Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10.353, William Allen, Conn.
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SERVICE Conn.
Allen, William
Rebecca
NUMBER W: 10,353
CONTENTS ----
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[illegible]
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

On the 23 day of July 1832 personally appears in open court before the County Court now sitting in Fairfield in said County William Allen a resident of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and state of Connecticut, aged Sixty seven years and six months who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. 
  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein States. viz. In the spring of the year 1781 he enlisted as a private soldier in the state troops under Captain Thomas Nash in Col. Ebenezer Dimens Regiment of Troops for the term of nine months, that at that time Long Island was held by the British troops and parties for [illegible] frequently [illegible] the sound and effected landings at different points along the shore of the Town of Fairfield where his company was stationed, that he was frequently engaged in skirmishes with those parties. 
  That in July of the same year he was taken a prisoner by a party of British troops from Long island and carried to [illegible] on said island where he was kept five days and taken from there to New York and confined in the Sugar house so called where he was kept a prisoner until the 31st day of December following when he was exchanged and sent to Elizabeth town point New Jersey. From which place he returned to Fairfield and reported himself to Capt. Nash, but from ill health brought on by his sufferings while a prisoner was unable to perform duty. 
  With the time for which he enlisted had expired, but early in the spring of 1782 he thinks in the month of March he again enlisted as a private soldier into said State Troops for a further term of nine months and was stationed on the shore of said town of Fairfield at a place called [illegible], during this term a party of British troops & Tories effected a landing on the shore near our Station an engagement ensued between his Company and said troops and after considerable fighting the enemy was driven back to their boats and from the shore during this engagement a militia man named Gresham Wakeman who had joined his company
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and was standing by his side was shot dead, while the enemy was retreating captured one of their soldiers who was afterwards exchanged for a soldier of their company who was taken. The said Allen further declares that he continues in said Company faithfully discharging his duty as a soldier till his term expired. That after his service aforesaid, he was frequently out a day or two at a time on duty with the militia in [illegible] &c. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the fore said and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. 
  [crossed out] Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, [end crossed out] and the said William Allen Further declares that he was born in Fairfield from the best information he can obtain from the Records in January, 1765 and has always Resided in Fairfield since, he has no Record of his age but has seen a Record on his Family Book which is now lost and that he listed in the service as aforesaid. 
  Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
  William Allen
  Sect [Secty.] Thomas B Osborne Clerk

  We Joshua Couch Jesup Taylor and Moses Taylor Residing in the Town and County of Fairfield hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with William Allen who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
  Sworn & Subscribed to the day and year aforementioned in open Court
  Joshua Couch
  Jesup Taylor
  Moses Taylor
  Sect [Secty.] Thomas B Osborne Clerk
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

