Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,204, for Daniel Stoddard, Connecticut
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(S-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Stoddard, Daniel
or
Stoddart, Lucretia
Number
R.10.204
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Connecticut 1960
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Daniel Stoddart
musician & Private in Col Webb regt. in the revolution Conn Regt
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Ratio of disability, Total
Date of discharge, (blank)
Time of doing the testimony, (blank)
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th Sept. 1834
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of July 
1836 and sent to Hon. N. Barber, Groton Ct.
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Arrears to 4th March '36  142.14
Semi=ann. all' ending 4 Sep. " 48.00
$190.14
Act of the 15th June 1836
Record Book F Vol: 3 p. 29

2nd column
set S Penajt July 27. 1836
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Statement of Application
Daniel Stoddard
for pension
1832
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State of Connecticut
New London County
I Daniel Stoddard of Groton in the County of New London & State of Connecticut, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 being first duly sworn, according to law, do make the following statement viz.
That I was born in the town of Groton, in the County of New London & State of Connecticut: that I am seventy years of age: that I resided in said Groton when I entered into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War: that I applied for a pension under the laws of March 18, 1818: that a pension was granted to me: that I was dropped from the pension roll on account of property: that the evidence of my services is in the War department: That I served in two companies in Col. Samuel B Webb's Regiment as a fifer or musician during the whole service. That I now reside in said Groton where I resided at the time of my first application dated on [illegible] August 4, 1832
Daniel Stoddard [signature]
Subscribed & sworn to before
Joseph Williams Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut New London county ss-

Be it known that on the fourth day of August 1832 before me Joseph Williams Justice of the Peace in & for New London County & state of Connecticut personally came  & appeared Daniel Stoddard of Groton in New London County aforesaid to me well known to be that same person who obtained a pension under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818 & who was dropped therefrom on account of property & having signed the written statement made solemn oath to the truth of the same before.
Joseph Williams, Justice of Peace [signature]

State of Connecticut, New London County ss
I John DeWitt Clerk of the County Court for said New London County do hereby
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certify that Joseph Williams esq. before whom the preceding deposition and certificate were acknowledged is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County and that his signatures thereto annexed are in his own proper hand writing.  In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & 
affixed the Seal of said County this seventh day of August AD 1832

John DeWitt [signature] Clerk
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10421
Lucretia Stoddard decd
Daniel
Con:
Act 7. July '38
m 84--
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"

State of Connecticut}
New London County} ss. Probate Court, District of Ledyard
On this 14th day of March A.D. 1844 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid, Capt. Daniel Stoddard of Ledyard in the County aforesaid aged fifty six 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 July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That his mother (Lucretia Stoddard) late of said Ledyard, deceased) was the widow of Daniel Stoddard (his father) also late of said Ledyard, deceased; who was, as declarant verily believes, a Musician in the army of the Revolution, and was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Eight Dollars per annum, under the act of June 7. 1832.
he further declares that his mother (the said Lucretia) was as he verily believes, married to his father (the said deceased Daniel Stoddard,) on the first day of January seventeen hundred and eighty four. That his mother's husband, (the aforesaid deceased Daniel Stoddard,) died on the 14th day of December eighteen hundred and forty; and that his said mother (the said Lucretia) remained a widow after her said husband's death until the time of her death and that she died on the thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred and forty-one. That his said mother was not, as he verily believes, married to his said father prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place, as declarant verily believes previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Daniel Stoddard
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The foregoing declaration was sworn to and susbscribed on this 14th day of March A.D. 1844;
In presence of} 
Danl. (illegible)}
Before the aforesaid Court
Attest
Christopher Newton Judge

And the said Court do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Lucretia Stoddard named in the foregoing declaration died on the thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred forty one; and that she left but six children, viz, Daniel Stoddard, Phebe Palmer, Maria Allyn, and Edmund Stoddard of Ledyard in the County of New London aforesaid, Lucretia Sanderson of Preston in said County, and Lucy Morgan of the County of Oneida in the State of New York, and the said Court do further certify that Daniel Stoddard, the aforesaid declarant, is a credible person, "died" (illegible) written on an erasure in the above certificate Attest
Christopher Newton

State of Connecticut}
New London County{ ss. Probate Office District of Ledyard
March 14th A.D. 1844.
Edmund Spicer Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing and annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Stoddard for the vested and unsatisfied claim of his mother (Lucretia Stoddard, deceased.)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, "and annexed" interlines in the next above certificate
Attest Edmund Spicer Clerk
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I Theophilus Avery of Ledyard in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged sixty nine years do depose and say that I was acquainted with Daniel Stoddard late of said Ledyard, deceased that said Stoddard was a pensioner of the United States. That he died at said Ledyard in the month of December eighteen hundred and forty one as appears by the inscription on his gravestone on the fourteenth day of said December (1841) and that I attended his funeral. That the said Daniel left a widow, whose name was Lucretia Stoddard and that she remained his (the said Daniel's) widow during her lifetime after his death. The she died in the summer of eighteen hundred and forty one, at Ledyard aforesaid, and appears by the inscription on her gravestone on the thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred and forty one, and that I attended her funeral. 
That the said Daniel and Lucretia lived together as husband and wife more than fifty years before his death, and resided in the same town (and neighborhood) in which I resided during said time. 
That the said Lucretia left but six children viz, Lucretia Sanderson of Preston in the County of New London aforesaid, Daniel Stoddard, Phebe Palmer, Maria Allyn and Edmund Stoddard of Ledyard aforesaid, and Lucy Morgan who is now reported to reside in the County of Oneida and State of New York, and that the said six children are also children of the said deceased Daniel Stoddard (husband of the said deceased Lucretia Stoddard.) and further I depose and say not.
Theophilus Avery

