Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44147, Friend Dickinson, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.

Dickinson, Friend

NUMBER
S 44147

CONTENTS
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20403
Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
Friend Dickinson of Trumbull Cy. in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Beebe of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley in the Connecticut line, for the term of one year from 1776 to 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh agency at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th day of January 1832.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 of January 1832 and sent to the Hon. S. Whittlesey House of Reps. 
Arrears to 4th of March 1832       $10.06
Semi-anl, all'ce ending                 $10.06

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.

Rendered Book D.
Vol 2 pages 129--
BSB

[Side Note] He d. April 12 1833
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Friend Dickinson
Application

Since the viewing of the Courts Mr. Dickinson has discovered there is a mistake that he intended to state Hinman instead of Elmorias Rigt.
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
On the 5th day of November AD 1824personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Trumbull being a court of record proceeding according tot the course of the common laws. Having the power of fine and imprisonment. Friend Dickinson aged about sixty six years resident in said county & State who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he enlisted in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven for the term of nine months (as nearly as he recollects) at Litchfield Connecticut in the company commanded by Lieutenant Beebe in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elenor in the Connecticut line on the constitutional establishment (as he supposed) and continued to serve in the same corps until he left the corps sometime in the fall following at Ticonderoga on account of ill health & that he enlisted again in April seventeen hundred and seventy nine (as nearly as he recollects) for the term of nine months at New York in the company commanded by Capt. Beebe in a Regiment of infantry commanded by Colonel Bradley & continued to serve in the same corps until the month of December following when he left it near Trenton in the State of New Jersey his term of service having expired & that he enlisted again sometime during the year seventeen hundred & eighty in the company commanded by Capt. Bradley in the regiment by Colonel Enos & continued to serve in the same corps for about nine months when he left the regiment near Horseneck in the State of New York and is unable to make any more particular statement. 
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the rev-
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[Rev]olutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. And he further states that he make an application for a pension in the fall of the year 1818 & failed as he is now informed on account of the mode of applications & a want of proof respecting the times of his services but he entrusted the shole business to an agent in whom he then had confidence & did not until a few weeks know the cause of his failure.
Schedule of property
   One old mare worth    $10.
   one suckling colt           15.
   one cow                         10.
   one yearling heifer           5.  
   one calf                             2.50
   Three sheep                      2.50
                                           _______
                                          $45.00

And he further states that he is by occupation a farmer that his family consists of himself & wife aged about seventy one years & very infirm. He has several children the youngest of which  is about thirty eight years old and none of them live with him. He is himself very infirm & been unable for a long time past to do any labor so that unless he obtains a pension from the government he must rely on public charity for support.
Friend Dickinson
Sworn and subscribed in open court this 5th day of November 1824 before me George Parson Clerk C.S.
I George Parsons Process Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Trumbull County & State of Ohio do hereby certify that the Court of Common Pleas for said County at their November Term 1834 am satisfied by the oaths of James Skinner and John W. Jackson who have subscribed this certificate that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the above schedule is
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not greater than forty five dollars and is all the property he Friend Dickinson has in his possession.
James Skinner
November 5th 1824
John W. Jackson
Sworn and subscribed by me in Open Court
George Parsons Clerk
The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths and the schedule are truly copied from the original on file and I further certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is not greater that forty five dollars. In testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Warren the 16th day of November 1824.
George Parsons Clerk
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Original Pension Claim

In the matter of the application of Friend Dickinson for a pension
State of New York
Oneida County SS
Asahel Dickinson of Attica County of Oneida State aforesaid, aged seventy years, being duly sworn says that the Petitioner, Friend Dickinson is a brother of Deponent, and now resides in the Town of George Town County of Madison State aforesaid. That to Deponent's Knowledge, in the month of March 1776, the said Friend Dickinson (then aged about 20 years) at Sitchfield in the state of Connecticut, enlisted for the term of nine months, in the company commanded by a Captain Beebee, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley in the line of the state of Connecticut. That the said Friend Dickinson served in said corps at the city of New York, and in New Jersey at Fort Lee, and continued to serve in said corps over nine months and until January 1777 when the said Friend Dickinson was discharged the said service in the state of Pennsylvania and further says not.
Asahel Dickinson

