Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,520, Jethro Freeman, Conn.

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(S-1776)

SERVICE
Conn [Connecticut]

Freeman, Jethro

NUMBER 
S. 36,520

CONTENTS

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36520

INVALID.
Revy [Revolutionary]

File No. [Number] 36,520
Jethro Freeman
Pri [Private] Rev [Revolutionary] War

Act: 18 March 18 [1818]

Index: - Vol. [Volume] 2, Page 145

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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16. 909
Connecticut. R

Jethro Freeman, of New-Haven Co [Company] in the state of Connectc. [Connecticut] who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Herman Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of two years, at War

Transcribed on the Roll of Connecticut, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of January, 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of May, 1820. and sent to Isaac Mills, Judge, New-Haven, Connecticut

Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $: 15.22.
Semi-anl. [annual] all'ce [allowance] ending 4. Sept. [September]   18 "
1 mo [month] : 28/31.} 1820} $: 63.22.

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

Continued

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Date of death not all AB

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5636.
Jethro Freeman, New-Haven County Ct. [Connecticut] 8th January, 1820.

found on the rolls of Col. [Colonel] Herman Swift's regimt. [Regiment] Augt. [August] 1781, for the war.

Admitted,

Isaac Mills, judge, New-Haven, Connt. [Connecticut] recd. [recorded] 13 Jany [January], 1820.

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The Declaration of Jethro Freeman is as follows (Viz)
I Jethro Freeman of North Haven in New Haven County and State of Connecticut declare and say, that I inlisted [enlisted] into the army of the United States in the revolutionary war with Great Britain but the precise time I cannot tell, I first joined the Company of Capt. [Captain] David Strong belonging to the Second Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Col [Colonel] Herman Swift. I was then transferred to Capt. [Captain] James Morris Company in the same Regiment, and after that was transferred to Capt. [Captain] Monsons company same Regiment (I think his name was Theophilus) in which Company I continued until the close of the close of the revolutionary war, when I was regularly discharged as a private soldier, having served my country as a soldier in the aforesaid war, more than three years; I was in the battle at White Plains in the State of New York, and was also engaged in the capture of Lord Cornwallis. After that day that on a passage by water from Nova Scotia to Connecticut (not long after the peace) My Discharge from the aforesaid Army by accident got wet and destroyed. I further declare and say that I am now very poor and infirm, and stand in need of the aid and assistance from my Country the U. [United] States for support, that I have ever been and still am a free Citizen of said U. [United] States, and in reduced circumstances in life. I therefore wish to be placed on the pension list and further this Applicant says not.
His
Jethro  X  Freeman
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Jethro Freeman

State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss. City of New Have 8 July 1820 Personally appeared before me the subscriber Jethro Freeman of North Haven in N. [New] Haven County and subscribed the above Declaration, and made solemn Oath that all the facts therein stated are true-
Before me Isaac Mills chief Judge of New Haven County Court

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State of Connecticut ss. City of New Haven 8 July 1820. I hereby certify that it does appear to my satisfaction that Jethro Freeman of North Haven the within Declarant served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his aforesaid Declaration, and that he is in very reduced circumstances in life, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. - 
Isaac Mills Judge of New Haven County Court

State of Connecticut New Haven County of New Haven Jany [January] 8th 1820
I Roger S. Skinner Clerk of the county Court for New Haven County and keeper of the Seal thereof hereby certify that Isaac Mills Esq [Esquire] is Judge of the county Court for New Haven County and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts in said capacity. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at New Haven this 8th day of January 1820.
attest Roger S. Skinner Clk [Clerk]

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Jethro Freeman
16.909
Sept. [September] 1820

CM

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At a County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 6th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.

PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Jethro Freeman a resident in the town of North Haven in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made solemn oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his in-come [income] and property, necessary cloathing [clothing] and beding [bedding] excepted, viz:

1 Table       0.75
1 Clo Chest    34
1 [illegible] wheel with one dutch [illegible]  1.50
1 black [illegible]        75
6 old chairs    1.50
1/2 sett [sic] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]bowls .17
2 pair tongs .25
1 [illegible]  .50
One old [illegible] [illegible] etc .67
1 [illegible]  .50
1 cutting knife
1/2 sett old knives and forks  17
3 old platters 12
1 [illegible] and [illegible] 1.34
                     8.48

And I am indebted to Calvin Eaton [illegible] thirty dollars

Jethro Freeman

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District and State of Connecticut, ss.

Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State aforesaid, on this 8th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Jethro Freeman aged fifty nine years, resident in the Town of North Haven in the County of New Haven in said State, and being sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: that he enlisted into a battalion company under Capt [Captain] David Strong in the 3d [Third] Cont [Connecticut] Regt [Regiment] commanded by Col [Colonel] Herman Swift in the line of Genl [General] Parsons brigade that he served as a private for the term of about 5 years and was discharged in the year 1783 at Peekskill at what is called the Yellow Hill

that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 8th day of July 1820; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. [Number] 16.909 And I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitle "An Act to provide for cer-tain [certain] persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust, for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a labourer or a Farmer

and that I have in my family residing with me my wife aged 44 years

all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Jethro Freeman

Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 8 Dollars and 49 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court. 

attest [attested] Henry C. Flagg Clk [Clerk]

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District of Connecticut, ss.

I, Henry C Flagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 8 Dollars and 49 Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 6th day of July 1820.

Henry C. Flagg Clk [Clerk]

I, Isaac Mills, presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Flagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in this 6th day of July 1820
Isaac Mills Chief Judge of Said Court

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We Robin Storr and C M Freeman in Sharon Litchfield County State of Connecticut of lawfull age depose and say that we are well acquainted with Jethro Freeman a man of [illegible] and that we recollect of his joining the Revolutionary Army in the company of Capt [Captain] Munson and attached to the Regiment of Col [Colonel] Herman Swift and we further depose and say we well recollect said Freeman serving in the army during the War and that he was regularly discharged therefrom at the close of the war and your deponents further depose and say that the exact time of his the said [illegible] Freeman enlisting they are not certain but believe in the year 1781 and further your deponents say that said Freeman served his country against the common enemy in the revolutionary war more than three years and further your deponents depose not.
[illegible] sworn the 1st day of January 1820.
Robert Storr X his mark
C.M. Freeman X his mark