Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,556, Ichabod Goodrich, Conn.
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SERVICE                                            NUMBER
Conn.     Goodrich, Ichabod          S 36,556
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1205

Connecticut
Ichabod Goodrich
of Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bulkley of the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb in the Connecticut line, for the term of six years from February 1777 to  to the year 1783

Inscribed on the Roll Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 day of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of July 1818 and sent to the care of Jonathan Brace Hartford Conn

Restored to the Roll on the 15th day of September 1827 and notification sent to Wm Hillhouse Esq at New Haven Conn Pension commencing on the 10th of September 1827

Amount due on 4th of March 1828

$46.36

Revolutionary Claim, 
Acts March 1818, 
and May 1, 1820.
1 March 1823
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Jonathan Brace, Esq;
Judge
Hartford county, Connt

Ichabod Goodrich,
Connecticut line
Revolutionary claim.

found on the rolls.

Correct.
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
and County of Hartford. } SS. Hartford

I JONATHAN BRACE, Judge of the County Court, within and for said County, the same being a Court of Record, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Ichabod Goodrich who swore to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, served as a private in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy, and on the Continental establishment, for at least the term of nine months, and is a resident citizen of the United States, in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support. His discharge he also swears if lost.

And in addition to the proof contained in the foregoing affidavit, and in support thereof, I further certify that it is proved to me by the testimony under oath of Asher Russell who is a credible witness, that the said Ichabod Goodrich served in the revolutionary war, as aforesaid;

and from the like testimony of Aaron Boardman & Edmund Bolkley that the said Ichabod Goodrich has no property except they understand about 400 acres of which land is in the state of Pennsylvania which they suppose has no or little value. And that he is in need of assistance from his country for support.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, and subscribed my name at Hartford aforesaid, this 17th day of April A. D. 1818.
Jonathan Brace Judge as aforesaid.

April 17 1818 Sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of the Honorable Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court.
Thomas Chester Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford Ss

Ichabod Goodrich of Wethersfield in said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he served in the revolutionary war on the Continental Establishment & in the Connecticut line for six years.
That he entered the service on the 14th day of February AD 1777 to serve during the war as a private & thus he faithfully served until the expiration thereof when he was honorably discharged at West Point & that his discharge is lost.
That he belonged to Capt Welles' Company & Col Samuel B. Webbs Regiment of the Connecticut line. 
He further deposes that he is a resident citizen of the United States &has never had a Pension & is in reduced circumstances & in need of Assistance from his country for support. & is of the age of sixty years.
Sworn to and Subscrib
the 17 day of April 1818
Ichabod Goodrich

Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid
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Ichabod Goodrich
1205
Sept 1818

Not Entitled
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD,
ss. Special County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden by order of the Chief Judge of said Court, on the first Tuesday of August, 1820.

ON this 1st day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ichabod Goodrich aged 62 years, resident in Wethersfield in the County of Hartford, aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:

That he entered in the service of the United States on the 14th day of February 1777 in the company commanded by Capt Edward Bulkley in the regiment commanded by Col Samuel B. Webb in the line of the state of Connecticut in the Continental Establishment.
That he entered in the service of the United States til the 9th of June 1783 when he was discharged at West Point in the state of New York.
That he has deposed to the foregoing parts on the 17th day of April in the year 1818 & obtained a pension certificate numbered 1205.

And 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 gift, 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 "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 I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed."

A schedule of all my property necessary clothing & bedding excepted, Viz.

400 Acres of Land in town & in the County of Bradford Pennsylvania. No improvements on said land ~ 500
1 Trunk     .50
1 Chest     .50
4 windsor chairs 2.00
3 citizens [illegible]  .50
1 p andirons 1.00
1 peal & tongs  .50
1 hoe .25
1 axe .50
2 barrels  .50
1 decanter  .30
1 brass warming pan  1.00
1 pr flat irons   .30
2 hogs  10.00
1 cow 12.00
1 colt 5.00
cash on hand   31.00
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65.85
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Amount carried forward 565.85