State of Connecticut}
New London} ss Probate Court District of Ledyard

On this 14th day of March 1844 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid Mr. Theophilus Avery named in the above deposition made oath that said deposition by him inscribed is true and the said
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Court do hereby certify that said Avery is a credible person and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Attest Christopher Newton Judge
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I Thomas Allyn of Ledyard in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged eighty years do depose and say that I was acquainted with Capt. Daniel Stoddard (illegible) late of said Ledyard, deceased. That said Stoddard was reputed to have been a pensioner of the United States. That he died at said Ledyard three years ago the past winter and that I attended his funeral.
I further depose and say that I was acquainted with Lucretia Stoddard, the widow of said Daniel, late of said Ledyard, that the said Daniel and Lucretia were reputed to have been married and according to the best of my recollection they were reputed to have been married some time in the winter before I was married, (and I was married on  the 10th day of June seventeen hundred and eighty four. That the said Lucretia Stoddard died (two?) years ago last summer, (viz in the summer of 1844). and that I attended her funeral, that she left but six children, viz, Lucretia Sanderson of Preston in the County of New London aforesaid; Daniel Stoddard, Phebe Palmer, Maria Allyn and Edmund Stoddard of Ledyard aforesaid and Lucy Morgan who is reputed to resided in the State of New York at this time. That the said Lucretia Stoddard remained a widow after her aforesaid husband's death during her lifetime, and that the aforesaid six children of the said Lucretia Stoddard deceased, were also children of her husband (the aforesaid deceased Daniel Stoddard) and further I depose and say not. 
Thomas Allyn
In presence of Saml. W. Wood

State of Connecticut}
New London County} ss Probate Court District of Ledyard March 14th 1844
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Ledyard aforesaid, Mr. Thomas Allyn named in the above deposition and made oath that said deposition by him subscribed is true and the said 

(*over)
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Court do hereby certify that said Allyn is a credible person and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
attest 
Christopher Newton, Judge

*The word "three" was written on an erasure in the foregoing deposition in sixth line thereof before signing.
Attest Christopher Newton, Judge
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"New London County ss. Groton January first seventeen hundred eighty four Mr Daniel Stoddard & Mrs Lucretia Bellows both of said Groton were united together in the Marriage Covenent.
Administered by Amos Gere Justice of peace"

I Amos Gere of Ledyard in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged seventy one years do hereby certify that the above 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, viz., "January 1st 1781."

I Amos Gere above named, do depose and say that I have in my possession the justices records kept by my father Amos Gere Esq late of that part of the late town of Groton, that is now the town of Ledyard aforesaid, deceased, and that the above is a true extract from the said records, with the exception above names as certified by me.
Amos Gere

State of Connecticut
New London County} ss. Probate Courts, District of Ledyard
on this 14th day of March 1844 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Ledyard aforesaid, Amos Gere Esq names in the above certificate and deposition, and made oath that said certificate and deposition by him subscribed are true, and the said Court do hereby certify that said Gere is a credible person and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
And the said Court do further certify that the above mentioned Justices Records have, this 14th day of March 1844, been exhibited to the said Court, and the said Court having been well acquainted with the handwriting of the above mentioned deceased Amos Gere Esq. do verily believe that the said Justices Records are the genuine Justices
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Records, kept by the said deceased Amos Gere Esq.
Attest
Christopher Newton, Judge
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Connecticut.
Daniel Stoddart
of Groton in the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain [illegible] of the regiment commanded
by Colonel [illegible] in the Connecticut
line, for the term of 3 years
from [illegible] 1777 to[blank] 17[illegible]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of Eighty eight Dollars per annum, to
commence on the [illegible] day of March 1831
and
=
Certificate of Pension issued the [illegible] of August
1832 and [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] Connecticut
Duplicate certificate issued
at the rate of $88 per annum
instead of former at Eighty
Amount due on 4th of March 1832             $80
Semi annual  [illegible]                               40
                                                                  ________
                                                                 $120
Revolutionary Claim,
Act 
of June [illegible] 1832
Recorded [illegible] Volume [illegible] page 6
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see letter to J Williams Oct 2 1832= Stoddard os entitled to $88 per ann.
=Duplicate certificate issued at the rate of 88 on 15 Oct and agent notified
let H Barber 27 Dec 1834
date Hon. G. Tomlinson, Feb 4 
1836=[on Invd roll by a special act]
Let to S W Ward Oct 18, 1843
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2630
Connecticut Roll
Daniel Stoddard
private
S H Webb Regt
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of Sept 1818
and forwarded to Jeremiah
G. Brainard Esq New London
Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Seot 1818   $42.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819  48.00
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arrs 5 mos 9 ds                      $90.35
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818}
17 one year
Gorton, New London County
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Lucretia Stoddard
Connt
Ref act 7 July '38

