Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,512, for Joshua Raymond, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Raymond, Joshua
Elizabeth
NUMBER  W. 17,512
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Reported 
Connecticut 1198 
Elizabeth Raymond 
widow of Joshua Raymond 
who was a Priv Ensign & Lieut 
Conn in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 211 Dollars 60 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of July 1843 and sent to John Isham Colchester, Con. 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol 1 Page 75
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I Louisa Raymond of Windham in the County of Windham State of Connecticut formerly of Montville in said State aged seventy seven years being duly sworn on oath depose & say that I was a sister of Joshua Raymond Esqr formerly of said Montreal I kept his house during the whole of the revolutionary war. He was in the service as an officer or soldier at different times, I had think more than one third of the time during the war. He went to Boston after the Lexington alarm in the spring of 1775 but I dont remember how long he was gone. He was also in Col Stevens Regiments with the Northern army at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne.   He went away in August returned in November.  In about a month after his return he joined the army down towards New York with his team and was in the service I should think six months. He was afterwards an officer, I believe an Ensign in a company at New London. He was there, I well remember during the Winter of 1780 and was stationed there according to the best of my recollection a year. His home was but few miles out of the city & he came & was there often & I went out there often to see him.   Capt Shipley then commanded Fort Trumbull.  His next service was as a sentinel in a company that went from New Londen to Horseneck & the Highlands. He went away in the spring, came home for a few days visit in November & then returned & remained in the
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service until early in the next year.  Among other incidents which he related of this tour, he spoke frequently of seeing Major Andre after this capture.   I think he had another tour at New London but of this I am not certain.  Of the facts which I have stated I am very confident as I had during his absence the principal charge of his business both in and out of doors. He was married to Elizabeth Prince by the Rev. Mr Jewett soon after the close of the Revolutionary War.  I was present at the wedding.  He died at Malview many years since and his widow has never married again. And further the deposent saith not. Windham October 26th 1838 
Louisa Raymond 
State of Connecticut 
Windham County  Windham October 26th 1838.}   
On this 26th day of October 1838 personally appeared Louisa Raymond signer of the foregoing deposition whom I certify to be a respectable & credible person & made oath to the truth of the stmt before me.  
John Baldwin Justice of the Peace
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I Royal R Hinman Secretary of the State of Connecticut and keeper the seal thereof do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, that John Baldwin Esqr is & has been a Justice of the Peace & has been for more than two months last past within it for the County of Windham in said State duly appointed, commissioned and qualified having full power & authority, by the laws of said fair to take the acknowledgment of Deeds & to certify he the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses & to take affidavits & depositions out of Court, & to give certificate hereof; that full faith & credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said John Baldwin in Court & country and I further certify that the signature of said Baldwin hereto attached is genuine.   
In testimony of which I have hereto affixed the seal of this State and signed the same this 26th day of October 1838.   
Royal R Hinman Secretary
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I William Raymond of Montville in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged Sixty years being duly sworn on oath depose and say that I was intimately acquainted with Joshua Raymond Esq. formerly of said Montville having lived near him and being his Nephew I often heard him speak of his service in the Revolutionary War. He told me that he volunteered to go to Boston on the news of the battle of Lexington.   He remained there only a few weeks, about the first of August 1777. he went in the Company of Jonathan Caulkins in the Roll of Col. Jonathan Latimer to the North to join the army of Gen. Gates and was in the neighbourhood and attached to the army but was not actually engaged in the battles which terminated in the surrender of Burgoyne. He returned in November or December following.  He went into the service of the army on the line between New York & Connecticut with his team and continued in that business until May 1778. During the year 1779 he was in the public service as an Officer and performed a tour as I believe of a year. In the winter of 1780 I well remember, he said he was at New London with the Company under the command of Capt Lee Lay. He continued in the service as a Lieutenant in the Regt of Col Levi Wells, during the year 1780, and was at Horseneck in the State of New York in that capacity. He was engaged this time also as [unreadable] as I can remember for a Genl. He told me many anecdotes of the war, & I am very confident of the correctness of the facts which I have stated as coming from him.   I knew Col Latimer well who is now dead and I have heard him speak of the said Raymond having been with him at the taking of Burgoyne & I have understood from others who had the means of knowing that he served as above stated. He was married to Elizabeth Prince
