Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7777, for Edmond Ogden, Connecticut
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(8--1776)

SERVICE
Conn. [handwritten]
Navy

Ogden, Edmond
Sebal

NUMBER
R7777

CONTENTS
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State of New York [handwritten]
Otsego County 

Be it known that on this eighth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Hiram Kinne one of the judges of the County Courts in and for the County of Otsego being Courts
of second - the Widow Cybel [crossed out] Sebal Ogden a resident of the Town
of Unadilla in Otsego County and State of New York aged seventy seven years last April 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 the 4th day of July 1836 and also the [illegible] Act of Congress passed for the Benefit of Certain Widows and for other purposes that she the said Cybel [crossed out] Sebal Ogden is the Widow of Edmond Ogden who was a Sergeant in the Army and also in the Navy of the United States in the Revolutionary War viz - that he the said Edmond Ogden enlisted at Weston in Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut in the month of April in the year 1776 as a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captn. Albert Chapman in the Regiment commanded by Colo. [illegible] Elmore in the Connecticut Line that he march + with said Company to Albany in the State of New York -- thence with said company and Regiment and under the said officers he served in the capacity of Sergeant at the German Flatts at Forts Dayton Stanwiths and other places untill the expiration if a term and some days over when he was discharged after having served over one year as aforesaid in the Northern Campaign he was discharged in the month of April 1777-

She the said Widow also says that she is under the impression that he her said Husband served 6 or 8 months in the year 1778 in the neighborhood of Boston but cannot recollect who the officers were or how long he served in that year - but she does further declare and say that she does very well recollect that he her said Husband did serve at sea on board of several Vessels commissioned by Congress and particularly under the command of Paul Jones in the Bony Richard  and when
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Vessels and Commanders whos names she cannot now recollect but that she does will recollect that her Husband came home from France dressed in French clothings and that he represented that he had been with Jones on the coast of France - England and Scotland that he was with Jones in his hottest battles that she recevd letters from him and had one in her possession from him to his father containing a discharge from one of the Vessels as Sergeant of Mariens which [crossed out] which she cannot now find supposes thoes old paper to be inherently lost - and she refers to the Documents at Washington evidence of his said services as she was very certain that he did serve with said Paul Jones but has not now any evidence of said service in her possession - 
She the said Widow further Declares that she was marryed to the said Edmond Ogden on the 24th day of October in the year 1784 and that her Husband the said Edmond Ogden died on the 16th day of September 1799 and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period and is now a Widow as may more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed

Sebal Ogden [handwritten signature]

Sworn and subscribed this day
of September 1838 before me
Hiram Kinne Judge of
Otsego County Courts
I also certify that it appears to me that the aforesaid Cybal Sebal Odgen cannot attend the Courts by reason of her age - bodily infirmities and general disability - and also that she is a person of truth veracety and that her statement is entitled to full credit

Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts [handwritten signature]

The word Cybil, erased in the 5th and 13th lines in the above affidavit and in the 2nd line of the certificate and the word 'Sebal' [illegible] before Execution 
Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts [handwritten signature]
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State of New York
Otsego County

Julia Ogden of the Town of Unadilla in Otsego County aged forty nine years personally appeared before me the subscriber on the eigth day of August 1838 and on being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath Declare and say that she is personally well acquainted with the Widow Cybal [crossed out] Sebal Ogden of Unadilla - that she the said Julia is Daughter in Law to the said Cybal [crossed out] Sebal Ogden that they have lived in the same House together about thirty years past - that she knows the said Cybal [crossed out] Sebal to have been the Wife of Edmond Ogden who served in  the War of the revolution (as she is informed and  believes to be true) that she has seen letters and an old paper purporting to be a discharge some years ago which she thinks are lost --that she well knows that the said Cybal [crossed out] Sebal Ogden is the identical same person who was the wife and is now the Widow of the said Edmond Ogden who died of the yellow fever in the month of September 1799 - that she has remained a Widow and is now the Widow of the said Edmond Ogden