District of Fairfield June the 24th 1833

  On this 24th day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the County Probate for the district aforesaid William Allen aged Sixty Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to and in explanation of the declaration he made the 23d [23rd] day of July 1832 and to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
  The applicant says that there was through mistake a amanuensis in his former declaration of a term of military I was in of nine months as Guard on the sea coast of Fairfield in the year 1780. He says he is very confident that he mentioned this tour of duty to the person who drew that declaration, and that he though inattentive or forgetfulness left it and the declarant also says that he being very deaf and perhaps a little agitated with all before the Court not being much accustomed to such times, did not notice the mission when the former declaration was read to him for his signature and attestation. But he now says that some time in the spring of the year 1780, according to the best of his recollection it was in the month of April of that year. He enlisted for the term of Nine months, under Capt Isaac Jarvis of Fairfield, to serve as a private soldier on guard in the sea Coast of Fairfield then expand and afterwards to occasional inward of marauding parties of the he says he served at the time of nine months for which he enlisted and was discharged, but according to the best of his belief he had no written discharge. The troops he thinks are what are called state troops, and the duty of the soldier he says was his sole & exclusive business during the time of his enlistment. The declarant further says that the first tour of duty mentioned in his former declaration as having commenced in the spring of the year 1781 began according to the best of his recollection & belief the first month of that year from which time he continued to do his duty as a private soldier faithfully until sometime in the month of July when he was taken prisoner by the
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British and carried to New York and kept a prisoner until the 31st day of December of that year before he was exchanged so that the time he served and the time he was a prisoner will embrace the whole period of his enlistment of Nine months. It is also stated in the former declaration that a Col Ebenezer Dimen commanded the Regiment to which the company of guards to which the applicant was at this time as stated belonged. He says there was a Col Dimen who had the command of the militia in Fairfield as the above mentioned [illegible] and also as he believes a general superintendent of the guards along the shore of Long Island from in the town of Fairfield but it was a Jonathan Dimen and not Ebenezer Dimen who was the Colonel. There was a mistake of his amanuensis [illegible] to the circumstances already mentioned. The declarant says escaped his observation at the time, but the moment he discovered this he felt himself bound in duty to correct. The declarant also says that the second Tour of military duty of nine months mentioned in his former declaration as having taken place in 1782. He served the full period for which he engaged, under Capt Thomas Nash of Fairfield a brave & valuable Officer, when he was discharged and had no written discharge. This service was his only [illegible] for the time he engaged in it. And he  also suggests, that by a proper attention to his former papers it will be perceived by the department, that the requisition in the Brief "has the proper officer certified to the official character & signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct," has been literally verified with in the certificate of the Clerk of the Courts with the Official Seal annexed. And the Applicant also says that he has procured the Testimony of a Clergyman as to his general character for revolutionary tenacious in order to comply with every regulation of the War department, and such additional Testimony as
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the extension of his present application in his estimation required. That the declarant says that he has now as far as he knows procured the best evidence in his power in support of his claim to the remuneration of his country. That he hopes & trusts that his application will meet that favorable decision which has been awarded to many of his revolutionary Compatriots.
  William Allen

  Sworn to and subscribed in the day & year aforesaid before David Hill Jr Clerk of Probates for the district aforesaid

  State of Connecticut District of Fairfield June the 26th 1833
  I Thomas F Davis a Clergyman residing in the in District and State hereby certify that I am acquainted with William Allen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and believe him to be sixty Eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion
  Th. Fr. Davis

  Sworn to & Subscribed in the day and year aforesaid before David Hill Jr Clerk of Probates for the district aforesaid
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  And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier as served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Thomas F Davis who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the District of Fairfield aforesaid, that he is a person of high standing for worth and moral excellence and that his testimony is entitled to entire credit.
  David Hill Jr Clerk of Probate

  I David Hill Jr. Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield aforesaid, do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Allen for a pension
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office this day of June 1833
  David Hill Jr Clerk
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13228,  447
Rebecca Allen widow of Wm.
Conn.
Act 7 July '38.
Rejected.

Act 17 June '44
admitted
2 years private $80 per annum, from Sept. 1845, when he died.

B. Winter Esq.
Easton, Fairfield Co. Conn.
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss. Westport

  On this 25th day of January 1847 personally appeared before the Court of Probate within afor the District of Westport in the County & State aforesaid Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen an inhabitant of said Westport aged near Eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, the 23rd of August 1842 the 3rd of March 1843 and the 17th of June 1844 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War
  That she is the Widow of William Allen late of said Westport decd. who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War & served as a private in said War & made proof of the same to the satisfaction of the War Department & had obtained a pension for said services under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 of Eighty dollars a year as by the Records of the War Department will appear & a certificate of that amount was sent to the said William Allen in his lifetime & was surrendered [crossed out] by [end crossed out] to the Agent for paying pensions in Hartford State of Connecticut in the fall of 1845 as will appear by reference to the Records in the said War Department 
  She further says that She has no documentary evidence but rests her case entirely on the evidence establishing the pension of her decd. Husband
  She further declares that she was married to the said William Allen on the 24th day of March 1785 by the Reverend Hezekiah Ripley that her husband
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the aforesaid William Allen died on the 3rd of October 1845 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January One thousand seven hundred & ninety four, viz. at the time within stated, & she is still a widow
  Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written Before me
  Rebekah [Rebecca] [her X mark] Allen