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in May 1783, and he died at Montville in April 1806.  The has never married again.  
William Raymond
State of Connecticut New London County ss
Montville November 10th 1838 }  
On this 10th day of Nov 1838 personally appeared William Raymond Esq. whom I hereby certify to be highly respectable and credible person and made to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me 
Nathaniel Parish Justice of the Peace 
State of Connecticut 
New London County }  ss  I John DeWitt Clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby certify that Nath Parish Esq before whom the within & foregoing deposition was taken was on the said 10th day of Nov 1838 and still is a Justice of the peace in for said New London County & that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such and that his signature above is genuine.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 2nd day of November AD 1838 
John DeWitt Clerk
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State of Connecticut New London County ss Lyme September twenty Eighth 1838.  
On this 28th day of September A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Lyme in the County of New London and State of Connecticut Elizabeth Raymond a resident  of said Lyme who being 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 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.  That she is the widow of Joshua Raymond formerly of Montville in said County and State who was a Lieutenant in the service of the United States Army in the Revolutionary War. That she knows little about of the service of her said Husband in said war except what she has received from him others. That according to her belief deponent principally in such information & the evidence hereunto transmitted the said Joshua went with men of his militia to Boston at the alarm & then in April 1775 but stayed only a few weeks.  That in July 1775 he enlisted into the Company of Capt Nathan Hale in the Regiment of which Jonathan Latimer was
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Major that he went first to New London & then to Boston & performed duty in said company for month as a corporal or sergeant.  That early in August 1777 he was in the Company of Capt Jonathan Caulkins Regiment of Col Jonathan Latimer to the west & joined the army under Gen Gates was attached to that Army at the surrender of Gen Burgoyne & was gone three months, whether as a private or officer she does not know.   That in December 1777 he went to the Western part of this State with his team in the service of the United States attached to the Connecticut Troops on the line of New York & continued attached to the Army six months in that  employment. That early in the year 1779 he  entered the company of Capt Lee Lay in the Regiment of Col. Levi Wells, and in July of that year was appointed an Ensign in said Company. That said Company was stationed at New London during the winter or 1780. That in April 1780 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in said Company & Regiment said Regiment having been reenlisted in January or that year to serve until the January following. That he served in said Company Regiment as a Lieutenant in the spring or early in the summer, to Horseneck, the Highland other places along the Hudson River & remained
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that service until January 1781, the termination of the enlistment of said Regiment.  That she has often heard him speak of his [unreadable] in the army at the time and of his having been for many after this time. And of his having seen Major Andre after his capture.  That her maiden name was Elizabeth Prince & that he was married by to said Raymond by the Rev Dana Jewett after the completion of the last period of her said husbands service and prior to the 1st day of January 1794 viz on the 8 day of May AD 1783 at said Montville. That he died at said Montville on the 5th day of April A.D. 1806 & since his death she has never married [unreadable]  & she knows of no record of his death.  That his papers [unreadable] she has not seen since.  That she lived near said Raymond before her marriage & remembers his being about in the service of the United States a large part of the time during the latter part of the war but cannot [unreadable] on her own recollection to state the time or places. That the part of said Montville where he lived during the war a part of the town of New London.  She further declare that from her information [unreadable]