Edward pamer
Pres law
Conn

Evares F Fant
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[illegible] January 22nd 1853
The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir
I shall allow Messr's Evans and Land to examine the claim of Lucretia Stoddard deceased late widow of Daniel Stoddard of this town for a pension.
Very Respectfully yours

Daniel Stoddard son and heir of Law of the Lucretia Stoddard
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Revolution
20976
INVALID.
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File No. [illlegible]
Daniel Stoddard
[illegible]
=
Cont Regt
Act: [illegible] Invalid
Index: -- Vol._______ Page  11
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{Arrangement of 1870.}
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REJECTED
10204
P. O.
Lucretia Stoddard
Service:

Enlisted:                                  , 18
Discharged:                            , 18

Application filed:                    , 18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

------- Recognized  ------------- Contract
-----Cert. of Dis.  Searched for              , 18
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5 important
little pieces
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Copy D Stoddard
Papers
for Hon. N.
Barber HR
Dec 21, 1836
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see letter to Hon. G. Tomlinson, June 21, 1836
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tion to the establishment of
Bowling Green, Kentucky,
make the following report:
of more than one Agency in
many disadvantages. Since
prohibiting any allowance
it is difficult
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Rejected 10621
Let to J W Huntinton aff [unk]
1844 Conn
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Danl. Stoddard
Connt. Invalid
Rejected See letter to
Hon. N. Barber HR
Dec. 27, 1834
Tomlinson
Wondwell b. dis &
to Inv. Revy
Rev. Pen.
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Daniel Stoddard
Con. Revo.
copy paper for
Hon N. Barber
HR
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Danl Stoddard
Bill 288
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22d Congress, [Rep. No, 209]  Ho. of Reps.
1st Session

DANIEL STODDARD
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 288]

January 19, 1832

Mr. BURGES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Daniel Stoddard of Connecticut, praying for a pension, report:
That the petitioner made an application in February, A. D. 1821, to be placed on the pension roll, and furnished satisfactory evidence from Colonel Huntingdon and Colonel S. B. Webbs, of faithful service of said Stoddard for the term of three years, and of his having been honorably discharged. There is also satisfactory evidence that while in service, during the winter of 1779-80, he was seriously injured in the right foot and ancle while in the performance of duty. Two respectable surgeons also certify, that the fracture and dislocation received at that time produced an incurable and increasing lameness, which disables said Stoddard, in a great degree, from obtaining a subsistence. The surgeons estimate the disability at three-fourths. The committee thinks a pension ought to be granted, and bring in a bill for that purpose.
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23d Congress, [Rep. No. 126]  Ho. of Reps.
2d Session

DANIEL STODDARD
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 767]

February 25, 1835

Mr. JANES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following 
REPORT:
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Daniel Stoddard, report:
That the petitioner, on the 7th day of July, 1777, enlisted into the army of the United States, in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years, as a soldier and musician, which term of enlistment he faithfully served out, and was honorable discharged at the expiration thereof. In the winter of 1780, while the regiment to which he belonged was in winter quarters at Morristown, in the State of New Jersey, he, the petitioner, with other soldiers, was ordered to draw firewood from and adjacent forest for the use of the army; that, while in the act of assisting in getting a load out of the woods, he received a severe wound in his right ankle by the sled accidentally passing over the same, causing a fracture and dislocation of the bones, and incurable lameness.
It appears that the petitioner made application to the War Department for a pension, in February, 1821, and furnished satisfactory evidence of service, and of the receiving of the wound, but that his application was rejected on account of his case not coming within the purview of the act of the 10th April, 1806, and the acts supplementary to, and continuing in force, the same; the wound being accidental, and not received while actually engaged in combat with an enemy. The said Stoddard again applied, under the act of June 7, 1832, and obtained a pension for services under said act. He now petitions Congress for an additional pension as an invalid, caused by the wound as before described. 
That the petitioner was wounded, as set forth in his petition, is fully proved by two credible witnesses, fellow-soldiers, and with him at the time of receiving the same; and who testify that they have resided in the same town with the said Stoddard most of the time since his discharge, and know that he has been constantly lame in consequence of said wound. Two respectable surgeons certify, under oath, on the 11th day of September, 1834, that they have examined the wound of the said Stoddard, and that in their opinion it is incurable, and that it amounts to a total disability. By the law of February 19, 1833, it is enacted that the second section of the law of the 7th June, 1832, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners.
The committee, upon a full view of the case, are of opinion that the petitioner, as an invalid soldier, is justly entitled to a pension of eight dollars the month, and accordingly report a bill.
[Gales & Seaton, print]
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24th Congress         S. 149       [ 192 ]
1st Session

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 23, 1836
Read, and ordered to be printed.