State of New York
Oneida County ss
I James Dean a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a justice of the peace in & for the county of Oneida, do hereby certify that Asahel Dickinson on the thirty first day of August AD 1830 appeared before me and subscribed and made
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oath to the foregoing affidavit.
And further that I am well acquainted with the said Asahel Dickinson, who to the [illegible] edge of the undersigned sustains a good moral character and is a credible person as a witness.
James Dean Judge
Oneida Com. Pleas
& Justice of the Peace.

State of New York
Oneida County Clerks Office SS
I John H. Ostrom Clerk of the County of Oneida do hereby certify that James Dean whose name is above subscribed was on the day of the date of the above certificate a Judge of Oneida Common Pleas and a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & duly [authorized] by law to act as such.
And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Justice & verily believe the signature "James Dean" above subscribed to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Utica this 31st day of August A.D. 1830.
J. H. Ostrom, Clerk
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October 24, 1939

BA-J/AWF
Friend Dickinson
S. 44147

Essie L. Widner
834 Summer Street
Sheridan, Wyoming

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Friend Dickinson.

The Revolutionary War record of Friend Dickinson which follows was obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 44147, based upon his service in that war. This is the record of the only Friend Dickinson found on file in the Revolutionary War pension records of this office. The surname was searched under various spellings.

The date and place of birth of Friend Dickinson, and names of his parents are not shown.

Friend Dickinson enlisted in Litchfield, Connecticut (definite date not shown) and served under Lieutenant Bebee in Colonel Elmore's or Hinman's Connecticut regiment, was discharged the following fall at Ticonderoga, on account of "ill health." He enlisted sometime in March, 1776, served nine months in Captain Bebee's company, Colonel Bradley's Connecticut regiment. He served in 1780, nine months in Captain Bradley's company, Colonel Eno's Connecticut regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 5, 1824, at which time he was a
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resident of Trumbull County, Ohio, aged about sixty-six years.

The soldier, Friend Dickinson, referred in 1824 to his wife as aged about seventy-one years; her name is not given and there are no data relative to their marriage. He at that time referred, also, to several children, the youngest being about thirty-eight years of age.

The soldier's wife died in the spring of 1828, and he went to live with his son, Samuel W. Dickinson of Trumbull County, Ohio. The names of other children were not stated.

The soldier was living in 1832 with Harris Husted in the Township of Johnston, Trumbull County, Ohio; it is not shown that he was related to the soldier.

Friend Dickinson died April 12, 1833.

Asahel Dickinson, brother of the soldier, Friend Dickinson, was living in 1830, in Utica, Oneida County, New York.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernable family data.

In order to obtain the name and address of the person who received the last payment of this pension, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

Friend Dickinson
Certificate #20403
Issued January 31, 1832
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced January 28, 1832
Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820
Ohio, Pittsburgh Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Original Pension Claims
In the matter of the application of Friend Dickinson for a pension.
State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.}
Elihu Beach of Vernon Trumbull County & State aforesaid, aged seventy two years, being duly sworn says, that the Petitioner Friend Dickinson now resides in the Town of Johnston in the County of Trumbull & State aforesaid. That to Deponents knowledge, the said Friend Dickinson about the month of March 1776 at Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, enlisted for the term of nine months, in the company commanded by Captain Beebe, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley in the line of the State of Connecticut- that the said Friend Dickinson served in said corps at the City of New York, & in New Jersey at Fort Lee- that deponent enlisted for the term of nine months in the month of March 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Beebe aforesaid- that Deponent, together with said Friend Dickinson marched in said company from Litchfield aforesaid, soon after enlisting- that they, deponent and said Friend Dickinson, continued to serve in said company, until near the close of the aforesaid term of nine months, when Deponent in consequence of sickness left said company at which time said Friend Dickinson was still serving in said company- and further this deponent saith not.
Elihu Beach
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State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} I Chauncey H Wilcox a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Trumbull & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elihu Beach on the eighth day of November AD 1830 appeared before me & subscribed & made oath to the foregoing affidavit.
And further that I am well acquainted with the said Elihu Beach, who to the knowledge of the undersigned sustains a good moral character and is a credible person as a witness.
Chauncey H Wilcox
Justice of the Peace

