Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1894, Jonathan Chatfield, Conn
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(S-1776)

Service                                         Number
Conn        Chatfield, Jonathan     R 1894.
                                    Dinah

Contents
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State of Connecticut,
County of Litchfield

Probate District of New Milford ss. 

On this 23 day of April 1840 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate for said District now sitting at New Milford in said District and County, Dinah Chatfield a resident of Roxbury in said County & State aged Seventy two years in May 1839 who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows."
That she is now the widow of Jonathan Chatfield and who was a private in the War of the Revolution, that her husband the Jonathan Chatfield enlisted in the month of May 1775 at Killingworth in this State into a company of Connecticut States Troops commanded by Capt. Samuel Gole and served a period of seven or eight months he left home in the month of May of that year & returned sometime in the month of December of the same year after his term of time for which he enlisted had expired. She is not able
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to state the name of the commander of the Regiment.
That in the summer of 1777 her said husband enlisted into a company of Connecticut State Troops for the period of nine months or a year.  She is not able to state the name of the Captain, (Edward Shipman inserted here) or other officers (Col. Aaron Cook inserted here) of the company except Nathaniel Crane who was a Sergeant & is now dead.  He marched to the northward & was in the battle at the capture of General Burgoyne & my said husband has told me that Eliaser Isabell was killed by his side in that battle.  He served out the full term of time for which he enlisted but whether it was nine months or one year she is not able to say.
 Her said husband also enlisted in the fall of the year 1779 into a company of Connecticut State Troops for the period of nine months and marched to Horseneck and continued in the service till the expiration of the term of time for which he enlisted.  She does not know the names of the officers under whom he served during this tour of service.  He returned home sometime in the summer of 1780.
In the fall of the year 1780 her said husband
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either volunteered or was drafted and served a period of between three & four months under Capt. Stephens.   July 10- to Oct. 31, 1780.

She believes that at the time her said husband went to the north & was in the Battle at the capture of Burgoyne that he served under Capt. Edward Shipman but she cannot speak with certainty upon that point. 
She further declares that her maiden name was Dinah Chittenden, that she was married to the said Jonathan Chatfield on the thirty first day of December in the year seventeen hundred & eighty nine that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Chatfield died on the 25th day of November in the year 1805; that she was not married to him prior to his having the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four. vis.  at the time above stated. 
She further states that her husband resided in Killingworth when he entered the service at the several times above stated.

Dinah Chatfield    X  her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before.
Nathaniel Perry  Judge of said Court
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7186
Dinah Chatfield
widow of Jonathan
Conn.
Act of July 1838

Hon. Truman Smith  (initials illegible)
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I Noble S. Bennitt clerk of the said Court of Probate do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Dinah Chatfield for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court his 23rd day of April A.D. 1840.
Noble S. Bennitt Clerk
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"Were married on the thirty first of December seventeen hundred eighty nine Jonathan Chatfield and Dinah Chittenden"

I Ephraim G. Swift pastor of the Congregational Church in the town of Killingworth in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows" 31st of Dec. 1789."  
Ephraim G. Swift  Pastor of Church

I Ephraim G. Swift above named, depose and say that I hold the Office of Pastor of the Congregational Church in the town, County & State aforesaid and that the above is a truce extract from the records of said church with the exception above named as certified by me.
Ephraim G. Swift Pastor of the Church aforesaid

State of Connecticut}
County of Middlesex}  ss.  Killingworth

Sworn to & subscribed by the said Ephraim G. Swift this 24th day of February 1840
Before me    Elisha Helsey  Justice of the Peace
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W. S. 

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

June 2, 1927

Mrs. Carolyn T. Brown
1225 S. 5th St.
Springfield, Ill.

