Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17162, Bishop Tyler, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Tyler, Bishop

NUMBER
S.17162

carded
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No. 28.199
Connecticut

Bishop  Tyler
of (illegible) in the State of Conn. who was a pvt (illegible) in the Company commanded  by Captain Mills of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the Conn. line for 14 mos (illegible)
2 mos (illegible)
Inc. from 33.99 to $54.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Con't. at the rate of 54 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Sep. 34 and (illegible) pensioner (illegible) City, Con't.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 34                       189-
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 35            27-
                                                                     $216-

{Revolutionary Claim, }
Act June 7, 1832         }


Recorded  by Nath. Rice   Clerk
Book E2   Vol.  3    Page 41
         E2           3             41
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

State of Connecticut,
County of New Loudon
City of Norwich              } ss

On this 20th day of July A.D. 1832, personally appeared n open court before the city court of the city of Norwich, now sitting Bishop Taylor, resident of Griswold, formerly Preston in the county of New Loudon and state of Connecticut, aged Sixty five 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 act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832;  

That on or about the first day of March 1781 he entered the services of the United States on or about the first day of March 1781 in a company commanded by Capt Charles Miles in a corps of State Troops raised by the State of Connecticut for one year.  The he continued to serve from that time untill (sic) on or about the first day of March 1782 the period of one year & that he served for the whole of that period, was one year & was discharged at Stamford in the State of Connecticut with the (illegible) of said Company.  I was very young when I enlisted & my father was unwilling that I should enlist but being acquainted with Capt. Miles, & he agreeing that I should leave as his waiter & being myself very anxious to go, he finally consented,  I was accepted in the capacity of a private soldier, (illegible) and the whole time
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Captain Miles was taken prisoner by a party of British light horse sometime in the Month of June 1781 and continued a prisoner untill (sic) some in September following during his absence I did the duty of a common soldier in P's company  I was in one battle at Throg's neck (illegible) Kings Bridge we were engaged with Delaney's corps & a considerable number were then killed & wounded & afterwards at or near the same place we were again engaged with the same corps (illegible)  Delaney & a considerable number of French troops were killed.  In the last my regiment and troops retreated & at the last we succeeded, & took the fort where the corps was stationed. Then saw Genl Washington for the first time.  I never had any discharge in writing.

That on or about the first day of April 1782 he performed a tour of military duty in the Militia of the State of Connecticut for the period of two months as a substitute for Joseph Belcher now (illegible).  That I served in a company commanded by Capt. John Cobb of Stonington in said County, served in Fort Griswold in Groton the whole was under command of Col. Samuel McClelland & his son Samuel McClellan was adjutant of sd (said) Regiment.  During this period there lay near Groton and New London a prison ship which contained a large number of prisoners who rose on the guard & all had a conflict with them and which I lost my gun & the accoutrements[?] I served and my two months & was discharged
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I again served in said Militia for a period of two months commencing on the 24th day of September 1782 in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Charlen Prentice in Col. Samuel McClellan's regiment at New London & Groton aforesaid & was discharged on the 24th day of November AD 1782  I have before me the original payroll of that company which has been found among the old papers in possession of a grandson of sd (said) Capt. Prentice in which my name is found & I know that the payroll of that company in that year altho (although) the year is not entered thereon.    This document I refer to marked A. & to which I have placed that letter & my own signature & it will be (illegible) by Elezra Prentice for his service & perhaps others.

He was born January 22d 1762 presumes it is recorded on the records of the town of Weston (illegible) (illegible) (illegible) (illegible) As is on (illegible) on his father's family Bible as above stated.

I lived at Reston in New Loudon County when I entered said service.  He is now Newtown of Griswold, (illegible) having been divided.  I have ever lived there and am now a practicing physician there & am a fellow of the Medical Society of Connecticut.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency or of any State
Bishop Tyler
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Bishop Tyler's 
Declaration for a pension
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[Illegible] within referred to being by [several illegible words] Prentice wanted for other purposes is not now transmitted. It contains the names of Capt Charen Prentice as Capt Amos Gadye as Lieut Josiah Walter as Ensign & more than twenty privates & among the rest Bishop Tyler times when joined Sept 24. Discharged Mar 24.  Wages for month $2[?] _ _
the year does not appear on the document aforesaid        Bishop Tyler

Sworn and Subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
attest Alex Lathrop Clerk
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State of Connecticut
City of Norwich        } ss