The following property was given to my wife for life (viz)
Cash in hand  9.00
Note of hand  5.00
case drawers   1.00
Cherry desk   3.00
Cherry table    1.00
[illegible] trunk  1.00
5 windsor chairs  2.00
1 case bottles   .75
1 looking glass  .25
1 quart glass mug  .25
1 server  .10
4 wine glasses  .16
2 qt mugs   .15
1 teapot .20
1 chest drawer .50
1 candlestand  .12 1/2
1 great chair   .25
1 clothes basket  .15
12 [illegible] Peal & tongs  .30
1 chest .10
1 great Bible .50
1 stand table   .75
1 kitchen table  .30
1 silver watch 4.00
Amt Carried Up ________
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Amt brt forward     597.2 1/2
2 trammels    .25
3 knives & forks  .50
1 pint mug  .10
1 tin canteen  .10
12 old pewter  1.50
9 tin milk pans  7.00
2 tin pails  .25
10 earthen plates .30
3 stone jugs 3 stone pots  7.00
6 silver teaspoons 2.00
2 [illegible] large 1.50
6 tea cups [illegible]  .30
1 chopping knife  .12
2 iron pots  1.00
1 kettle [illegible]  .25
1 demijohn  .50
2 gridirons  .25
3 old brass kettles 5.00
1 wooden pail  .25
1 trash tote  .25
1 tote  .25
1 rut 3 wheels & blacks  2.50
4 meal bags   .40
6 dry corks  .50
2 [illegible]  .50
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11.15
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Amount carried up  617.16

Amount card up  617.16
1 candle stick 2 lamps  .25
2 old cider barrels .75
1 old shovel  .50
1 fork & rake   .25
1 saw  .15

3 1/2 acres land, house & barn thereon 500
4 acres 1 wood 25 acres land in wethersfield meadows    400
5 acres of brush land    50
4 acres of wood 3 rods land    50
37 rods in meadow    35
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1051.75
Estate of my name 565.85    $1668.91
Estate of my wife 1103.06    $1668.91

Said land in Pennsylvania is of no profit to me but is of the expense of about $6.00 per year.

I am owing the sum of $47.00 for taxes on my Pennsylvania land.


And state that I am by occupation a Seaman but unable through age and an infirmity in my neck to labor for my support. That I have in my family to maintain 
my wife Mary aged 70 years unable to contribute to our own support.
My son Henry aged 12 years partly able to support himself.
My daughter Lucinda Franklin aged 30 years contributes about one half to her own support.
My grandchild Maria aged 9 years unable to contribute anything to her support.
& my grandson Rockwell Franklin, aged 5 years wholly maintained by me.

And that my income is 15.85 insufficient for my own support.
Ichabod Goodrich

Sworn to and declared by said Ichabod Goodrich on the 1st day of August 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Five hundred sixty five dollars and eighty five cents of his property and eleven hundred & three dollars six cents property of his wife as herein before stated.
I Thomas Chester, Clerk of the County Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 21st day of August 1820.
Th Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford
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In the name of God amen.
I Samuel Butler of Wethersfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, being now in good health of body & of sound mind & memory - considering the uncertainty of life, do make & ordain the following as my last will & testament, disowning & disclaiming all others - viz.
First - I will & ordain that all my just debts & funeral expenses be paid out of my estate by my executors to be hereafter named.
Secondly - I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary Butler, all my estate real & personal, to be wholly & entirely hers for use & improvement during her natural life.
Thirdly - I give & bequeath so much of my estate as she shall leave when removed by death, to Samuel Butler, son of my brother George Butler, to belong to him & his heirs forever.
Fourthly - I do hereby appoint ordain & constitute the above said Mary Butler & Samuel Butler, Executors of this my last will & testament.
In testimony of all which I do hereunto set my hand & seal this seventeenth day of May in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred & five -
Samuel Butler (seal)

Signed, sealed, & declared to be his last will & testament in presence 
of Ezekiel Smith
Calvin Chapin
Hosea Bukley
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State of Connecticut
Probate Office Hartford District August 29th 1826
I hereby certify the within to be a true copy of the last will & testament of Samuel Butler late of Wethersfield in the District deceased, as approved & recorded in this office.
Charles Bull Clerk