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exhibited.  She believes that her said husband was in the was in the service of the United States 
in the Revolutionary times [unreadable] for more than thirty two months. 
Elizabeth Raymond
Sworn & subscribed on the day and year above written before me 
Chs. Griswold Judge of Probate for Lyme District
Elizabeth Raymond 
Application for Pension
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Oliver Raymond of Lyme in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged sixty seven years being duly sworn on oath depose and say that I was a Brother of Joshua Raymond formerly of Montville in said County. I was brought up in Montville & was old enough during the latter part of the Revolutionary War to remember many of its events. I well remember my Brother Joshua going to join the army of Gen Gates and his return in the fall of the same year.   I well recollect when it was & what I was doing when he and his company came back.   It was late in the fall.  The time when he went I do not know. I know also that he was an officer at New London I should think for a year. He was then in the [unreadable] of 1780. He lived when at home about 10 miles from the city of New London and he was frequently at home during the time From New London, he went as a Lieutenant in Col Wells Regiment, Horseneck and served along the North River according to the best of my recollection and belief a tour of one year. He was with the army at the capture of Andre, as I have heard him say.   I have often heard him speak also of incidents that occurred  at the taking of Burgoyne.  Although young at the time yet from my connexion with him & the interest that I took in the subject I well remember the full which I have stated.  I was present at the marriage of my Brother Joshua to Elizabeth Prince by Mr. Jewett.  It was soon after the news of peace. He died more than many years since & she has never married again.  
Lyme October 1st 1838 
Oliver Raymond
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State of Connecticut New London County Lyme October 1 1838 
on this 1st day of October 1838 personally appeared Oliver Raymond whom I hereby certify to be a respectable credible person and signed and made oath to the within deposition before me 
Charles J McCurdy Just of Peace
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I Christopher Raymond of Montville in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged seventy eight years being duly sworn on oath depose and say that I lived near Joshua Raymond Esqr formerly of said Montville and knew him well. I remember that he was in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war in different times and for a considerable term of duty at each time.   He was as I think in the Militia. I remember that he went to the north in the expedition under Col. Latimer.   He was also out on duty at Horseneck and at one time he held an appointment in Fort Trumbull at New London.   I am not able to state the length of his service at any one time but I should think according to the best of my recollection and belief that he was engaged in these different tours of service at least one third of the time during the War.  He married Elizabeth Prince. He died many years since at said Montville and since his death his widow has never married again. The said Joshua was my Cousin.   Dated at Montville August 17th 1838 
Chriss Raymond 
State of Connecticut New London County Montville August 17th 1838.  On this 17th day of August 1838 personally appeared Christopher Raymond signer of the foregoing deposition who I hereby certify to be a respectable credible person and made oath to the truth of the same before me.   
Charles J McCurdy Justice of Peace
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I James Comstock of Montville in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged eighty being duly sworn on oath depose and say that I was very well acquainted with Joshua Raymond Esqr formerly of said Montville now deceased.  I lived for eleven years in his farm in said Montville as his tenant.  In the year 1775 or 1776 I believe in the month of July I enlisted into this Company of Capt Nathan Hale for a term of five months, which was this time for which the company was raised, Jonathan Lattimer was Major of the Regiment. The said Joshua Raymond enlisted in the same company for the time and was a sergeant in the Company. We were first stationed at Winthrop Point in New London & remained there about two months from there ordered to Boston went there and remained in the service during the time for which we enlisted.  The said Raymond remained with this company whole of the time and was discharged at the end of the term. I saw him of course every day, and this tent was never [unreadable]  
I knew of his being afterwards in the service at Horseneck but was not with him. I do not remember how long he was gone as it was a good while.  
