Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18070, Timothy Humphry, Continental (Conn)
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(8 -- 1776)
      SERVICE                                                                             NUMBER                      
Continental (Conn.)        Humphry, Timothy                         W18070
                                              or
                                          Humphrey [sic]
                                                            Rhoda
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CONTENTS
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[FOLD I]
Notification sent to 
Charles Tappen Jr. Esq
6th October. 1820.
Kingston, Ulster County, 
New York
[2 lines drawn horizontally]
Decision confirmed & opinion
of the Attorney General sent
to Hon: Charles H. Ruggles,
House of Rep. April 27, 1822

[FOLD II]
[underlined, centered] 2106
[centered] New York
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V[?] Timothy Humphrey ["re" overwritten as "r"]
[centered] Private
[Centered] Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
[double solid line]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 20 of May 1818
[double solid line]
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Aug[ust] 1818
and Sent to Pensioner
New Paltz - Ulster Co[unty] N[ew] York
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Arrearages to 4th Sept[ember] 1818
4 mo[nths] et 3/30ths --- $32..80
{Revolutionary claims,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
81 Two Years
Sheldon   
[faded, or different color ink] Discontinued
New Paltz, Ulster County
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Handwritten responses
New York             3987
double line
Rhoda Humphrey
widow of Timothy Humphrey, dec
who died on the 31st March 1826, 
of Ulster Co in the State of New York
He was a Private in the company commanded
 by Captain --------- of the -------- commanded
by Conn. in the Connecticut
line for
Subscribed on the roll of New York city
at the rate of 100 Dollars __  cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of March     and sent to H. Wynkoop  Present    Arrears to the 4th of Semi+annual allowancce ending
{Revolutinary Claim Act July 4, 1836  Section the 2nd}
Recorded by [illegible] Sumpkin    Clerk    Book 6 Vol 1 page 117
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Catskill September 26th 1843

Dear Sir,

Enclosed is the application of Rhoda Humphry widow of Timothy
Humphry under the act of 4th of July 1836 - which I should have prepared
long since, had I been able to attain the proof of marriage, which you have
will perceive has of late been obtained to which I hope will be satisfactory
Review yours in [word crossed out] answer in [underlined: "to my enquiry"] whether the widow was
not entitled to a balance due her husband at the time of his death
under the act of 1818. - he having as she thinks obtained previous to his
death a reniewal [renewal] of his pensions if so you will please inform me -
I converse with Judge Elmendorf who was his attorney who has since died and
he could find no [word crossed out] trace of his papers neither could he remember any thing
in relation thereto - your answers of this to my enquiry does not even refer to
his pension

I am

Respectfully your most obedient
Humble Servant
Henry Wynkoop

Cal J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
War Department
Washington
D.C.
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State of New York
Ulster County Clerk Offices George A. Gay Clerk of the County
of Ulster aforesaid do hereby certify that Ruben H Hine Esqr
 before whom the foregoing annexed declaration of Rhoda
Humphry and the officiants of Martha Humphrey and Samuel
Elmore Esqr purport to have been subscribed and sworn was
at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Ulster County
Courts duly commissioned and qualified and that his name
subscribed to said declaration and officiants purporting to
be his is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand
and office the seal of the said court and County
 this 20th day of September 1843.
Geo. A Gay Clerk 
by Richd Keator Dep. Clerk
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Declaration
In order to attain the benefit of the third section of the act
of Congress of the 4th of July 1836
State of New York
Ulster County
On this Sixteenth day of September in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty there be
fore me Ruben H. Hines one of the Judges of the Ulster County
Courts personally appeared Rhoda Humphrey a resident
of the town of Esopus County of Ulster and State of New York
aged ninety two years who being just duly affirmed according
to the law doth on her oath or affirmation mark the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836
That she is the widow of Timothy Humphrey deceased who in
the Revolutionary war resided in the town of Simsbury in
the state of Connecticut and entered into the Unites States ser
vice as a private Soldier for three years, and according to the
best of her recollection in a Company commanded by Capt.
David Edgar in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Sheldon of
the Connecticut Continental line
That according to the best of her and belief the said
Timothy Humphrey continued to serve in said corps untill
at the end of the said term for which he was enlisted he
was duly discharged and returned home to his family
She further declares that she was married to the said
Timothy Humphrey on the    day of September in the year
of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty nine
in said town of Simsbury
That the ceremony was performed by a Justice of the Peace by the
name of Humphrey, that she with her said husband lived
together in said State of Connecticut many years and had
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Several children, and that her maiden was Rhoda Case
She further declares that several years after the revolu
tionary war she with her husband the said Timothy Hum
phrey and children moved into the County of Ulster in 
the State of New York,
That the few years after his residence in said County of 
Ulster for the Revolutionary services rendered he was awarded
a pension at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum under
the act of Congress of 1818 but was suspended under the
act of 1820 to which his declaration and proof on file under
said act in the War Department she would res
pectfully refer for further proof of the Services of her husband
the said Timothy Humphrey did
She further declares that her husband the aforesaid Tim
othy Humphrey died on that last day of March in the
year one thousand eight hundred twenty six in the
town then called New Paltz now Esopus and that she has remained
a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference
to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn or affirmed on the day and year aforesaid                                X
before me by the applicant Rhoda Humphrey
a respectable citizen of the society of Friends
I believe her Statement entitled to credit And I further certify that from
her extreme old age and bodily infirmity said applicant is unable to 
attend court
RH Hines
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State of New York
Ulster County