Washington January 28th 1832
I certify that Chauncey H Wilcox at the time of taking the foregoing deposition and administrating the oath to the deponent was, and before & since, had and has been an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Trumbull State of Ohio, and that his acts as such, were recognized by the Judicial Courts in said County and I have no doubt he was legally commissioned and qualified, and that the above is his own proper signature.
Elisha Whittlesey
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June 6, 1935
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Friend Dickinson- S. 44147
BA-J/AWF

Dr. W. H. Dickinson, Pastor
Trinity Baptist Church
3822 South 27th Street
Omaha, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Friend Dickinson of Connecticut.

The Revolutionary War record of Friend Dickinson which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 44147, based upon his service in that war. This is the record of the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office; the surname was searched under similar spellings.

The date and place of birth of this soldier are not found in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.

Friend Dickinson enlisted (see Conn. Book Page 41) in Litchfield, Connecticut (definite date not stated) and served under Lieutenant Beebe, Colonel Elmore's or Hinman's Connecticut regiment, was discharged the following fall at Ticonderoga, an account of "ill health." He enlisted in March, 1776, served nine months in Captain Bebee's company, Colonel Bradley's Connecticut regiment. He served in 1780, nine months in Captain Bradley's company, Colonel Eno's Connecticut regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed, November 5, 1824, at which time he was a resident of Trumbull County, Ohio, aged about sixty-six years.
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The soldier, Friend Dickinson, referred in 1824 to his wife as aged about seventy-one years; her name is not given, nor is it stated when they married. He also at this time referred to several children, the youngest being about thirty-eight years of age.

His wife died in the spring of 1828 and he then went to live with his son, Samuel W. Dickinson, of Trumbull County, Ohio; names of other children not stated.

Friend Dickinson was living in 1832 with Harris Husted in the Township of Johnston, Trumbull County, Ohio; it is not shown that he was related to the soldier. The soldier died April 12, 1833.

Asahel Dickinson, brother of the soldier, was a resident of Utica, Oneida County, New York in 1830.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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February 6, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF:MLB

Mr. C. A. Ott
257 Belmont Street
Warren, Ohio

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 44147, that Friend Dickinson enlisted in Litchfield, Connecticut in March, 1776 and served nine months as a private in Captain Beebe's company, Colonel Bradley's Connecticut regiment. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until in the fall of that year under Lieutenant Beebe, in Colonel Elmore's or Hinman's Connecticut regiment. He enlisted in 1780 and served nine months in Captain Bradley's company, Colonel Eno's Connecticut regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 5, 1824, at which time he was living in Trumbull County, Ohio and was aged sixty-six years.

In 1824 he referred to his wife as aged seventy-one years, and to several children, the youngest being about thirty-eight years old. A son, Samuel W. was referred to, but the names of the other children are not stated.

The soldier's wife, whose names is not shown, died in the spring of 1828 and he died April 12, 1833.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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"Out Where the West Remains"
Thrills!     Cowboys
Spills!       Cowgirls
Chills!       Indians

SHERIDAN, WYOMING
Oct. 2, 1939
To Veterans Administration
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,

Will you please tell me if you have aby war records of Friend Dickinson? I am the granddaughter and as we are making a history of the family, we are interested in finding a revolutionary or War of 1812 of this line.
Thanking you in advance I am
Very truly
Essie L. Widner
834 Sumner St.