On this 20th Day of July AD 1832 personally appeared Frederick Prentice a resident Citizen of the City of Norwich who being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he is the grandson of Capt. Eleazer Prentice late of the (illegible) of Weston in New London County which is now the town of Griswold.  that his said Grandfather and also his father, John Prentice, of the same place are both dead that his said father was executor to the last will & Testament of his said Grandfather & that on the application of (illegible) Bishop Tyler & Capt. Elisha Prentice both of Griswold applicants for pensions under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  I made search among the old papers belonging to my Grandfather for some writing evidence of their services in a militia company commanded by my Grandfather in the war of the revolution.  That I found a paper in the hand writing of my said Grandfather which purports to be a Payroll of said Company. It is not signed by any person but at the top is as follows:  "A payroll of Capt. Eleazer Prentice, Company in Col Samuel McClellans Regiment of Militia State of Connecticut"  This is without date of any years.  It contains a column showing the names of the officers & privates being twenty nine in the whole.  Eleazer Prentice Capt.  Amos Galley Lieut. Josiah Walter Ensign & (illegible) against each name is a column showing the time when each person entered & another the time of discharge & another the amount of wages per month & another the amount of (illegible).  In this paper is the name of Bishop Tyler, line when joined Sept 224.  Line when discharged Nov. 22 or 24th is not able with certainty which from the names of making the figure
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amount of wages 4..8.. _ Number miles [illegible] from [illegible] 2b -

In the same paper I also found the name of Elisha [illegible] the same [illegible] the time of joining [illegible] of discharge, New Y. - Wages $3. per month total $4.

I had loaned the above paper to the persons aforesaid as [illegible] in this application for pensions, but on [illegible] of this being so many names in the papers who may have equal claims to its use I [illegible] letting the original go aid of my [illegible].

Frederick Prentice

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court

Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk

[In margin] Bishop Tyler Application for pension
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I Alexander Lathrop Clerk of the court of the City of Norwich do certify that Charles Much Esq the signer of the within certificate is Town Clerk of the Town of Reston and that the within signature is his handwriting dated at the City of Norwich
this 28 day of July AD 1832

Attest Alex Lathrop
Clerk of the Court of the City of Norwich

[In margin]
Bishop 
County

oth
[illegible] 12 1/2
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Preston July 23rd AD 1832

This may certify that Bishop Tyler Son of Samuel Tyler was born the 22nd day of January AD 1767 as appears from [illegible]

Attest Charles Much Town Clerk
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Samuel Robins of Canterbury in Windham County and State of Connecticut aged Seventy two years being first duly sworn, do on oath declare that I was a private soldier in a
company of State troops commanded by Capt Charles Miles from March AD 1781 untill March 1782 in a Brigade commanded by Genl Waterbury the service of the United States Stationed at [illegible] Connecticut said troops being raised by the United States. [illegible] I continued to serve in said company for said whole time as [illegible] the [illegible] when I was a prisoner in New York for some time in June 1781untill September following when I was discharged.
That I well know Doct Bishop Tyler now of Griswold formerly Preston in said County now making application for a pension. That I know him to have been a private soldier in said company during the whole of said period. he
enlisted in Preston where I resided at the time of enlistment & where said Miles then resided, & said Tyler entered the service as waiter to said Miles, but was not present when sd Miles
myself & others were taken prisoners- That I recollect the said Tyler more particularly there from the circumstances to [illegible] of this [illegible] also the son of Col Samuel Tyler a very respectable Citizen of Preston.
I remember one night going the rounds to observe the Continels I found Tyler on duty as a Continel which was unusual, but the duty at this time being [illegible] he took his turn & when he hailed me I well recollect
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(illegible)
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Bishop Tyler
28330
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department the above named applicant was a revolutionary war soldier and served as he stated in his Declaration and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Frederic Prentice a resident of Norwich and Samuel Robbins a resident of Canterbury who signed the preceding certificates are credible persons and that their statements is intitled to full credit and the said Court do further certify that the Revd SD Jewett who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of Griswold and that S Tucker who has signed the same is also resident in the town of Griswold and that they are credible persons and that their statement is intitled to credit.

I Alexander Lathrop Clerk of the Court of the City of Norwich do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Bishop Tyler for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the Seal of said City Court this 28 day of July AD 1832.

