Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,440, for Jeruel Phillips, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
[Column 1] SERVICE
Conn.
[Column 2 - No header]  Phillips, Jeruel
Prudence
[Column 3] NUMBER
W. 17,440

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8112
Connecticut
Jeruel Phillips
of New Milford in the state of Connecticut
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Swift of the Connecticut 
line, for the term of Three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Mch [March] 1819
and sent to David L. Boardman
New Millford Connecticut

Arrears to 4th of March 1819  87.43
Semi-anl'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48

[Total] $135.43

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued [illegible]
last 1 May 1820
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Notification sent to David L. Boardman Esq. New Milford Connt.
29 July 1820
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Connecticut 303

Prudence Phillips,
widow of Jeruel Phillips, dec. 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March '18
and who died on the 16th Oct. 1828
of N. Milford in the State of Connecticut
who was a Prv. [Private] in the Compy. commanded 
by Captain Lee of the Regt.  commanded
by [Colonel] Swift in the Connt.
line for 2 yrs.
Conn.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Sept.
'38, and sent to and N. Perry
New Milford, Conn.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending  40.00
[Total] $240.00

{Act July 7,
1838.}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1 Page 204
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Connecticut, 7 April 1818

Jeruel Phillips, New Milford [illegible]
26th March 1777 to 25 March 1780
Col. Herman Swift Reg
Connecticut Line

Judge Boardman
New Milford
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I Jeruel Phillips of New Milford County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut aged fifty nine years being duly sworn do declare, that, I served in the War of the Revolution, against the common enemy as a Private soldier, more than four years, that I first inlisted [sic] either in May or June 1775, in the company commanded by Capt. Isaac Bostwick in the Regiment of Connecticut Troops commanded by Col. Charles Webb, in which Regiment I served untill [sic] regularly discharged at a place called Temples Farms in the neighborhood of Boston, in the month of December next following the time of my inlistment [sic] - that about the last of April or first of May 1776 I inlisted [sic] into the Company commanded by Capt. Reuben Bostwick of the Connecticut troops, for the period of either of Eight or Nine Months, & which, I do not recollect, that I served during the period of that inlistment [sic] in a Regiment commanded by Col Gould L. Lilliman of Connecticut, and was regularly discharged at North Castle in the State of New York but the day of my discharge I cannot exactly state having lost the evidence of it as also of that granted to me at Temple's Farms aforesaid on the 26th day of March 1777.
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I inlisted [sic] into the Continental army at said Milford aforesaid for the period of three years, in the second Regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by Col. Hernan Swift, that the company in which I served was at the time of my inlistment [sic] commanded by Capt. Elizur Warner, it was afterwards commanded by Capt. Hill whose first name I do not recollect, & before the expiration of the aforesaid period of my inlistment [sic] I was transferred to a company commanded by Capt. Amos Hall, to which company I belonged at the time of my discharge, and that I was honorably discharged from said service at Springfield in the State of New Jersey, about the 25th day of March 1780, but I cannot state the precise time, having unfortunately lost my discharge. And I further declare that by means of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
[signed] Jeruel Phillips
Dated at New Milford
this 7th day of Apl. 1818 -

District of New Milford ss. Prov. Office -
I David L. Boardman Judge of the Court of Probt. [Probate] for the District, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was sworn to subscribed on the day & date above written before me
[signed] David L. Boardman
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State of Connecticut ss. Probate District of New Milford
On this 27th day of April 1818 before me said David L. Boardman Judge of the Court of Probate for sd. [said] District of New Milford, personally appeared Lemuel Peet of New Milford in said District aged seventy one & being duly sworn according to Law saith. That he the Depont. [deponent] entered the Continental army for the period of three years in the month of March 1777, in the Regt. of Connecticut troops commanded by Col. Hernan Swift & served therein untill [sic] the month of March 1780; that he then was & ever since has been well acquainted with Jeruel Phillips of sd. New Milford, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration; that said Phillips served during the like period of three years in said Regiment & a part of the time in the same company  with the depont .that he was regularly discharged at Springfield in New Jersey in the latter part of March 1780. & left the army in company with this depont. -
[signed] Lemuel Peet
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written before me
[signed] David L. Boardman
Judge of Probate
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I David L. Boardman Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New Milford aforesd. [aforesaid] this same being by law a court of Record do certify that it happens to my full satisfaction that the said Jeruel Phillips did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding [sic] Declaration, against the common enemy - and I now transmit the proceeding testimony taken then before me, for the purpose of entitling the said Phillips to the benefits of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." to the Honorable, the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of sd. Court
[signed] David L. Boardman

