Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3208, Elijah Eaton, New York
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New York
Eaton, Elijah
Deliverance
R. 3208
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 3d Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836, or of any Act or Acts 
[illegible] Co -

State of New York
County of Cortland }ss

On this twenty second day of February, 1844, personally appeared before me Oliver Kingman one of the Judges the court of common pleas in and for the County of Cortland aforesaid, the same being a of record, Deliverance Eaton, a resident of the town of Willett in the said county of Cortland, aged ninety-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, or of any act or acts, passed subsequent thereto: That she is the widow of Elijah Eaton who was a private in the Revolutionary War, and served therein as near as he can state the same - her knowledge being derived from hearing her said husband relate the same in his life time - That is
to say, she and her said husband resided in the town of Chatham in the County of Columbia in the State of New York, and it fell to his lot to enter the service as she believes by draft for one month, that he hired a man to go in his place for said month, and she thinks he hired one Andrus Wilson, but she is not certain of his name - that at any rate he hired a man who went as she then heard and understood and believed and still does believe, to perform said months service in said War. She thinks it was 2 or 3 years after the War commenced, but she cannot state the year. She thinks he served in Col. Waterman's Regiment, but she cannot state the company or the Capts. name. The next service he rendered was in the year that Burgoyne was taken a prisoner. She thinks her husband went this year
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in 1777 from home in the month of July and it was in harvest time - she thinks he was in Capt. Beebe's Company and Col Waterman's Regt - that her said husband was absent for several weeks, she thinks one month at least or more,
and then sent home for the brother of declarant to come and take his place - her brothers name was Henry Mott - he went and took the place of her said husband and served
until Burgoyne was taken when he returned home - both her husband and said Henry went to Saratoga and that vicinity during said tours. Her brother Henry lived with them, being bound to them or rather to her husband until he was twenty-one years of age, he then being under twenty-one years of age, and she thinks about nineteen years old. Her husband after this removed to Schodack, where they resided two or three years, she forgets which. While living at Schodack her husband went to Albany as a juryman to attend court, and while was at Albany re enlisted in the service for the term of eight months. She cannot remember the name of the Capt. or Col. under whom thus enlisted. But she, on learning that he had enlisted went to Albany to see him there - but learnt that he had gone with his company regiment or the army, down the river, but she cannot remember to what place. After he had been absent a considerable part of the time she cannot now recollect how long, one Capt. Ostrander hired a man to go and take the place of her husband who served out the balance of said eight months. Her husband said he [illegible] for said service; both
together served out said eight months as he then understood & believed & still believes, being called her husband's service. That this was sometime after the taking of Burgoyne but she cannot tell the year. After his tour, and this being the latter part of the War, or towards the latter part as she believes, her husband again went into the service for one month as she thinks, but she cannot tell the officers name under whom he served. That
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owing to her great age & passing of time things have [illegible] her recollection. She however well knows that he was in the service as aforesaid. In the last tour she has often heard him say he was in a [illegible] that the man who stood [illegible] him was said through the [illegible].
Her husband was also in the service at other
short intervals, in the whole he went four several times - She thinks in three of these four times he was gone at least one month at a time, besides the eight months service as aforesaid - He was also gone in the service for one and two days at alarms - This was frequent during the whole War.
She has no documentary proof of his said service- She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Eaton on the 21st day of May, Seventeen hundred & seventy-one, (1771). That her husband the aforesaid Elijah Eaton died on the third day of March in the year eighteen hundred and five (1805) and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed -
That her maiden name was Deliverence Mott -  That their marriage was recorded in their
family bible by her said husband soon after their said marriage - and the births of their children was also recorded by him at the times of their births [illegible], the record of which taken from said bible, being the same [illegible] are hereto annexed - being this day cut out of the said family bible -

Deliverance Eaton
Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me - And I further certify that said declarant signed the foregoing by making her mark on account of the want of learning as she
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learned to write-- and I further certify that I am
well satisfied that said declarant is a person of truth and veracity in that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the sitting of the court; yet for a person of her length of years she appears to retain her mental faculties in
unusual degree -

Oliver Kingman Judge of Cortland County Court

State of New York
Cortland County} ss. 

