Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1842, Elisha Gifford, New York

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in Colonel - Ferris Regiment, or it may have been Col Elijah Townsend's Regiment. Was marches to Fishkill where they remained two months wit his company,, when they were discharged he remembers the names of the officers who were there except the said Captain - Lake, Colonel Ferris, Colonel Elijah Townsend & Captain John Crane & cannot remember the month or year of the service.

The declarant again entered the service in the militia as a substitute for one Zebulon Wright who was drafted for two months  The declarant marched with the company to Fishkill Dutchess County, then crossed the Hudson River, & marched to Goshen in Orange County, afterwards returned to Fishkill & was there discharged with the company. He does not remember the name of any officer engaged in this service. There was but one company on this exposition the captain was then a stranger to the declarant & the declarant cannot remember his name. Zebulon Wright for whom the declarant served as a substitute died over twenty years ago. The declarant cannot remember the month or year of this service.

The declarant again entered the service under Captain Comfort Ludington He cannot remember the year or month when he enlisted & he served a month under this enlistment in the winter in the severe weather. He was marched with his company by land to near New York City, & for a time stationed near a fort there in population of the enemy. They had a skirmish there & retired but, they succeeded in the main object of the enterprise, which was to secure provisions & forage, & they brought up such provisions & forages would be provided to our troops at White Plains. The inclemency of the weather was such that many perished with the cold. At the expiration of this months service the declarant was honestly discharged. He does not remember the names of any officers except Captain Comfort Ludington.

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the 1850 ties ther both leived an ddied in Putnam Co. N.Y.

Pleas grant me this for I wish to prove that I am the son of the said Elisha and Polly Gifford and this will compleat the chain of evidence and proof

Resp your Van R. Gifford

Northfied

Minnesota

Pete [illegible]
Co. K. 8 Regt mmn
Vol Infl

[stamp] U S Pension Office Feb 28 1890

[stamp] Army & [illegible]
Mar 3 1890  Division

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State of New York
Putnam County 
On thy fifth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty three, personally appeared in open court before Harry Garrison, Bennet Boyd, Samuel Washburn & Ebenezer Foster esquires four of the judges of the Court of Common Please in & for the county of Putnam, the said court being now sitting, Elisha Gifford, the declarant in the application for a pension hereunto annexed, which is made at the last September term of the court & provided as a witness the Reverend John Warren of the town of Patterson in said county of Putnam, who being duly sworn in open court doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with Elisha Gifford who has subscribed & sworn to the declaration hereto annexed, that he has been acquainted with the Elisha Gifford for a number of years & that the deponent believes the said Gifford to be of the age of Eighty three years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that the said deponent fully concurs in that opinion, This deponent further says that the said Gifford has herein a number of years known as a member of the church of which this deponent is the pastor & is in good standing & that the said Gifford sustains an unblemished expectation for honesty integrity & veracity - 

[signed] John Warren

Sworn & subscribed in open court February 5, 1833
J. Morehouse Clerk of said court

And the said court hereby certifies that it appears to them that John Warren who has signed the proceeding affidavit is a clergyman resident in the town of Patterson in the said county of Putnam & that the said John Warren is a credible person whose statement is entitled to credit. And the court further certifies that James Colwell & Jabez Berry who severally subscribed & swore to the affidavits hereto annexed at the last September term of this court and

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Increase     3.ago
Brief in the Case of Polly Gifford Widow of Elisha Gifford
Private Rev War Carmel
Putnam County and State of New York
Act 2 Sec Feb 3 1853.

Claim for New Pension Certificate,

Proof Exhibited,

Pension as of 41.93 [illegible] Certificate returned.

Claim for increase under 13th Sec Act July 27 1868

Identify and continued widowhood shown

Admitted Aug 26, 1869 (pension at $96. per annum
(commence July 27, 1868 deducting pay since

[signed) W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of agent,
Claimant Carmel Putnam Co New York

app'd[illegible]