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pvt
Jeruel Phillips 
7 April
Correct DM

The Judge must certify that the claimant is in indigent circumstances
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State of Connecticut ss. District of N Milford
I David L. Boardman Judge of the Court of Probate for sd. [said] District do hereby certify that Jeruel Phillips named in the foregoing Declaration is in indigent circumstances & that in my opinion (grounded as well upon my own personal knowledge of the man as upon the testimony of Elijah Boardman Esq, by me some days since taken & forwarded to the Secretary for the Dept of War.) he the sd. Phillips is in need of assistance from his country for support -
Witness my hand & the seal of sd. Court this 26th day of June 1818 - 
[signed] David L. Boardman
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394
Prudence Phillips
widow of Jeruel
Con:

act 7 July 38
5 years

married in 1783

[illegible]
2 years pri

80$

no deduction

N. Ferry Esq
New Milford
Con.
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield Ss.
Probate District of New Milford

On this 9th day of August 1838 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate for said District now sitting at New Milford in said District and County Prudence Phillips a resident of said New Milford aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act "granting half pay and pensions to certain "widows": That she is the widow of Jeruel Phillips who, was a private in the Army of the Revolution. He enlisted she believes into Capt. Elisur Warren's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hernan Swift in the Spring of the year 1777 for the period of three years and served out the time of his enlistment; that he the said Jeruel Phillips was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease, under the Act
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of March 18th 1818 and she respectfully refers the Officers of the Department to his declaration & the proof thereto annexed on file & other documents in the Pension Office at Washington for evidence of her husbands services in support of her claim for a pension.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jeruel Phillips on the tenth [underlined] day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three that her husband, the aforesaid Jeruel Phillips died on the 16th day of December Eighteen hundred and twenty eight that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jeruel Phillips by Abel Kine Esquire then a Justice of the Peace for Litchfield County residing in said New Milford, when said marriage took place, that she has no family record of her marriage and she knows of no family or other record of her marriage in existence.
Prudence Phillips her X mark
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written - before
[signed] Nathaniel Perry
Judge of said Court

I Noble S. Bennitt Clerk of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Prudence Phillips for a Pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 9th day of August AD. 1838
[signed] Noble S Bennitt Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield } ss. At a special Court of Common Pleas at Litchfield within & for said County on the First Tuesday of July 1820.

On this 4th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county, having the power to fine and imprison, Jeruel Phillips aged sixty two years resident in New Milford in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: in the campaign of the year 1775 he served in the company commanded by Capt. Isaac Bostwick and Regt. commanded by Col. Charles Hill of the Connecticut troops for about eight months, that in the campaign of the year 1776 he served for about nine months in the Regt. of Connecticut troops commanded by Col. Reuben Bostwick; & that about the 26 day of March 1777 he enlisted as a private for the period of three years into the 2nd Regt. of Connecticut line commanded by Col. Hernan Swift & in the company commanded at the time of its enlistment by Capt, Elizur Warner and afterwards by Capt. Hill, from which company he was subsequently transfered [sic] to that commanded by Capt. Amos Hall, that his service in said Regt. until the expiration of said period of enlistment, & was discharged therefrom in the month of March 1780 at Springfield in the State of New Jersey, for which services he had been placed on the pension list Roll of the Connecticut agency as a pensioner of the United States, the certificate whereof bears date the 25th day of March 1819 and is numbered 8112, & that his original declaration was dated the 7th day of April 1818.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 provision 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that I am by occupation a labourer [sic] in husbandry at day works; that I am & for several years past have been afflicted by a large rupture, which often renders it sufficiently very painful for me to labour [sic] & at times wholly incapacitates me therefore, that my present family consists of a wife sixty one years of age & a son named Jarvis of about 17 years of age who occasionally labours [sic] for my benefit & assistance, & at other times in in service for his own benefit, a daughter also named Sophia of
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about 21 years of age who makes it her home with me but is usually about in service for her own benefit, & no other persons & I further say that I am indebted to Elijah Boardman Esq. in more that the entire amount of the property in the said schedule contained.
[signed] Jeruel Phillips