Martha Humphrey of the town of Esopus County of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is the daughter of Rhoda 
Humphrey widow of Timothy Humphrey decd that her father the said Timothy Humphrey was a pensioner of the United States the act of Congress of 1818 and was stopped as she was then informed on account of his property
Deponent further saith that her mothers maiden name was Rhoda Case and that her parents and family migrated from the State of Connecticut and that her father the said Timothy Humphrey died in the town (then called New Paltz now) Esopus in the said County of Ulster on the last day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and left a widow him surviving deponents mother the said Rhoda Humphrey who has not intermarried but has ever since the death of her husband remained a widow and is the identical Rhoda Humphrey who is now an applicant for a mention for the Revolutionary Services of her husband the said, Timothy Humphrey deceased and further this deponent saith not 
Sworn to and  Subscribed on this 16th day 
of September 1843 by the said Martha Humphrey [signed Martha Humphrey
known to me as a respectable citizen and her statement entitled
 to credit. M H Hine Judge of Ulster County
State of New York
Ulster County
Samuel Elmore of the town Esopus County of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn deponent and saith that he is personally acquainted with the widow of
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Timothy Humphrey having resided several years in the same
neighborhood that they were members of the Friends or Quakers Society.
deponent further saith several years since the said Timothy Humphrey was awarded a pension under the act of Congress  of 1818 but was shortly after stopped as deponent was then informed on account of his property under the act of 1820
Deponent further saith that  he was informed that said Timothy Humphrey afterwards made some exertions in order to have his pension restored but with what success deponet does not know.
Deponent further saith that Sixteen or Seventeen years since the said Timothy Humphrey died in said town of Esopus since that and that his said widow has ever since that period resided in the same place has not intermarried and is the identical Rhoda Humphrey who is now an applicant for a pension for the Revolutionary Services of her husband the said Timothy Humphrey deceased and further this deponent saith not
Sworn and Subscribed on this                                        
16th day of September 1843           Samuel Elmore
before me by the said Samuel Elmore Esq personally known to me to be a respectable citizen has for several years has been an Post Master and his statement entitled to credit
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
I Moses Ensign of the town of Simsbury county of Hartford and State of Connecticut being duly sworn depondeth and saith that he is the present Town Clerk of the town of Simsbury in said County. that it appears by the marriage records in this office that Timothy Humphry was legally married Rhoda Case the              day of           in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred sixty nine and that said marriage is  )  on said record in fair legible  figures and    letters as follows   (viz)
"Timothy Humphry and Rhoda Case both of Simsbury were joined in marriage the         day of A.D. 1769."
I Moses Ensign above named do depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the above mentioned town and that the foregoing is a true extract from the records of said town and the deponent saith not 
             Moses Ensign
Sworn to and subscribed this 18th day of August1843 before me by 
said  deponent and known to me to be the Town Clerk of said town of Simsbury.  Jeffrey O Phelps Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford      L. L. Hartford
County Clerks office

I Richard D. Hubbard assistant clerk of
the County Court for the County of Hartford
and Keeper of the seal thereof and of the
commissions of justice of the peace for
said County hereby certify that Jeffery
C. Phelps Esquire was on the 18th day of
August A.D. 1843 a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County duly Commissioned and
qualified with power by the law to administer
oaths and take the acknowledgment of
deeds and other instruments that I am
acquainted with his handwriting in
and that the signature within subscribed
is his genuine official signature
In testimony whereof I
have here unto applied my
hand and the seal of said
Court this 23rd day of August
1843
Richard D. Hubbard Assistant Clerk
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State of New York Ulster County ss.  At court of Common Pleas held at thr Court house in Kingston in and for the court of Ulster in the state of New York Being a court of record  proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with jurisdiction unlimited a point of amount- keeping a record of the proceedings in the Term of July 1820

