Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15156, Joshua Grosvenor, Conn.
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[printed form completed in handwriting]
(3-1776)
Service
Conn.

Grosvenor, Joshua

Number
S. 15156

Carded
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[printed form completed in handwriting]
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9097
Connecticut
Joshua Grosvenor
of Pomfret in the State of Connt
who was a Pri in the Com commanded
by Captain Lyon of the Reg. commanded 
by Col. Willias in the Connt 
State Troops

Inscribed on the Roll of Connt
at the rate of 28 Dollars and 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of March
1833 and sent – John Holbrook. Abington P.O. Ct
	
Arrears to the 4th of March `33:		$56.66
Semi-anl. Allowance ending Sep. 4 33:	14.16
					======= 
					$70.82

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 15

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Pen Agent, March 27, `3[cut off]
Letter to Adams White 23d June 1841
Decd.
Paid at the [ink blot]sury under the 
Act of April [ink blot] 38 from 4th March
1837 to 2d April 1838. Agent notified
Aprl 21th 1842
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State of Connecticut County of Windham SS

On this 15th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the County Court for the County of Windham Dr. Joshua Grosvenor an inhabitant and resident of the Town of Pomfret in the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th AD 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as herein Stated (to wit)

That on or about the first of September AD 1778 He entered Militia Service of the United States, as a private Soldier in the Company of Grenadiers Commanded by Capt. Daniel Lyon and belonging to the 2st Regmt of the Militia of the State of Connecticut. The whole Regiment being called upon at this time to go into said Service to a Malitia tour of duty, and was Commanded by Ebenezer Williams Col. and Samuel Maclellan Major

And marched from Connecticut, through a part of the State of New York to the Jerseys. and was stationed a while at Burgan and from thence to a place Called the English neighborhood near Fort Lee. The time of Service was Three full months and was regularly discharged therefrom Some time in the month of December AD 1776

Soon after his discharge from the above tour of duty service (To wit) in December D 1776 he was again called upon to do an other Term of Service as a Militiaman and entered the Service for the Same Sometime in December 1776 under the following officers. Daniel Lyon Capt. Benjamin Muggles Lieutenant Samuel Maclellan Major and marched from Connecticut to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and was Stationed there for the term of one month and half and was regularly discharged therefrom some time in the Month of February AD 1777.
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In the fore part of September in the year 1777 he enlisted into the Connecticut State Troops, and Served in what was called Spencer expedition. The term of one month and a half under the following named officers. Seth Grosvenor Capt with Downes Lieutenant Christian name not recollected  Marched from Connecticut to the town of Tilerton in the County of Newport & State of Rhode Island & there stationed at that place and Howland; [illegible] and field officers were Samuel Maclellan Col and the Major was a man by the name of Belu [?]  Noah Phelps was Lieutenant Col.

Sometime in August 1779 he again entered the Militia Services as a substitute for his Father Joshue Grosvenor of said Pomfret Since decd and marched to the town of Groton in Connecticut and was there stationed the time of two months under the following named officers  Joseph Abbet Col. Cathe Huntington Major and in the Company commanded by Stephen Lyon Aron Buck Lieutenant and Ebenezer Kingsbury ensign. And was regular discharged some in the Month of October 1779. 

Some time in July AD 1780 I enlisted the Malitia Service again as a Substituted for my said Father Joshua Grosvenor and marched from said State of Connecticut to a place called Tower Hill in the State of Rhode Island and was there stationed and served the term of half month & served under the following officers James Gordon Col a Capt. Adams Robert Sharp Lieutenant and a Mr Jeffords ensign and was regular discharge some time in the month of August 1780.