Julia Ogden [handwritten signature]

Sworn to and subscribed the 
Day and year above written
Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts

I also certify that Julia Odgen who has sworn to and subscribed the above before me is known to me as a person of truth and Veracity and a lawfull witness and whoes statement is entitled credit

Note the word Oath [underlined] was written between the 4 & 5 lines before  before [crossed out] sworn to or subscribed

Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts [handwritten signature]

N B The word "Cybel' in the 8th 10th & 15th lines of the above affidavit [illegible] said and the word Sebal bfefore execution

Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts [handwritten signature]
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State of New York
Otsego County

I Jesse Rose clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hiram Kinne Esq before whom the two preceeding affidavits of Sebal Ogden and Julia Odgen purport to have been Sworn  [illegible] on the day of the date of the same a Judge in and for Otsego County duly Elected & qualified and further that I was well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge & verily believe his name subscribed in each of the preceeding affidavits to be his genuines handwriting & signatures

Witness my hand & Seal of office this Eleventh day of September AD 1838
Jesse Rose Clk [handwritten signature]

[document features black parallelogram shaped seal]
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[first line is cut off but may be: Fanton Beers of Weston in Fairfield County] & State of Connecticut of Eighty Two years of age & over testify & say that I was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution.  That on the fifteenth day of April 1776 I entered for twelve months into a Company of I think Connecticut State Troops under the Command of Albert Chapman of Fairfield Town & County & State of [illegible] said as Capt. In Col. Elmores Regiment and marched with said Company to Albany where we joined the Regiment.  The Reft then marched [to Fort Stanwicks – crossed out] to the German Flatts so called when we built a fort called Fort Dayton.  We then marched to Fort Stanwicks where we relieved a Massachusetts Regiment & we continued and finished the fort by them begun & continued at said Fort under the command of said Officers until the 18th day of April 1777 at which time the Regiment was discharged making my term of service one year & three days.
I will remember Edmond Ogden then of said Town & County of Fairfield & State of aforesaid entering with me into said Company under said Capt. Chapman in said Col. Elmores Regiment & went to Albany with me & from there to the German Flatts & From there to Fort Stanwicks & continued there with said Company the full term of one year & three days & was discharged when I was. The said Edmond Ogden enlisted and Served as Sergeant of said Company the whole term aforesaid.  He & I were Scholl boys & always very intimate until he moved into the State of New York.  The reason why the Company staid over the term of enlistment was in consequence of waiting for a Relief guard. 
Fanton Beers [handwritten signature]
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[handwritten]
County of Fairfield - Weston
On this 23rd day of August 1838 at Weston in the County & State of aforesaid personally appeared before ore the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Weston in the County & State of aforesaid Fanton Beers within named signer of the foregoing disposition & made oath to the truth of the same
I further certify that the said Fanton Beers is a man of truth & credibility in the possession of all his rational faculties & with whom I have for many years been acquainted & that his disposition is entitled to full credit. 
Bradford Winton
Judge of Probate 
For the District aforesaid
I Horace Fanton Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Weston in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut hereby certify that Bradford Winton Esqr is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid & duly Commissioned sworn according to Law that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & that the above signature of his name is his genuine signature Given under my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate at Weston in the County & State aforesaid this 23rd day of August 1838
Horace Fanton Clerk [handwritten signature]
[contains a large ink/seal mark to left of page]
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State of New York
County of Dutchess
Mary Gilbert of the Town of Poughkeepsie in Said County, Wife of the Revd Asahel Gilbert, being duly Sworn, deposes & says, that she is personally acquainted with Sebal Ogden, now a resident of the Town of Unadilla County of Otsego in Said [illegible] Widow relict of One Edmund Ogden deceased, a revolutionary officer, who served in the naval department of the United States of America under Commodore John Paul Jones – that this deponent is a sister of the said Sebal Ogden, & the only sister surviving – that this deponent was personally present at the marriage of the said Sebal Ogden, her said sister, with the said Edmund Ogden which marriage was solemnized before the Expiration of the Revolutionary War, & several years previous to the first day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety four – by the Reverend [illegible] Ebenezer Coles a regularly ordained & esteemed Clergyman of the Baptist Connection. 
And this deponent further says that said marriage occurred in the Town of Patterson in the then County of [Putnam – crossed out] Dutchess, now Putnam, in the State of New York – And further that the said Sebal Ogden widow as aforesaid of said Edmund Ogden is & has remained a widow ever since the death of the Said Edmund, who died of the Yellow fever int eh City of New York many years ago, since the year 1800, but in what precise year this deponent knows not. 