Alexander Lathrop Clerk
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[in margin] 30.377

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State of Connecticut, County of New London ss
Probate District of Norwich

On this 22d day of November A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate for the District of Norwich in the State of Connecticut present John Hyde Esq. Judge holding said Court Doctor Bishop Tyler a resident of Griswold in the County of New London & state of Connecticut aged sixty 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That on the first day of March 1781 at Preston in the County of New London & State of Connecticut he enlisted into a company of State troops raised by the State of Connecticut commanded by Captain Charles Miles of said Preston in Col. Humphrey's Regiment in Genl Waterbury's Brigade for the term of one year as waiter to said Capt. Miles, marched to New Haven and was there mustered, marched to
Horseneck in the State of New York and there
joined the army, and was engaged in actual
military service there & in that vicinity for the
term of one year during which time we had many skirmishes with the enemy and the Captain of our company with about thirty of the company went out on an exploring excursion and were taken prisoners and carried to New York and
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after being detained there a number of weeks were exchanged and rejoined the army at the
expiration of the term of his enlistment, viz; on the first day of March 1782, he was honorably
discharged at Stamford having served one full
year, and for the proof of this service he relies
on the depositions of Simeon Hewett and Samuel Robbins hereto annexed who are the only persons living that he knows of or has reason to believe know of his said services.

In the year 1782 in the spring of the year
in the month of April or May, he thinks May, he again entered into the service of his country at Fort Griswold in Groton in Connecticut opposite to New London for the term of two months, as a substitute for Joseph Belcher deceased who was draughted for said term, and was appointed a corporal and did a corporal's duty, it being the year after the destruction of the Fort by Arnold, our duty was to repair and guard the Fort, which was very hard, and guard the prisoners on board the prison ship, was there when the prisoners rose and took the guard and there he lost his gun and all his military apparatus, for which he has received nothing. he was in the company of Capt. John Cobb of Stonington attached to Col. McClelland's Regiment, and the whole of his time was
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devoted to military service at the end of two months he was discharged. for the proof of this service he relies on the deposition of Col. David Avery hereto annexed he being the only person in life that the declarent has reason to believe knows of his said services

On the 24th day of September in the same year; viz. 1782, he again entered the service in the same Fort as a substitute for Barton Cooke deceased, as appears by the pay roll of Captian Eliezer Prentice's Company, Col McClelland's Regiment, his Captain gave him the offer to serve as a corporal or to be his waiter, he chose to be his waiter and performed that duty, nothing unusual occured in this term of service, military service was strictly performed by him without reference to any other concern, after the expiration of two months he was discharged and retired from service he relies on the pay roll as aforesaid and the deposition of Capt. Elisha Prentice to prove this service.

He made a declaration of his said services
before the City Court for the City of Norwich in
July 1832. which with the proof thereof was then transmitted to the war department and he has recently been informed that the same are mislaid or lost.

He was born in Preston aforesaid on the 22d day of January 1767 A.D. and having always resided in the same place it being now Griswold where I reside
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now. In his first service of one year under Capt. Miles it was by enlistment. In his second service of two months in Capt. Cobbs company he served as a substitute for Joseph Belcher
and in his third & last service of two months in Capt. Prentice's company he served as a substitute for Barton Cook making in the whole of his service sixteen months for which he claims a pension. He never had any written discharge.

He cannot state more particularly than he has the name of Regular officers.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or of the United States.

Bishop Tyler

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me John Hyde
Judge of the Court of Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, & served as he states.

I Burrel Lathrop Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Norwich in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application
of Doctor Bishop Tyler for a pension. And I further certify that Samuel C. Morgan Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of New London & that his signature to the Deposition of Samuel Robbins he annexed is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this court this 22d day of November Anno Domini 1832.

Burrel Lathrop
Clerk
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I Samuel Robbins of the town of Canterbury in
Windham County State of Connecticut now aged seventy four years depose and say that from my youth to the present time I have been well acquainted with Doct Bishop Tyler of the town of Griswold in New London County in said state. That in the first day of March 1781 in the year of the Revolution I enlisted with the said Tyler into the company of state troops raised by the state of Connecticut commanded by Capt Charles Miles of Reston in New London County, which company was attached to the Brigade commanded by Gen. Waterbury I well recollect that immediately after we enlisted together we marched to Horseneck in the State of New York, and were there stationed and continued in that vicinity until the first of March 1782, when we were discharged having served one year the full time of our enlistment. The most of our company were either killed or taken prisoners.
I was taken prisoner at a place called Pecksland by the enemy and was taken to New York
and was kept a prisoner there eleven weeks when I was exchanged and returned to our army [illegible] neck. I well recollect that Capt.  Miles was taken prisoner at the same time, but the whole company was not those taken were a scouting party, the said Tyler enlisted as a waiter to Capt. Miles he was then very young which I recollect from the circumstance of his being on guard at one time when I was going
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the rounds to see whether all on guard were
at their posts. the said Tyler hailed me so
quick and sharp that I thought he would
fire upon me before I could let him know
my business. The said Tyler was with the army
all the time from the time of our enlistment
until the time of our discharge the first of
March 1782 and was engaged during said time
in no civil pursuits, whatever, but has all of said period actually and constant by employed in actual service. The said Tyler was with the army when I was taken a prisoner and was with the army when I returned and was discharged at the same time I was. Doct Bishop Tyler of said Griswold before named is the identical Bishop Tyler who was with me in the service as before
stated. I have ever known him since the war as
well as before. He was a physician and has doctored in my family for a number of years, and further this deponent says not