MR. TOMLINSON made the following 
REPORT,
With Senate Bill No. 149
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Stoddard, report:
That the petitioner enlisted into the continental army of the 7th day of July, 1777, and served faithfully for the term of three years, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb, and received an honorable discharge at the expiration of the term of his enlistment. The regiment to which he belonged, in the year 1780, was in winter quarters at Morristown, in the State of New Jersey. While the petitioner was employed, with other soldiers, pursuant to the order of his commanding officer, in drawing wood for the use of the army, during that very inclement winter, a sled, loaded with wood, accidentally passed over his right foot and against his ankle, and caused a severe injury to the flesh and bone, by which he was confined to his quarters for a considerable time, and subjected to incurable lameness.
In the year 1821, the petitioner made an application to the War Department for a pension, accompanied by documents and certificates proving the facts above stated, as well as the continuance and degree of his disability. The application, however, was rejected, on the ground that his disability was not occasioned by "a known wound or wounds, received while in the actual service of the United States and line of duty against the common enemy," but resulted from "an accidental injury by a sled."
Notwithstanding the rejection of the petitioner's application in 1821, he did not abandon his claim. Among the documents is the affidavit of two respectable surgeons, dated the 11th day of September, 1831, stating that they had examined the case of Daniel Stoddard, who said he was wounded in the service of the United States by a sled passing over the right ankle just above the joint; that the outer bone of the ankle appeared to have been fractured and the other bone dislocated, causing serious inconvenience and deformity, and that, in their opinion, he was disabled, in consequence of the injury this received, to a degree amounting to total disability. This affidavit appears to have been transmitted to the War Department, but the Department still refused to place his
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[192]        2
name in the invalid pension list, adhering to the opinion that, to entitle an applicant to the benefit of the act of April 10, 1806, and the several acts continuing the same, he mist have been disabled by a wound or wounds received in the face of the enemy.
Under these circumstances, the petitioner has renewed an appeal, which has been repeatedly presented to Congress and reported upon favorably by different committees are well satisfied that the petitioner received an injury, while performing an important public service in the line of his duty, by which he was partially disabled in early life, and has finally been rendered unable to procure a subsistence by manual labor. For this disability he has received no compensation. The committee are of opinion that, in accordance with the principles of the act of April 10, 1806, which has expired, the petitioner is justly entitled to be placed on the invalid pension list, as disabled soldier of the revolution.
The committee deem it proper further to state that, under the act of June 7, 1832, the petitioner has been allowed a pension for his revolutionary services. If the second section of that act, requiring every person applying for its benefits first to relinquish his claim to any other pension were still in force, the expediency of granting an invalid pension to a soldier already on the pension roll might be doubted, as involving an extension of the pension system. But, by the act of February 19, 1833, it is provided that the aforementioned section shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners. Persons who have been placed on the invalid pension list as disabled soldier of the revolution, are consequently paid their invalid pensions, in addition to the annuities which, under the act of June 7, 1832, they may respectively be entitled to receive. In accordance with the principle, sanctioned, not only by the act of Congress, to amend the act of May 15, 1828, the committee deem it right and proper to allow the petitioner an invalid pension, commencing when his evidence was closed, and thereby to place him on an equal footing with his associates in arms and sufferings, whose invalid pensions have been continued to them by law, notwithstanding their names may have been placed on the roll of revolutionary pensioners. The committee therefore report a bill.
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24th Congress             S. 149
1st Session

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 23, 1836
Mr. TOMLINSON, from the Committee on Pensions, reported the following bill; which was read, and passed to a second reading.

A BILL
Granting an invalid pension to Daniel Stoddart.
Be it by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Daniel Stoddard upon the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month from the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in addition to the pension he now received under the act of the seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution."
Approved 13th of June 1836
a true copy compared with it
Roll in the Office
Dept of War
June 23st 1836
Ashley Dickens
Chief Clerk
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I Ebenezer Huntington, a Lieut Colonel in a regiment raised by Colo Samuel B. Webb, during the revolutionary war, do hereby certify that Daniel Stoddard inlisted into said regiment on the 7th of July 1777, for & during the term of three years and faithfully served the same; and at the expiration of said term, I being then the Commanding Officer of said regiment did discharge said Stoddard as appears by a record book in my possession.
Dated at Norwich in Connecticut May 15th 1818
Eben: Huntington Leiut Colo of Webbs
afterwards called 9th Connecticut Regiment
in the Revolutionary army.
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Washington January 20, 1836
Sir
I herewith send you the application and documents of Daniel Stoddard and I request you to write me
as soon as may be practicable
The amount of his pension, under the act of 
June 7 1822 and your reasons for refusing in 1821and [illegible] in 1834 to place his name the list of invalid pensioners.
I am your obedient servant
[illegible] [illegible]

JL Edwards Esquire
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James L Edwards Esq
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose the application of Daniel Stoddard of Groton for an renewal of pension, I knew all the circumstances relating to his former pension & he was dropped as being possessed of some estates. I have made the statement I suppose agreeable to the instructions. He wishes his certificate forwarded to me, if allowed.
With great respect yours &c.
Joseph Williams
Norwich 
Connecticut
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War Department 
Pension Office
Feb. 4. 1835