Present {Lucas Elmendorf  first Judge
             {Jonathan Dubois                          Being a quorum for the
             {Jacob Trumphan Jun     Judges     transaction of Business
On the  fourth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court
 Timothy Humphrey of the Town of New Paltz in said county aged seventy four years [underlined name] who being just duly affirmed according to the law doth on his affirmation declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted in the month of January 1780 in Capt David Edgars Company and Elisha Sheldon Regt, of the Connecticut Line in the revolutionary war which discharge is now in the war office sent with my declaration made for a pension about the second day of may 1818 the number I do not recollect- not- having the same with me at this time
And I the said Timothy Humphry do solemny sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I was a  resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not since that
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time by a gift - Sale or in any other manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof with
intent thereby 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 March
1818.  And I have not nor has any person in 
this 1. 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
{illegible} schedule containing the whole real Estate
and income of Timothy Humphrey a pensioner
under the Act entitled an Act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the revolutionary
war.  Real estate a lot of 27 acres of broken rough
unimproved land whereof three acres are susceptible
of improvement which cost me three Dollars and 
seventy five cents per acre and one other Lot of about
seventeen acres whereof there is about 3 acres of pasture
Land and about six acres ing ground the 
{illegible}due is ledgy mountain land with very little wood
on it for full or p{illegible}cing this cost me $10. Another
lot of eight acres chiefly improved cost me $28 -
only the acre half of the above lands has been in
my posession {insertion above illegible} having contracted with {illegible}
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for the use of the other half thereof as much as
nine years ago.  I have an old Stone House on the
seventeen Acre Lot the walls of which have very
much spread and cracked open and a small
Barn Besides necessary wearing apparel and
Bedding  I have of personal property 1 Horse 2 Cows
1 two year old Steer 2 Sheep 2 small {illegible}hotes one small
yoke of Oxen cost $27 - 1 parson Chest - 6 Chairs - 1 old 
waggon - 1 Plough.  1 Chain - 1 Ax. 1 Hoe 1 Pot-{illegible}
Kettles Tongs and shovel and Trammels - 
I am a Stone mason by Trade and have also
Coopered and have made ploughs for a support
and by reason of Old Age and a wound from a
Bayonet in my left leg in which there is a  {illegible}
fever and which is incurable I am a confirmed
Cripple and have become unable to maintain
myself My family consists of a wife named
Rhoda aged sixty eight - years who has become
by old age unable to maintain herself & a Daughter 
named Martha Aged about 26 years by whose 
labor my wife and myself in a great measure 
depend for our support {begin underline} And that without the aid
of my present pension I should be reduced to 
actual want {end underline} 
Timothy Humphry
Subscribed and affirmed this 4th day of July 1820 in
open Court by before me Lucas Elmendorf first Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the 
County of Ulster..
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I Christopher Tapper Junior Clerk of the Court of Common  Pleas of Ulster County in the  State of New York do certify that this foregoing oath and the schedule there to annexed are truly copied from the originals on file the office of said Clerk and that it is the opinion of said Court that Timothy Humphry is dependant - on the aid of his country for support and that the total amount- in value of the property exhibited in in the Aforesaid schedule is $300- witness my hand and the seal of said Court-

July 4th 1820   Ch. Tapper Junr.
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File

[faint writing beneath unable to read]

The 2nd Honble J. C. Calhoun Esqr

[illegible] of the Department of War  City of Washington
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State of New York Ulster County: On this second Day of May 1818
Before me the subscribed first judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New York personally 
appears Timothy Humphry of the Town of New Paltz in the County
and State aforesaid aged seventy three years who being by me first
duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make
the following Declaration, in order to obtain the provision made
by the late 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 That he the said Timothy Humphry
in listed at Simsbury in the State of Connecticut in the Company
of Capt. David Edgar in Col. Sheldon's Regiment of Dragoons
in the Connecticut Line in the month of February 1781 for
the period of three years and continued to serve in this said
Company and Regiment untill the army was disbanded 
in the month of June 1783 when he received a Furlough
from Gen George Washington until the first of August this
next and then to report himself at Westpoint, that he responds
himself accordingly when his furlough was prolonged until the first of November in this
same year and was discharged by Proclamation provision
to that time. That his said furlow and an endorsement
of the intensions aforesaid are herewith sent to the Department
ment of War. That he has been in several skirmishes
and Battles during said Period. That he is in reduced
circumstances and infirm and stands in need of the
Assistance of his Country for support. and that he has
no other Evidence now in his power of his said services
Sworn to and declared before me
the Day and Year aforesaid                     Timothy Humphrey
        Lucas Elmendorf


[handwritten]
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I Lucas Elmendorf the Judge in and as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that  the said Timothy Humphry did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the presiding [line inserted I further certify that he is in indigent circumstances and standing in need of his  Country for support] Declaration against the common enemy  and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress       
Lucas Elmendorf

Ulster County
Clerks office ss certify Lucas Elmendorf to be duly commissioned & go [illegible] first Judge as above detailed of that his name above signed by his handwritting

Witness the seal of the Court within mentioned of which I am Clerk dated May 2d 1818         CW. Tapper Jun
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The underlined part of my Certificate was unintentionally omitted and was not (ob) served before it was forwarded to the department of war.   I have been personally well with Timothy Humphry for 15 years and upwards I have retained his discharge which  I presumed was returned to me at my request on account  of his claim for (Bon..ty)land not being any more required at the War Office

Lucas Elmendorf
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January 13, 1928

Gertrude E. Elliott
Newport Historical Society
Newport, R.I.