ATTEND THE
SHERIDAN-WYO-RODEO
3 Big Days-- July 17-18-19, '39
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May 22, 1935

Pension Bureau
Rev. War,
Navy Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:

I am writing you about Friend Dickinson (or Dickenson) who was a member of the 4th Co. of the 1st Conn. Regiment in the Rev. War. The regiment was raised by the first call to arms in 1775, recruited at New Haven. Their regiment was raised in April and May 1775 and Friend was discharged from the service either for sickness or disability under date of Nov. 20, 1775 I believe.

Did the Friend Dickinson (or Dickenson) ever receive pension or land grant according to your records? Do your records give date of birth, where born and time and place of his death? What other dates do your records give concerning him?

Thanking you for your kindness and wishing you the best of fortune, I am sir,

Sincerely yours,
W. H. Dickinson
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Warren Ohio Jan 19 1936
257 Belmont St.
Warren Ohio
Bureau of Pension
Department of Rec and War of 1812 Washington DC
Gentlemen, Information contained in your Department in
Stewart- Kee and
Friend Dickinson Soldier from
Trumbull Co Ohio, Will be appreciated
With thanks for the favor I remain
Very Respectfully C A Ott
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44147
Revy INVALID

File No. 44147
Friend Dickinson
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 3,  Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870]
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January 30, 1832

Pension
Office

Allowed
L. C.
Jany 30 1832


pen: to com: Jan. 28, 1832
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Washington Jany 28th 1832
Sir
I sent a note to Mr Edwards on the 2nd Inst merely enquiring what decision had been made on the application of Friend Dickinson for a pension- and have just him favored with a reply accompanied by three depositions which have lain in the pension office nearly a year, and am infirmed that the depositions are not duly authenticated, and if they were he presumes them will be no objections against allowing a pension. I suppose the exception to the authentication is, that the Clerk has not certified that the Justices before whom the depositions were taken were duly commissioned and qualified. I know them to have been at the time acting Justice of the Peace and have affixed a certificate to that effect. I submit to you, whether this is or is not sufficient. The papers were sent to the Office by Mr. Swift among the most respectable man I ever knew, but his letter was not answered because he was unknown to the pension office. The rule that enjoined this Silenus was not adopted by yourself, and will you permit me to call your attention to its unreasonableness, and the injury that daily is experienced from it, by a class of men who am obliged to rely upon others to make their communications. 
Very respectfully yours
E Whittlesey

Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
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Washington January 2nd 1832
Sir
I am requested to ask, what decision was made on the last application of Friend Dickinson of Johnston Trumbull County Ohio for a pension. He has now become a town charge, and those interested am solicitous to know the results I will thank you to inform me, by whom his last application was forwarded and the time it was sent.
Very respectfully yours
E. Whittlesey

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Agent
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19477
Pension Office                     free
April 26, 1831
Honorable the Secretary at War of the United States
Washington City

Agent unknown

Pension
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Warren Trumbull County Ohio
April 16, 1831

Hon Secretary at War

Dear Sir Inclosed are the papers of Friend Dickinson any communication can be made to me on the subject, and allowed to Mr Dickinson.

Yours with return
George Parsons
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I Elihu Beach of Warren Trumbull County & State of Ohio being of lawful age & sound memory & being duly sworn depose & say that I belonged to the company commanded by Captain Bebee in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley in the service of the United States during nine months of the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine (or nearly as I recollect) & was well acquainted with Friend Dickinson who was as well as myself a private in said company. I am not able to state with certainly the time at which said Dickinson enlisted but I think we both of is enlisted about the same time & served about the same period. During the term of said Dickinsons service according to the best of my knowledge he performed his duty faithfully & honorably & I never heard a suggestion to the contrary.
I further state that I knew said Dickinson was in the service the year previous & the year subsequent to the time when we both belonged to the same company but am unable to depose circumstantially concerning it. 
Elihu Beach