State of Connecticut
Probate office District of Hartford
August 29th 1826

I hereby certify that on the 24th day of April last April, William Williams the Executor of the last Will and Testament of Mary Goodrich, wife of Ichabod Goodrich late of Wethersfield in the Probate district aforesaid deceased exhibited to this Court her last Will & Testament which was proved & approved & ordered Recorded & kept on file p It has also been stated to this Court by credible witnesses that the said Mary Goodrich now deceased, was at the time of her marriage with the said Ichabod Goodrich, the widow of Samuel Butler then late of said Wethersfield deceased, and the same person to whom the said Samuel, in his last will in the second clause thereof decried the use and improvement of his Real & person estate during her natural life. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my official signature, and affixed thereto my official seal
John Russ Judge of Probate
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Probate office district of Hartford August 29th 1826
I hereby certify that Charles Bull Esq who has certified that the copy of the last Will of Samuel Butler late of Wethersfield deceased is a true copy thereof, is the clerk of this Court duly appointed & sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to his official attestations as such -
John Russ Judge of Probate
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[outer page upper left corner] Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.

June 20, 1927

George P. Nichols
Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Sts
New York City.

Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 36556, it appears that Ichabod Goodrich enlisted February 14, 1777 and served as a private in Captains Edward Bulkley's and Roger Welles' Companies, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged June 9, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 17, 1818, while a resident of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, aged sixty years.
Soldier married Mary, widow of Samuel Butler, there are no details on file as to said marriage, and her maiden name is not given; she was seventy years old in 1830, and she died April 17, 1826.
In 1830, soldier referred to his daughter,
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Lucinda Franklin, aged thirty years; son Henry, aged twelve years; grandchild, Maria, aged nine years; and grandson, Rockwell Franklin, aged five years.
In 1836, son Jasper aged thirty-five years, was married and had three children, names of wife and children not given.
The above noted Ichabod Goodrich is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

In order to make proper search of the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau for a soldier named John Baxter, some of the following data is essential - approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York

Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City

June 22nd 1927

Hon. Winfield Scott, Commissioner, 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner: - 
Receipt of your favor of the 20th inst giving us the Revolutionary service of Ichabod Goodrich is acknowledged with thanks.

Very truly yours,
George P. Nichols
Secretary.

U.S.
PENSION 
OFFICE
R
JUNE 23 1927
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Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York

Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City

Ans June 20 '27

May 17th 1927

Pension Bureau,
Washington,
D. C.

Gentlemen:
May we request you to send us a copy of the Revolutionary service of Ichabod Goodrich who was born Sept. 10th 1758, and whose wife drew a pension for his services in that war?

We desire this information to establish a claim for eligibility to membership in this Society and would appreciate your assistance.

Very truly yours,
George P. Nichols
Secretary.

[stamped]
U. S.
PENSION
OFFICE
R
MAY 20 1927
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36,556

Revy   INVALID

File No 36,556

Ichabod Goodrich

Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 18

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 477
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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1927 June 20 Hist to George P. Nichols auf.
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Relative to Ichabod Goodrich's appn. for restoration, see letter Sept. 8, 1826 to S. H. Parsons and to same 17 Oct 1826 and to same 20 August 1827.

(Sept 1818)
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1,205
Connecticut

Ichabod Goodrich,
private,
Connecticut line - 4

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17. of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16. of July, 1818. and sent to the care of Jonathan Brace, Esq; Hartford, Connt.

Arrears to 4th of September; 1818. $:36.80

4 months, 18/30. $:36.80

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
6 years
Wethersfield, Hartford
Discontinued
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Notification sent to Thomas Chester 19th Oct 1820 Hartford Cont
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD,
ss. County Court, holden at Hartford in said County, on the 2nd Tuesday of August 1826.

ON this 20th day of August 1826 personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of find and imprisonment, Ichabod Goodrich aged sixty nine years, resident in Wethersfield in the County of Hartford, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:

That he enlisted for the term of the war being about six years & six months on the 14 day of February in the year 1777 in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Edward Bulkley in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut in the 9th regiment Connecticut Continental establishment. That he was transferred from Bulkley's company commanded by Captain William. From thence in May 1780 he was transferred to Roger Welles company that he continued to serve in the said corps until the year 1783 when hew as discharged from the service at West Point in the state of New York. That his name has been placed on the pension list & dropped therefrom on account of his property.