Sir,
In reply to your ongoing inquiry reporting the case of Daniel Stoddard of Connecticut, I have to inform you that his pension under the act of June 7 1832, commenced on the 4th March 1831 at eighty eight dollars per annum. 
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The reason for refusing to place his home in the Invalid Pension List in 1821 and
1834 was that his case was not provided for by the Revolutionary order of April 10. 1806. According to the instruction given to that laws by this Department, a man to receive its benefits must have been disabled
by a wound or wounds received in the fire of the enemy. Mr Stoddard became injured not while in battle, but by sled while he was engaged in procuring wood
The papers are herewith attached

I have the honor to be
very respectfully 
Your Obt Servt
J. L. Edwards

Hon. Gideon Tomlinson
Senate U. States
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of
Washa


Dec 15
addl proof
D Stoddard
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H of R
Washington
13 Dec [unk]
Sir
I have inclosed to your the surgeons certificate to e placed with Daniel Stoddards other papers now in your office please examine then & furnish me with an answer.
I am with respect yours
Noyes Barber

J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr of Pensions
Washington DC
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War Department 
Pension Office,
April 16th 1831

Sir,
The papers forwarded by you to this office to the application of Daniel Stoddard have been examined. Under the Congress act 10th of April 1806 &c and the act supplementary to and continuing in force the same, as pension can be allowed to any person who has not been disabled by a known wound, or wounds, received while in the actual service of the United States, and line of duty against the common enemy during the Revolutionary War and W. Stoddard having received an accidental
injury by a sled etc his case cannot be considered according under the provisions of that act, and is inadmissable. The papers have, agreeably to the regulations of this
Department been filed in this office
I am, respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
J. L. Edwards
Ebenezer Learned Esquire
Commissioner Etc
New London
Connecticut
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Daniel Stoddard
of the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the War of the Revolution

is entitled to receive thirty dollars, per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this  ______________ day of August
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

John Robb
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned.}
J. L. Edwards
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Washington, Jany 29th 1853
Sir,
We herewith enclose, authority to aquire the papers, in the case of Lucretia Stoddard, referring Act 7th July 1838 Connecticut.
Very respectfully 
Everus Fant

James E. Heath, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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Norwich City. (Court, October 8. 1832
Honorable Secretary of War
I received a letter from this war
Department Signed by Mr Edwards
dated October 2nd 1832. Saying if I would return
Daniel Stoddard's certificate that it
would be corrected so as to draw $88.
I now have the honor to enclose
the Certificate and with it enclosed to
me as he does not live in that
town
Respectfully yours
Joseph Williams Esquire
N.B.
He has  received his pay for 18 months
at $80 Per annum
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Ledyard March 13th 1844
Hon Sir,
Yours of the 27th Ultimo addressed to the Honorable J W Huntington in the case of Lucretia Stoddard, deceased, has been received, and herewith enclosed you have the application of Captain Daniel Stoddard asserting the vested and unsatisfied claim of his mother (the said deceased Lucretia Stoddard.)
Be pleased to address returns to Honorable J. W. Huntington U S Senate.
I am Sir, very respectfully your obedient servant
Samuel W Wood