I do not recollect at this time any other service of said Raymond which I can swear to and further the Deponent saith not.  Dated at said Montville Aug. 17th 1838.
 James Comstock
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State of Connecticut New London County  Montville August 17th 1838. 
On this 17th day of August 1838 personally appeared James Comstock whom I hereby certify to be a reputable credible person and signed & made oath to the within deposition before me
Charles J McCurdy  Justice of Peace
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I Lebbeus Maynard of the County of New London and State of Connecticut, aged  [unreadable] being duly sworn on oath depose and say that [unreadable] expedition to the North [unreadable] in what year I do not remember one of the company I recollect was Joshua  Raymond I [unreadable] I afterwards often heard him speak of having been on this expedition
And further the deponent saith not.
Dated September 18 1838
Lebbeus Maynard
State of Connecticut New London County ss  New London September 18th 1838 On this 18th day of September 1838 personally appeared Lebbeus Maynard whom I hereby certify to be a respectable credible person and signed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me 
Charles J. McCurdy Justice of Peace
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford, Connecticut 
6 Sept 1833 
On application for evidence of the service of Mr Joshua Raymond I have examined the books & papers remaining in this office relating to the Revolutionary War, and find follows, Viz:  
No 1  In a Pay Table Journal, under date of 24 December 1777 this entry
“Cap Jonth Calkings [Caulkins] Dr 
To order on Treas £191.10.0”
also,    Cr.  
“By amt rec’d for his Co. Col Lattimers Regt
Mil’a [militia] to the Northward Viz
Bounty … 250.14.8
Also Hosptl Expenses & Loss… 20.15.4  £271.10.”
1778 June 4 also, “Cap. Jn’th  Calkings [Caulkins] Co.
By acct recd payin his Co Mil’a [militia] to N.Y.
Also the Bounty Granted by A.  £26.”
1777 Sept 15  “Cap Jn’th Calkings [Caulkins]  Dt.
To order on Their advance pay for his Co
Militia ordered to the Northward  £65.”
And Cap Jn’th Calkings [Caulkins] name is included among others and the amt his PayRoll mentioned (£271.10.) in a Pay Table Book under head of “Militia under Gen’l Gates to the Northward, 1777.”
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(No 2)
A certified copy of Major Latimer’s Pay Roll, Capt Hale 1775 in which 
Joshua Raymond is entered as corporal, and as serving from 20 July to 18 Decem 4 Mos. 28 days 
(No 3) In the Journal of the Council of Safety, at the date of 16 July 1779, is this entry, 
“This Board do appoint Josh. Raymond Junr N London Ens. [ensign] in Cap. Lay’s Comp.”  (On nomination of Col. Wells, to fill vacancies in his Regt).  
And in the same Journal, at date of 23 April 1780, among other appointments in Col. Levi Wells Regt is this 
“Joshua Raymond Jr. Lieut in room of Sanford Billings.” 
In a “Pay Table”  Journal at the dates of Aug. 13 1779 is this entry, 
“War…. Dt
To order on Treas pt Cap. Adam Shapley, Pay Roll Guard stationed at Fort Trumbull… £107.16.”
In the Journal of the Council of Safety under date is a return of Colo Wells mentioned and also that his Regt was ordered to be raised by Genl Assembly “of May last until March next.” 
In the “State Records,” there of an order of the General Assembly of January 1780, that two companies of Guards of Col. Levi Wells Regt should be stationed at New London
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In the Journal of the Council of Safety at their meeting of 21 June 1780, is the entry
“Resoloved, That Lt Col Levi Wells with the Regiment under his command, do immediately march to the Highlands in New York, and on his arrival to inform Maj. General Howe thereof and that if there be any in said Regiment who can to be compelled to go out of this state that they be turned over to Col. Beebe’s Regt and the like number be drafted from said Beebe’s Regt in their room.”
In a Pay Table book, this entry, 
“1781 Dec 21 .. Col Levi Wells   Cr. 
By amt recv’d for Pay Roll and Cash advanced Capturing exclusive of what is credited, State No. £2,056.17.7”
And Journal of Council of Safety, 23 April, 1780, 
“That Col Levi Wells be ordered to send forward such men as are or shall enlisted into his Regiment, as fast as they shall enlist, and can be got ready to the post at N London.”
I certify the foregoing to be true extract of statement from the books and papers therein mentioned. That the name of Joshua Raymond has not been found except as herein mentioned.  And that the word "Company" this page was erased before signing.  
Henry Kilbourn Compt
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At a general assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut in America holden at Hartford  by adjournment, and special order of the Governor, on the first Thursday of January (being the sixth day of said month ) A. Dom 1780.  
This assembly do appoint Levi Wells Esq. to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of one of the Regiments now ordered to be raised, to continue in service until the first day of January next.