And I do solemnly swear, in pursuance of Act of May 1, 1820, 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 gift, 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 "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 I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed." viz

Real estate, 400 acres of wild land in the town of Towanda & County of Bradford in the State of Pennsylvania without improvements & entirely useless to the deponent valued at the highest estimate  about   350.00

Personal ~
1 old trunk  0.37
1 old sea chest  0.37
4 windsor chairs old  1.00
1 pr andirons  1.00
1 shovel & tongs   .50
1 old hoe  .25
1 pint decanter  .20
1 brass warming pan  .75
1 pr flat irons  .25
_____________________
4.69
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$354.69

Ichabod Goodrich

I am by occupation a seaman, but have not pursued it for four years past in consequence of personal debility. My wife died on the 17th day of April 1826 & since her death I have resided with my son aged about 35 years who is married & has a family of 3 children dependent on his personal labors (as a seaman) for their support.
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property
3 kitchen chairs broken  .50
1 axe broken .50
2 barrels broken .50
1 quart decanter broken .50
2 hogs killed & eaten $10
1 cow killed & eaten $12
1 calf killed & eaten $5
expended for necessaries
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The remaining assets of real & personal estate enumerated in the first schedule are not owned by the applicant but have been delivered over to the executor of the will of my late wife's former husband, my wife having only the improvements & use of the same during her life - as may appear by will of Samuel Butler decd a true copy whereof duly authenticated is herewith transmitted.

The debts now owed by the declarant to sundry individuals amount to about three hundred & ten dollars evidence of the same herewith transmitted.
Ichabod Goodrich

Sworn to and declared by said Ichabod Goodrich on the 20th day of August 1826 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred & fifty four dollars and sixty nine cents.

[crossed out "Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ____ day of ____ 182__.
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford" end of crossed out section]
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I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court of the County of Hartford in Connecticut do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Ichabod Goodrich did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court & I do 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 three hundred fifty four dollars & sixty nine cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 2d day of September 1826
Thomas Chester Clerk
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I Jesse Gilbert of Hamden in New Haven County and State of Connecticut testify and say that in 1810 William Hillhouse purchased of Jacob Weiss Jr of North Hampton County in State of Pennsylvania one quarter of twelve certain lots of then lying in Luverne County in said Pennsylvania, one half of which were held by Roswell Wells Esq of Wilkes Barre in said state in trust for said Weiss.

About the 12th of Jany 1814 he discovered that said Weiss had not paid the purchase money for said land and that Mary Campbell, to whom the same was patented held a judgement against him for about one thousand dollars which was a lien on said land, and on which the same was about to be sold.

To prevent which said Hillhouse purchased in a judgement and took a written agreement from said Wells to convey one half of said lots to him and to hold them in trust for him left so conveyed.

Said Hillhouse remitted the money by me and to my knowledge to said Wells to pay the taxes which accrued on his half of said lots from time to time until Feby 1825 when on examining the records I found that as early as Oct 1810 said Wells had conveyed one of said lots to Ichabod Goodrich of Wethersfield Connecticut. And that he had mortgaged a morety of eleven said trails to Lord Butler and to Garrick Mallary Esq of said Wilkes Barre to secure $1263.36 and that he had suffered the whole of said eleven lots to be sold for sundry taxes. That the same had been bid off by said Mallary. And that the times of redemption had expired, I thereupon applied in behalf of said Hillhouse to the admr  of Lord Butler and to said Mallary who proposed to me to use their rights to said lots on the payment of said mortgage money, said taxes and interests.

In June following, I applied to said Goodrich who said that said conveyance had been made and left for him or that his knowledge at the time. That he had since been at great expense in paying the taxes and in sending out to look after said land. That he was unable to attend to it or pay the taxes and proposed if said Hillhouse could pay two hundred dollars he would release his right to said lot. 

As trouble and cost would attend such proceedings as might be necessary to avoid by means of said judgement in favor of said Mary Campbell, or on account of any information late in said transfers, said several incumbrances, and also said taxes must at all events been paid. Said Hillhouse concluded to accede to the
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arrangements which had been proposed. He paid the money due on mortgage, said taxes due and therefor the administrator of Lord Butler and said Mallory released to me (it being in trust for said Hillhouse) seven lots, and said Wells to obviate any on formality in said transfers, and on presumption that said arrangement would be made with said Goodrich, executed a deed of [illegible] of said twelve tracts.