Eliphalet Swift Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Westport aforesaid
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  I Hezekiah Allen of Westport in Fairfield County Connecticut of [illegible] Six years of age testify and say that William Allen late of said Westport decd. was a Brother of mine & a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and on the Roll of the Connecticut Army at the rate of Eighty dollars a year & that he died at said Westport on the third day of October 1845 leaving a widow by the name of Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen, who when a girl was Rebeckah [Rebecca] Green, who is now a Widow & has been ever since the death of the said William Allen
  I further certify that the said Rebeckah [Rebecca] is over 80 years of age is poor but entitled to full credit & is the same Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen that has signed a Declaration for a pension for the services of her decd. Husband & is hereto annexed
  Hezekiah Allen

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss. Westport

  On this 27th day of January 1847 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared Hezekiah Allen of said Westport personally known to me & a credible witness who subscribed the above Deposition & made oath to the truth of the same. I further certify that the name of Hezekia Allen was interlined at the top as it now stands before signing
  Eliphalet Swift Justice of the Peace
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  I Giles M. Porter of the Town of Westport in Fairfield County Connecticut of lawful age hereby certify that in the Records of persons married by the Revd Hezekiah Ripley who was for many years Pastor of the Congregational or Consolidated Church in the Parish of Greens Farms in said Town of Westport, formerly a part of the Town of Fairfield is found the following Seventeen hundred Eighty five 1785, March twenty fourth 24, William Allen and Rebeckah [Rebecca] Green
  Giles M. Porter
  Pastor of the Cong. or Cons. Church in Greens Farms

  I Giles M. Porter above named depose & say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Congregational or Consolidated Church in the Parish of Greens Farms in the Town of Westport County & State aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "1785 March 24th"
  Giles M. Porter Pastor of the Cong or Cons. Church in Green Farms

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       }ss.  Westport

  On this 25th day of January 1847 before the subscribed a Justice of the peace in for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared Giles M. Porter above named & subscribed the above Deposition & made Oath to the truth of the same. I further certify that the Deponent is a Clergyman of Good standing & that his Deposition is entitled to full credit I further certify that the inserting of twenty fourth, next after the word March & between that the figures 24 was interlined before signing
  Eliphalet Swift Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss. Westport

  I John W. Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Westport in said County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen widow of William Allen late of said Westport decd for a pension.
  I further certify that Eliphalet Swift Esq is Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Westport in said County and also a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures of his name as Judge of Probate to the annexed declaration of Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen and the Depositions of Giles M. Porter and Hezekiah Allen hereunto annexed purporting to be his are genuine.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court of Probate at Westport this 27th day of January 1847.
  John W. Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Westport in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut
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[illegible]
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10353 [or 18353]
Rebecca Allen 
Wid. 
William Allen
Pri. Rev.
Act: Feb. 2d [2nd] 1848
Index: ---- Vol. A Page 9
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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6288
William Allen
Suspended
see letter to Hon G Tomlinson 30
[illegible] 1833.
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[hand written] Rep?
354.
Connecticut.

Rebecca Allen widow of William Allen who was a Private in the Conn. Militia

Husb. [Husband] died 5th Sept. 1845.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ---- Cents per annum, to commence on the 5th day of September 1845.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of March 1847 and sent to B. Winter, Esq. Easton, Fairfield Co. Connecticut.

Act of JUNE 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book, Vol2, Page 50
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Rebecca Allen
[hand stamp July 10]
[illegible]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Westport Court July 10th 1849

Hon J .L. Edwards
  Enclosed I transmit the application of Rebecca Allen of [illegible], widow of William Allen said; for a pension Certificate, under the act of February 2d 1849. She drew a pension up to the 4th March 1848, I believe the [illegible] are correct in conformity with the rules of your department, will you please give the case your early attention
  Respectfully yours
E. Swift
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  William Allen, Connecticut Roll-Act 7 June, 1832 -- $80 per annum. Will the Third Auditor please say to what time he was last paid?

Pension Office,  }
March 13, 1847.}

  Died 3 Sept. 1845 pd. to his death
[initials illegible]
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James L. Edwards Esqr.
Com. [Commissioner] of Pensions
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Fairfield June 26, 1833.

Sir, In compliance with the request of William Allen I herewith transmit his application for a pension.
  As persons associated with him in the public service have already been placed on the pension list, it is hoped that his case will meet your prompt & favorable attention.
  Yours respectfully.
G. Tomlinson

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
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Wm Allen
[side note illegible]
private 2 years
$80
Hon. G. Tomlinson
Fairfield CT

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Com. [Commissioner] of Pensions Washington
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Fairfield Aug. 19, 1833.