The whole number of terms in tours of service in amount eight Months & one half besides a member of clg that he was Called out on alarms at different periods of time and the [cut off]
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Interrogations by the Court were put as follows:
1.	When and in what year were you born. Answer: I was born in the town of Pomfret Conn in the year 1758 the 24 day of April
2.	Have you any record of the same or your age & if so where is it. Answer: I find the same in the Pomfret town records of birth agreeable to the statute law of the State of Connecticut and here I present you with a certificate of the same from the Town Clerk
3.	Where were you living when came into service  where have you lived since the revolutionary was; and where do you now live. Answer: I have always lived in said town of Pomfret eve since my birth excepting when call from home on business
4.	How were you called into service  were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute
Answer: Twice I was a substitute one enlisted and the other times the whole regiment was called upon & went
5.	State the names of some of the regular officers who were with troops where you served such Continental and Malitia regiments you recollect. [illegible] Homes, Col. Durham of Conn, Commanded a regt of the Continentals Tho Gordon afterwards Col A. Brown was Lieutent
6.	Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom given and what has become of it. Answer: There was no discharge given than was given without writing and to what companies after they had served their time and in the manner we was discharged 

State the names of persons to whom you are knowing your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for their veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Leml. Ingalls, John Holbrook Esq will testify to the above living in the neighborhood.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state only on the agency of the State
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Connecticut and has known of no survivors except who those that have testified
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid

There not being any Clergymen in the place except a young man who is only a candidate and knows nothing of the Applicant his age or character nor any in the town of Pomfret that knows the same to supply the Defect the following is made out for the same purpose

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before the County Court for the County of Windham 
[signed] Joshua Grosvenor
Attest [signed] Annin Bolles Clerk

We Lemuel Ingalls & John Holbrook residing in the said Town of Pomfret & neighborhood of the Applicant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Grosvenor who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be the age of seventy four years  That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where we reside to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we Concur in that opinion
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signed]
Lemuel Ingals
John Holbrook

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before the County Court of the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut.  [signed] Attest Annin Bolles Clerk

And the Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies it appears to them that Lemuel Ingals & John Holbrook Esq who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said town of Pomfret and are credible person and that their statement is entitle to credit
Attest [signed] Annin Bolles Clerk 

I Annin Bolles Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the sd Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Grosvenor for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of August AD 1832
[signed] Annin Bolles Clerk

[written in the left margin]

Return to me send to 
John Holbrook Esq
Abington Connecticut
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On the 6th day of December AD 1832 came before the Certifying Authority Joshua Grosvenor and being duly cautioned and sworn according to Law, make the following supplement and explanation to his former declaration in order to removed the objection made to his Claim for a pension at the pension office War department. 

Question [?] Has he mentioned with precision the length of his Service and the different grades in which he served in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of Pension he is entitled  Not with sufficient distinctness: Is the objection; and to which the applicant replies and says To all the Terms of Service specified in his declaration he Served as a private soldier excepting a part of one Term he was promoted and did the duty of a Corporal. But claims only a private Soldier. As to the length of his Servies he repeats in the following order:
The first term the full time of 3 month
Second do the full of  1 ½ do-
Third do the full time 1 ½ do-
Fourth do the full time 2 ½ do
Fifth do the full time ½ do
Making eight months  & one half 8 ½ month

To the above mentioned Times of service I do not hesitate in saying they are Correct, But as to the dates, the days I entered the service and the days I was discharged it is out of his power of recollection. 

Question 6th Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served in Conformity with the regulations  Not fully is the objection

In answer the Applicant says he named all the he can with a clear and distinct recollection in his former declaration except the Christian name of Abner Adams which I have since recollected
There were other officers whose names I cannot recollect
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Officers were often annexed to Companies and Regiments [testifying??] at a distants, who were strangers, and the infirmities and the frailty of his mind will not permit the applicant to name any further and keep the truth.

To the 15th question does it appear from the papers that the witnesses was in such a situation or of such an age as to have personal knowledge of the applicants services. Not as to Mr Holbrook and the His means of knowledge of Mr. Ingall is not stated except as to the first term. To this objection, the applicant says that he has all ways been acquainted with both of the witnesses. brought up in the same society & now calls on the said witnesses to give further knowledge on the Subject.
 