Owing to indisposition and to other cause, Mr. Hillhouse did not secure said Goodrich til that12 of Oct when I went with him to Wethersfield and called on said Goodrich who then said that the business respecting said lot with the papers he had been put into the hands of Mr. Waltor W. Buckley of Wetherfield to indemnify him for the money which he had advanced to pay the taxes on said lot and for going to Pennsylvania to look after it &c. And that he had Mr. Buckley would call the next morning. They called accordingly and finally persuaded Mr. Hillhouse to pay fifty dollars in cash and to secure two hundred dollars payable in one year without interest for a release of said Goodrichs rights to said lots.

Mr. Hillhouse paid said fifty dollars and secured said two hundred to said Buckley and thereupon said Goodrich executed a deed of release of any right to said lot, by deed dated Oct 6th 1826, to which deed I was a witness and signed my name. Said fifty dollars was paid & two hundred secured to Buckley as I understood for his aforesaid and other advances and that no part  of it was coming to said Goodrich.

I am acquainted with the above lot and am of the opinion that lands as well situated and of as good a quality have lately been sold and may now be bought as low and even at a less price for cash.

Said Goodrich was spoken of in the neighborhood where he resides as a very deserving man, and as a faithful soldier of the Revolution. He appeared also to be very infirm, and in a most destitute situation. And further the deponent says not.

Interlined with the words in the ninth line from the bottom before signing.
Jesse Gilbert

U. States Ss District of Cont Sept 10th 1827
Sworn to before me by the above deponent to me personally known.
Wm Bristor, Dist Judge of U. States for Cont District
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I William Hillhouse of New Haven in the State of Connecticut testify that as far as I had any concern with or knowledge of the facts stated in the foregoing deposition of Mr. Jesse Gilbert, the same are truly stated. I further testify that said purchase made by me of said lot of land from said Ichabod Goodrich was a real bonafide purchase and at the price therein stated.
That I should not have given said two hundred and fifty dollars, (which was paid and secured as stated in said deposition), for a lot had I not owned said other seven lots. And I am fully persuaded that no part of what was given for the purchase of said lot came or was intended to come into the hands of said Goodrich but that the whole was meant to be and was actually applied to advances which had been before that time made to and for him to pay the taxes and expenses on said lot and for his necessary support, and to save him from suffering, and which I understood from said Goodrich & Mr. Buckley at the time exceeded the value of said lot 
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, Greeting:
I CERTIFY, That William Brisbane, whose name is subscribed to the annexed to the annexed instruments of writing is and was at the time of signing the same, District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut, duly appointed and commissioned and that full faith is due to all his acts as such.

In testimony whereof, I, Henry Clay, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this fifteenth day of September AD 1827 and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty second.
W. Clay
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I William Hillhouse of New Haven in the State of Connecticut testify that as far as I had any concern with or knowledge of the facts stated in the foregoing deposition of Mr. Jesse Gilbert, the same are truly stated. I further testify that said purchase made by me of said lot of land from said Ichabod Goodrich was a real bonafide purchase and at the price therein stated.
That I should not have given said two hundred and fifty dollars, (which was paid and secured as stated in said deposition), for a lot had I not owned said other seven lots. And I am fully persuaded that no part of what was given for the purchase of said lot came or was intended to come into the hands of said Goodrich but that the whole was meant to be and was actually applied to advances which had been before that time made to and for him to pay the taxes and expenses on said lot and for his necessary support, and to save him from suffering, and which I understood from said Goodrich & Mr. Buckley at the time exceeded the value of said lot.
From the acquaintance which I have had with said Goodrich and from what I saw and observed I feel myself constrained to say that I think him a truly meritorious applicant.
In addition to his being destitute of the means of subsistence (which is undoubtedly to be attributed to the [illegible] of time & property which he made while serving in the Revolutionary war, for which he received a mere nominal compensation) he appears to be laboring under the infirmities of a constitution impaired and broken by the hardships and privations to which he was exposed in long series of faithful services, of which our country and now enjoying the rich profits. That he asks us but a pittance of what he is in justice entitled to.
William Hillhouse

United States Ss District of Connt
Sept 10, 1827

Sworn before me by Wm Hillhouse Esq counsellor & atty at law to me personally known. 
Wm Bristor District Judge of said Dist of said District of Connt
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Recd Sept 8 1826

1 March 1823

Ichabod Goodrich
Cont

Saml S. Parsons
Hartford Con.