Arrangement of the officers in the two Regiments now ordered to be raised for the defence of this State, are as follows 
1st Regiment - Levi Wells Lieut. Col. Commd’t. 
Elias Buell Major 
Samuel Granger  Capt 
John Francis Lieut 
Dan Hibbard Ensign 
Edward Payne Capt 
David Deming Lieut. 
Russell Bissell Ensign 
Israel Converse Capt 
Jonath’n Nichols Jr. Lieut 
Simon Forbs Ensign 
Jabez Fitch Capt.
Josiah Winton Lieut
Elijah Boardman Ensign
Lee Lay Captain 
Sanford Billings Lieut. 
William Brainard Ensign  
John Morgan  Captain 
David Spencer Lieut 
Solomon Tisdale Ensign 
Nathaniel Walls 3d Captain 
Wm Talcott Lieut 
Daniel Foster Ensign 
Joshua Bottom Captain 
Daniel Knowlton Lieut 
Hezekiah Bugbee Ensign
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No. 2746
State of Connecticut 
Office of the Secretary of State 
Hartford Augt 8. 1838 }   I hereby certify that the within is a true copy of record in this office. 
In testimony whereof I have subscribed the same and affixed the Seal of said State. 
Royal R Hinman Secretary of said State
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State of Connecticut
County of New London} sct Montville August 17th 1838 
“Joshua Raymond Jr was married to Elisabeth Prince May Eighth Seventeen Hundred & Eighty three”  
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Records of the Town of Montville with the exception of of the dates which is expressed on the Records in fair legible figures as follows Viz "Joshua Raymond Jr was Married to Elizabeth Prince May 8th 1783" 
I Mulford C Raymond of Montville in the County of New London & State of Connecticut Depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Montville aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the record of said Montville with the exception above named as certified by me.   
Mulford C Raymond Town Clerk  
Sworn to and subscribed before me Lyman Lane Judge of Probate within and for the District of London in State of Connecticut. I further certify that Mulford C. Raymond Esq holds the office of our Clerk in town of Montville and is a credible person and his statements entitled to credit.   In testimony whereof have set my hand officially and affixed my seal of office the day and year above mentioned. 
Lyman Lane Judge Court of Probate District of New London Connecticut
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2746 
Elizabeth Raymond 
widow of Joshua 
Conn 
Act 7 July 1838 
Married in 1783
Admd [admitted] - 310
3.33   7 mo 28 days pri
10      7 mo 15 days Ensign 
13.33 8 mo 8 days Lieut.
211.60
 no deduction Hon Chas J McCurdy 
Lyme  Conn
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I certify that Charles Griswold Esquire whose name in his own proper hand writting is subscribed to the proceedings of the Court herein named, in the cause of Elizabeth Raymond, is, and at all times and the six months last past hath been Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Lyme and Lyman Lane Esq who hath subscribed his name with his own hand, to the certificate attached to the foregoing certificate of Mulford Raymond, hath during all the time aforesaid been Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New London and I further certify that Charles J McCurdy Esqr who hath with his own hand, subscribed the certificate attached to the foregoing deposition of Oliver Raymond,  Christopher Raymond, James Comstock & Libbeus Maynard, hath during all the said time of six months now last past been a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of New London in the State of Connecticut and Mulford Raymond who hath in his own hand made and subscribed the foregoing certificate relating to the manner of Joshua Raymond, is and at all times being the year last past hath been Town Clerk of the Town of Montville in said State & Keeper of the records thereof.    
Samuel Ingham M.C. 
SayBrook Oct. 20. 1838.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
AWF/eel 
January 6, 1929
Mrs. J. C. Hamil 
1901 N. Main Street 
Santa Ana, California 
Madam:     
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17512, it appears that Joshua Raymond, while residing about ten miles from New London, Connecticut, went to Boston right after the battle of Lexington, and served a few weeks, no officers stated.
He enlisted in July, 1775, and served as a corporal four months and twenty-eight days in Captain Nathan Hale's Company under Major Jonathan Lattimer.  He enlisted in August, 1777, served three months in Captain Jonathan Caulkin's Company, Colonel Jonathan Lattimer's Connecticut Regiment, and was at the surrender of Burgoyne.   In December, 1777, he went with his team and served six months, no officers stated.  July 16, 1779, he was appointed ensign in Captain Lee Lay's Company, Colonel Levi Wells' Connecticut Regiment, and in April, 1780, he was promoted to a lieutenant and served until January, 1781.
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He died April 5, 1806, at Montville, Connecticut. 
The soldier married, May 8, 1783, at Montville, Connecticut, Elizabeth Prince. She was allowed pension on her application executed September 28, 1833, at which time she was living at Lyme, Connecticut. In 1843, she was residing at Colchester, Connecticut, and stated that she was eighty-two years of age. 