Sir, I have received your note stating an objection to the allowance of a pension to William Allen in consideration of his revolutionary services. The affidavits herewith transmitted, I trust, will entirely satisfy you that he actually performed "nine months service, in 1780" as stated in his "new declaration." For your satisfaction I hereby certify that Eliphalet Swift Esqr., before whom the affidavits were "sworn to and subscribed," is & has been, for several years, a Justice of the Peace, for Fairfield County & that all the signatures, on the enclosed paper, purporting to be his are undoubtedly genuine.
  With great respect, I am yours
G. Tomlinson
  J. L. Edwards Esqr.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 2d [2nd] of February 1848, entitled an act making further provisions for surviving widows & soldiers of the revolution

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       } ss.

  On this 18th day of May 1849 personally appeared before me Eliphalet Swift a Justice of the Peace in said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Rebecca Allen a resident of the Town of Westport in the County & State aforesaid aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 2d [2nd] of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of pensioners who served during the revolutionary war and she is the widow of William Allen, who was a private in the army of the revolution & who when living and at the time of his death drew a pension of Eighty dollars per annum for services rendered in the army of the revolution as will appear by his declaration, widow, & certificate on file in the pension office at Washington, that she received a pension from after the death of her said husband, William Allen up to the 4th of March 1848 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, under the laws of the United States, as she believes under the act of June 17th 1844; that her certificate was surrendered on the 4th of March 1848, and the papers are at the pension office at Washington. She further declares that she is still a widow 
  Rebecca [her X mark] Allen

  Sworn to & subscribed on the day 1 year before written before me
  Eliphalet Swift Justice of the Peace

  I certify that I am truthfully acquainted with the above declared & know that she is the widow of said William Allen of the same individual who drew a pension as solder in the foregoing declaration
  Angeline Browne
  Eliphalet Swift Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       } ss.

  I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid, & keeper of the seal thereof, & of the Commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said County do certify, that Eliphalet Swift Esquire on the 18th day of May 1849, the date of the written Declaration, a Justice of the Peace for sd [said] County duly commissioned & acting as such, & duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths & take the acknowledgment of deeds that his commission was dated June 24th 1848, and expired with the 19th day of June 1849 and I further certify that the signatures on the other side hereof, purporting to be his are his genuine signatures
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County Court this 23d day of June 1849
  Thomas Robinson Clerk
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I, Aaron Jennings of the Town & County of Fairfield & State, of Connecticut Aged Seventy one years do testify & say that I am personally acquainted and knowing to the services of William Allen in the Revolutionary War, and that Early in the spring of the year 1780 I Enlisted as a private soldier in the State Troops under Capt Isaac Jarvis Col. Dimons Regt for Nine months & served out the first Term on the Guard of the Sea Court of the Town of Fairfield. Also Early in the spring of the year 1781 i Enlisted in the State Troops under Capt. Thomas Nash in Col. Dimons Regt for the Term of Nine months & served out the full time in Guard of the Sea Court of the Town of Fairfield also early in the Spring of the year 1782 I again Enlisted in the State Troops, under Capt. Thomas Nash in Col. Dimons Regt for the Term of Nine months & served out the full time in Guard of the Sea Court of the Town of Fairfield, and further the Deponent says he is personally knowing and confident that William Allen of sd [said] Fairfield Enlisted as a private soldier in the spring of the year 1780 under Capt. Isaac Jarvis aforesaid and served with me in Guard of the Sea Court of Fairfield the full Term of Nine months during that year and also that he the said William Enlisted under Capt. Thomas Nash aforesaid  in Each of the years of 1781 & 1782 and served with me the full time of nine months on Guard of the Sea Court of sd [said] Fairfield in Each of said years of 1781 & 1782 Except the time that he was a prisoner of the British which I think was in the year 1781, and for about four months or more as I can recollect the said Allen being taken a prisoner while on duty as Guard aforesaid and further the deponent saith not Dated at Fairfield this 14th day of June 1833.
  Aaron Jennings

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss. 