Nathaniel Eaton, Son of Elijah Eaton & Deliverance Eaton before named aged Seventy-two years on the 22nd day of January last past, being duly sworn says, that altho he was then but five years of age, well remembers his farther leaving home for the service as related in the foregoing declaration of his mother, when Burgoyne was taken, and of his Uncle Henry Mott returning from the service after Burgoyne was taken - That he also well recollects that he heard of his father's enlisting for eight months. Thereafter as set forth in the foregoing declaration - that afterwards & after he has heard his father speak of being in said service as is set forth in said declaration and believes the same to be true and ever has to believed -
Deponent also well knows the leaf taken this day from the family bible contains the
family record & he believes it to be in his fathers hand writing and has known ever since he has any recollection at the same which is
from early youth. He also knows his mother has remained a widow ever since the death of his father, and still remains so-
Nathaniel Eaton

Sworn to and subscribed this 22d day February 1844 before me - And I [fur]ther certify that said deponent is [kno]wn to me and I believe him the son of truth & veracity -
[Oliver] Kingman 
Judge of Cortland County Court
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State of New York
Cortland County }ss
Peter Eaton, son of Elijah Eaton and Deliverance Eaton, named in the declaration hereto annexed, being forty-nine years of age informed, being duly sworn says that he has from his earliest recollection known the family record hereto annexed - that he believes it to be in his fathers hand writing. And that this deponent was eleven years old at his fathers death wanting there days - That he was then a member of his parents family - that same his father's death he has resided all the time with his mother or [illegible] with him, except a part of the time both lived in the family of his brother John Eaton - so that  declarant, his mother, and deponent, have really been of one [illegible] same family, since the death of his father, he knows she has remained a widow and is now, not having been again married since  is fathers death -
Peter Eaton

Sworn to and subscribed this 22nd day of February, 1844, before me; 
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent and that he is a person of credibility & truth
Oliver Kingman 
Judge of Cortland County Court
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Deliverance Eaton
of Elijah
N.Y. Supd.
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STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Cortland }ss;

Be it known, that on this 12th day of June A.D. eighteen hundred fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Peter Eaton, a resident of the Town of Willett, in said County, and made oath according to law, that he is [illegible] heir of Elijah Eaton, deceased and of Deliverance Eaton the widow of said Elijah Eaton, and be known also deceased, died on the 22 day of September 1849 at Willett in the said county, that he is directly interested, as aforesaid, as a claimant, and makes this affidavit for the purposeof obtaining such claim of Pension as may be due under any of the Laws, Regulations, or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted. The said Affiant further declares that he hereby constitutes and appoints D.D. Addison at Washington D.C. to be Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim, with power of substitution, to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all things necessary and lawful in the premises; except drawing the money, which will be hereafter provided for.
Peter Eaton

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me,
John P. Dyer, J. Peace.

I, John Dyer, Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Peter Eaton, above named, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, as I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth, and acknowledges the above Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.

In testimony that the above-named John Dyer was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, at the date of the same, I hereby subscribe my name and affix the Countyy Seal.
Lewis Kingsley
Deputy County Clk for the County Clerk [illegible]
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Deliverance Eaton papers

No 4045
Deliverance Eaton 
N. Y. 
Act July 4th 36
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Elijah Eaton Born September 2nd AD 1742
Elijah Eaton Died March the 3rd 1805
Deliverance Mott Born December 8th 1751
Who was married to each other May 21 AD 1771

Names and birth of our Children -
Nathaniel Eaton Born January 22nd AD 1772
Elizabeth Eaton Born February 22nd AD 1775
Elijah Eaton Born July 6th AD 1777
Elijah Eaton Junr Died the 5th September AD 1800 
Deliverance Eaton Born March 17th AD 1780
Johana Eaton Born February 10th AD 1783
John Eaton Born September 9th AD 1785
Mary Eaton Born July 12 AD 1788
Lydia Eaton Born June 5 AD 1791
Peter Eaton Born March 6th AD 1794
John [hart] born December 11th AD 1795
Father died March the 3 AD 1805
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State of New York
Cortland County 
Clerks office }SS

I Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk of said County and Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that Oliver Kingman Esquire before whom the affidavits of Deliverance 
Eaton, Nathaniel Eaton & Peter Eaton hereto annexed was [illegible] was at the dates of the taking 
the sworn Judge of the county courts in and for said county and commissioned and sworn his oath thus for in that capacity are to be Regarded as such also that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge. And [illegible] his name within subscribing to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said at Cortlandville March 21 1844

Saml. Hotchkiss Clerk
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August 10, 1934

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BA-J/MCS
Elijah Eaton .3208

Mrs. John Muller
951 Fourth Street
Beaver
Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Revolutionary soldiers, Elijah Eaton and Elisha Greene. 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, .3208 based upon the military service of Elijah Eaton.

He was born September 2, 1743, place of birth and names of parents not given.

He married May 21, 1771, Deliverance Mott who was born December 8, 1751.

Elijah Eaton died March 3, 1805.

His widow Deliverance, applied for pension February 22, 1844, while a resident of Willett, Cortland County, New York, and alleged that while living in Chatham, Columbia County, New York, he enlisted in July, 1777, and served one month or more as private in Captain Beebe's company in Colonel Waterman's New York regiment; that he then moved to Schodack, New York, where he lived two or three years and during which time he went to Albany as a juryman and while there enlisted for eight months, names of officers not stated, and after he had been in service a considerable part of that time one Captain Ostrander hired a substitute for her husband who served out the rest of the eight months; that late in the Revolution Elijah Eaton again enlisted for one month; that he was in the service other short intervals amount to at least one month; that during alarms he served frequently on short tours of one or two days in length.
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The claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service, in accordance with the requirement of the pension law. 