It is not shown whether they had any children. 
Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
Raymond
File No 17512 
Elizabeth Raymond
Widow of Joshua Raymond
Lieut Rev War
Act: March 3d ’48  
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 168 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Col 2696 sent P record to Horace F. Waite Chicago Ills  FWB
1929 June 8 – hist to Mrs. J. C. Hamil AWF
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Elizabeth Raymond, 
widow of Joshua Raymond, 
act 7 July 1838 
See letters to Hon. T. Ingham 
Nov. 2. 1838 & Dec. 24. 1838.
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x  alarm x
75.  corp 4.7
77 Caulkins pri 3
77 & 8 teamster
79 May to Jany 80 – Lee Lay to Jany 81 – Ensign & Lt.
Ensign 16 July 79
Lt. 23 Apl ‘80
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Connecticut. 3273 
Elizabeth Raymond of Joshua Raymond who was a pensioner under the Act of  - and who died on the 5th Apl 1806 of New London in the State of Conn who was a Pri, Ens & Lt. in the Comp’y commanded by Captain Hall of the Reg commanded by Lattimer in the line for 23 mos 21 days 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 211 Dollars 60 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th  day of June ’39 and sent to Chas J. McCurdy Lyme Ct. 
Arrears to the 4th of March  $634.80 
Semiannual allowance ending to 103.80
$740.60
{Act July 7, 1838.} 
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk 
Book A Vol.  1 Page 206
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Ct. Nov 2
Addl proof 
Eliz Raymond
7 July 2746
Hon J L. Edwards  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
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To the Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir, I sent another affidavit on the application of Elizabeth Raymond, which formerly was forwarded to you by the Hon Samuel Ingham.
W. Hicock
Decr 30 1838
H
enry W. Edwards, Captain General and Commander - in - Chief, in and over the State of Connecticut, in the United States of America. Esquire, GREETING
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Raymond
Ct. June 21
Free
Hon J L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
[unreadable] Mrs Elizabeth Raymond widow of Joshua Raymond Esq, I understand from Mr. Ingham that your department requires evidence from the Records at Hartford of the terms for which [unreadable]  in which the said Raymond was an officer was raised both in the year 1779 & 1780.  I therefore send you the enclosed document by which it will be seen that the  his Regiment was in May 1779 [unreadable] & in continuous in service until the 1st of March 1780.  In January 1780 it was ordered to be returned to continue until Jany 1st 1781.  Among the documents within sent there is abundant evidence that Raymond enlisted in that Regiment in the company of Capt Lee Lay in June or July 1779 &
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that he served out his term until March 1780 as an Ensign at New London.  In April 1780 a vacancy occurring in the [unreadable] of Lieutenant in the [unreadable] company he was appointed to fill it & there is sufficient evidence that he continued in the service through the year along the North River & Elsewhere.  In the month of November last, I [unreadable] of the claim & the evidence to which I [unreadable] to refer you as the case has been long pending & the lady very old & very respectable your [unreadable] attention is respectfully requested.
I am yours &c
Chas J. McCurdy
Lyme Conn
June 16th 1839
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Smith 
Raymond
16.23
7.28
23.21
5
28.21
Jan 31
Jurat 
Ct.
Hon S. Ingham H.R.
Honorable J L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions  
7.15
8.8
3
4.28
23.21
15.23
7.28
23.21
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Washington of Jan 28th. 1839 
Dear Sir
Allow me to invite your attention to the pension case of Mrs Rebecca Smith, the papers of which were made out by L. Penderson Esq., and Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond, the papers in which were made I believe by C. J. McCurdy Esq.  
and oblige 
With high respect Your ob sert 
Samuel Ingham
Honorable J. L. Edwards Commr
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir:
Mr Ingham was sent me your letter dated Nov 2d 1838 in relation to the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond for a pension, in which you request evidence from the records at Hartford of the length of time for which Col. Levi Wells regiment was raised in 1775, also when it was raised again in Jany 1780.   I am happy to be able to transmit that evidence, which ought not to have been mailed before and that together with the deposition of a very respectable citizen, Wm Raymond Esq. I trust will be entirely satisfactory as to the service of Joshua Raymond for a period of more than two years. It appears from the resolve of May 1779 that Col Wells regiment was said to be in service until the 1st of March 1780. Unless sooner discharged.  In 1779. July 16th Raymond was appointed Ensign in Lee Lays Comp in the Regiment. In Jany 1780, two company of that regiment was ordered to New London. It appears from the testimony of witnesses, Louisa Raymond, Oliver Raymond, & Wm. Raymond that Joshua Raymond was in that Company at New London during the winter of 1779 & 1780,  the cold winter. It would seem therefore to be established