Dated at Griswold this 11 day of Novr 1833.
Samuel Robbins

State of Connecticut
New London County} Ss. Griswold Novr 11 1833-

Then personally appeared Samuel Robbins
who signed the above deposition in my presence a person to me well known as a credible witness and made oath of the truth of
the same according to his best recollection
and belief - before me -
Samuel C Morgan Justice of Peace
for New London County
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For New London County

Simeon Hewett of Groton in the County of
New London & State of Connecticut sixty eight years old being duly sworn doth on his oath testify & say that in March 1781 he inlisted into a company of State troops commanded by Capt. Charles Miles of Preston in said County in Col. Humpheys Regiment or Battallion which was attached to the Brigade commanded by Genl Waterbury and I then & there became acquainted with Doctor Bishop Tyler of Griswold in said county who had inlisted in said company for the term of one year it being the same term of time that I had inlisted for and the said Tyler served as waiter to the said Capt. Miles, we proceeded to New Haven where we were mustered we then marched to Horseneck in the State of New York & there joined the army and was stationed and continued doing duty in that vicinity until March 1782. we were discharged at Rainford having served one year the full time of our enlistment. the 24th day of June 1781. Capt. Miles with about thirty of his company went
on a scouting party, between the lines and was
surprised & taken prisoner and two of the men
killed & six wounded. I recollect that the Capt.
left his commission at his quarters in his coat pocket & wore a white rifle frock which belonged to his waiter the said Tyler. they were carried to New York & kept prisoners about eleven or twelve weeks as near as the deponent can recollect when they were exchanged and again joined the army 
Soon after that trigger [???] as the deponent best recollection is
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sometime in the month of July our Brigade
marched down to Throgs Neck where we had a
small skirmish with the enemy it being the same time the continental troops had also a skirmish with the enemy near Kings Bridge
The deponent further says that said Tyler was
with the army the whole time of his enlistment
and during said time was not engaged in any
civil pursuit, but served one full year as waiter to said Capt. Miles and we were both discharged the same day the deponent is now a pensioner of the United States & further the deponent saith not

Simeon Hewitt

Personally appeared the said Simeon Hewett well
known to me as a credible witness & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition on the day & year aforesaid

Before me John Hyde
Judge of the Court of Probate
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David Avery of Lebanon in the County of New
London & state of Connecticut aged sixty nine
years being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath testify and say that he has always known Doctor Bishop Tyler of Griswold in said county and State that the deponent and the said Tyler were both natives of Preston, and the deponent in time of the Revolutionary War performed a years service in Fort Griswold at Groton in said State and in the spring of the year 1782. he well remembers that the said Doctor Bishop Tyler entered said Fort &
served as a corporal two months in Captain
Cobbs company. and also in the fall of the year
he also knows that the said Tyler served another tour of duty in said Fort in Captain Prentice's company of two months and was waiter to said Capt. Prentice. the deponent would further state that the said Tyler was a great boy and stout & strong and an able bodied soldier and did the duties of a soldier to perfect satisfaction and further the deponent said not

David Avery

Court of Probate District of Norwich
December 16th 1833. Personally appeared Colonel David Avery well known to me as a credible witness, signed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition

Before me
John Hyde
Judge of the Court of Probate
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Frederic Prentice of Norwich, in the County of New London & state of Connecticut thirty seven years old being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath testify & say that my grandfather Eleazer Prentice died in the year 1805. and among the papers left by him the annexed pay roll was one which came into the possession of my father John Prentice who also died in the year 1829. and after his death came into my hand as an Administrator upon his estate, the paper was known by me long before it came into my hands and I have no doubt of its being an original pay roll of my grandfather's company in the revolutionary war it is marked A and I have written my name thereon this 22d day of November, A.D. 1833, in which all will be found the name of Bishop
Tyler as entered in service the 24th Sept. and
discharged Nov. 22. the same has been kept
by me ever since the death of my father
and further the deponent saith not