Fairfield June 14, 1833 the foregoing Deposition of Aaron Jennings was taken Subscribed & Sworn Before Me.
  Jeremiah Sturges Justice of Peace

I Certify that the above Deponent Aaron Jennings is a man of Truth & Verocity undisputed 
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.
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I, Stephen Godfrey of the Town & County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut Aged Eighty Seven years -- do testify & say that I am personally knowing to the service of William Allen of said Fairfield in the Revolutionary War and that in addition to the Deposition Given be [before] me of his service with me in the years of 1781 & 1782 under Captain Thomas Nash, Col. Dimons Regt. before Jeremiah Sturges Esq. Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Fairfield aford. [aforementioned] on the 18th day of July 1832 I am positive and was personally Knowing, that he the said William Allen Enlisted and served under Capt. Isaac Jarvis, in the year 1780, on the

[illegible] of the Sea Coast, of the Town of Fairfield for the full Term of Nine months from Early in the Spring to late in the Fall or Winter of the same year and further the Deponent Saith not Dated at Fairfield this 14th day of June 1833--
  Stephen Godfrey

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

Fairfield June 14th, 1833 the foregoing Deposition of Stephen Godfrey was taken Subscribed and Sworn to before Me.
  Jeremiah Sturges Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

Fairfield June 14, 1833

I, Certify that the above Deponent Stephen Godfrey is a man of Truth & Veracity undisputed
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.
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  State of Connecticut & District of Fairfield June the 24th 1833 I David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that Jeremiah Sturges, the person before whom the two immediately preceding depositions were taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield in the State Connecticut and that the signing official signatures of his name are his genuine signatures. 
  David Hill Justice of Probate

  I David Hill I am Clerk of the County probate for the district of Fairfield aforesaid hereby certify that David Hill who has signed the preceding certificate is Judge of Probate for the district of Fairfield aforesaid, and that the foregoing signature of his name is his genuine signature in [illegible] my I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of office this 24th day of June AD. 1833
  David Hill Jr Clerk
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Commd. [Commissioner] of Pensions at Washington D.C.

[illegible]
Rebeca [Rebecca] Allen
July 7, 1833
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James L. Edwards Esqr
  Sir herewith you will review the papers of Rebeckah [Rebecca] Allen for a pension which I think you will find all correct & if so please send me a certificate for the said Rebeckah [Rebecca] as soon as convenient and oblige
  Yours Respectfully
Bradford Winter

Easton February 8th 1847

N.B. Please send your communication to me at Easton Fairfield County Conn.
  B. Winter
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I Joshua Couch of the Town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut being duly sworn depose & say, that I am seventy five years of age, was born in the Town of Fairfield & always made my home there; that I was a soldier of the revolution, and I have been well acquainted with William Allen of said Fairfield, who is now applying for a pension under the act of 1832 from his infancy, he has always lived near me, I know that said Allen was a soldier in a company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by C W Isaac Jarvis in 1780 in the war of the revolution, and he served nine months in that year, I was in the same service, the same year, for the same length of time, he enlisted in the spring of that year for the term of nine months, Allen was young when he enlisted, but he was a large, stout boy of his age, though that [illegible], & more able to do service, than many in the company who were 35 or 40 years old.
  Joshua Couch

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
August 17th 1833
Sworn to & Subscribed Before me
Eliphalet Swift Jus [Justice] of Peace
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I Trowbridge Crossman of Weston in the County of Fairfield being duly sworn deposed & say that I shall be sixty eight years on the 19th day of next February if I live till that time; that I was born & brought up in the town of Fairfield in said County, & I was myself in the service of my country in the war of the revolution and I have been well acquainted with William Allen of said Fairfield who is applying for a pension under the Act of 1832  from his infancy, or since he was eight years old we were brought up near together & I will remember that said Allen was a soldier enlisted at said Fairfield & that he served in the shore guards, but whether he served in 1780, I do not now recollect I knew he enlisted when he was young, and I also know that he was a large stout boy of his age, very strong and healthy & able to do duty before he was fifteen. That mid [illegible] Allen served as affixed [illegible] in a company of Connecticut State Troops in the war of the revolution
  Trowbridge Crossman