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[unreadable] question that he served out his term until the 1st of March 1780.  It is said that his name does not appear in a list of officers arranged for Col Wells in 1780. That circumstance is very readily explained. That arrangement was made for a regiment then and to be hired to continue in service in to Jany 1 1781. to be commanded by Col Wells. It had nothing to do the with the arangements of the officers of the Regiment which had been raised the May previous whose term was out [unreadable] 1st of March the next.  It also shows that in July 1780 Joshua Raymond had not yet agreed to go into the new regiment to be formed for a year to come. But it does appear of record, supported by the testimony of a number of witnesses, that soon after his term was out, viz in April 1780 [unreadable] was appointed Lieutenant in the new Regiment in the room of one Billings, one of the officers whose name appears on the list. It appears from Nov record that this regiment who enlisted to continue in service until Jany 1st 1781 and from the testimony of witnesses that he served out the time & was gone about a year.  
When your letter was written the 2 most important depositions has not been received viz that of Louisa Raymond and of Wm Raymond Esqr. I cannot but think the proof will now be considered as complete & conclusive.   The time [unreadable] established, is as follows
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Months Days
4 Months  28 Days under Capt Hale
3 Months    00 Days under Capt Caulkins
5 Months 00 days attached to the army with [unreadable] from Dec 1777 to May 1778
7 Months 15 days from July 16th 1779 to March [unreadable] 1780 under Lay & Wells
8 Months 8 days from April 23d 1780 to Jany 1st 1781 under Lay & Wells
28 Months 21 days
5 Months exclusion of the time say 2 or 3 weeks when he went to Boston after the Lexington fight in April 1775
23 Months 21 days
After such an interval of time it matters perhaps for [unreadable] if not impossible to make out a better claim for a full pension.  As Mr. Ingham may [unreadable] be so good as to send the Certificate to me which will be perfectly satisfactory to him.
I am very respectfully your obt svt  C. J. McCurdy
Your early attention will much oblige him & Mrs. Raymond Conn Nov 20th 1838
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Saybrook Connt Oct 20th 1838
Dear Sir
I send you the application of Elizabeth Raymond for a full pension on account of the services of her husband with the accompanying evidence which I hope will be entirely satisfactory.   
The first term is that her husband went to Boston soon after the alarm in April 1775. But remained only a few weeks. Of this service there is the documentary evidence. The second term was in Capt. Hales Company from July 1776 to the next December, 5 months.  This is sworn to by James Comstock and confirmed by extract No. 2  from the record evidence.  The said Term was from Augt 1777 for the next 2 or 3 months in Capt. Caulkins company, at the North. This is sworn to by the witnesses and confirmed in part (as to the companies being there) by extracts [unreadable].   The 4th Term was with his Team from Decr 1777 to May 1778. From the nature of this service it would be difficult to obtain documentary evidence.  The 5th term was from about May 1779 to Jan 1781 in Capt Lee Lays company & Col. Wells Regt including the service at New London & the Highlands. The witnesses call it about two years. This service is fully confirmed by the extracts no 3. It appears by these [unreadable] his company was ordered to serve in May 1779 to serve till March following.   In July he was appointed ensign
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In Jan 1780 the Regt was reenlisted for one year.  In April following he was promoted to be a Lieutenant in the same company & Regt which it is certain that he had re-engaged for the new term, to wit, in Jan. 1781. This continuous term cannot be less the Eighteen month from the documents. So that twenty six months is conclusively proved, besides the first service at Boston & the time with the teams.   
Being acquainted with the standing of the applicant and most of her witnesses some of whom are of the first respectability,  I been no doubt of the Justice of her claim.  
I hope you will be able to send me her certificate before I leave here for Washington which will 
be as surely as [unreadable].  Two other deposition will be forwarded to you in a few days.  
I have the honor to be Your Obt Svt
Samuel Ingham 
Honble J. L. Edwards Commr Pens
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1122
Mrs Elisabeth Raymond
Application for Pension
May 1843