Frederic Prentice

Court of Probate
District of Norwich Nov. 22d. 1833.
Personally appeared Mr. Frederic Prentice well
known to me as a credible witness subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition
Before me John Hyde
Judge of the Court of Probate
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Elisha Prentice of Griswold in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged sixty nine years being duly sworn doth on his oath testify and say that he has always been acquainted with Doctor Bishop Tyler of said Griswold. that they were born and brought up in the same neighborhood & always went to the same school when they were boys that in time of the Revolutionary war they served together in Fort Griswold two months in Capt.
Eleazer Prentice's Company Col. McClelland's
Regiment the year after the massacre at said Fort, from September to November, as appears by the old roll of Capt. Prentice, that said Bishop Tyler was a waiter to Capt. Prentice & I was waiter to Ensign Josiah Witter, that said Tyler altho young was a stout athletic man, and an able bodied man and very zealous in the cause of the country as was his father Col Samuel Tyler the deponent further says that he knew Capt. Charles Miles, and has always understood & believes that the said Bishop Tyler served a year in the war of the Revolution
as his Miles' waiter 
and further the deponent saith not

Elisha Prentice

Court of Probate
District of Norwich Nov. 22d. 1833.
Personally appeared Capt. Elisha Prentice
well known to me as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed 
Before me John Hyde
Judge.
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Bishop Tyler of the town of Griswold in the County of New London, being called to explain why a youth of the tender age of fourteen should be engaged in the service of his country, when the militia laws did not require
those under sixteen years to be entitled in the militia feels no small mortification at being called upon to answer such a question to obtain the small sum which the tardy justice of his country has seen fit to bestow as testimony
of its estimation of those services - mortification that when he has not only made solemn oath to those services, but proved them by most respectable witnesses - He feels however some gratification that at the time
when this question comes to him from Washington to be answered, he has been & is sitting in a respectable Court of Justice as foreman of a very respectable Jury deciding the causes of his fellow citizens, that he is a
practising Physician in his native town. which
town he has represented in the Legislature of the State & was employed as a Surgeon in the last war at New London.

But the question recurs, why at the tender age
of fourteen, he engaged in the service of his county when the law did not oblige him to do so? He answers, because he loved his country. Because he was born and educated in New-England - In Connecticut - In the Parish of Pachang in the town of Preston, In a Parish where he was accustomed to attend Public
worship on the Sabbath, where the Parish Minister was an ardent friend of his country & taught his people to pray for the success of the righteous cause in which it was engaged, where the people at his recommendation on one Sabbath, & information of the distresses of the soldiers of the revolution came laden
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in the next Sabbath with blankets, mittens, shoes, & stockings & other necessaries for their relief filled the broad rises with them & which were dispatched for their use as soon as the sabbath & its holy services had ended - Where mothers, or one at least on helping her young man to put on his knapsack to join the Army, took him by the hand - bid him adieu - prayed God to bless & preserve him but charged him whatever might happen to him
never to let her hear that he "died of a wound in his back". Because finally he was the son of
Colonel Samuel Tyler a member of the same
Parish & himself an officer of the revolution - ardently engaged in the cause of his country: 
liberty, & finally yielded to the importunity of
a son whose juvenile order had been enkindled
by his own spirit to take part in avenging its wrongs- 

If more be necessary, he adds, that he well
recollects when he was twelve years old a company of soldiers commanded by Capt. Carr were passing from Rhode Island to join the Continental Army, tarried at his father's house one night and noticed him playing on a fife made from a stalk of the elder bush & urged him to enlist as his fifer, he agreed to do so, if his father's consent could be obtained - it was applied for & refused, but from that time he continually importuned his father to enlist, to which he finally consented when he could place him under the charge & as the waiter
of his friend & neighbor Capt. Charles Miles with whom he served as stated in his original declaration
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and before that service expired had occasion to use other weapons than a fife & perform other services than those of a waiter to his Captain, who was a prisoner to the enemy.

Having had a good common school education
and being a boy of size, he acquired a knowledge of Stuben's manuel exercise equal, as he supposed to any of his fellow soldiers & so much so that on the joining of the troops in his next service, he was appointed by his officers a Corporal and employed in drilling new recruits & continued to do the duties of a Corporal until ten days before his term expired when on a vacancy occurring the same officers appointed him a sergeant the duties of which he performed for the residue of that tour.