State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} Nov 4th 1824 Personally appeared Elihu Beach and made solemn oath to the foregoing affidavit. Before me
Leister Hayes Just Peace
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify Leister Hayes Esquire whose signature appears affixed to within certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County dully commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said State.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Warren the 5th day of November 1824.
George Parsons Clerk
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In the matter of the application of Friend Dickinson for a pension.
State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} Jared Hill of the Township of Johnston in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio aged fifty one years being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with the above names Friend Dickinson and that he now resides in said Township that he became acquainted with him about the year 1812 and has constantly resided with him in said Township since that time., that on the 18th of March 1818 as this deponent believes the said Dickinson was [unk] and possessed of fifty acres of land [unk] in said Township north at that time in the opinion of this deponent two dollars & fifty cents per ann that at the time aforesaid the said Dickinson also made the following articles of personal property, one old mare about twenty years of age worth in the opinion of this deponent not more than twenty dollars & two cows of the value of twenty five dollars that in addition to the above mentioned property the said Dickinson had made articles of household furniture as to render himself and wife (which constitutes all his family who resided with him) comfortable but a little value that between the years 1818 & 1829 Samuel W. Dickinson a son of the applicant contributed a considerable amount for the support of the said applicant and his wife in such articles as were necessary for their maintenance and during that time the said applicant was associate with a long witness during which he have many epileptic fits and his life was despaired of the expenses of which sickness were defrayed by the Land Warrant, that on the sixth day of May 1829 the said applicant by said duly executor conveyed to the said Samuel the said fifty acres of
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land in consideration as this deponent has been informed & believes of the assistance and support rendered as aforesaid by the said Samuel & of an obligation entered into by the said Samuel that he would support and maintain the wife of the applicant after the decease of the said applicant which at that time it was expected would soon occur- that the old mare of four years after died of old age- that one of the said cows was afterwards fattened & butchered in the fall of 1828 and used n the family of the said Samuel where the said applicant went to reside after the decease of his wife which occurred in the spring of 1828- the other cow as this applicant has been informed and believes was sold by the said applicant and the avails received by him. This deponent further states that the said applicant is a farmer by occupation but on account of his age and infirmities both of body and mind is unable to procure it and that he is now residing with one Harris Husted and is dependent on others for his support and further this deponent says not.
Jared Hill

State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} I John W. Jackson a Justice of the peace for the Township of Johnston in the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jared Hill on the 7th day of January AD 1831 appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit, and that I am well acquainted with the said Jared Hill who to the knowledge of the undersigned sustains a good moral character and is a credible person as a witness.
John W Johnson Justice of the Peace
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Washington January 28th 1832
I certify that John W Jackson at the time, before, and since, taking the within depositions and administrating the oath to the deponent was an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Trumbull, and was recognized as such by the Judicial Courts within the said County and I have no doubt was legally commissioned and qualified, and the above is his own proper signature.
Elisha Whittlesey
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In the matter of the application of Friend Dickerson for a pension.
State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} Nathan Webb of the Township of Johnston in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio aged forty six years being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with the above named Friend Dickerson and that he now resides in the Township aforesaid, that he became acquainted with him about year 1812 and has constantly resided with him in the same Township since that time, that on the 18th of March 1818 as this deponent believes the said Dickerson was [unk] & possessed of fifty acres of land situated in said Township worth at that time in the opinion of this deponent four dollars per acres- that at the time aforesaid the said Dickerson also owned the following articles of personal property one old mare about twenty years of age worth in the opinion of this deponent not more than twenty dollars & two cows of the value of twenty five dollars that in addition to the above mentioned property the said Dickerson had such articles of household furniture as to render himself and wife (which constituted all his family who resided with him) comfortable but of little value. That between the years 1818 & 1824 Samuel W Dickerson a son of the applicant contributed a considerable amount for the support of the said applicant and his wife in such articles as were necessary for their maintenance and during that time the said applicant was afflicted with a long sickness, during which he had many epileptic fits and testify was despaired of the expenses of which sickness were defrayed by the said Samuel that on the sixth day of Nov. AD 1829 the said applicant by deed duly executive conveyed to the said Samuel the said fifty acres of land in consideration as this deponent has been informed and believes of the assistance and support rendered as aforesaid by the said Samuel and of an obligation into by the said Samuel that
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he would support and maintain the wife of the applicant after the decease of the said applicant which at that time it was expected would soon occur, that the old mare a four years after died of old age, than one of the said cows was afterwards fattened & butchered in the fall of 1828, and used in the family of the said Samuel where the said applicant went to reside after the decease of his wife, which occurred in the spring of 1828, the other cow as this applicant has been informed and believes as sold by the said applicant and the avails [unk] by him.
This deponent further states that the said applicant as a farmer by occupation but an amount of his age and infirmities both of body and mind is unable to pursue  it and that he is now residing with one Harris Husted and is dependent on others for his support, and further this deponent says not.
Nathan Webb