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 28070, it appears that Timothy Humphrey or Humphry, while residing at Simsbury, Connecticut, enlisted in February 1781 and served as a private in Captain David Edgar’s Company, Colonel Elisha Sheldon’s Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons, he was in several battles and skirmishes (no names given), was wounded in the leg by a bayonet, no details stated, and served two years and nine months.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 2, 1818, while a resident of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, aged seventy-three years.  He died there on the last day of March 1826.

Solidify married in September 1769 at Simsbury, Connecticut, Rhoda Case, they were both then of said
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[Typed]  
Simsbury

She was allowed pension on her application executed September 16, 1843, while a resident of Esopus (which was formerly New Paltz), New York, aged ninety-two years.
It is stated that they had several children- Martha, was twenty six years old in 1820; and Gideon, in 1823, was married and had three children, two boys,
aged seven and five years, and a girl, aged three years, their names are not given, nor is the name of his wife stated.

Timothy Humphrey, Jr. is referred to, relationship is not stated.

Respectfully,  Winfield
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Sept 1818     [left side]
New York
Timothy Humphry [illegible]
  [illegible]
[5 lines illegible]
his wife aged 68 years [illegible]
[5 lines illegible]
[illegible] dated 4 July 1820
of 27 acres [illegible] 3 acres which is [4 words illegible]  at $2.75}
of about 17 acres with 3 of pasture 6 acres of [illegible] grounds the [2 }]words illegible]  Mountain Land }
Lot of 8 acres improved }        28
[3 words illegible] Stone Houses on [2 words illegible] not valued} [illegible] }
of which are very much [illegible] and also a  small thereon}
 Personal Property
Horse, 2 Cows  1 two year old steer , 2 sheep [illegible] Shotes & a s
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[illegible] under Act Mar 1823 dated 1st July 1823  personal property $34.12
                                             ____________________
accounts for the decrease of property &c.  By sale of the whole of his property appears by deed to his son in 1821.  sd. son asumming the debt of his Father ___

Claimant aged 77}
wife _________   70}    see the other side

per letter 12 Sept 1823 to

Lucas Elmendorf Esqr    Kingston  Ulster Co.  N Y
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State of New York
Ulster County Clerks office ss: I, Jacob Snyder clerk of the County of Ulster and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy with the original deed and certificate of acknowledgment presented to me for that purpose and find it to be a true copy _____
The testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this sixth day of August 1823____
[signature] Jacob Snyder

I do certify that the original deeds of which this is a copy has been duly acknowledged to be admitted in the courts of this state as evidence of the legal transfer of the property therein described. August of 6th 1823
[signature] Lucas Elmendorf, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County.
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This Indenture made the third day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty One between Timothy Humphry of the town of New Paltz County of Ulster and state of New York of the first part and Timothy Humphrey Junior of the town and county aforesaid for and consideration of the sum of Two Hundred Dollars current money of that state of New York to him in hand paid by the second part Timothy Humphrey Junior at or before [illegible] and delivering of these presence the receipt whereof the said party of the first part doth hereby absolutely by these presence unto the said party of the second part his [illegible] [illegible]
and heirs and assigns all that certain price or parcel of land situate lying and being in the town of New Paltz and state aforesaid on the east by the land of John Ackmoody partly on land  belonging to Joel Minard west on land belonging to John Bever partly on land belonging to Jacob and David and Cotant and north on land belonging to Timothy Humphrey and contains about thirty seven acres of Land.  Being more or less with all the impertinces thereunto belonging or in or anywise apertaining rents and phophets and all the estate right title inhests claims or demand whatsoever of the said party of the first part either in law or equity

[all handwritten]
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party of the second there heirs an assigns to the sole and the proper use benefit and behalf of the said party of the second part there heirs and assigns forever further it is agreed by the said party of the first in witness whereof the party have to the purpose set my hand and seal the day and year above written signed sealed in presence   Timothy Humphry [circle ss]

Gideon Humphrey
Martha Humphrey

Ulster County ss
 
Be it that that on the 7th of July in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty third before me Abrm, Van Neuren came Timothy Humphrey the grantor of the within deed and acknowledged that he had executed the within deed for the use and purpose herein mentioned and being well acquainted with the Grantor Timothy Humphrey knowing him to be the identical here unto named I allow the same to be recorded

    Abm Van Neuren Comss 

[all handwritten]
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This Indenture made on the 9th day of November in the year of our Lord  one thousand eight hundred and twenty one between Timothy Humphrey and the town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster and state of New York of the first part and Samuel Hutchison of the same place of the second part witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and inconsideration of the sum of sixty dollars lawful money of the State of New York to him paid the receipt [illegible] hereby confessed and acknowledged hath bargained sealed remised and quit claimed an by these presents doth bargain sell remise and quit claim unto the said party of the second part in his actual posession now being and being to his heirs and assigns forever all that certain  piece or parcel of land being part of lot distinguished by lot [the word number crossed out] no. 11 in three miles or river lots in the south division of the patent of Newpaltz Beginning at a heap of stones the south west corner of land released to Richard Wilder by quit claim bearing date the thirthieth day of June eighteen hundred and thirteen on the north line of the lot No 10 running thence in company with said Richard Wilder north nine degrees east twenty eight chains twenty links or thereabouts to the north line of said lot no 11 thence north seventy eight degrees west to the three
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miles and on west end of said lot thence south nine degrees west twenty seven chains eighty links to the south line of said lot thence seventy one and a half degrees east to the place of beginning containing about seventeen acres together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtances thereunto  belonging or in any wise appertaining and the revision [illegible]
and revised remainder rents fines and profits thereof and all the estate right title interest claim on demand what assigns [illegible] of the said party of the first part either in law as equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the said Hereditments & appertanances  to have and to hold the said lot and premises to him the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper     [ illegible]   and behoof  of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever,  In Witness whereof the said party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day year first above written
Timothy Humphrey      [circle  with ss scratched through above name]