Honorable J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
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A Bill for the Relief
of
Daniel Stoddard
Transferred to General
Bill
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A Bill
Granting a pension to Daniel Stoddard
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the Secretary of War be and is hereby authorized and required to place the name of Daniel Stoddard of Connecticut upon the list of Invalid Pensioners and to pay to him at the rate of six dollars per month from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 1830
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[1st 2 1/2 lines are illegible]
After having duly examined the case of Daniel Stoddard of said
Groton who says he was wounded in the service of the
United States during the Revolutionary War by a sled
loaded with wood passing over the right angle [sic] just
above the point which appears to us to have fractured 
or broken the outer bone of his said ancle and removed
or dislocated the other or inner bone which now
causes a serious inconvenience and deformity
by which the said Stoddard is still disabled in
consequence of said injury and in our opinion
Is disabled to a degree amounting to a total disability.
Dated at Groton September 11th 1834
John O. Miner 
Joseph Durfey
Surgeons
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this 11th day of September 1832
Nathaniel Daboll
I certify that the deponents are credible
persons and that they are respectable in their
Nathaniel Daboll Justice of the peace
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State of Connecticut
ss New London
Be it Known that at said New London on
this 27th of March AD 1818 before me a Judge of the Superior
Court of the State of Connecticut. Personally
came and appeared Daniel Stoddard of Groton
in said state- and being duly and solemnly
sworn declared and said-
That he served as a musician Fifer in
the revolutionary war on the continental
establishment for a Period of nine months or 
longer, that is to say that in the month
of July in the year 1777, he enlisted as
a fifer in a company commanded by a
Captain Alden or Bull, but which commander
he is not [illegible] certain- but it was
Samuel B. Webbs Regiment. That he continued in
serving in said capacity in said Regiment
under Captain Whiting and Wyllis- that
he continued in said Regiment from the
time of his enlistment in 1777 until the
month of July in the year 1780 when in
the State of New Jersey
he was honorably discharged and left the Army. That he
lodged his Discharge in the Pay Roll Office in Hartford Connecticut
That he is a resident Citizen of the United
States-and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the
assistance of his Country for support.   
Daniel Stoddard
Sworn Before me the Day and Date aforesaid
Jeremiah Brainard Judge of the Superior Court
of the State of Connecticut-
Witness the Seal of the Superior Court
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Court of the State of Connecticut
hereunto affixed the Day and
year aforesaid.
Jeremiah G. Brainard Judge of said Court 
I Jeremiah Brainard Judge and as aforesaid do certify
That it appears to my satisfaction that the said Daniel
Stoddard did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated
in the preceding declaration- against the common enemy
and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony Taken and
had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War
pursuant to the directions of the aftermentioned act of
congress-- The foregoing declaration was made to me as
the applicant declared in order to obtain the provision
made by the late act of congress entitled "An Act
to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
David Stoddard
New London
March 27th 1818
Witness the seal aforesaid
Jeremiah Brainard Judge
of Superior Court
State of Connecticut
State of Connecticut
July 8th 1818
I certify that from due [illegible]
and examination into the pension claim of Daniel Stoddard
the Claimant in this case I am satisfied 
That he is poor and indigent and needs
assistance from his Country for Support
He is also very lame and infirm
Jeremiah Brainard Judge
[line illegible]
[illegible] Stoddard
[illegible] Jeremiah G.
[illegible] [illegible] 
[illegible]
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189[illegible]
17 [illegible]
1 September
Petition of
Daniel Stoddard
of Groton Connecticut. praying
a pension.
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1822 January 10 read and
referred to commissioner on
Pensions.
============
February 18. Motion to discharge
Commissioner ordered to [illegible]
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January. 19th 1832
Bill reported Number 288
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January 7. 1835
Referred to Commissioner on Invalid
Pensions
February 25. 1835- Bill Number 767
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24 Cong
1 Sep} S. 149
Petition
of Daniel Stoddard
for pension on account
of Revolutionary services.
1836 January 4th
referred to committee on
Pensions
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To the Senate & House of Representatives
of the Congress of the United States now in
session at Washington- The petition of Daniel
Stoddard of Groton in the State of Connecticut
respectfully showeth
That your petitioner was a soldier and
musician in the revolutionary war and
as such did his duty in Colonel Samuel
B. Webbs regiment. That while serving
in said army and while stationed at
Morristown in New Jersey in the year 1780
said army was at winter quarters and at
the place and time aforesaid it was made
the duty of the soldiers to bring wood from
a neighbouring grove for fuel for the 
army and for which purpose they made use
of large sleds to convey the wood to the
Camp.  That while on this service by one 
of his superiors and in the regular line
of his duty in the month of January 1780
he was posted at the down hill side of the loaded sled 
and tried to prevent its upsetting but
not withstanding his utmost efforts the
sled did press down hill and came on
the ankle of his right foot and he [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] him as to render him 
unfit for duty for a considerable time. which
wound thus received never got well but
has remained in him over time. And
as he has advanced in years has greatly
increased and has for many years
and now does render him unfit 
for bodily labor and exercise and will
probably increase with his advanced years.
He has further to state that he has for many years
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Daniel Stoddard
Petition
January 18. 1831-

Refer to Commissioner Military Pensions
December 14th 1831
Referred to Commissioner on Revolutionary Pensions
December 29th 1831
Revolutionary Pensions
discharged and referred to the
Committee on Invalid Pensions
Refer to Commissioner
Denny
[illegible]  to Invalid Pension
Revolutionary Pensions

Daniel Stoddard
Petition for Pension
to Congress
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permitted to ask 
for aid choosing rather to bear his misfortunes than ask relief form the publick. But now finding his misfortune increasing, and daily labouring under his infirmity, he is induced to
apply to the justice and liberality of his
government in whose service he incurred 
his disability. He therefore prays your
Honours to examine his case and allow
him to be placed on the Pension List
the small remnant of his days that he
may have further cause to bless that
government in whose service he 
suffered, and now languishes under the
pain of the wound received
Dated Groton Connecticut, December 4 1821
Daniel Stoddard
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Daniel Stoddard
[illegible] In the Revolutionary War
Inadmissible wounded
accidently see letter to
Ebenezer Learned Esquire
Commissioner etc New
London, Connecticut
April 16th 1821
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To the Honorable Reuben [illegible] Judge of the
District of Connecticut. the Petition of Daniel Stoddard of Groton in the State and district of Connecticut [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] That he is a [illegible] in pension [illegible]. That he was a musician in three several companyies one commanded by Captain Whiting in the regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] in the revolutionary war. That [illegible] [illegible] evidence [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the years 1776 to 1780 when he was honorably discharged [illegible] which service  as aforesaid in the [illegible] service of the United States. And in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]  in the month of June 178[illegible] being [illegible] with his superior officer while stationed at [illegible] New Jersey to [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and accidentally [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] as [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
[two illegible lines] several years past [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] him [illegible] for bodily labor [illegible] inability to exercise with [illegible]-wherefore in as [illegible] [illegible] absolutely was [illegible] while [illegible] [illegible] of the United States service the [illegible] and his discharge
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during the revolutionary war and that he did
Desert the service but was honorably discharged
Therefrom-and his [illegible] papers [illegible] 
To prove his services in the [illegible] yourself or by some person by you specially authorized-[illegible] to take the  [illegible] [illegible]-[illegible] required substituting the facts herein set forth and that the evidence required with the proceeding which herein may be submitted to the secretary of war-to the [illegible] that declaration-the [illegible] [illegible]of [illegible] [illegible] by service [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and he is [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] pray [illegible] [illegible]
February 9, 1821.
Daniel Stoddard
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to
Ebenezer Learned Esqr
of New London in
Newford County State and District of Connnecticut 
Greeting-
Reposing special trust and confidence in
your fidelity and ability - And by virtue of the
power in me vested as judge of the District of Connecticut by a law of the United States, entitled an act to provide
for persons who were disabled by known wound received in the revolutionary war. I do hereby authorize and commisson you to take all the evidence which may be offered by Daniel Stoddard the applicant and petitioner named in the written petition, [illegible] any [illegible] pensioner under the Laws of the United State[{illegible]
This you will [illegible] to the
requirements of said act and when
completed as here [illegible] you will [illegible] by the requirements of said act-and when completed as herein directed you will forward the said claim accompanied by the evidence. affidavits, certificates and proceedings had thereon noting the day when the testimony enclosed to the secretary of the department of war- in pursuance of the act of [illegible]-