100

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
War Department
Washington
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Hartford Connt Sept 4, 1826

Sir
Enclosed are the documents of Ichabod Goodrich, an applicant for a restoration to the pension roll.

Mr. Goodrich was suspended from the roll of the Connecticut agency under the act of May 1, 1820 & could not be reinstated in consequence of having too much property.

This inconvenience he trusts is now remaned by the melancholy loss of his wife - as it appears from the last schedule exhibited, that he was possessed of most of his property by her. The enjoyment of which benefited to her [illegible] was of her former husband from whom the property was derived.

The appraisement of the land owned by Mr. Goodrich made under oath by a gentleman who has been on the lot & is well acquainted with the country & in his opinion is much higher than can be obtained for it. In cash, it is of no value to Mr. Goodrich & could
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he obtain the amount of the appraisement would be acting to dispose of it immediately.

His debts amount to nearly as much in the amount of property exhibited in his schedule & he has no means of discharging them except by sale of these lands.

I am convinced that his situation needs his feeble - from the statements of gentlemen of undoubted veracity, clearly of opinion that he is entitled to the favorable consideration of the War Department.

With very high respect
I am
Your Obed Servant
Samuel H. Parsons
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New Haven August 4th 1827

Hon Walter W Buckley

Sir
I have just now on my turn recd your favor of the 2nd and hasten to enclose the copy of said Goodrichs deed to me. You will perceive that it is very much worn. The truth is I sent the copies ready drawn to Mr. Gilbert request him to get it certified and return it to me by the mail in case that would be the speediest mode of conveyance. I was in hopes in this way to delay and to save some expense. In this I was however way disappointed as they work full pay for the copy and the detention was the same as though it had not been ready drawn, as the Gilbert I presume stated to you.

The original deed is now returned to me, and I will send it to you if it will be of any service; provided I can have it again when the business is closed.

I wrote to you that I had taken Mr. Gilberts dep to the execution of the deed, but as you now have a certified copy, and say nothing about it, I presume it will not be wanted. Mr. Gilbert and I can testify that the note for $200 payable in one year without interest, and the $50 in hand, which was the consideration for the conveyance, was all the land would fetch in cash had there been no question respecting the title.
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I will send Mr. Gilberts & my depns & the deed if you with it. You can testify to the execution of the deed and to the consideration, and that the above was all you could get for the land - and that this sum was not paid to Capt Goodrich but went to reimburse what had been paid for taxes and expenses which had been incurred on account of said land. The same having been applied to the payment of what had been long before advance to Capt Goodrich for the above and other purposes. If you are in haste to send on the papers, I think you had better give your deposition to the above effect; and that Capt Goodrich is really needy and in distress.

As I stated to you before I should prefer applying directly to Congress by a petition praying that the back pay from the time his pension was withheld might be made up to Capt Goodrich. If you should think it best to have a petition drawn I will make it out, and send or get it to you. This however cannot be presented til Congress meets which will not be under some months.
I remain with esteem your friend &c
William Hillhouse
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Honble James Barbour
Secretary at War
Washington

Pension Office
Sept 14, 1827
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New Haven Sept 10th 1827

Honble Jas Barbour,

Sir,
I have been applied to in behalf of Ichabod Goodrich for my depn respecting the purchase which I made of him of a lot of land, in what was formerly Lucerne now Bradford County in the state of Pennsylvania; conveyed to me Oct 6 1826.

Mr. J. Gilbert, who was a witness to the deed from said Goodrich has examined the lot, and is acquainted with the facts. I have therefore procured his deposition to which mine is subjoined; which I hope will be satisfactory. I do this the more willingly as it would be most unfeeling not to commiserate the destitute and distressed situation of the present applicant whose sufferings have accrued and been incurred, in the cause of our freedom & independence. Indeed his pension which has been withheld from him for some years ought to be made up to him. It now appears that what he ostensibly held was not of sufft value to exclude him, and that he did not acquire a little to that by his deed from Wells - there was an informality on the execution of the conveyance - a mostly of the property was held in trust and the judge of Mary Campbell was a lien on the whole & I did not wish to avail myself of this, it was no reason why he should have been barred of his pension, which if it had been continued to him, would have been a very inadequate compensation for what he has sacrificed for his country. I entreat for that you would pardon the liberty which I have taken, and permit me to subscribe myself, with the most profound respect, your very obedient servant,
William Hillhouse
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Hartford August 15, 1827

Sir:
I beg leave to call your attention once more to the case of Ichabod Goodrich whose application to be restored to the Pension roll, was transmitted last August to the War Department, with a schedule of his property. Also a certificate from the selectmen of Wethersfield where he resided, setting forth his property &c.