State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} I John W Jackson a Justice of the Peace for the Township of Johnston in said County do hereby certify that Nathan Webb on the 7th day of January AD 1831 appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit and that I am well acquainted with the said Nathan Webb who to the knowledge of the undersigned sustains a good moral character and is a credible person as a witness.
John W Jackson Justice of the Peace

Washington January 28th 1832
I certify that John W Jackson at the time of taking the above deposition, and before and since was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Trumbull County, and that he was recognized as such by the Judicial Courts in said County, and that I have no doubt he was duly commissioned and qualified. The above is his own proper signature.
Elisha Whittlesey
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19477
Friend Dickenson

Wm S Tracey
Fairport, Ohio
Rec'd 22 July 1886


Hon James Barbour
Secretary at War
Washington
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Hon Secretary at War
Sir
Enclosed are the Depositions of Elihu Beach & Asahel Dickinson taken to perfect the proof in the case of Friend Dickinson. If this is sufficient, or if not, will the Clerk of the Secretary be pleased to inform me, directing the letter to Warren Trumbull County Ohio.
Very respectfully your ob ser
Wm S Tracy
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In the matter of the application of Friend Dickerson for a pension.
State of New York
Madison County ss.} Samuel Green of the Town of Eaton in the county  of Madison & State of New York aged seventy seven years, having duly sworn says; That he is well acquainted with the above named Friend Dickerson and that he now resides in the Town of Georgetown in said county of Madison; That to Deponents knowledge, in the year 1776 the said Friend Dickerson (then aged about 20 years) at Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, enlisted for the term of nine months, in the company commanded by one Capt. Beebe, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bradley, in the line of the State of Connecticut, and this Deponent says that he this Deponent belonged to the same Regiment with the said Friend Dickerson, that they both served together in the same corps in the city of New York and at fort Lee in New Jersey, untill the month of November 1776; when this deponent was taken prisoner by the enemy and put on board the "Jersey prison ship" after which this deponent knows nothing personally about the service of the said Friend Dickerson but always understood that he remained in said corps untill his time was out. and that he was discharged in the State of Pensylvania and further says not.
Samuel Green his mark X

State of New York
Madison County ss.} I Andrew S. Sloan, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Madison, do hereby certify that Samuel Green on the ninth day of Sept. AD 1830 appeared before me and subscribed and made oath
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to the foregoing affidavit, and that I am well acquainted with the said Samuel Green who to the knowledge of the undersigned, sustains a good moral character and is a credible person as a witness.
A. S. Sloan, a Judge of Madison Comm. Pleas

State of New York
Madison County Clerks Office ss.}
I John G. Curtis, Clerk of the County of Madison do hereby certify that Andrew S. Sloan whose name is above subscribed was on the day of the date of the above certificate a Judge of Madison Common Pleas and duly authorized by law to act as such.