This first period of service was one year from
March 1781, to March 1782, under Capt. Miles - the second at Fort Griswold for a period of two months as above stated doing the duties of a corporal for all the time excepting ten days & that time as a Sergeant, according to his best knowledge & belief as to the division of time. This third service was in the same fort two months as will be proved by a copy of the pay roll herewith transmitted. Having also written to the Commissioner of Pensions & been informed by letter that his papers, which were transmitted in July 1832, were not to be found, he has furnished, as advised a new set of papers & all the additional evidence in his power in relation to his services accompanied by his first
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papers - his new declaration having been made
before the old ones were returned from Washington.

He respectfully suggests that he has fully
proved his services & believing these services to have been meritorious as well as useful to his country & in the performance of which he feels a proud satisfaction whatever may be the result of this application which he hopes will be granted, but if rejected he hopes it will not be done because he was of an age too tender to perform such services while the stress [???] of two wars presides over the destinies of his country.

Dated at Norwich the 5th day of December A.D. 1833

Bishop Tyler

Court of Probate
District of Norwich Dec 5th 1833.
Personally appeared Doctor Bishop Tyler, well
known to me as a credible person, and swore solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed

Before me
John Hyde
Judge of the Court of Probate and 
Justice of the Peace
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It appears by the records of the State of Connecticut that the Gen'l [General] Assembly in November 1780 ordered five hundred & seventy five men to be raised for defence [defense] of Horseneck & to serve until the first of March 1782. This corps was organized by the appointment of one Lt. Col. [Lieutenant Colonel] one Major sea Captaine [Captain] de Baralal Beabe [or Beale or Bale] was appointed Lt. Col. Edward Shipman Major & Charles Milee or Miel as it is sometimes written one of the captains. In Feb'y [February] 1781 the Gen. Assembly augmented & reorganized this corps & ordered it to be commanded by a Brig Genl [Brigadier General] instead of Lt. Colonel & that there should be two Majors eight Capts of Infantry & a Comdt of Company of Calvalry.
Nov [November] 26th 1833
E. Phelps, Comptroller Office November 26 1833
I Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Account of the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears by the journal of the Council of Safety and books of the Pay Table, that B. Gen. [Brigadier General] David Waterbury commanded said corps that Edward Shipman & Elijah Humphrey
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served therein as Major & Charles Melee or Meil as Capt.
Under date March 25th 1782 there is charged to the United States upon the books of Pay Table the amount of Capt. Charles [strike out "Miel"] Meils account for pay roll Waterbury brigade 2/6 for [illegible] 1798, 8, 30
No roll of Capt Miels company has been found or any other evidence of the [illegible] of their service.
E. Phelps
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Bishop Tyler of the town of Griswold in New London County State of Connecticut in application of his military services during the war of the Revolution for which he claims a pension deposes an says that in the month of March 1787 when he was in his fifteenth year he enlisted into a company of state troops raised by the State of Connecticut commanded by Capt [Captain] Charles Miles as a waiter to the said Miles for the term of one year that he was regularly mustered at New Haven and was enrolled in said company and was subject to and did actually perform all the duties of a common soldier during said campaign except mounting guard from which duly he was exempted while in [illegible]. This deponent further declares and says that during this campaign he was in a number of engagements with the enemy and was subject to be detailed for the performance of a soldiers duty notwithstanding he enlisted as a waiter to the Captain and knowing the infringement of his Capt [Captain] he did all the duties of a common soldier as stated in the s'd [said] affidavit of Simeon Hewett herewith annexed the deponent further states that when he was discharged at Stamford in March 1782 he received the commendation of his Captain for his faithfulness and soldier like conduct with a request that he would enlist again. This deponent further says that he served as a corporal two months May & June in the 1782 in Fort Griswold in Capt [Captain] Cobbs Company & two months in the Autumn of the same year in Capt [Captain] Prentices company as stated in the affidavit of David Avery. This deponent served in the war of the Revolution one year in Capt. {Captain] Miles company and fourt months at Fort Griswold making sixteen months in which he was in actual service of his county not ingaged [engaged] in any other business or [illegible]
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and for which service he claims a pension & more particular statement of his services will be found in his declaration herewith for recorded and corroboratory testimony will be found in the affidavits of Elisha Prentis, Samuel Robbins the [illegible] of Simeon Hewett and of David Avery - and further this deponent says not.
Dated at Griswold February 24, 1834
Bishop Tyler
State of Connecticut
New London County ss
Griswold February 24th 1834.
Then personally came before me Doct'r Bishop Tyler the signer of the above affidavit a person to me well known as a credible witness and made solemn oath & the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence.
Samuel C Morgan Justice of Peace
in & for New London County