A schedule of all the property of every description recorded by Jeruel Phillips named in the preceding declaration, necessary clothing & bedding only excepted, that value of said articles is annexed thereto, as follows to wit.
An interest by [illegible] in about three quarters of an acre of land in New Milford valued at $30.00
1 cow $15, 1 sow & pig $6, 5 old chickens 1.15      [total]  22.25
[illegible] & tongs, & andirons 3.00, 2 [illegible] & grinder 2.00    [total] 5.00
2 iron kettles 1.75, one iron pot 1, 1 brass kettle $5.00  [total] 7.25
1 frying pan 3/, one tea kettle 3/, 2 old [illegible] 3/  [total] 1.50
2 wheels old 9/, 1 old Pail 2/, 1 [illegible] of old winding [illegible] 1/6  [total] 2.08
1 old wash tub 1/, 1  apple sauce tub 3/, 3 dry dishs [sic] 3/  [total] 1.17
3 old tubs 9/, 3 pails 6/, 7 old tin pans 7/  [total] 3.67
12 old knives & forks 6/, 10 earthen plates 4/6  [total] 1.75
12 old spoons 5/, 1 cullinder & sieve 3/, 12 plates 3/  [total] 1.83
1 set tea cups & saucers 1/6, 3 pt. [pint?] bowls 1/6, 2 half pt. tumblers  [total] .62
1 old looking glass 1/6, 1 tea pot 1/, 3 small glass bottles 2/  [total] .75
1 bible 6/, [illegible] [total] 1.58
1 old saw & three old augers, old square 6/, 1 bellows 1/6  [total] 1.25
3 old syths [sic] & 1 [illegible] 9/, 2 old axes &  2old hoes 6/  [total] 2.50
1 [illegible] &1 small hand cart 12/6  [total] 2.08
1 corn basket & 1 fruit basket 3/, 1 [illegible] [total] 1.17
1 old chest 3/, 70 oz. Rye flour 6/, 10 lbs. of pork 5/  [total] 1.83

[Total] $88.28

[signed] Jeruel Phillips
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We the subscribers do hereby certify that we have examined and appraised the several articles of property contained in the foregoing schedule of the property of Jeruel Phillips by him subscribed, at the prices to said articles respectively annexed, & that in our judgement the same an appraisal at this full & just value.

[signed] Isaac Sanford
Lulye Richmond

State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield ss.
On this 3rd day of July 1820 Before me the subscriber a Justice of Peace for sd. [said] County personally appeared the above named Isaac Sanford & Lulye Richmond & made oath to the truth of the preceding certificate of appraisement by them subscribed.
[signed] David L. Boardman Just. Peace
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Jeruel Phillips
No. 8112 New Milford

25 Mar. 19

Sworn to and declared on the 4th day of July A.D. 1820 before said Court Fredrick Wolcott Clerk.

I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighty eight dollars and twenty eight cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 7th day July 1820.

[A seal is affixed to the left of the signature]  Frederick Wolcott Clerk
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I Lydia Phillips of New Milford, County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged Eighty two years being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that I am the sister of Prudence Phillips the former wife, and present widow of Jeruel Phillips dec. [deceased] I was married in May 1780 and came to New Milford to reside in the fall or Autumn of the same year, two or three years after I came to New Milford to reside the same Jeruel and Prudence Phillips were married at my home by Abel Kine Esq. then a Justice of the Peace. I cannot tell the day of her marriage nor the year with any more particularity than I have stated above.
I well recollect that Jesse Cole was married to Eunice Wilkinson who resides in another part of the town in which I resided within a very few days, and I believe the same week the said Jeruel & Prudence were married. The said Jeruel Phillips died in the fall or winter of the year 1828 leaving the sd. [said] Prudence him surviving, she has remained a widow ever since & is still not married.
[signed] Lydia Phillips