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Isaac Le Fever

[handwritten]
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State of New York}
Ulster County       } ss On the fifth day of August 1823  personally appeared  before me the subscriber the within named Timothy Humphey to me personally known & acknowledged  he has executed the within deed for purposes therein exposed and examined saw [illegible] find no alteration
Let it be recorded 
 
Isaac Le Fever  Commissioner to take [illegible


[handwritten]
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State of New York
Ulster County Clerks Office ss}  I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby Certify that I have compared the within annexed copy with the original copy with the Original Deed & Certificate of acknowledgement (Presented to me for that purpose and find it to be a true copy ____.__________ In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court th6th day of August -1823_________.____________ Jacob Snyder

I do notify that the original Deed of which this is a copy has been duly acknowledged to be admitted in the courts of this State as Evidence of the legal transfer of the Property therein described - August ye 6th - 1832
  
Lucas Elmendorf first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County
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This indenture made the 5th day of made in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty one Between Timothy Humphreys of the town of Newpaltz County of Ulster and the State of New York of the first part and Timothy Humphreys Jur. of the so far and Consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars current money of the state of New York to him in hand paid by the second part Timothy Humphrey Jr. at or before the unsealing and delivery of these presence the receipt whereof the said party of the first part hereby acknowledge hath granted bargained sold alieved remised released conveyed assured confirmed fully freely and absolutely by these presents unto the said party of the second part his airs [illegible] and heirs and assigns forever  All that certain piece or parcel of land situate lying in the town of Newpaltz and state aforesaid on the East by land of John Acknivdy partly on the land belonging to Joel Minard West on land belonging to John Bever partly on land belonging to David Contant and north on land belonging to Timothy Humphrey and contains about thirty seven acres of land being more or less with all the impurtanences thereunto belonging in any  wise appertaining rents and profits and all the estate right title interest claims or demands whatsoever of sd. party of the first part either in law or equity of in & to the above mentioned lot of land to the sd. party of the second there heirs and assigns to the sole & proper use benefit & behoof of the

[handwritten]
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said party of their second part their heirs and assigns forever further it is agreed by the Sd party of the the first ____   ____________ In witness whereof the Party have to these presence set my hand and seal the day and year above written___________._____________.______
Signed and sealed in the presence of
Gideon Humphrey
Martha Humphrey                Timothy Humphreys            [S crossed out]
Ulster County ss: [illegible]  Be it remembered that- that on the 7th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty three before me Abr rm. Van Keuren came Timothy Humphry the grantor of the within deed and acknowledged he had executed the within deed for the use and purpose herein mentioned and being well aquainted with the grantor Timothy Humphrey knowing him to be the identical herein named I allow the same to be recorded _____._______ Abr m Van Keuren Commissioner
A true record entered the twenty fifth day of January 1826 at 10 O'Clock A. M.   Jacob Snyder Clerk
State of New York Clerks Office ss[illegible] I Jacob Snyder Clerk of  the  County of Ulster and Clerk of the Commonpleas of Ulster County  Do hereby  Certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the record of a deed in this affair in Book No 28 pages 164 & 165 _________.________ in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal  of said Court and County this seventh day of February 1826 .________._________
Jacob Snyder

[handwritten
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This Indenture made the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one between Timothy Humphrey of the town of Newpaltz in the county of Ulster and State of New York of the first part and Samuel Hutchings of the same place of the second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Sixty Dollars lawful money of the State of New York to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and ackowledged hath   
remised and quit claim into said party of the second part in his actual possession now  being and to his Heirs and Assigns forever all that certain piece or parcel of land being apart of a lot in the north division of the patent of Newpaltz Beginning at a heap of stones being the southwest corner of land released to Richard Wildie by quitclaim bearing the date the thirtierth of June eighteen hundred and thirteen on the north line of Lot No,11 thence North seventy eight degrees west to the three miles and or west end of said lot thence south nine degrees West twenty seven chains eighty links to the south line of said thence south seventy one and a half Degrees East to the place of beginning contain about seventeen acres - together with all singular the Hereitaments and appurtances there unto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion remainder and remainders vents lpres [illegible] and profits thereof  and all the Estate right title interest claim or demand whatsoever of the said party