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Simeon Hewett of the town of Groton in New London County State of Connecticut aged sixty eight years deponent says that in the month of March 1781 in the war of the Revolution he enlisted into a company of state troops raised by the state of Connecticut commanded by Capt. [Captain] Charles Miles of Renton in New London County aforesaid in Col. [Colonel] Humphrey's regiment or battalion attached to Gen'l [General] Waterbury's brigade that he then became acquainted with Bishop Tyler then of said Renton now of the town Griswold in the county aforesaid he enlisted for the same term of time for which this deponent had enlisted the said Tyler enlisted as a waiter to Capt. [Captain] Miles and served as such a part of the time and the remaining part of the time performed the duty of a soldier in actual service. This deponent well recollects that after Capt. Miles was taken a prisoner and carried to the York that the said Tyler performed the duty of a soldier during the short time of Capt. Miles imprisonment which was three months according to this deponents present recollection this deponent well recollects that the said Tyler was regularly mustered as a member of said company and was regularly called at roll call and bore arms and was always on parade as much as an soldier in the company and subject to be called out on alarm and to do all the duties of a private soldier except mounting guns. This deponent further says that the said Tyler the young was notwithstanding an able bodied and an active soldier capable of performing the duties incident to a soldier in time of actual service. The said Tyler was but one year younger than this deponent and so far as he recollects was as large and able to do military duty. This deponent well recollects that it was often the case while he was in the service that boys no older than was the said Tyler at the time of his enlistment were by the consent of their parents or guardians enlisted into the service and made good soldiers.
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This deponent well recollects that the said Tyler was in a number of skirmishes with the enemy and he particularly recollects that he was in the engagement of Throgs Neck during the imprisonment of Capt. [Captain] Miles this deponent as well as the said Tyler and the whole brigade were discharged at Stamford in o'Note of Connecticut in March 1782 after having performed the time of this enlistment which was for one year. This aforesaid has been called upon to give a deposition previous to this in support of the claim of the s'd [said] Tyler [illegible strike out] which contain a more particular statement of the services of the s'd [said] Tyler the months & the officers under whom he served. This deponent further says that he knew of the difference between the duties of a [illegible] and [illegible] other soldiers except which in [illegible] and further says not. Dated at Groton the 18th day of February 1834
Simeon Hewitt
State of Connecticut
New London County ss.
Groton February 18th 1834
Then appeared personally Simeon Hewett who signed the above affidavit in my presence a person to me well known as a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of some before me.
Samuel C. Morgan Justice of Peace
for New London County
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[first line cut off and illegible]
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
Bishop Tyler Sur.. File 17162
[column headings] Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain/Colonel | State.
Mch 1 1781 | 1 year | Pvt. | Charles Miels/Humphrey | Conn. [Connecticut]
Apr 1 1782 | 2 mos | Corpl & Sgt [Corporal and Sergeant] | John Cobb/Samuel McClellan | [blank]
Sept 24 1782 | 2 mos | [blank] | Eleazer Prentice/Samuel MeClellan | [blank]
In 1833 he says "he was employed as a surgeon in the last war of New London."
Battles engaged in, long at Frogsneck and engagement with prison ship near Groton and New London
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Preston, New London Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 20, 1832 His cl [claim] was al [allowed]
Residence at date of application, Griswold formerly Preston, New London Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, born Jany [January] 22 1767 in Parish of Pachany in Preston Conn.
Remarks: Soldier was the son of Col. [Colonel] Samuel Tyler an officer in the Rev. [Revolutionary] war. In 1832 he was a practicing physician and had been in the state legislation there is no other data as to his family.
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Bishop Tyler
14 mo private
2 mo corporal
Hon [Honorable] Noyes Barber of the House of Representatives Washington DC
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir I here inclose [enclose] to you Bishop Tyler papers claiming a pension. Please examine them and furnish me with an answer
March 1 1834 N. Barber
[illegible]
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Hon. [Honorable] N. Barber
DSir [Dear Sir] By the request of Doct Bishop Tyler I forward to you his application for a pension accompanied with an affidavit from him and one from Simeon Hewett explanatory of the Doct's military service for which he claims a pension. The objection of the commission of pensions to the allowance of the claim was the improbability of boys as young as was the Doct at the time of the services rendered being mustered into the services of his ability to perform the service incident to a common soldier in actual service. The deposition of Mr. Hewett shows that he the Doct'r was regularly mustered always call'd at roll call and performed as all the duties of a common soldier except mounting guard which was inconsistent with his duties & his Captain to whom he was a waiter. When he entered the service he was in his fifteenth year, tho not liable by law at that time to perform military duty, still it was not uncommon for boys at that age to enlist into the service by the consent of their parents and guardians. You sir are well acquainted with the application standing in society also with the character of the witnesses and can form some opinion of the correctness of the claim. The Doct'r will be gratified with an early decision on his claim that he may have an opportunity in case of a disallowance to make application to Congress by petition this [illegible] This I believe is the third time that the papers have been forwarded and I fear that the commissioner will be [illegible]
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by frequent importunity and the [illegible] of documents which are entirely increasing in number and [illegible] on every [illegible] application. The first declaration before the county courts are in the hand [illegible] of the Hon [Honorable] Mr Gaddard the 2'd before the court of probate in the hand entirely of Judge Hyde the [illegible] deposition were taken before me as a Justice of the Peace. The Clerk of the Probate Court has made a certificate that I am a Justice if any further evidence of this fact be required can forward a certificate of the clerk of our county bank. Any services you can consistently render the Doct'r in his behalf will be gratefully received by him and will impose an additional obligation on your obedient serv't [servant]
Sam'l Morgan
[illegible]
Feby [February] 24 1834
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Got some [???] papers
Bishop Tyler
CT

