolutionary army, in what years and the particulars of the Service I cannot now state. I recollect his being gone from home nine months at two different times each. - One of these times he went to New London, Con. as I then understood and believed and when he went the other time I cannot now recollect. - I remember of his being in the army at one other time, and then understood at Horse Neck. - the length of time do not recollect. - The particular reason of recollection this is, that in a small engagement a neighbor who went with a small engagement, a neighbor who went with my brother was killed in skirmish at that place. At the time above referred to our father lived in Enfield Connecticut, and my brother above mentioned lived at home in my father's family except when he was join into the army as above stated and further say not.
X his mark
Mehitable Bugbee 

State of Vermont
Orange County ss} 

The above affidavit sworn to [strikethrough] befor [strikethrough] this 20th day of August 1832 before me.
John Glidden Justice Peace

I certify that the above named Mehitable Bugbee is a person of good character and entitled to full credit for truth and veracity.
John Glidden Justice Peace