And the applicant would further add that it will now be seen by the witnesses Ingalls and Holbrook that all the Times of Service specified in his declaration by those witnesses except the term of service of two months in the year D 1779 and for this term of Service the Applicant has no direct [illegible] but that of his own declarations sworn to and the addition evidence and reputation; his father is dead and his elderly near neighbors are dead or gone to part unknown – has no Brothers olde enough to remember the fact & after diligent inquiry the Applicant cannot find direct evidence That is not personal knowledge of the face in that tour of duty Then were but a few taken from a Company or regiment which makes more difficult to obtain actual knowledge of service by other witnesses other than his own.
[signed] Joshua Grosvenor
December AD 1832

State of Conn Windham County ss Pomfret December 6th 183[cut off]
Then came before me the subscribing authority Joshua Grosven[cut off]
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Subscriber to the supplementary declaration made by him and made solemn oath to the facts stated in the same.
Attest
[signed] John Holbrook Justice of Peace 
For Windham County
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Supplementary Declaration of Dr. Joshua Grosvenor 


Papers belonging to [illegible] of Dr. Joshua Grosvenor

Admit
Private 8 ½ mos
28.33


John Holbrook
Abington P.O. Ct
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[handwritten]
I Calvin Holbrook of Woodstock in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut of the age of seventy four years, being called upon by Dr. Joshua Grosvenor of said Pomfret living in the parish of Abington in sd Pomfret to give my further testimony in relation to claim for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June the 7 1832, , do further depose and say in addition to my former affidavit and that I have known said Grosvenor from my infancy. Was born & brought up within about 1 mile of him, and lived as a neighbor to him & his Fathers family till many years after the revolutionary was and although I was not in the revolutionary war with him but once, as stated in my former affidavit I know her was frequently called into sd service by What I understand and know the facts as in Common among neighbors to know what is done by them without personally seeing them and that I can further say that said Grosvenor has always had the reputation of having gone into said service and I can further State that I believe what he has said in relation to his several terms of service to be true for he is a man that would not tell a falsehood for the sake of a pension, his moral Character has always been fair and good
[signed] Calving Holbrook
December 6th  1832

State of Connecticut Windham Co. Pomfret Dec. 6th, 1832
On the day and year aforesaid appeared Mr. Calvin Holbrook and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. And, I further say that he is a man of the first respectability for his  truth and veracity 
Certified by
[signed] John Holbrook Justice of Peace
Windham County
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I Lemuel Ingall of Pomfret in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut of the age of seventy six years, now being called upon by Dr. Joshua Grosvenor of said Pomfret to give further testimony in addition to my former affidavit in support of his claim for a pension under the Act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832, and to answer this objection That the means of my knowing was not sufficiently Stated in my former affidavit, do hereby further depose and say in addition to what I have stated in my said former affidavit. That I have always lived within about two Miles of the said Grosvenor and have known him from his infancy brought up with him in the safe ecclesiastical Society, and was knowing to his performing what I hear stated in my sd affidavit, and that he has ever had the reputation of having served in the revolutionary service as a Soldier as to Term of Service in which I was not out with him I know only as one neighbor knows of an other his business from home &c and can further say that what said Grosvenor says in regard to the quanity & terms of service I believe may be relied upon as true well knowing his character for truth and veracity and the deponent further says that it is difficult to find elderly men in this place to prove much by reputation & tradition  They are mostly gone and dead, but now & then one that remembers any thing about the war &c and the Deponent further says as to the then first term of Service specified in the said Grosvenors former declaration he had personal knowledge  The other terms he knows only by reputation and further the Deponent sayeth no
[signed] Laml Ingals
December the 6 1832
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State of Connecticut Windham Co. Pomfret Dec. 6th, 1832
Then came before me Lemuel Ingalls Esq and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated in the within Deposition or Affidavits by him subscribed. And, I do also certify that the character of the said Ingalls for truth and veracity Stands as fair as any other man. 
[signed] John Holbrook Justice of Peace
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller’s Office,
March 29th. 1842.

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” The childr of Joshua Grosvenor decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Twenty eight Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 2d April 1838.