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of the first part either in law or equity of in and two the above bargained premises with the said Heveditaments and appurtances - To have and to hold the said lot and premises to him the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part of his heirs and assigns forever-- In witness whereof the said party of the first part hath hereunto set his Hand and seal the Day and year  first above written sealed and Delivered in the prescence of Isaac Lefever___                       Timothy Humphry   [S crossed through]

State of New York Ulster County [Illegible] Onthe fifth day of Augudt 1823 personally appeared before me the subscriber the within named Timothy Humphry to me personally known and aknowleded he had executed the written  deed for the use and purpose therein expressed and having examined said deed and find no alteration set it be recorded
  Issac Lefever Commissioner to take ack ts &c ________

State of New York  Ulster County Clerks Offices  I Jacob Snyder  Clerk of the Commonpleas of Ulster County do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Record of a Deed in this office in Book No  28. on pafes 1653 & 164-   _______. ___________..
In Testimony whereof- I have hereunto set hands and affixed the seal of said Court and County this seventh day of February 1826  Jacob Snyder
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Timothy Humphry's - Pension Application

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State of New York Ulster Country On the first day of July 1823
personally appeared in open court being the Court of Common
pleas of the County of Ulster in the state of New York being
a court of record with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of
amount and proceeding according to the Course of the Com-
mon law. Timothy Humphrey of the town of Newpaltz
in said County of Ulster, a resident of said town & county aged
seventy seven years who being first duly affirmed in open court according to the law doth make the on his affirmation make the
following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions made
by the acts of Congress of the 18 march 1818, and the 1st
may 1820 that he the said Timothy Humphrey enlisted
for the term of three years, about the month of February in
the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one to
the best of my Present recollection in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain David Edgar in the Regiment commanded by Colonel  Shelden in the line of the State of Connecticut on the United States Continental Establishment and that he continued to serve in said Corps until discharge by General Washington the commander in Chief at the end of the war and received his said discharge
in Middlefield in said State which discharge hath been forwarded to the War Department in the month of May 1818. Together with his application for a pension where it has remained in consequence of which applica-

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tion he has been placed on the pension list and received a certificate thereof from John C. Calhoun Secr'y of War dated the sixth of August 1818. number 2106 from time he hath drawn his pension until his name was struck from off the pension list on account of his property ______._____.  Timothy Humphry and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1818.  I solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day March 1818 I solemnly affirm and declare  and that I was a resident I have not since that of the act of the 1st May 1818-and that I have solemnly affirm and declare 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 since that time [original repeated] by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bind myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the revlutionary war passed the 18th day of  March 1818- and I have not nor has any person in trust  income other than what was contained except the common wearing apparel and bedding of myself and wife I own no more than three quarters of an acre of rough and ledgy land situate in the town of NewPaltz in the county of Ulster which I have owned about eighteen months ago which was then in wood

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and which I purchased for $3.12 1/2 from one William Norton who gave me a deed for the for the same after paying him out if the proceed of wood sold from lot all the wood has since been used by me for firewood and other purposes it is not profitable for any other purpose than the wood growing in it- I own no other real property and all personal property I own consists of a small cow I have raised worth about  fourteen dollars and 3 sheep I have raised  not worth more than four dollars and one old horse 16 years old not worth  than $10 - and 1 iron pot worth  about seventy five cents 4 old chairs worth about $1- 1 tongs worth about 25 cents and one trammel worth about seventy five cents on account of my extreme  age and infirmity I am become so weak and feeble  as to be wholly unable more able to pursue any occupation or labor and cannot expect to become more able during life and by my wife also bring seventy four years of age is equally [illegible] by age and  infirmity  so as no more able to  Contribute towards her support we live in a room of the house which I heretofore in my former inventory gave up  as my own which is now owned by my son Gideon Humphry and has been by me conveyed to him about eighteen months ago for the nominal consideration for which the said house and eighteen acres of land- being $50 was by me purchased of Daniel Olmstead
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which consideration money I have never paid but the same had been paid by my said son Gideon from the savings of his own industry besides Contributions to my support heretofore I as the same time also conveyed to him my other two lots conveyed two lots of seven acres of land which I purchased on credit for the sum of Twenty dollars which consideration money has also in like manner been paid and satisfied by my said son Gideon at the same time I also conveyed to my son at the same time the other lot of twenty seven acres of land purchased by me at ten shillings per acre which I also have not paid but has been in the same manner paid for my said son Gideon in consideration whereof and my total inability to repay him the said monies and the interest there of so paid by said son Gideon I have as before stated made to him a conveyance of all my said real property contained on my former Inventory unconditionally and do not now own any other real property than the three quarters of an acre of land which I have purchased since making the said Inventory  I have a daughter living with me aged thirty three years by whose labour alone and some small aid from my son Gideon I and my wife have been subsisted and the bad state of
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health of my said son Gideon who is entirely in a helpless condition and for 18 month last past has been so greatly afflicted with the ashma and phthysic and to be unable to leave his room or by labour to contribute in the least to his own or my support & he has a wife with three children the oldest boy seven years the second also a boy of 5 years and the youngest a girl of the age of three years  Consequently he and his family cannot contribute towards my support and on account of his poverty what land of his tilled is done by the Charitable Industry and labour of neighbors without compensation the whole of his said real property being rough lands & no way productive  I am therefore in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the asistance of my Country except by Private or Public Charity- an old stone dwelling house and three lots of land one lot containing about 8 acres conveyed by me about 18 months ago to my son Gideon Humphry who has paid the whole consideration money thereof of twenty dollars and its interest for the money so paid by him for me - and the lot of 27 acres of land conveyed to my said son Gideon who has paid the whole Consideration money & interest for which I heretofore became the purchaser thereof

