Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26298, for James Penfield, Connecticut
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Reported                 827
    Connecticut
Mary Penfield
widow of James Penfield
Con
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private -

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars  - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
24th day of July 1828
and sent to 
   Isaac Sherman
       Bridgeport,
                   Ct

Recorded on Roll of Petitioners under act 
February 7, 1848, Page 326 Vol 1
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State of Connecticut Js District of Fairfield November 21st -1833
I Oliver Sykes a Clergyman of the Methodist Connection at [Illegible] Station in the Town of Fairfield and Nation and plains adjacent [last three words inserted] in Connecticut, having been first duly sworn according to Law do testify and say, that I have, for many years been acquainted with Mr. James Penfield of said Fairfield who is a member of the same methodist connection and would say that I have as found him to be a man of the strictest truth and of an invariable character for honesty and I thereto [?]  not doubt his testimony in any case, And I also believe from what I have heard that he was a Soldier in the revolution.
   [Signed]  Oliver Sykes
Sworn to & Subscribed in the day
and year aforesaid before 
David Hill Judge of the
County Probate for the District aforesaid

State of Connecticut Js  District of Fairfield November the 18th 1833
I David Judson  resident of the District and State aforesaid being first duly sworn according to Law, do depose and say that I am well acquainted with James Penfield of said district and state and that I  believe him to be seventy two years of age and know him to be a man of the strictest truth and integrity and [illegible] say that his testimony was entitled to the fullest credit. 
    [Signed]  David Judson
Sworn and subscribed on the day  & year aforesaid before David Hill
Judge of the County Probate 
for the District aforesaid -

State of Connecticut Js  District of Fairfield November the 19th, 1883
I James Knapp a resident of the District and State aforesaid being first duly sworn according to Law, do depose and say, that I am well acquainted with James Penfield of said district, and believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution, and I concur in that same opinion, and I also knew him to be a man of the strictest truth & his testimony is entitled to full credit.
    [Signed]  James Knapp
Sworn to and subscribed on the day &
year aforesaid before David Hill Judge
of the County Probate for the District aforesaid -
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} Js  Bridgeport
On this 25 Day of March  AD 1843
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Bridgeport in said County & State Mary Penfield a resident of the Town of Fairfield in said County aged 77 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 7 1838, entitled "An act of Congress granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows.  Also to a Resolution passed by Congress and approved the 16th Day of August 1842 entitled a Resolution declarative of the said Pension act of July 7 1838.
That She is the widow of James Penfield late of said Fairfield and who was a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary War and for proof of his service in sd War she refers to is application for a Pension which may be found at the Pension office at the City of Washington.

She further declares that she was married to the said James Penfield on the twenty fourth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty Six  That her husband the aforsaid James Penfield died at saidFairfield on the 11th Day of December in the year 1842   That she was not married to him
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Mary Penfield

Ad

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Admitted


Isaac Sherman
      Bridgeport
                   Ct
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DECLARATION, in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolutions:
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
County of Fairfield} Js Fairfield
On this 12th day of July 1848 personally appeared before me, a Magistrate in and for said County aforesaid, Mary Penfield a resident of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, aged 82 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, making the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:
  That she is the widow of James Penfield who was a Private Soldier in Service in sd War, was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7th 1832 who resided in said Fairfield at the time of his decease & for proof of his service, the Regiment or Corps, in which he served    She refers to his Pension Declaration at the Pension office in Washington City -
   That she received a pension under the act of June 17th, 1844, at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum.
   She further declares that she is still a widow
                                           her
                               Mary     X   Penfield
                                           mark
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year before written, before me
   [Signed]  Isaac Sherman  Justice of the Peace
Witnesses}  Mary Sherman
                    Isaac Sherman

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above declarant, and know that she is the widow of James Penfield aforesaid and the same individual who drew a pension as stated in the foregoing declaration.
   [Signed]  Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
    County of Fairfield} SS.
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Sherman Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission was dated on the 24 day of June 1848, and that his signatures above written are genuine.

{Seal        Given under my hand and the seal of
affixed     said County Court this 14 day of July
here]        1848
     [Signed] Thomas Robinson Clerk
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
   Such of the original muster and pay
rolls f the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

                                                          L. W. B.
                                                      W. 26298.

               Department of the Interior,
                      Bureau of Pensions,
                              Washington, D.C.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY,            February 4th, 1898.

Sir:-
   Replying to your request for information concerning James Penfield a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on November 15, 1833, at which time he was 72 years of age residing in Fairfield, Conn., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Jarvis. He enlisted in Fairfield, Conn.
   His widow, Mary, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
                           Very respectfully,

                                  Commissioner.

Mr. James A. Penfield.
    153 John Street,
        Bridgeport, Conn.