$211 : 60 per ann

John Isham
Colchester
Connn
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State of Connecticut County of New London ss 
On this 8th day of May 1843 personally before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond a resident of Colchester in the County of New London, State aforesaid, aged 82 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the Widow of Joshua Raymond late of Montville in said County deceased who was a Sergeant, Ensign & Lieutenant in the army of the United States, reference being had to her application for a pension under the act of 7th July 1838. That she received $211.60 per annum under the act of 7th July 1838, she further declares that she is still a widow.   
Elizabeth Raymond x her mark 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me – 
Frederic Morgan Justice the Peace  
New London County ss Colchester May 8 A D 1843 
I certify that the above named Elizabeth Raymond is personally known to me, and that the facts stated in the foregoing declaration by her subscribed to the best of my knowledge and belief are true.   
Frederic Morgan Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
New London County
SS

I, John DeWitt Clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby Certify that Frederick Morgan Esq before when the [widow's] declaration by Elisabeth Raymond was sworn, was on said 8th day of May 1843 a Justice of the peace in and for said New London County 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 23rd day of June AD 1843.
John DeWitt Clerk
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State of Connecticut SS. 
Secretary's Office Nov. 11. 1838 } I hereby certify that at a Session of the General Assembly of said State, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May 1779, an act was passed by said assembly for the raising by voluntary enlistment, two Regiments of men for the defence of the sea coasts & frontiers of said State, each Regiment to consist of five hundred and twenty men, exclusive of commissioned officers, & that each Regiment should be commanded by one Lieut Colonel & one Major, & that each of said Regiments were to be continued in service until the first day of March (then) next unless sooner discharged, and that said Regiments, during said term of service, were to be under the direction of said General Assembly or in their recess, under the direction of the Governor & Counsel of Safety of said State, & that Matthew Mead and Levi Wells, were by said Assembly, appointed Lieut Colonels, and Abraham Tyler & Elias Buell were appointed Major of said Regiments. 
And I further certify, that at a session of the General Assembly of said State, holden by adjournment, at Hartford in said State, on the first Thursday of January 1780, the following resolution was passed by said assembly viz. Resolved that this assembly do
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do appoint Levi Wells Esq to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of one of the Regiments now ordered to be raised, to continue in service until the first day of January next,
All of which appears by the records in this office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State, at the City of Hartford on the day + year first aforesaid

Royal R Hinman, Secretary
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State of Connecticut SS.
Secretary's Office March 18, 1839

I hereby certify that at a Session of the General Assembly of said State, held at the Hartford on the 13th day of May 1779, two Regiments of Troops, were by said Assembly ordered to be forthwith raised by voluntary enlistment, for the defence of the Sea Coasts and Frontiers of this State, and that each of said Regts were placed under the Command of one Lieut. Col. and one Major and that said Troops were to continue in service until the first day of March (then) next unless sooner discharged, and that Matthew Mead & Saml Wells Esqrs, were by said assembly appointed Lieut Colonels of said Regts ordered to be raised as aforesaid.

And I farther certify that at an adjourned Session of said assembly, holden at said Hartford, on the 6th day of January 1780, it was Enacted that two Regts of Troops be raised and equiped for the defence of this State, and that each of said Regts was placed under the Command of one Lieut Col & one Major, and that said troops were to continue in Service untill the first day of January (then) next unless sooner discharged, and that Saml Wells Esq. was by said assembly appointed Lieut Col Commandant of one of said Regts ordered to be raised as aforesaid.

All of which appears by the Records in this Office. 
In testimony whereof I have been hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State at the City of Hartford on the said 18th day of March [S.A.?] 1839.

Royal R Hinman Secretary of State
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[stamp] Horace F. Waite,
7 Astor St., Chicago, ILL

October 19th 1826

Hon D. J Murphy
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Will you please send me a statement of the Military History of Joshua Raymond of New London Co Conn - He was in the Revolutionary War - Also about pension of his widow Elizabeth Raymond - He was I think 1 Lieut in Cap Hungerfords Co - + previously had been in [3rd] Co - 7 Reg - Conn
Also in another Co - I would like details of his widows pension - I am a grandson
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of this July

[stamp] Horace P Waite
7 Astor St., Chicago, Ill.

Mr. Raymond had [resided] in New London Co - served in the Revolutionary War in Connecticut Co
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2-20 Stamp Enclosed 
OWN
[stamp]  G.L.B.  
1901. N. Main St. 
Santa Ana Calif.
 Mch 20th, 1928. 
Would you kindly send me the record of Joshua Raymond the Fourth and also Fifth. 
Joshua Raymond served in the Revolutionary War 1st. as Private,  (2nd) Sargeant,  (3rd) Lieutenant, and would have risen higher in military rank had he not been compelled to leave the service owing to severe wounds. He served under Capt. Caulkins and also under Capt. Latimer of Connecticut Volunteers. He was previously in the Battle of Lexington
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April 19th 1775 and the wife of Joshua Raymond drew a pension as a Rev. widow.

I am anxious for any information you can give at your very earliest convenience as I am getting my papers completed to join the D. A. R.

Kindly send me a bill for your trouble and I will remit at once. Thanking you in advance, I am
Cordially,
Grace Caswell Hamil

address
Mrs. J. C. Hamil
1901. N. Main St.
Santa Ana,
Calif.
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O. W. N. Div.
W 17512
L. W. B.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

October 26, 1896.

Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Joshua Raymond, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that Elizabeth Raymond, widow of Joshua, made application for pension September 28, 1838, at which time she was residing at Lyme, Conn; (age not stated), and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private, ensign and lieutenant in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary War, for a period of twenty-three months and twenty-one days; a part of the time he served under Capt. Caulkins and Col. Lattimer; (place of enlistment not stated).

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mr. Horace F. Waite,
#7 Astor Street,
Chicago, Ills.
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NAME Raymond, Lemuel
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 6408
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Jan. 25, 1796
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