And further that the said Sebal is aged, indigent & in very precarious health – Further this deponent [illegible] not. 

Her
Mary	X     Gilbert   [handwritten “X” for signature]
mark
Subscribed & Sworn this
21st day August 
A.D. 1838, Before me
Silas E Haight	[handwritten signature]
Justice of the Peace in and
For Dutchess County – 
State of New York
Dutchess County	This may…[ends page]
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Certify that I am & have been personally acquainted with Mrs. Mary Gilbert, wife of Revd Asahel Gilbert for the deponent named in above affidavit for several years, & know her to be a person entitled to entire credit touching those facts to which she has deposed in above affidavit. 
Dated August 21st
A.D. 1838				Silas E. Haight [handwritten signature]
					Justice of the Peace in 
					& for Dutchess County – 

State of New York
Dutchess County		I Daniel W. Bradley, Clerk of Dutchess County aforesaid do certify that Silas E. Haight Esquire whose name is above written was on the day of the date of such signature a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Dutchess residing in the Town of Poughkeepsie duly Elected and  [sworn?] and that the signature Silas E. Haight above written is genuine and in the proper hand writing of the said Justice     Intestimony [?] whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said County this 21st day of August A.D. 1838
Danl. W. Bradley Clerk [handwritten signature] 
[left side of page features affixed sun burst shaped seal]
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[type printed form, filled out by hand]
Information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
Edmond Ogden Reg. 7777 [handwritten]
[type printed]
Dates of Enlistment |Length of Service| Rank | Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered| State 
or Appointment					Captain | Colonel
[handwritten]
Apr 1776 | April 18 1777 |  Sgt. |Albert Chapman | Elmore | Conn
1788 | 6 or 8 mos |[blank] | near Boston | no officers stated
Also served on the Bon Homme Richard under Paul Jones and on other vessels names not stated
The claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of marriage
[type printed]
Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Weston Fairfield Co, Conn
Date of application for pension, Sept 8, 1838
Residence at date of application, Unadilla, Otsego Co., NY
Age at date of application, She was 77 yrs old Apr. 1838
Remarks: Soldier married Oct 24 1784 at Patterson in then Dutchess Co. New York Sebal – He died September 16, 1799 in New York City.  A daughter in law, Julia Ogden was living at Unadilla NY in 1838

Very respectfully, 
[no signature]
Commissioner
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[type printed form, filled out by hand]
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873 [crossed out]
REJECTED [stamped]
P.O. 
Sibal Ogden
Service: Edmond
1-0
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]

[blank] Recognized, 	[blank] Contract. 
[blank] Cert. of Dis.	Searched for [blank], 18

[handwritten on right side of page]
1911 Aug 28 Hist to S.A. Gallaher V.L.M
Letter sent for answer to [illegible] war inquiry. V.L.M.
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[handwritten]
N. York
Sibal Ogden
Lot to A H Beach 17. Sep. 1840
Dec. made under act ’36 but entered act ’38
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[handwritten]
V 1927
Sibyl Ogden
Edmond
7 July ‘38
[illegible pencil writing includes dates and captain names, etc.]
Abijah H. Beach Esqr
Unadilla Ostego County 
N. York 
7777
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Comptroller Office
Hartford Conn. Sept 8, 1838