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   }

August 17th 1833

Sworn to & Subsided Before me
Eliphalet Swift Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   }

August 17th 1833

  I certify that Joshua Couch & Trowbridge Crossman who have sworn to & subscribed the foregoing depositions before me are indelible papers and their testimony may be relied on, they have long been personally known by me.
  Eliphalet Swift Justice of the Peace
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No. 6288.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogations Prescribed by the war department that the above Named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he States and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joshua Couch Jesup Taylor and Moses Taylor are Residents in the Town and County of Fairfield, State of Connecticut and are credible persons and that their statement is Entitled to credit.
  John Q. Wilson
  Chief Judge

I, Thomas Osborne Clerk of the sd [said] County Court within aforsd [aforesaid]
Fairfield County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of William Allen for a Pension
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office. I further certify that Jeremiah Sturges Esquire before whom the annexed Deposition of Stephen Godfrey & Wakeman Burritt were sworn is & was on the 18th of July  [illegible] a Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County & that the signatures to the Certificates on the same purporting to be his are genuine & in the proper hand writing of the sd [said] Jeremiah Sturges. I further certify that the sd [said] Stephen Godfrey appeared before sd [said] County Court & in open Court made solemn oath to the truth of the annexed Deposition by him subscribed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County Court in Fairfield this 23d day of July AD 1832.
  Thomas B Osborne Clerk of
  County Court for Fairfield County
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  I Stephen Godfrey of the Town & County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut Aged Eighty Six years do testify & say that early in the spring of the year 1781, I Enlisted as a Sergent in the State Troops under Captain Thomas Nash Col. Dimons Regt. of Fort for the Term of Nine months and served untill [until] late in the fall of the same year in the Guard of the Sea Court of the Town of Fairfield also Early in the spring of the year 1782 I Enlisted again as a Sergent in the same Company Commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash for the further Term of Nine months and served until late in the fall of the same year 1782 in the Guard of the Sea Court of said Fairfield. And further the Deponent Testifies & says that William Allen of said Fairfield Enlisted as a private Soldier in said Company commanded by said Capt. Thomas Nash in the Spring of the year 1781. And also in the spring of the year 1782 and served with me in the aford. [aforesaid] Guard for the Two terms of Nine months in Each of the years 1781 and 1782 and further the Deponent Saith not Dated Fairfield this 18th day of July 1832
  Stephen Godf [Godrey]

  Sworn to in open Court
Sect. Tho. B. Osborn Clerk

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

Fairfield July 18, 1832 the foregoing Deposition was taken. Subscribed & Sworn to before me.
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.

The War at Ebenezar in the 4th term is erased by request of the Deponent. He says I do not recollect the Calv. [Calvery] Christian name
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       } ss.

 Fairfield June 14th 1833 I certify that the above named Deponent Stephen Godfrey is a man of Truth and Veracity Undisputed
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.
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I Wakeman Burrit of the Town of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut aged Seventy three years, do certify & say that, early in the spring of the year 1781 I, Enlisted as a private soldier in the State Troops under Captain Thomas Nash in Col. Ebenezer Simons Regt. of Fort for the Term of Nine Months and served until late in the fall of the same year in the Guard of the Sea Court of the Town of Fairfield also. 

Early in the Spring of the year 1782 I Enlisted again as a private Soldier in the same Company commanded by the aforesaid, Capt. Thomas Nash for the further term of Nine months and served untill [until] late in the fall of the same year 1782 in the guard of the same Court of sd. [said] Fairfield and further the deponent Testifies & says that William Allen of Said Fairfield Enlisted as a private Soldier in Land Company Commanded by Capt Thomas Nash in the Spring of the year 1781, and also in the spring of the year 1782 and Served with me in the aforesaid Guard for the term of Nine months in Each of the aforesaid year of 1781 & 1782. And further the deponent not Dated at Fairfield this 18th day of July 1832
  Wakeman Burrit

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.

Fairfield July 18, 1832, the foregoing Deposition was taken. Subscribed & Sworn to before me
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       } ss.

Fairfield June 14, 1833
  I Certify that the above Deponent Wakeman Burritt is a man of Truth and Veracity undisputed
  Jeremiah Sturges J.P.