And further that I am well acquainted wit the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signature "A. S. Sloan" above subscribed to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Morrisville this 9th day of September AD 1830.
John G. Curtis Clerk
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Oneida County ss.
Asahel Dickinson of Whitestown in said County being duly sworn, says that he is personally acquainted with Friend Dickerson formerly of the Town of Cornwell in the County of Litchfield & Sate of Connecticut now a resident of the State of Ohio, that he has known him from his Infancy and knows that he served in the United States army during the revolutionary war, he served in Capt. Beeby's Company & Col. Bradley's Regt and that he servd under a regular enlistment, nine months at one time.
Asahel Dickinson
Sworn, the 21st day of March 1826 before me
Ezra S. Cozier Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Clerks Office Oneida County } ss. I John H. Ostrom Clerk of the County of Oneida do hereby certify that Ezra S. Cozier whose name is subscribed to the certificate the above oath was on the day of the date of said oath a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by Law to take affidavits &c. and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature of "Ezra S. Cozier" subscribed as above to be the proper hand writing of the said Ezra S. Cozier.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this twenty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six & of our Independence the Fiftieth.
J. J. Ostrum Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at the Court house in the Town of Warren, within and for said County on Monday the fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one,. Monday March ? 1831 Court opened, present the honorable Reuben Wood president, Leicester King and Eli Baldwin Esqrs his associates Judge is holding said Court.
Friend Dickinson's Application} For Pension
Be it remembered that this application was made out and sworn to before said Court at their March Term in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and is in the words and figures following, to wit-
State of Ohio Trumbull County ss.
On this 15th day of March AD 1831 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County of Trumbull aforesaid, Friend Dickinson aged about seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said Dickinson enlisted for the term of nine months sometime in the month of March one what day of the month he is unable to state, in the year 1776 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Beebe in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley, in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until January 1777, when he was discharged from the service in Pennsylvania, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the Roll of any State except the State of Connecticut, and that he made an application for a pension in the fall of the year 1818 and failed as he has been informed, for the want of proof respecting his term of service, and impropriety in his mode of application and that he again renewed his application, in the fall of 1824, and failed for the want of
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certificates respecting the credibility of witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate who administered the oath to Asahel Dickinson. As it respects the discrepancy between the former applications of this applicant, they have arisen entirely from the failure of the memory and recollection of this applicant, his memory for several years past having been greatly impaired by age, or from a mistake made by the person employed by this applicant in drafting and preparing his former applications. And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gist sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "And act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have any income whatever. That since the 18th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property.
Description of property names of persons to whom disposed of same of sale what was received in return-
Fifty acres of land, Samuel W. Dickinson, May 6th 1824. This land was conveyed in consideration of assistance for the support of the applicant and his wife, and of obligation of the said Samuel W. Dickinson to support during her life, the wife of the applicant. One old mare, died of old age. One sucking colt, Samuel W. Dickinson. In 1825 to pay him for advancing money to pay a physicians bill, and to pay for some necessary articles for the support of the applicant. One cow in 1821, killed and eat by the family in the fall of 1828. One heifer in 1824 sold to Walter Johnson in 1829. One calf 1824 In a few years was killed and eaten by the family, Three sheep. Killed and eat by the family- and he further states that his family now consists of several children
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the youngest of whom is about forty four years of age, and none of them live with him. He is by occupation a farmer, but on account of his age and infirmities both of body and mind is unable to pursue it. He has been residing with one Harris Husted and is dependent on others for his support. At the present time he is a town pauper, and dependent on the public for his support. Friend Dickinson 
Sworn to and declared on the fifteenth day of March AD 1831 in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas for said County.
before me, George Parsons Clerk
Ands at the Term of March aforesaid, eighteen hundred & thirty one appeared in open Court the said Friend Dickinson, and made solemn oath that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 that he has not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of his property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that he has, nor had any person in trust for him, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to him, that he had no income whatever, and having produced satisfactory evidence in relation to his application. The Court are satisfied that his property is not greater than is set forth in the Schedule. It is the opinion of the Court that there is no property.

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss.} I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Trumbull, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Friend Dickinson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding against
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the common enemy for the term of nine months, under one engagement in the Continental establishment. I do hereby certify that foregoing oath and Schedule of property thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court; that it is the opinion of the Court that the said applicant is possessed of no property, and is dependent on others for support, and I do further certify that John W Jackson and Chauncey  H. Wilcox whose signatures are affixed to the within enclosed Depositions, were at the time of subscribing the same, acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said State and to whose official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Warren this 16 day of April AD 1831.
George Parsons Clerk


Friend Dickinson's
Application for pension
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