I certify that on application for evidence of the services of Edmond Ogden, I have examined the Records remaining in this Office relating to the War of the Revolution and find his name on a “Pay Roll of Capt Meads Co. in the Regt of Forces of the United Colonies under command of Col. David Waterbury [illegible] in the Colony of Conn [illegible] commencing on the day they entered service and ending with the time of their dismission including time for the discharged to get home at 15 miles pr day.” Edmond Ogden entered service May 12, reentered Novm 17 making 6 mth 10 days – I further certify that no Pay Roll of Capt Albert Chapman can be found in this Office, that his name stands on our Pay Table Book under this  Head “United States Dr to order on Treas. [illegible] Capt Albert Chapman for his a/c vis to convety [?] to 73 men in his Co. Col. Swifts Regt. In 1777 [pound mark] 730, and under the head of War Dr to order [illegible] Treas. [illegible] Capt A [illegible] Chapman for prem m. to 26 Soldiers, who furnished their[?] blankets in Col. Swifts Batalion 1778 [pound mark]23.00 cr by a/c rendered for his Co., and cash paid Treasc. Lawrence [pound mark] 882.70

Henry Kilbourn, [illegible, handwritten signature and title]
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[Handwritten]
Comptrollers Office
Hartford Sept 10 1838

Abijah H. Beach, Esq. 

Sir,
Enclosed you have a certificate for the services of Edmond Ogden for [illegible] and a certificate of the services of Capt. Albert Chapman as we found him our Books . This course is taken when we [illegible] find the Pay Roll of the Captain and no other evidence of service appears Cap Chapmans services togeher with so large amount of account shows both of service and will be corroboration [illegible] == and will go far to substantiate the declaration of the old Lady – It is very [illegible] for [us?] to find [illegible] of service without knowing the name of [the?] captain the applicant claims to have served under – [ illegible ] after nearly one days search by two of us we found Ogden in Cap Mead Company – Hope it may answer the desired end for which the certificate is given. 

Your Obt Servant
Henry Kilborne, [handwritten signature, illegible title]
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[Handwritten, addressed document to:]

War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
[postage stamped “FREE” and handwritten “Free”]

Canceled Unadilla Dec 26 NY [postage cancellation]
NY Jan 1 [other number indecipherable] 7 July 1838 [handwritten over cancellation]
[lower right corner, inverted, handwritten:]
N.Y.
Cybel Ogden
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[Handwritten]
Unadilla – Otsego County N.Y.
24th Dec. 1838

Enclosed – are three sets of pension papers which we wish to have examined and [illegible] to me as soon as convenient 

I sent one [illegible] viz the application of Mrs Cybel Ogden some time the [illegible] part  of Sept last and have heard nothing from it yet – this Old Lady wants to bear from it very much –

Most respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Abijah H. Beach [handwritten signature]

Hon. [?] J. L. Edwards
Comss. Of Pension
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War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
[postage stamped “FREE” twice]

Canceled Unadilla Sep 21 NY [postage cancellation]
1927 Sept 26 NY 7 July 1838 [handwritten over cancellation]
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[Handwritten]
Unadilla Otsego County
State of New York 20th Sept 1838

Enclosed is the application of the Widow Sebal Ogden for pension – She says that he served two Campaigns on land and some year or two at sea – that she cannot now recollect the particular periods or what officers further than as stated – she hopes that the evidence furnished and what may be found in the War Office at Washington will do her Justice as may be right – 
For Mrs. Ogden
Most respectfully
Abijah H. Beach [handwritten signature]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-6-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD
Division of Veterans Administration Archives

NAME  Ogden, Eliskim
GRADE  Private 
LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8607
ACRE __
AGE __
ISSUED June 29 1789 to not shown


*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this forn is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800” which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16 1776 and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9. 1800.

Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.