Madam:

I have to advise you that in the papers of the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 1894, it was alleged that Jonathan Chatfield while a resident of Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut, enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows. 
From May, 1775, served seven or eight months in Captain Samuel Gale's Company.
From the summer of 1777 he served nine months to one year in Captain Edward Shipman's Company in Colonel Aaron Cook's Regiment; he was at the surrender of Burgoyne.
From the fall of 1779 he served nine months, officers no given.
In the fall of 1780 he served three or four months in Captain Stephens' Company.
He married December 31, 1789, at the Congregational Church in Killingworth, Connecticut, Dinah Chittenden, who was born in May, 1767.
He died November 25, 1805.
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His widow, Dinah, applied for pension April 23, 1840, while a resident of Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, but her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of at least six months of the alleged service, as required by pension law. 
In 1840 Daniel Blakeley, a resident of Roxbury, Connecticut, aged fifty-five years, stated that he had married the daughter of Jonathan and Dinah Chatfield but did not give her name.
The date of birth of Jonathan Chatfield is not given in the papers of said claim and there are no further data on file relative to his family.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Feb. 1, 1896
Mil. history of Soldier to First Deputy Commr. Murphy

1921 June 2 list to Mrs. Carolyn T. Brown
WCS


1894      (Stamped "REJECTED')
Dinah Chatfield

List of 1852 gives foll. reason for suspension.  "There is no satisfactory proof of service in this case for over 3 mos. & 2 days.
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When this letter was drawn from the pack an ans.  had already been mailed  June 2, 1927
 
 Springfield Ill
Aug 20 - 1927

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:

Please give me John of Jonathan Chatfield Revolutionary War record and tell me if he recieved (sic) a pension.  This John or Jonathan Chatfield was born at Killingworth Conn July 12-1757 son of Josiah and Rebina (Griswold) Chatfield of Killingworth Conn.
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Please tell me the name of his wife.  Give me the date of their marriage her birth and their death the list of their children.  To whom married. 

Yours Truly
Mrs. C. T. Brown
1225 South 5th Street
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., 

Supplement.
(Jonathan Chatfield)

In her application for pension the widow stated that her husband entered the service in May, 1775, as a private in Capt. Samuel Gale's company, and served therein for about seven or eight months; that in the summer of 1777 he enlisted in Capt. Edward Shipman's company, Col. Aaron Cook's regiment, and probably served at least nine months, during which time he participated in the battles which culminated in the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne; that he again entered the service in the fall  of 1779 and marched to Horseneck, where he continued in the service for a period of about nine months, but the officers under whom he served she  could not remember; that he served in Capt. Stevens' company of Conn. troops from July 10, to October 31, 1780.

Owing to her inability to furnish satisfactory proof of her husband's services the widow's claim for pension was not allowed.
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GA

Pension Office,
July 12, 1852

Sir:

I inclose (sic) you a copy of a letter from this office to Joseph Ellis dated Sept. 24, 1841 in the case of Dinah Chatfield, widow of Jonathan of Connt. (sic)  under Act of 7 July 1838, which will show you the condition of the case at that time.  It cannot now be re-opened without additional evidence. 

Geo. C. Ames, Esq.
Present,
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7186  - Dinah Chatfield
widow of Jonathan
Conn.
Act 1838 Let to Hon. Truman Smith 8 July '40
N. Perry 28 Aug. 1840
Joseph Ellis Sep. 24, 1841
C. Blakeley  Apr. 17 ' 52
G. C. Ames  July 12/52

1894
Act 7. July 1838
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Aug. 26. 40
Connt.
D. Chatfield

f

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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New Milford  Conn.  Aug. 22nd  1840

Sir-

I forwarded to Hon. Truman Smith while a Washington the pension declaration of Mrs. Dinah Chatfield.

He returned me your answer addressed to him dated about the first of July last which I have lost or mislaid so that I cannot find it.  The contents of the letter are no sufficiently in my recollection to enable me to take the benefit of it. Will you do me the favor to send me a copy of that letter?

Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Serv.
Nathaniel Perry
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Jon. a Chatfield d 1808
Dinah           M. 89  S.

