Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,513, Call Freeman, Conn.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE
[handwritten] Conn. [/handwritten]
[black-inked star above first letter in surname]
Freeman, Call
NUMBER
S. 36,513
CONTENTS
[2 columns of 15 blank lines]

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36513
Invalid
File No. 86,513
Call Freeman
___ Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: --Vol.  2, Page 145

[Arrangement of 1870]

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3,962
Connecticut Rolls

Call Freeman
Co_t Bradley

Connecticut Line
The army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Oct. 1818 and forwarded to Augustus Pettibone Litchfield Con.

Arrears to 4th of Aug 1818                  38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819    48.00
                                                             $86.93
4 mo.  26/30

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818
6 years
Sharoiy Litchfield

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County of Litchfield _____ April 1st 1818 
I hereby certify that Call Freeman _____ served in the Continental Army and was discharged there from according to his declaration in his petition of this day to be placed on the pension list as appears by the Book of. the late Col. Heman Swift in my _______

John Calhoun Justice of peace

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Call Freeman,
private,
Connecticut line,
9th April, 1818.
found on the rolls of Col. Heman Swift's regiment.
admitted. 
Augustus Pettibone, Esq
Judge
Litchfield, Connect.
rec.d 30: April, 1818.

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Call Freeman a colored man of Sharan in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut being duly sworn [illegible] and [illegible] that he inlisted in the Revolutionary army in the year of 1777 under Captain Luther Bradley in Heman Swift's Regiment in the Connecticut line during the war and served Six years as a private soldier and at the end of said time I was honorably discharged.

Which discharge has since been lost having  been burned up with my house and all my effects - I served in the  same company during the [greater part of said time with Robbin Staff - I am in needy [illegible]  and having no property and am advanced in years.
his
Call X Freeman
mark
State of Connecticut Litchfield County on April  9th day of 1818 Personally appeared Call Freeman Signor of the above affidavit and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge
of Litchfield County Court

I, Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court in the County of Litchfield in the State of Conn. certify that the seal hereto annexed  is the seal of said Count & that the above signature is the hand writing of the Judge of said Court.
April 21. 1818.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

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State of Connecticut Litchfield County 
I Augustus Pettibone Esqs Chief Judge of the County Court for Litchfield County do hereby Certify the foregoing affidavit that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Call Freemen served in the revolutionary war as a private soldier against the Common Enemy on the Continental Establishment  for more than nine months - That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life and is in need of the assistance of his Country for Support.
In testimony whereof I have Hereunto put my hand and [illegible] the Seal of the said Court which is a Court of record to be affixed this Day Anno Domini 1818
August Pettibone Chief Judge
to the Honl John C: Calhoun, Secretary of War

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District of Connecticut ss. County of Litchfield, [handwritten] County [/handwritten] Court. 
On this [handwritten] 5 [/handwritten] day of [handwritten] July [/handwritten] 18[handwritten]20[/handwritten] personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison [handwritten] Call Freeman [/handwritten] aged [handwritten] about 67 [/handwritten] years resident in [handwritten] Sharon [/handwritten] 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: [handwritten]  In the Connecticut line, Col. Heman Swift Regiment Capt Bardsler’s - company and have received a pension certificate dated 28 Oct. 1818 and numbered 3.gb2.[/handwritten]

And I do solemnly [handwritten] swear [/handwritten] that I was a resident 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 may 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. [handwritten] I am by occupation a day labourer, and am hearty - I have five in my family besides myself, viz. Candis Freeman, Leeman Freeman, Cyrus Freeman, Mary Freeman, and Plomer Freeman my children from the ages of 17 to 8 years, who are all un able to maintain themselves [/handwritten]

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as children of their age usually are - I have also another daughter Cynthia who is sick and unable to support herself and is maintained by the Town of Sharon.
I am in possession of the following articles of property viz.
1 Log house & two acres of poor land - $25 - 00
1 Iron pot - 1 - 00
Knives & forks & tea cups & saucers and a poor table & 1 chair - 3 - 00
29 “ 00
his
Call X Freeman
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Sworn and declared on the [handwritten]   5th [/handwritten] day of [handwritten] July [/handwritten] A.D. 1820 before [handwritten] the County Court aforesaid Frederick Wolcott, Clerk_ [/handwritten]
I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing [handwritten] Oath [/handwritten] 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 [handwritten] twenty nine [/handwritten] dollars [struck-through] and cents [/struck-through].
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, of this [handwritten] 17th [/handwritten] day [handwritten] of July [/handwritten] 1820
[struck-through] Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield. [/struck-through}
[handwritten] Frederick Wolcott, Clerk - [/handwritten]