The widow, Deliverance, died September 22, 1849, at Willett, New York. 

Elijah and Deliverance had the following children:

Nathaniel born January 22, 1772.
Elizabeth " February 22, 1775.
Elijah " July 6, 1777, died September 3, 180- (illegible)
Deliverance " March 17, 1780
Johana " February 10, 1783
John " September 9, 1785.
Mary " July 12, 1788.
Lydia " June 5, 1791.
Peter " March 6, 1794, a resident of Willett, New York, in 1852.

The following name also appears: John Hart born December 11, 1795. 

The widow's brother, Henry Mott, was about nineteen years of age in 1777.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to an Elisha Greene who was born in 1726 and died in 1800.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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No. 6045
Deliverance Eaton
N. Y.
Suspended
[words crossed out]
3208
Act July 4th 36
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June 23, 1933

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Elijah Eaton .3208
Augustus Ellis .31063
TK-J/CS
Mrs. H. L. Crain
788 Clinton Street
Frankfort 
Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of soldiers of the Revolution.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, .3208, based upon the military service of Elijah Eaton.

He was born September 2, 1742, place of birth and names of parents not given. 

He married May 21, 1771, Deliverance Mott who was born December 8, 1751. 

Elijah Eaton died March 3, 1805.

His widow Deliverance, applied for a pension February 22, 1844, while a resident of Willett, Cortland County, New York, and alleged that while living in Chatham, Columbia County, New York, he enlisted in July, 1777, and served one month or more as a private in Captain Beebe's company in Colonel Waterman's New York regiment; that he then moved to Schodack, New York, where he lived two or three years and during which time he went to Albany as a juryman and while there enlisted for eight months, names of officers not stated, and after he had been in service a considerable part of that time one Captain Ostrander hired a substitute for her husband who served out the rest of the eight months; that late in the Revolution Elijah Eaton again
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enlisted for one month; that he was in the service other short intervals amounting to at  least one month; that during alarms he served frequently on short tours of one or two days in length.
The claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service, in accordance with the requirement of the pension law.
The widow, Deliverance, died September 22, 1849, at Willett, New York.
Elijah and Deliverance Eaton had the following children:
Nathaniel born January 2, 1772.
Elizabeth    "      February 22, 1775
Elijah           "       July 6, 1777 died September   
                                  180 - (illegible)
Deliverance  "       March 17, 1780
Johana          "      February 10, 1782
John              "       September 9, 1785
Mary              "       July 12, 1788
Lydia              "        June, 5, 1791
Peter              "         March 6, 1794, a resident of Willett, New York, in 1852.
The following name also appears: John Hart born December 11, 1795.
The widow's brother, Henry Mott, was about nineteen years of age in 1777.
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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 21063, based upon the military service of Augustus Ellis.
He was born April 2, 1758, at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and always lived there. The name of his parents were not given.
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He enlisted and served at various times from sometime in the summer of 1776 until sometime in 1778, amounting to at least twenty-six months in all as private with the Rhode Island troops under Ensign Nicholas Myers, Lieutenant Jeremiah [illegible]ustler and Lieutenant George Tennant, Captains Thomas
 [illegible]wert, Joseph Draper, Caleb Green, Joseph Seaver, and Benjamin Hoppin, and Colonels Benjamin Tillinghast and Topham. He
was with General Sullivan during his Rhode Island expedition and was in the battle of Rhode Island.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832. 

Augustus Ellis died August 19, 1836, in West Greenwich, Rhode Island.

He married October 3, 1779, Desire Slocum, the daughter of Charles Slocum of Portsmouth who was then dead.

Desire Ellis was allowed pension as the widow of Augustus Ellis on her application executed August 20, 1836, at which time she was living in West Greenwich and she stated that she
was then aged eighty-three years and four months. She was living in West Greenwich in 1848.

One Jeremiah S. Slocum was Clerk of the Court of common pleas in Kent County, Rhode Island, in 1839, Rhode Island, but it was not
stated that he was related to the widow.

The papers in this pension claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.

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The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to Eleazar Burlingame and Ezra Carter.