Respectfully, yours, 
[signed] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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Revolutionary War Records Section.
3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.  Nov. 1 1921

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Dr. Joshua Grosvenor, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [struck out (or his widow’s)] application for a pension on file in this Bureau.

[following is a table “/” indicates a new column]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment./Length of Service./Rank./Officers under whom service was rendered./Captain./Colonel./State.
Sept. 1, 1776/3 mos./ Pvt/Danl Lyon/Ebenezer Williams/Conn.-
Dec. 1776/1 ½ mos./blank/”/Check mark/blank
Sept. 1777/1 ½ mos./blank/Seth Grosvenor/check mark/blank
*Aug. 1779/2 mos./blank/ Stephen Lyon/Jos. Abbot/blank
*July 1780/2 weeks/blank/Abner Adams/Jas Gordon/blank
*served as substitute for his father Joshua Grosvenor of Pomfret Conn.

Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Aug. 15, 1832 – all.
Residence at date of application, Pomfret, Windham Co., Conn.
Age at date of application, b. Apl. 24 1758 in Pomfret Conn. d. Apl. 2, 1838.
Remarks: His wife and children are referred to but no names given

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856
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1921, Nov. 1 – hist. to Katherine M. Kelsey

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15.156
Invalid.
File No. 15.156
Joshua Grosvenor
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: June 7h 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 153

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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War Department,
Pension Office,
21st November 1832. 

Sir:
	I return herewith the paper in support of the claim of the person whose name is hereto annexed. 
These papers are in several respects defective. Each case is accompanied by a brief. The objections are contained in the negative answers, in red ink, given to the questions.
	Particular attention should be paid to the accompanying regulations and to the explanatory notes subjoined to the brief.
	The extraordinary press of business in this office, arising from the great number of claims under the act of June 7, 1832, has hitherto prevented us from attending to the applications sent by you. The investigation of the cases presented under this law has been difficult and laborious, and notwithstanding the greatest exertions have been made by this Department, an earlier attention to your business has been found impracticable.
	The brief has been prepared to meet all cases, and thus to save the excessive labor which would otherwise be imposed upon the office, and which would consume so much time as to render the delay two fold greater than it now is in the investigation of claims and writing letters. Each case is considered correct in all respects except in relation to those questions to which a negative answer is affixed. No other alteration or addition will be required.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
[signed] J. L. Edwards

Case of Joshua Grosvenor

To John Holbrook, Esqr. 
Abington, Connt.
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Joshua Grosvenor

Jhno Holbrook
Abingdon
Ct
18721
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joshua Grosvenor which require further proof or explanation.
I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III.	If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V.	Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled
[handwritten] Not with sufficient distinction
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [handwritten] Not fully
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion?
IX.	Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X.	Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief of the neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. 	If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 

XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper office under his seal of office?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?
[handwritten] Not as to Mr Holbrook and the means of knowledge of Mr Ingalls is not dated [illegible] as [illegible] first term

XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogations prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?


Explanatory Notes.

Quere V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn , deposeth and saith, that, by reasons of old age, and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that the periods mentioned above, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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	It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV Proof of Service
	In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
	In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Pomfret Jordn Clarke
Certificate
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[handwritten]
State of Connecticut
WIndham County} ss Town Clerk’s office Pomfret
Aug.t 2nd A.D. 1832

I Thomas Mumford Grosvenor Clerk of said town of Pomfret do hereby certify that Mr. Joshua Grosvenor of said Pomfret, was born in said Pomfret on the 24th day of April, 1758 as appears by a Record of births &c kept in said town, agreeable to a Statue law of said State of Connecticut, and now in my possession.