John

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        3  22}  Conn. line

+  Miss Isabell   Nil.  10 yr or dc
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(This is the math but displayed differently)


442  x  20  = 8840
8840/6  =  1473
1473-266 = 1207

89 X 20 =  1780
1780/6= 260  remainder 40  (?) (error in computations)
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Ap 17/33
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C O

Pension Office,
April 17, 1832

Sir:
In reply to your letter to the Treasure Dept. of the 6th Jan. last, you are informed that we cannot whether there is a roll in this office or not containing the name of Jonathan Chatfield.  If we know the Regt. & Co. in which he served an examination would be made. 

C. Blakely Esq.
Roxbury.
Connt.
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Jas. Ellis
Sep. 24. 41
O. C.
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396

Pension Office
Sept. 24  1841.


Sir

I have recd. the amended declaration of Mrs. Dinah Chatfield, widow of Jonathan Chatfield decd. and have placed it on file with her original papers.

Her last statement respecting her late husbands (sic)  service shows conclusively that she has no knowledge whatever on the subject and unaccompanied by the most satisfactory proof no reliance can be placed upon it.  She now alleges that he served three years in the Continental line of Conn. in Capt. Steven's company, commencing in the year 1777; whereas, in her former declaration, she alleged a tour of 9 mos. in 1777, and one of the same length in 1779:  also one of 3 or 4 mos. in 1780 in Capt. Steven's company.
The rolls of that company show that he did serve 3 m. 22 days.  No satisfactory proof was offered in support of the claim when it was first presented; not at any time since.  The widow's last allegation is not sustained by the rolls in this Office.   Jan (?)

Mr. Joseph Ellis
Blommingburch                     July 7  1838
N. York                                            7186
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N. Perry
Aug 28 '40
OC
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330
Penn on Office
Aug  28  1840

Sir:

Apreably with your request,  I enclose a copy of my letter written W. Smith on the subject of the claim of Dinah Chatfield, dated July 8 1840. 
  
Jam  (?)

N. Perry Esq.                   OC
New Milford                    July 7 1838
Conn.                              7186
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Pension Office             92
July 8 1840

Sir:

I have examined the claims of Mrs. Dinah Chatfield widow of Jonathan Chatfield and have placed her paper open (?)on files

The widow alleges that her late husband performed the following services to with one ? of 8 mos. in 1775: one of 9 mos. in 1777 in the northern army: one of 9 mos. in 1779  and between 3 & 4 mos. in 1780, With the exception of the first and last tour she is unable to give the names of the officers under whose ? supposed the service was performed.  She thinks  ? that the service in 1777 was under Capt. E. Shipman.  The Pay Tables at Hartford show that John Chatfield served 7 mos. & 9 days in Capt. Gales Co in 1775, and that Jonathan Chatfield served 3 mos. and 22 days in Capt. Stephens Co. in 1780.  It also appears
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that Capt. Edward Shipman was paid for the service of the Co. on Feb. 1778, $353.03  (this was probably ? services of hi ? the fall lof 1777, and the amount paid him, about $1200, would come a service of little more than 2 mos.  The proof offered in support of the above mentioned service of said Jona. Chatfield is not satisfactory.  The witness who testified to the services in 1777 & 1779 was from 10 to 12 years of age at that time, and not is the service himself.  No proof is furnished ? there that the Jonathan Chatfield is the Co. of Capt. Stephen as claimant's husband nor is the proof sufficient to justify the allowance of the service in 1775, credilet to Jn. Chatfield to this widow of Jonathan Chatfield. 

Mr. Perry's letter is herewith returned

Hon. Truman Smith 
H  R 

Shaithliona ? 

O C 
July 7  1838 
7186

(Date of July  8 1849 written in right column vertically)
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(first fold)
Roxbury  Connt. (sic)
C. Blakely
Rec  Jany.(sic) 10  52
? January 10  52

Inquiry concerning the Revolutionary services of Jonathan Chatfield

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions. With writer BO. informed.
12 Jany (sic) 1852

J Thompson
for the auditor

A 323
J. Ellis paymaster, Col. Poors Regt. of Massachusetts militia paid the reg. $31993.82 his age closed - muster rolls in the officeof the 3rd Auditor (?)