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being one dollar and twenty five cents per acre at the time of purchase- one other lot of eighteen acres of land by me conveyed at the time above mentioned to my said son Gideon Humphry has paid the whole consideration of money of fifty Dollars for which I originally became the pur chaser thereof -  these are the lands continued in my former Inventory which accompanied my former application I have made way with no personal property whatever by a sale, what was contained in my former inventory I do not distinctly recollect having kept no memorandom thereof but what it then was it has been wasted down to the amount contained in my present Inventory my memory having become very treacherous and no more rententive_______.______. Timothy Humphry
 that the said Timothy Humphry did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common

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enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment I also certifythat the foregoing affirmation and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copyed from the records lf the said court and I do further certify that it is of the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty four dollars and twelve cents_______.__________.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand affixed the seal of the said court on the first day of July 1823 ______________._______.
 Jacob Snyder - Clerk of the Court of common pleas of the county of Ulster __.

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State of New York Ulster County} On the eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one   At a court of common pleas held in and for the County of Ulster at the Court House of the said County (the same being a court of record proceeding according
to the  common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings Personally appeared in open court Timothy Humphry a resident of the town of Newpaltz in said county aged seventy five years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made
by the state of congress of the 18th March 1818. and first of May 1820. that he the said Timothy Humphry enlisted in or about the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eight one at Symsbury Hartford County in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt. Edgar in Colonel Sheldens reqiment of Connecticut State Troops in the Line of the United States Continental  establishment for the period of three years and that he continued in the said service at the end of the war about three months before the end of the full period for which he was enlisted and actually served  in the said Regiment about two years and nine months and was honorably discharged from the said service by George Washington the commander in chief of the Army of the United States which discharge was forwarded to the War Office at the city  of Washington in the spring of the year 1818 accompanied with his papers and application for a pension and that the same has not since been returned to him that his name was in consequence of such application put on the pension list and a certificate forwarded to him bearing date the Second day of may 1818.  That he made out his Inventory and papers prescribed by the last mentioned act and has been informed that  his name has been struck from the pension list by the Secretary of the War under the authority of the said last mentioned act that he too is largely indebted at the time application for a pension for years before to an amount fully equal to the amount of his property and the amount of the plesure [illegible] of

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his debts he has been under the necessity of disposing the whole of his real property and also some of his personal property so that he is now without real Property and without a team and destitute of the means of support and that he parted with some of his property from necessity and in no wise with intent so to reduce or diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of the before mentioned acts of Congress for a pension and ignorant as to any
means of making thereafter the present application for a pension
 In pursuance of said  act of the first of may 1820. I the said Timothy Humphry solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818. and that I have not  since that time by gift of sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part by gift Sale or in other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it to bring myself within the provisions of the before mentioned mentioned 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 aforesaid and that I have not parted with any of my real property which is contained in my Inventory forwarded to the war department in pursuance of the said act of the 1st May 1820 but for the purpose of discharging Debt long before due and owing  by me and for the  necessary support of myself and wife in consequence of my  necessition circumstances and that at the time I made the said Inventory.  I was honestly indebited in a much larger amount that the whole value of the Real and Personal Estate I then owned and set forth in the Inventory and that I haven't nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due me not have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed Real Estate I have none
Of Personal Estate one cow worth about. $ 14-
one old horse worth about_____--  $18
2 young shoals about 8 months old ________$ 4

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1 old plow & chain worth about ________ $2. ---
1 axe & hoe worth about     _________       $1.25
  1 pot worth 75 cents one small kettle 87 cents one trammel 75 cents $2.37
1 tong & Shovel ____________________  [black circle]  37
3 knives & forks 6 plates  2 dishes 3 tea cups & saucers ________ 50
1 old table 1 old Casks [illegible]________________  ________            1.00
wearing apparel & Bedding only enough for actual use & wear for myself and & old Bedstead besides a few other small articles of household furniture of no value not now recollected
My family consists of myself being in my seventy sixth year my wife in her seventy third year and one daughter living with me and and labouring for her own Support and myself and wife to which



































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Present attest
Jonathan Dubois presiding Judge of said court for himself and the other Judges
Ulster County [illegible] December Term 1821 - this court here are of opinion that the within named Timothy Humphry who is a resident citizen of the town of Newpaltz in the county of Ulster is in necesitious circumstances and dependent  on the aid of his county for support and that his Inventory of his property above is by them valued at the sum of forty two dollars and forty nine cents-