[signed] Tho. M. Grosvenor
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[handwritten]
[left margin]
Mar 22 1841
N[illegible] 

Brooklyn C
June 18

Free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
 Washington City
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[handwritten]
Brooklyn Cont June 18. 1841

D[illegible]
Will you advise me of the amot. of pension due to Joshua Grosvenor a pensioner (decd)  The certificate is no 9097 dated March 25h 1833 – He died 2d of April 1838 – and from what department can the arrears be drawn
I am Respy
[signed] Adams White

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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[handwritten]
Calvin Holbrooks [illegible]
in favor of Joshua Grosvenor
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[smudged handwriting]
Windham C
State of Connecticut Windham [smudge]
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I Calvin Holbrook of Woodstock in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut of seventy four years, testify and say That I have always been acquainted with Dr. Joshua Grosvenor of Pomfret and was well knowing to the sd Joshua Grosvenor serving a Malitia tour of duty and went and marched from Conn, to the State of Rhode Island and was stationed at a place called Tower Hill. I served myself at the same time, the time of service [ink smear] one half month The officers to my best recollection were James Gordon Col Abner Adams was Capt and Robert Sharp was Lieutenant & a John Jeffords Ensign of the Company in which we served; the time of sd service was in the revolutionary service was to my best recollection we were called out in July & dismissed in August in the year 1780
[signed] Calvin Holbrook.
Brooklyn August 15 1832

State of Connecticut Windham County ss. August 15th 1832
Then came before me Calvin Holbrook and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. And, I further say that he is a man of strict integrity and very good for truth and veracity 
Attest 
[signed] John Holbrook Justice of Peace
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[handwritten]
I Lemuel Ingalls of Pomfret in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut of the age of 76 years, testify and say that I am well acquainted with Dr. Joshua Grosvenor of Pomfret and was well knowing to his serving a tour of Malitia duty or service in the revolutionary war to wit, I was well knowing that Joshua Grosvenor in the year 1776 served a Malitia tour of duty he went from said Pomfret & marched through Conn and a part of the states of New York to the Jerseys and was stationed there the term of three months and at the time his service ended he was discharge in due form as I understand the officers were Elen William Col. Maclellan Major Daniel Lyon Capt
The deponent further says that he was well knowing that the said Grosvenor was again called to do another tour of duty went from Connecticut in to the State of Rhode Island and was station at the town of Providence to my be recollection the time of service was one month and a half as it was so called, this was in 1776  Maclellan was the Major

In 1777 I was knowing to the said Grosvenor serving an other term of Service in the State of Rhode Island stationed at a place called Tiverton in the county of Newport  the officers were Maclellan Col a Noah Phelps Lieutenant Col Bebee Mayer 
[signed] Leml Ingals
August the 15th 1832

State of Connecticut Windham County ss. August 15th 1832
Then came before me Leml Ingalls and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. And say that he is a man of the first integrity and very good for truth and veracity 
Attest 
[signed] John Holbrook Justice of Peace
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[handwritten]
I Annin Bolles Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that John Holbrook Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits annexed hereunto were made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County. That the foregoing signatures of his [illegible] in his handwriting and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of sd Court thie 18th day of August A.D. 1832
[signed] Annin Bolles Clerk
[a seal and ribbon are visible to the left]
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[handwritten]
Honl J L Edwards In the 
Pension office
War department
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[handwritten]
Pomfret Abington Society Dec 17 1832
Honord Sir, The papers of Joshua Grosvenor and Jeremiah Wheaton of Pomfret have been returned and  their imperfections have been duly attended to by them. You will see in their supplementary declarations they have endeavoured to answer the objections in their briefs as fully as in their power and I trust satisfactorily as to naming officers that were out with them  it is impossible for them to be more particular. They say the officers were often taken sick and returned home & others taking their places, and often there were officers with whom they had but little or no acquaintance and do not retain their names; and to require them to be more minute after fifty years have elapsed will be but to desi[illegible] of their pensions and to which they stand in need of especially said Wheaton who is very poor with an aged wife to support. And by his labor a man wholly far from any bad habits.  Mr. Grosvenor is a very worthy man but so infirm as not to be able to Labor for more than 12 years past. And has a sickly wife and I will only add they are men who for truth and fair character is unquestionable
I am your with high respect
[signed] John Holbrook
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The writing, having been done by the same Justice of the Peace That The former affidavits were taken by and you having the Seal & Certificate of the County Court as to my being a Justice of the Peace I have not supposed it necessary to obtain the Same again – 
[signed] Jno. Holbrook