In order to make a search of the Revolutionary War records for the father of Lydia Preston and the father of Dimmes Bidwell it is essential that you furnish the full names of the soldiers and as much as possible of the following data pertaining to each:
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approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and first name of widow.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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951 - Fourth St
Beaver Pa.
July 31 - 1934.
Commissioner of Rev. War Records

Dear Sir: -

Am trying to establish the military record of Elijah Eaton said to have been a Revolutionary
soldier and died on the battle field - his wife
Deliverance is buried in Willett, N.Y. - 1742 - 1849 - was said to have come from Conn. to N. Y. prior to the French & Indian War and was engaged in that war.
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7th Generation from George Bunker ower of "Bunker Hill"

I have the direct line from Elijah Eaton but have
no dates of his life or military record - can you
help me?

also

Elisha Greene -
1726 - 1800     }
Isabel Budlong 1748

also Sarah Johnson

yours respectfully
Mrs. John Muller
951-4th St
Beaver - Pa
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Maternal side
Great great grandfather Eleazar Burlingame - married
Rhoda Briggs of R.I. and settled in W. Greenwich R.I.

Dates of birth -Marriage- death- R. War Record & parents names - dates of birth, marriage, death
Great great grand father Augustus Ellis - married
Desire Slocum - R.I. family
Augustus the son of Ayres and Susannah Ellis

Dates of birth - marriage - death -  R. War Record - parents- b.m. death dates
Great great grandfather Elijah Eaton

Dates of birth - Marriage, death unknown Known facts are he
Married Deliverance Mott - probably the first
Eaton to come into N. Y. State served in the
French and Indian War - also the R. War
He died in Schoharie Co. His wife died in
Willet, Cortland Co. Sept. 22. 1849. and her grave is decorated by the D.A.R. as his widow
He was a son of Nathaniel Eaton ^ Ashford Conn b. 1704, and descended
from the John Eaton family of Dedham Mass.
who settled there in 1635?
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Maternal -
Any record of the father of Lydia Preston, who married
John Eaton - a son of Elijah
and who were pioneer settlers of Willet
N. Y.
John and Lydia Preston lived in Cherry
Valley Otsego Co. before living in Willet.

Paternal side
Great grandfather Ezra Carter [2] - b. Hebron Conn. Nov. 2 - 1740
died in Marlborough Conn. Sept. 28, 1829
Record of his marriage - and service in R. War - if any
Ezra Carter [2] was the son of Ezra Carter, b. in
Woburn Mass. a son of Rev. Thomas Carter
of Woburn Mass.

Any record of the father of Dimmes Bidwell who
married Ezra Carter [3] - a son of Ezra [2]
(b. Jan. 21, 1787 in Marlborough Conn) and who were pioneer settlers of Marathon N. Y. Cortland Co.
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758 E. Clinton St
Frankfort, Indiana
Washington DC
June 7 - 1933

To The Adjutant General of the Pension Dept.
Washington D.C.

I have been advised to write to you and your department for information concerning my ancestors of the Revolutionary War period for data and record of service. 

I desire this information for the preservation of our family history and for eligibility to the D.A.R.

The names are on the enclosed sheets, with some dates and parentage and residence that are known to me for your assistance in looking
the up and checking up my lineal descent.

With gratitude to you for this favor, I am 
Cordially yours
(Mrs. H.L.) L. Maude Crain
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3208
P.O.
Deliverance Eaton
Service:
Enlisted: , 18  .
Discharged: , 18  .
Application filed: , 18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
List of 1852 gives fol. reason for suspension as, "Suspended for further proof to specification."
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.  Contract.
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B. Niles
Sept 24. 1844
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Pension Office
Sept 24th '44

Sir
The papers in the case of Deliverance Eaton widow of Elijah Eaton claiming a pension under the Act of July 4th '36 have been examined and filed. It is impossible to make the proper investigation of a claim unless the particulars
of service and put forth in accordance with the regulations which require by specification of the Regiments and names of officers & description of the services to its beginning, duration and termination and such other details as may serve to the subjects to throw light upon the subject. The date of the marriage and identity of claimant are 
sufficiently proved. There is no proof that the Elijah Eaton named in the Comptrollers certificate is the same as the claimant's husband and if there were the [single length of the service] service would not of itself entitle her to a pension

B. Niles Esq        
Cincinnatus       
N.Y.

6045
Act 4th July 36
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Cincinnatus, Cort. Co. N.Y.
Ap. 1, 1844
Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Dr Sir,
I enclose the evi of a claim for a pension in behalf of Mrs. Deliverance Eaton - I hope it may receive a favorable decision as the Lady is almost 100 years old - and especially as I believe the proof to be ample -
When we consider too the great difficulty of even finding any proof among old companions-
With great Respect
I am Your Obt Servt
B. Niles
Please make return to me-
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

20th Oct 1780 Elijah Eaton Priv 1 11 4

STATE OF NEW YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, March 12th 1844 }

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 9 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First-under Capt. Aaron Ostrander
in Col Abm Van Alstyne Regt.

[Form continues, is otherwise blank]
Second " "
Third " "
Fourth " "
Fifth, " "
Sixth " "
Seventh " "
Eighth " "
Ninth " "
Tenth " "

Philip Phelps
by [illegible]
fee 50¢ / card