Signed in behalf of the court  Jonathan Dubois  Presiding Judge of the said Court
 I Jacob Snyder clerk of the court of common pleas of Ulster County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of said Court and I do further certify that the value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty two dollars and forty nine cents
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18070
Rhoda Humphrey
Widow of  Timothy Humphrey  Priv. Rev. War

Act:   July 4th 1836

Index: Vol. A [handwritten]   ,      Page 350 [handwritten]  
    {Arrangement of 1870}

1928 Jan 13 [illegible] to Gertrude E Elliot

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Secry. War's statement of the pension application of Timothy Humphrys-

J L Edwards - Pension Of_


Loob's _ Capitol Hill


rec.d from Lucus Elmendorf, Esqr. 
of Kingston, N. Y. now at
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War Department Pension Office July 23 1823

Sir,
The claim of Timothy Humphrey to be restored to the Pension List, has bee examined and I have to state that it is indispensibly necessary that the exhibit to this Department authencatied copies of the deeds conveying away his property. they must be certified to the proper Officer under his seal of offices.  
I am respectfully
Your Off Ser

Lucas Elmendorf Esq Kingston Ulster Co N Y

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Ul   5962
 Sept 29 1843
Rhoda Humphrey
Oct 1836 ________N. Y.  Act 4 July 1836

$80 per an    Col J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions  War Department 
Washington D. C.

cert: to H Wynkoop Present 

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State of New York  Catskill July 15th 1843

Rhoda Humphrey widow of Timothy Humphry says her husband served 3 years in Col Sheldons Regt of the Connecticut line and was awarded a pension at the rate of $96 per annum under the act of 1818 but was dropped or suspended under the act of 1820 _  She further says that he afterwards made an effort through his attorney Judge Elmendorf to have his  pension reinstated and before it was consumated he died
I have at her request made enquiry at Judge Elmendorfs office, and have not been able to obtain any information from him the papers if he had any areeither mislaid or lost and in consequence of the great lapse of time since he is unable to give me any information on the subject verbally, will you please to give me its true history
 Your compliance will much oblige

[handwritt
Respectfully your most Obedient Humble Servant Henry Wyskopf
Col J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions War Department Washington D. C.
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March 1832 NY         Aug 7 Houston [stamp black oval]

Timothy Humphry Recd Billing Sept 18 1823                  Free

The Nontble    John C Calhoun   Esqr
 Secty at War
        
City of Washington

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The Inclosed are authentic copies of the Conveyance of the little property in land which Timothy Humphry an applicant for a pension has executed, which it was imposible for the court to [illegible] with the other Papers of his and his open Declartion in court last July Term, because he had them not with him at the tine and the adjournment of the Court the same day rendered it impractible to pursue them.  Knowing his just claims I have sent out for those deeds to him which have been acknowledged in the way required by the laws of this State to be proved and admitted record.  The recording is not required is not to add to this authenticty as proof of the transfer of the property described in it.  I hope the manner that these copies are certified will meet with [illegible] form required at the War Office that his name may be restored to the Pension List,  he is aged and his reception to appearance  will not require it long

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By His Excellency

George Washington Esq. Colonial and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States.   _________ 

Permission is hereby granted to Timothy Humphries ps [illegible] in the 2nd Regt of Light Dragoons to [illegible]                     first day of August next. As
which time he is to return to the Army and report himself to the Commanding officer at West Point unless he shall be sooner discharged, or
unless his leave of absence further extended by Proclamations   
Given at Head Quarters      [illegible]   G. Washington
Registered in the Book of the Regt
Fred J. [illegible] Adjt

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Extended to first of Novemr unless former discharged by proclaimation.  Given at West Point the 9th Aug 1723  by order pof Major Genl Knox 
for Lillian A W Camp

Timothy H


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Newport Historical Society
Incorporated 1854
Roderick Terry, President
Frank K. Sturgis, 1st Vice-President
T. T. Pitman, 2nd Vice-President
Stanley C. Hughes, 3rd Vice-President
Lloyd Minturn Mayer, Recording Secretary, Librarian and Assistant Treasurer
Maud Lyman Stevens, Corresponding Secretary
William Stevens, Treasurer
Edwin P. Robinson, Curator of Coins and Medals
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Harold Brown
Mrs. William H. Birckhead
Jonas Bergner
Mrs. William W. Covell
Marion Eppley
Mrs. Daniel B. Fearing
Mrs. Paul Fitzsimons
Mrs. Walter N. Hill
Mrs. Thomas A. Lawton
Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson
William S. Sherman
Miss Edith May Tillby
Newport, R. J.,
January 10, 1928
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me the pension record with the date of birth and death of Timothy Humphrey who fought in the War of the Revolution. He had a wife Rhoda who as his widow must have received the pension after his death. Mr. George S. Goddard, Connecticut State Librarian tells me that the file number is W18070.
I shall be grateful for any information,
very sincerely,
Gertrude Eluliardt Elliott