28199

Jewett City CT Sept 3       Free
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Dear Sir
I have received my pension [illegible] and am disappointed in the amount. It appears you allowed me but 10 months service whereas I
claim 16 months which service was all (as we considered) equally proved. I suspect it must be a mistake in fitting the certificate-
I wish you Sir to examine my papers and ascertain if you do not admit a mistake. I wish explanation on the subject.

am Sir respectfully your humble servant
Bishop. Tyler

Griswold Conn. Sept 1st 1834

J L Edwards Esq Commissioner of pensions
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Payments to be made
at Hartford by the 
[illegible]
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Connecticut

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E2. Vol. Page 41 by
R. Burdine Clerk.
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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, Bishop Tyler
of the State of Connecticut who was a private and corporal during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive thirty three dollars and
ninety nine cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States
this eighth day of April one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned.}
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Revolutionary Claim

Jewett City Clerk
Sept 19.

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Dear Sir

Agreeably to your request enclosed I return to you my Pension Certificate

I am Sir very respectfully
yours Obt. Servant
Bishop Tyler

Jewett City
Sept 19 1834

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Commisr of Pensions
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[initialed in margin] A.O.T.

8-871.

RECORD DIVISION.

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by Geo M. Moon
[crossed out] Claim No.  Feb 24, 1910.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier  Bishop Tyler
Service - 1812 & Rev
Additional service
No     claim, State records           , 190
No claim, combination records    , 190

REMARKS:
No Was or 1182 Sum or Rcds
No O N.J War R. as above except
J.F. 17162

0-8 Chief Division
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Connecticut No. 28,199

Bishop Tyler

Of Griswold in the State of Connecticut
who was a private & [illegible] in the Company commanded
by Captain Miles of the Regt. commanded
by ___________ in the Connecticut
line for 
14 mos paid to 46.66
2  " company      7.33
                           -----
                           53.99

Inscribed on the [smudge] of Connecticut
at the rate of [smudge] Dollars 99 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issues the 8th day of April 1834 and Hon. N. Barber

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834 ...     101.97
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept ... 16.99   
                                       = with slash 118.96         

{Revolutionary Claim, Act Jun 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book E2     Vol.      Page 41  

See letter to [page folded] Sept 9. 1834
(error to be con
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17.162

INVALID

No. 17,162
Bishop Tyler
Corp Rev War

Act: June 7 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 382

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1920 Mch. / Hist. to S.E. Parker V.L.M.
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SAMUEL EUGENE PARKER
SHELTER ISLAND
NEW YORK

February 12, 1910.

Commissioners of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Permit me to inquire if the records of your office - give the names of wife and children of Bishop Tyler of New London County, Connecticut, Private, Revolutionary war, Surgeon, War of 1812? Census of Pensions of 1840, Bishop Tylers name appears, of Griswold, age 72.

I enclose stamp for reply.

Respectfully
S.E. Parker

[stamped] FEB 16 1910