In witness whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand and
Seal at Stratford in the District of
Connecticut the 12th of February AD 1821
[illegible] Ebenezer C Dyler
District Judge of the District of Connecticut
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Hartford Feby 12

Hon: Lyman Law Esq
New London
Connect.
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This may certify that Daniel Stoddard inlisted into the Continental Army on the 7th day of July 1777 and served faithfully for the term of three years in a regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb, during the period for which he inlisted, and was honorably discharged home on the completion of service, being at that time commandant of said regiment.
Given under my hand at Norwich in Connecticut this 19 Feby 1821.
Ebenezer Huntington, Lieuenant Colonel
Colonel Saml B Webb, for 9th Connecticut Regiment
in the War of the Revolution
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State of Connecticut County of New London
 On this 19th Day of February AD 1821 before me the [illegible] a commissioner appointed by the District judge in and for the District of Connecticut personally appeared Daniel Stoddard of the town of Groton in said County who being solemnly sworn deposed and said that he enlisted into the Continental Army of the 7th Day of July 1777 in Colonel Samuel Webbs Regiment for the period of three years that he faithfully served in the war of the revolution for the period of his enlistment and was honorably discharged by Ebenezer Huntington the Lieutenant Colonel of said Regiment that while in the service of his country in the wintersof 1777-1780 he received a wound in his ancle [sic] and foot from a sled running over his foot, which has made him lame ever since- that he applied to Congress for a pension and [illegible] [illegible] in  March 1818 the petition not having been acted upon as was required by the passage of that law [illegible][illegible] and the last law of Congress excluded him from the pension of 1818. That he has [illegible] the pension ever since he as his lameness and  disability continued since [illegible]but he knew not that any [illegible] was provided for in Relief so long as he could maintain himself such is his health was firm and better than it now is he did not feel the want of it to much as he now
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does when old age is coming upon him
and he grows more unable to work and
maintain himself and that he is not of the pension list of any state. 
Daniel Stoddard
Sworn before
Ebenezer Learned
[illegible]
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State of Connecticut }Ss
County and City of New London

Before me Ebenezer Learned a Commisioner appointed by the Honorable Pierpont Edward Esquire judge of the District Court of the district of Connecticut on this 16 Day of February 1821 personally appeared Daniel Davis of the Town of Groton in said district and County who being solemnly sworn deposed and said that he was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War belonged to Colonel Samuel Webb's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment that the winter of the Year 1780 said Regiment was quartered at Morristown in the State of New Jersey. That Daniel Stoddard aforesaid [illegible] of Groton [illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible]fifer in the same Regiment with said Stoddard himself served our Country three years and were both honorably discharged the same day -- that while we were stationed at Morristown in the month of February according to my recollection, in the year 1780 the said Stoddard with myself  and others was ordered out to obtain fuel from a neighboring wood which we drew to our quarters on land sleds. That while getting said fuel in the discharge of our Duty said Stoddard was placed on the downhill side of said sled, and to
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keep it from upsetting as the ground where
we were at work was on a side hill but
while in this situation endeavoring to
protect said sled and keep it from upsetting
the said sled being loaded with wood suddenly by accident run against a stump-
was by violence then run across the
foot of said Stoddard and against his ancle [sic] 
so as to lame him at the time very much
he
was afterward confined to his quarters
several weeks having been helped home
by the soldiers who were at work with
him
That the Injury was on the ancle
bone of the right foot and the flesh and bone both
appeared at that times to be much injured-
that he has ever lived in the same Town
with said Stoddard since the termina
of the revolutionary War
and knew said Stoddard in the army and has ever since known him to reside in said town of Groton and to be by occupation a farmer.
Stoddard faithfully served in the war more than three years was honorably discharged and this deponent says that since the close of the war he has always known said Stoddard and known him to be lame and omplaining of the lameness in the ancle in the right foot occasioned as herein before stated
Daniel Davis
X his mark
Sworn before 
EB Learned
Commissioner
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State of Connecticut
County of New London
City of New London