At the time of the application he possessed a few acres of wildland in the state of Pennsylvania of little or no value, & having subsequently disposed of the property to the Hon. William Hillhouse (formally
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a member of Congress from the State Commissioner of the school found a gentleman well acquainted with lands in that state of Pennsylvania) but before the application was determined, it was deemed necessary from him to exhibit an authenticated copy of the deed of transfer for with the affidavit of the purchase having the amount paid for the same. He has therefore with considerable trouble and expense procured the required copy of the deed, and also a letter from Mr. Hillhouse the purchaser relative to the consideration & his poverty, which I have the honor to enclose for
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your perusal. Mr. Hillhouse resides in New Haven, formerly a senator in Congress as I stated above.

I hope his opinion will assist the Hon Secretary of War in determining upon the merits of Goodrich's application.
There is no doubt hereof his extreme poverty & debt.
With very high respect,
I am sir
Your ob servt
Samuel H Parsons

J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington
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Mr. Ichabod Goodrich

To Walter W. Bulkley

1824 May 22nd
The Cash paid for traveling expenses from RockyHill to Asylum and back, together with money advanced for taxes.  $74.00

To 31 day service in traveling and settling with the agent &c $1.00 per day ~ $31.00
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$105.00

Interest in the above up to July 10th 1826  $13.44
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$118.44

to paid for thru letters respecting Land     $0.56
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$119.00

Hartford County Ss Wethersfield, August 29th 1826
Personally appeared Walter W Bulkley and made oath to the truth of the above account before me.
Henry Bulkley, Just Peace


Wethersfield 31st July 1826
Ichabod Goodrich to Daniel Fuller Dr to sund visits attention &c him self & wife.   $17.00

Hartford County, Ss Wethersfield July 31st AD 1826
Personally appeared Daniel Fuller of said Wethersfield and made oath to the truth of the above account before me. 
Henry Bulkley, Just Peace
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Mr. Ichabod Goodrich
To Esther Bowers D
1825 [illegible month] 5
12 weeks & 4 days labor at house keeping 3/    $6.28

1826 April    3 weeks labor at house 4/   $2.00
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$8.28


Hartford County Ss Wethersfield August 14th 1826
Personally appeared Esther Bowers and made oath to the truth of the above account against Ichabod Goodrich before me.
Henry Bulkley, Just Peace


Ichabod Goodrich
to Jasper Goodrich, D

1813 Oct 26  32 days services at [illegible]   $32.00
to trading expense & board   $30.00
Feb 25 1815 To Cash pd land tax   $6.00
Sep 11 1826 to Cash pd land tax  $42.00
Oct 2 1824 to Interest on the above $54.66
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$164.78


Rocky Hill Oct 2 1824 
Recd pay by Note
Jasper Goodrich

Hartford County Ss Wethersfield June 19th AD 1826
Personally appeared Jasper Goodrich and made oath to the truth of the above account and also that the note he recd for the same dated 2nd October 1824 is wholly unpaid to this date before me.
Henry Bulkley Just of the Peace
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I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court of the county of Hartford in Connecticut certify that Henry Bulkley Esq on the 19th day of June 1826 was & ever since has been a Justice of Peace in & for said County of Hartford & I believe that the four signatures of his name written are his signatures.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court this 2nd day of September 1826.
Thomas Chester Clerk
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Hartford October 13 1826

Sir,
Your letter of the 8th Oct relative to the case of Ichabod Goodrich, I have had the honor of receiving; and in compliance with the suggestions there in contained, have procured the certificates of the Selectmen of Wethersfield where he resides, as to his poverty, and also the certificate of the Hon. Elisha Phelps a member of Congress for this Country, as to the respectability of the gentlemen who have signed the certificate as Selectmen - Mr. Phelps being a resident of Sainsbury some distance from Wethersfield was unacquainted with the pensioner & could therefore
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only certify the respectability of the selectmen. With respect to the Land in Pennsylvania valued in a former schedule at $500 by a person in Wethersfield who had never seen it but without much reflection guessed at it, perhaps from that value of his own lands in Wethersfield - the present valuation as stated in this last schedule was made by a gentleman who had visited the very lands & managed the property paying taxes &c for Mr. Goodrich. His estimate was made from personal observation & information of persons in that country & was considered a very high estimate - but to put it beyond a doubt that the property was valued too high
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it has been sold to Mr. Hillhouse of New Haven late Commissioner of the school fund in this state, for the sum of #200 - & the sum is probably ere this absorbed in paying the debts of Mr. Goodrich.

I know nothing of the man myself but from the information of very respectable gentlemen acquainted with him & his title to a pension which comes at least within the spirit of the act of Congress. I hope the Hon. Secretary of War will be the of the same sentiment.
Very Respectfully
I am sir
Your obedient Servant
Samuel H. Parsons
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We the subscribers Select Men of the town of Wethersfield in Hartford County and state of Connecticut do hereby certify that Ichabod Goodrich an inhabitant of said town of Wethersfield is in indigent circumstances and in consequence of great bodily infirmity is wholy unable to labor for a support, he is now living with his son Jasper Goodrich who is married and depends on his occupation for the support of himself and family, were it not for the generosity of his son we do believe he would be an incumbent on the town. His character stands fair in society he has been an industrious and temperate man and economical in his expenses more so than men in general.
Wethersfield Oct 6th 1826
Wm. Robbins 2nd
Samuel Galpin
Selden Miner } Select-Men

Connecticut Hartford County, Ss October 9th 1826
I certify that Wm. Robbins 2nd, Samuel Galpin, & Selden Miner, are Selectmen of Wethersfield in this County; and are gentlemen of veracity and respectability.
Elisha S. Phelps
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Know all men by these Presents that I Ichabod Goodrich of Weathersfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut for diverse good causes and considerations thereunto moving especially for the consideration of sundry taxes refunded to me and of one other received my full satisfaction of William Hillhouse of New Haven in New Haven County and State aforesaid have remise released and forever quit claimed, and by these Presents do for myself and my heirs, justly and absolutely remise release and forever quit claim unto the said William Hillhouse and unto his heirs and assigns forever all such rights and title as I the said Ichabod Goodrich have or ought to have in or to certain lot or tract of land situated on the waters of the Little Sugar Creek in the County of Bradford State of Pennsylvania bounded as follows:

beginning at a Hemlses [illegible] land of Rufus Bennet south two hundred perches to a Beach hence by land of Eli Catlin West three hundred and forty perches to a Beach thence by land of Thomas Baldwin north five hundred perches to a beach and thence by land of Walter Bennet three hundred and forty perches to the place of beginning, continuing four hundred acres one hundred and forty perches and the allowance of six percent for roads.

Which land was surveyed in pursuance of a warrant dated the 13th of August 1792 and granted to Isaac Bennet being [illegible] the land conveyed to me by Roswell Wells in Oct 1810. Service being had to said Wells, deed for a more particular description of said land to have and to hold the premises unto him the said William Hillhouse and to his heirs and assigns on the only use and behalf of the said William Hillhouse his heirs and assigns forever so that neither I the said Ichabod Goodrich nor my heirs, nor any other person or persons for me or them or in my or their names & behalf shall or will hereafter claim or demand any right or title to the premises or any thereof but they and every of them shall be by these Presents be excluded and forever barred.

In writing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of October in the Year of our Lord 1826.
Ichabod Goodrich Ss

Signed and Sealed & dated in presence of Jesse Gilbert
Walter W. Buckley
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Bradford County Ss
Personally appeared Jesse Gilbert one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument, and who being duly sworn according to law before the subscriber one of the associate judges of the said county of Bradford doth declare that he saw Ichabod Goodrich sign seal & deliver the foregoing instrument as his free act and deed for the purpose of having it recorded as such. Witness my hand and seal the 7th day of February 1827.

Jonathan Stevens {Seal}

Pennsylvania
{covered up] County Ss
I alpheus Ingham Recorder of deeds &c in & for said county do certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of a deed from Ichabod Goodrich to William Hillhouse on record in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said office at Meansville in said county, this 23rd day of February AD 1827
A. Ingham recorder
W. Patton