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of New Milford ss:
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court before
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the Court of Probate for said District this 14th day of August 1838 and I certify that the said Lydia Phillips is a credible witness.
[signed] Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court
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I Daniel Gorlick of Newmilford [sic] in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy one years being first duly sworn according to Law depose and say that I moved into the neighborhood where I now reside in the year 1789. I had known Jeruel Phillips and his wife Prudence Phillips for three or four years previous to that time, they lived together as husband and wife and when I came to reside in the neighborhood where I now live in the year 1789 they had two children and I believe three, I do not know how long previous to that time they were married.
[signed] Daniel Gorlick

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of Newmilford [sic] ss.
On this 9th day of August 1838 Personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for said District Daniel Gorlick and subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit and certify that the said Daniel Gorlick is a credible witness.
Sworn before & certified by me
[signed] Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court
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I Joel W. Northrop of Newmilford [sic] in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that I am and for several years past have been, clerk of the said town of Newmilford [sic], that I have thoroughly examined the records of said town for a record of the marriage of Jeruel Phillips & Prudence Phillips his present widow and can find no record of said marriage and and I verily believe that no such marriage was ever subscribed on the records of said town.
[signed] Joel w. Northrop Clerk of sd. [said] Town of New Milford

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of Newmilford [sic] ss.
Sworn to, and subscribed by the said Joel W. Northrop in open Court before the Court of Probate for said District this 10th day of August 1838.
[signed] Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court
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I Jarvis Phillips of Newmilford [sic] in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged thirty six years being first duly sworn according to Law depose & say that I am the son of Jeruel Phillips [name underlined] late of sd. [said] Newmilford[sic] dec. [deceased], that my father, the said Jeruel Phillips died on the 16th day of December 1828 at sd. Newmilford [sic]. I was present when he died and attended his funeral after his death. At the time of his death he left Prudence Phillips [name underlined] his widow, him surviving. The said Prudence Phillips is still living, she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband and is now his widow and unmarried.
[signed] Jarvis Phillips

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of Newmilford [sic] ss.
Sworn to subscribed in open Court before the Court of Probate for said District this 13th day of August 1838 & I certify that the said Jarvis Phillips is a credible witness.
[signed] Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court.
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State of Connecticut
Probate District of Newmilford [sic] ss:
I Noble S. Bennitt Clerk of the Court of Probate for said District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in taking the affidavits of Lydia Phillips, Daniel Gorlick, Joel W. Northrop, and Jarvis Phillips.
[A seal is affixed to the left of the signature block]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of August 1838.
[signed] Noble S. Bennitt Clerk
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Rev. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17449
Prudence Phillips
Wid. of
Jeruel Phillips
Priv. Rev War

Act: July 7, 1838
Index: - Vol. M, Page 128

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Newmilford [sic] (Cont.) Aug. 16, 1838

Sir, I send herewith the papers of Prudence Phillips Wid. of Jeruel Phillips an applicant for  Pension for proof of her marriage. I send the affidavit of her sister Lydia Phillips to the fact, Daniel Gorlicks affidavit as furnishing presumptive evidence. I send a copy of Jesse Coles marriage referred to in Lydia Phillips affidavit to fix the time of marriage. Jarvis Phillips to prove the death and widowhood.
Please communicate the results to me.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob. Servt.
[signed] N. Perry
I also send the affidavit of the Town Clerk to prove there is no record. N. P.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions.
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"Jesse Cole and Eunice Wilkinson was [sic] joined in marriage on the Eigth [sic] day of February seventeen hundred eighty three." 

I Joel W. Northrop Clerk of the town of Newmilford [sic] Clerk of the town of Newmilford [sic] in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is exemplified on the record in fair legible figures as follows "the 8th day of February 1783."
[signed] Joel W. Northrop

I Joel W. Northrop above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County & State aforesaid, and that the foregoing [crossed out] above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, is certified by me.
[signed] Joel W. Northrop Clerk of the sd. [said] Town of New Milford

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of New Milford ss.
Sworn to & subscribed by sd. [said] Joel W. Northrop in open Court before the Court of Probate for said District this 15th day of August 1838.
[signed] Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court
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I Noble S. Bennitt Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the affidavit of Joel W. Northrop.
[Seal is affixed to the left of the signature] 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 15th day of August 1838.
[signed] Noble S. Bennitt Clerk