Jen Thompson

(second fold)
Treasury Dept.
Jany. (sic) 9/52

Referred to the 3rd auditor 
By order
(illegible signature)

B33
Jan.9/52
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To Offices of Treasury Department.  U.S.

In behalf of an indigent widow woman Dinah Chatfield, I wish to procure information respecting the services of her Deceased Husband, Jonathan Chatfield, in the northern army of the Revolution.  During the administration of President Van Buren, a roll discovered at the Pension Office at Washington, as I am informed, which will show that he entered the service in 1777 & left in 1780, being discharged on account of sickness.  This roll was for a while in the hands of J. Ellis, Esq. J. M. at Bloomingburgh, N. York & and I suppose was by him returned to the Pension office again.  I know not what Comp. or Regt. this roll belonged to, nor can I give much information as to what officers Mr. Chatfield served under.  I understand he was at the battle of Saratoga & was by the side of  Arnold in a charge against the enemy.  I understand that he served for a considerable time in the Conn. militia.  The names of Capt. E. Shipman, Capt. Gales & Capt. Stephens are give me as those under whom he served more or less.  Will you have the goodness to ascertain whether such a roll is now at the Pension Office & give such information if in your power as
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may be needful in order to obtain a pension for the widow, who has been for several years supported entirely by the Congregational Ch. in this plan, of which she is a member.  

yours,
C. Blakely
Roxbury, Ct.  Jan. 6th  1852

Treasury Department U. S.
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Washington  April 11, 1852

James E. Heath Esq. 

Sir
I transmit herewith Power of Attorney of Mrs. Dinah Chatfield widow of Jonathan, an applicant for a Pension under the act of 7 July 1838 from Connecticut. 

Mrs. Chatfield requests that her claim may be re-examined and the objection to its allowance if any then be may be communicable to Mrs. 

Very Respectfully
Your Ob Sevt
Geo. C Ames
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford  June 20 1840

I Certify that on application for widow of the services of Jonathan Chatfield, in the Revolutionary War, under Captain Gale in 1775 under Captain Edward Shipman in 1777 went to the northward and in 1780 under Capt. Stevens short Luris (?) that I have examined the Books of ? remaining in this office and find on a Pay Roll of Capt. Samuel Gale 8th Comp. ? Regt. raised for order Genl. Humbly Connecticut 1775 the name of John Chatfield not Jonathan who entered service May 10. Time of discharge Dec. 19 having served seven months five days and on the Pay Roll of  Capt. Stephens Company 7th Connct. Regt.  1780 Short Luris - the name of Jonathan Chatfield appears as a private from July 10 to Oct. 31 having served 3 mos. 22 days that no Pay Roll of Capt. Edward Shipman can be found for the year 1777 that on Pay Table Book is the following account. 

United States   DC
1778 July 27/28
To order on ? Capt. Edward Shipman 
Pay Roll his Company books Regt. N. Army (British pound sign) L353.0.03
To order on ? Capt. Edward Shipman for sundry accts hundred (?) for his Co. books Regt. transporting baggage & N. Army    (British pound sign) L 88.19.3
441.19

Henry Hilbourn Comp.
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(There is a stamp which appears reversed showing a date of Mar 28 1927

Springfield Ill
March 26-1927


Mr. Winfield Scott
Bureau of Pension
Commissioner

Dear Sir:
Please give me information on John or Jonathan Chatfield of Killingworth Conn.  Please give me date of application for pension.  Please give me the name of his wife and children.  I am a desendant (sic)  on my mother's side.  This Jonathan or John was a private in the Revolutionary War.  He was called John most of the time. It has come down in the family history that he was a pensioner.  Please give me his birth, marriage and death.  He had a daughter, Hannah, married Solomon More.

Thanking you in advance
Yours Truly,
Mrs. Carolyn Taintor Brown
1225 South Fifth Street.
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O. W. & N. Division

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. , February 1, 1896.

F. S. 
M. E. C. 

Sir:  

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of  --- Jonathan Chatfield --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
                                     

DATE OF                   LENGTH              RANK.
ENLISTMENT OR       OF SERVICE.
APPOINTMENT.


OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDREED.
CAPTAIN.                      COLONEL.

STATE. 

      See Supplemental statement. 


Battles engaged in,             See Supplement.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Killingworth, Conn.
Date of application for pension,  by widow, April 23, 1840.
Residence of date of application,  of widow, Roxbury, Conn.
Age at date of application,  of widow, seventy-two years.
Remarks:  Soldier married Dinah Chittenden on Dec. 31, 1789, and died Nov. 25, 1805.
Very respectfully, 

870blm                               Commissioner.
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State of Connecticut}
Litchfield County }  SS

On this 9th date of September 1841 Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Dinah Chatfield a resident of said County aged 73 years in May last who being first duly sworn according to law and state on her oath that she is the widow of Jonathan Chatfield deceased and makes the following Supplamental (sic) Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 1838 she makes this declaration to explain more fully the services of her said husband in the war of the Revolution as she as heard it from her said husband and from other persons likewise and that she verily believes to be true that her said husband the aforesaid Jonathan Chatfield entered the service by enlisting in the year 1777 and served in Cpt. Aaron Stevens Company and must have served until some time in the year of 1780 and that her husband served at other times which she has stated in her former declaration.  And she says further that when her husband came home in 1780 he came sick.

Dinah  Chatfield    X  her mark

Herman B. Eastman  Just. of Peace
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,}
LITCHFIELD COUNTY, }   SS. Litchfield. 

I Geo. C. Woodruff, Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Herman B. Eastman, Esq. is a 
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 10th day of June A.D, 1841 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1842 and that the foregoing signature which purports to be his is genuine. 

Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 10th day of Sept. A. D. 1841

Geo. C. Woodruff
Asst. Clerk
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if there is records in the War Department at Washington to suport (sic) this Declaration I trust you will send a pay certificate for what ever services you may find her husband performed. The widow stated in her former declaration that Nathaniel Crane served in the same company if you find N. Crane's name in the same company as a sargent (sic) it will satisfy you that she is not mistaken as to her husband's services. 

Joseph Ellis agent
Bloomingburgh (sic) (Bloomingburg)
Sullivan County
NY
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CLAIM OF  Dinah Chatfield

ACT OF

STATE OF Connecticut}
COUNTY  Fairfield }  ss.

Be it known, That on this 24th day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Dinah Chatfield a resident of Redding (?) in said County and made oath according to law that she is the widow of Jonathan Chatfield who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of Eight Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be allowed that she is directly interest as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim. 

Sworn to and subscribed, the date and year} aforesaid, before me.}
Cortes Merchant J. Peace. }

Dinah Chatfield  +  her mark

I, Cortes Merchant Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Dinah Chatfield who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
Cortes Merchant  J. Peace. 

I,    Clerk of the      Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that     before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is   signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed by name and affixed by official Seal this     day of     A.D.  185  .

Clerk.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY  --  Revolutionary Pension Claim. 

Know all Men by these Presents, that I Dinah Chatfield of the town of Redding, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut hereby constitute and appoint Abijah Catlin of Harwinton in Litchfield County my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Jonathan Chatfield & myself for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments in Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to William Cothren of Woodbury in Litchfield County to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agency shall lawfully do in the premises. 

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 24 day March A.D. 1852

Signed and Sealed in the presence of }
Julia Meeker}
Cortes Merchant}  Dinah Chatfield  X  her mark

State of Connecticut,}
County of Fairfield,}   SS.
County Court Clerk's Office,}

I, Thomas Robinson CLERK of the County Court, within and for Fairfield County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commission of Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify - THAT
Cortes Merchant Esquire, was on the 24th day of March 1852, and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and other instruments, and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts, and attestations; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and believe that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature, and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State. 

In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Norwalk in said County and State, on this 24th day of March A.D. 1852
Thomas Robinson Clerk.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Dinah Chatfield of the town of Redding, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut hereby constitute and appoint Abijah Catlin of Harwinton in Litchfield County my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Jonathan Chatfield & myself for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due: and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to William Cothren of Woodbury in Litchfield County to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 24 day March A. D. 1852.

Signed and Sealed in the presence of }
Julia Meeker  Cortes Merchant}
Dinah  Chatfield  X  her mark

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield}  SS.

On this 24 day of March A.D. 1852 before me, the subscriber,  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Dinah Chatfield and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.}
Cortes Merchant Justice Peace.
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I John Bishop of Madison in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, depose and say that I am eighty three years of age; that I was from and have always lived in S. Madison, and that I have been well acquainted with Mr. Jonathan Chatfield of the Town of Killingworth in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, whose widow now resides in the town of Roxbury in Litchfield County in s. State, and who is now making application for a pension, and that I served with the said Jonathan Chatfield in the Company commanded by Capt. Edward Shipman in Col. Aaron Cook's Regiment, ten months in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, and that I was with the said Chatfield, at the taking of Burgoyne's army. And further this deponent saith (sic) not. 

John Bishop

State of Connecticut}
Middlesex County}   SS. 
Killingworth   February 26th A. D. 1840

Personally appeared John Bishop and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.  And I certify that the said John Bishop is well known to me and that he is a credible witness.

Elisha Kelsey Justice of the Peace  

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN,  Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, 
THAT, Elisha Kelsey is and for more than ten months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex -  in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Kelsey
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in Court and Country.

In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said Sate, the 27th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty - 
And I certify that the signature of Kelsey hereunto annexed is genuine. 

Royal R. Hinman Secretary.
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield  ss.

I Timothy Isabell of the town of Roxbury in the County & State aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that I was seventy three years old last August.  That in the summer of 1777 I resided in the town of Killingworth in this State, that during that summer and I believe in the month of July several men I should think as many as 8 or 10 marched from that town to the northward to join the Army of the United States among the number that marched at that time was Jonathan Chatfield whose widow Dinah Chatfield is now living in this town.  My uncle Eleaser Isabell marched at the same time and was killed at the capture of Burgoine (sic) in Oct. of that year.
The said Chatfield returned in the spring or early in the summer or 1778 and when he returned I recollect his relating to my father the manner in which his brother, my uncle abovementioned was killed.  I will recollect his stating to my father that my uncle was loading his musket at the time he was shot.  I do not know what officers he was under except a man by the name of Hull was sergeant in the company.  The said Jonathan Chatfield was absent certainly as long as nine months and perhaps longer
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I am not able to state with certainty whether the said Chatfield was an enlisted soldier or whether he was a volunteer or drafted but believe that he was an enlisted soldier in the Connecticut State Troops.  I continued to reside in Killingworth till the close of the war.
That in the fall of the year 1779. the fall preceding the hard winter, the Jonathan Chatfield and my brother Eliah Isabell and several others went from Killingworth on a nine months tour to Hornnick (sp ?)where they remained & in that vicinity the full period of nine months and at the expiration of said time they all returned home in the latter part of the summer of 1780.  I am not able to state under what officers they served at this time.
Timothy Isabell

Sworn and subscribed this 31st day of February 1840 before me & I certify that the said Timothy Isabell is a credible witness

Nathaniel Perry  Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield  SS.

I Daniel Blakely of Roxbury in said county and state aged fifty five years being first duly sworn according to law depose & say that I married the daughter of Jonathan & Dinah Chatfield, that the said Jonathan Chatfield lived a neighbor to my father at the time of his death.  That the said Jonathan Chatfield died on the twenty fifth day of November Eighteen hundred & five.  I attended his funeral on Thanksgiving day. Dinah Chatfield whom he left his widow at that time him surviving has remained a widow & unmarried was since that person & is now his widow.
Daniel Blakeley

Sworn to & subscribed this 21st day of February 1840 before me & I certify that the said Daniel Blakeley is a credible witness. 

Nathaniel Perry   Justice of Peace
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 I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Nathaniel Perry Esq. is and for more than ten months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Perry in Court and Country.

In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 27th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty.  
And I certify that the signature of said Perry hereunto annexed is genuine.

Royal R. Hinman  Secretary.