On this 1 Day of February 1821 before me Ebenezer Learned a commissioner by the Honorable Pierpont Edward Deitrich Judge of the District of Connecticut appointed to take Evidence in the matter of Daniel Stoddards Petition for a pension personally appeared Uriah Williams of the Town of Groton in said New London town who being duly an solemnly sworn deposed and said, that he was a sergeant in Captain Stantons Company in Colonel Henry Sherburns Regiment in the late revolutionary War against Great Britain, that in the winter of 1779 and 1780 he was encamped at Morris Town in the State of New Jersey and while there encamped he the deponent with others among whom was Daniel Stoddard of said Town of Groton. Sometime in the early part of the year 1780 was sent out to procure firewood -- that the ground was covered with snow. The wood was brought to Quarters on Land Sleds, that while getting the wood said Daniel Stoddrad was placed on the downhill side of the Sled to keep it from upsetting-- that he placed there in discharge of his Duty. The Sled was loaded with wood and by some accident, started downhill and with great violence run over the foot of said
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Stoddard and against his ancle bone of the right foot and injured him considerably so that he was confined several weeks to his quarters and remained lame for a considerable time before he could return to his Duty -- That said Sled had at the time about half a cord of wood on it which was cut and obtained by order of our superior officers. That said Stoddard served his time out in the army and was honorably discharged and has since lived in the town of Groton and followed the occupation of farmer The deponent has known said Stoddard ever since he has lived near him and knows that he has always complained of his lameness in the right ancle occasioned by said Inquiry.

Uriah Williams
Sworn before
EB Learned
Commissioner
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State of Connecticut ss County of New London
On this 17 day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty was before me Ebenezer Learned
A commissioner appointed by the District judge 
In and for the district of Connecticut to take testimony in the case of Daniel Stoddard an applicant for a pension personally appeared John O. Miner of the town of Groton and Dyar H. Menard of the town of New London they are surgeons and members of the Connecticut Medical Society and being lawfully sworn deposed and said that they have
This day examined Daniel Goddard of said
Groton applicant for payment find him
Very lame in the right ancle caused as he
States from a sled have passed over the same
whereby the lower extremity of the Tibia is forced
from the astragalus backward and inward and 
Malleolus externus downward at
time of the injury we think there must
has been a fracture of one of the bones
which with the dislocation has produced
an incurable increase in lameness as the
said John O. Miner further makes oath that
he has for about thirty years last past
lived in the same town with said Stoddard and has
known him well and at various times
has examined said wound which he always understood
was received by said Stoddard
the winter of 1779 and 1780 while the
revolutionary army lying in Morristown in
New Jersey and was caused by a sled load
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of wood running over his foot and while
employed with other soldiers in procuring
fuel for the camp & said Brainard makes
oath that he has not personally known
said Stoddard untill lately but on examination 
of this Minor's enquiry of said Stoddard
on oath he fully agrees with said Miner
& the said John O Miner & Dyar T. Brainard
further make oath that in their opinion
the wound injury received by said Stoddard
in said ankle & foot as herein before
described disables him from a subsistence 
three fourths
John C. Miner M.D
D.T. Brainard Physician

I Ebenezer Learned Commissioned by
the District Judge in & for the District of Connecticut appointed to take the testimony in the case of Daniel Stoddard an applicant for a pension under the Laws of the United States hereby certify & make Sworn that on the 16 day of February 1821 Uriah Williams & Daniel Davis severally appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the Deposition by them severally signed & also certify that in my opinion the said Uriah Williams & Daniel Davis are credible witnesses & I certify further that
Doctors John O Miner & Dyar T Brainard
on this 19 day of February 1821 also appeared
before me & made solemn Oath to the
truth of the Deposition by them subscribed
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That the said John O Miner & Dyar T. Brainard are reputable physicians of surgery their opinions as such entitled to full faith & that the Testimony taken before me was closed on this 19 day of February AD 1821 by in presence of the commissioner from said District Judge transmitted to the Secretary of War of the United States.

Eben Learned Commissioner
Appointed by the District Judge for the Connecticut District
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Ledyard Sept 27, 1843
Hon Sir,
I now address you in behalf of the children of Mrs Lucretia Stoddard late of Ledyard, deceased, and would thank you to inform me whether the said Lucretia was not entitled to a pension under the law of July 7, 1838, & if so, whether her children are not now entitled to receive the amount that she would have been entitled to have received in her lifetime, provided she had made the proper application.
The said Lucretia was the widow of Daniel Stoddard late of said Ledyard, deceased. She died in June 1841, and her husband (the said Danl Stoddard who was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832, & received a pension of $88 per annum) died Dec 14, 1840, and they were married in January 1784.
If the said Lucretia's children are now entitled to receive the pension that might have been dur her, at the time of her death, under the law of July 7, 1838. I would thank you to inform me of the course of proceedings necessary to be adopted to obtain the same.
I am Sir very respectfully your obt servt
Saml W Wood
Ledyard
Ct.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions