Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5562, for Isaiah Plank, Rhode Island
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Isaiah Plank
application
No 3,884
13 Apl 1818
Sept. 1818
Continuing
Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of June A.D. 1820, before the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham, in the district of Connecticut.
Attest, David C Bolles Clerk.
I, David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is three Dollars, and 58 Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 24th day of June A.D. 1820. 
David C Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County.
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State of Connecticut ss. 
Windham County
February the 11th A.D. 1854
I, Joseph Adams of the town of Killingly
in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut of the age of Fifty seven years, on oath depose & say that I was born & have always resided in in said Killingly; that I was well acquainted with Isaiah Plank late of said Killingly, deceased; that I was present at the marriage of the said Isaiah Plank and Experience Cutler; that they were joined in the month of October A.D. Eighteen Hundred & fourteen in marriage by the Rev. Elisha Atkins
late of said Killingly deceased, who was a Minister of the Gospel and at that time engaged in the work of the Ministry in
said town of Killingly, that said Marriage was celebrated & said marriage ceremony performed in said town of Killingly; that said Isaiah Plank & said Experience lived together from the time of said Marriage to the time of the decease of said Isaiah as husband & wife: that the said Isaiah Plank was during his life a pensioner and that the said Experience Plank is now the widow of the said Isaiah Plank and living in said town of Killingly-
Joseph Adams
State of Connecticut
Windham County Ss
On this eleventh day of February A.D. 1854 personally appeared before me Earl Martin a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Windham Joseph Adams of said Killingly who hath subscribed the foregoing Deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath that the same deposition and the facts therein stated & contained are true. And I hereby certify that the said Joseph Adams is a credible witness
Earl Martin Justice of the Peace
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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W.5562, it appears that Isaiah Plank enlisted May 12, 1781 and was a private in Captain Thomas Hughes' Company, Colonel Jeremiah Olney's Rhode Island Regiment,
he was at the taking of Cornwallis, and served until December 25, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while a resident of Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut.
In 1820, soldier was living in Killingly, Connecticut and stated that he was sixty-three years old.
He died November 23, 1838. He married October 30, 1814 at Killingly, Connecticut, Experience Cutler. She was allowed pension on her application executed January 19, 1854, while
living at said Killingly, aged eighty-four years.
In 1820 soldier referred to his sons Asa and
George, aged respectively, nine years and six years. It is not stated that there were other children.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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I John Lawrence of Killingly in Windham County State of Connecticut do hereby certify that I was knowing Isaiah Plank of the same of Thompson County and State aforesaid & he belong to the Rhode Island Regiment Commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney and in Capt. Thomas Hews
Comp. as for the term of time I cannot exactly tell but I am certain more than one year, he was with the Regiment at York Town taking Cornwallis in 1781 and was in said Regiment when I was discharged the 15th June 1783 and further saith not
Killingly 14 April 1818
John Lawrence
Windham County ss. Killingly April 14th AD 1818
then Personally appeared Capt John Lawrence Subscriber to the above affidavit and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me the Subscribing Authority
Joseph Adams Justice of Peace