Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,776, Doming Earl, R.I.

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(8-1778)
SERVICE R.I.
Earl, Doming
NUMBER: S.16.776
carded

CONTENTS [blank]

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Connecticut No. 26188
Doming Earl
Colchester in the State of Connecticut
he was a Pri[vate] in the Company command[ed by] Captain Peck of the Reg^t commanded by Col. Elliot in the [crossed out 'Cou.'] Troops
for 1 Year pri infantry N.J.
1 do [ditto] do  Artillery
died 30th Aug^t 1832 Newhall Tainter Es^r.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 90 Dollars . . . Cents per annum,
commencing on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day pf Mar. 1834 and 
Hon. S.A. Foot

Arrears to the 30th of Aug^t 1832. 134.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending [blank]
(special)  [line through the = sign] = 134.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk 
Book E2 Vol [blank] Page 12

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State of Connecticut}
County of New London} Ss. Colchester July 9th 1832

On this 9th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Benjamin Trumbull Esq^r Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Colchester in said County of New London, Doming Earl a resident of Colchester in said County of New London and State of Connecticut 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 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein after stated viz.-
1st   That he enlisted as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. Jonathan Browning (of which the late Gov'r. Jones was Lieutenant and afterwards Cap^t.) in Col^o. John Lippets Regiment in May 1776 and served at Rhode Island then marched to Harlem near New York, was at White plains at the time of the Action with the Common Enemy, Afterwards on the retreat of the Army was stationed at several places on the North River and was discharged at Peekskill on the 18th of January 1777 by Capt. Loring Peck who then had the command of the Company.
2ndly,   He enlisted in the Spring of 1777 in Capt Manchesters Company Col^o, Crarys Regt. (on Continental Establishment as he deposed) and served one year in said Rhode Island near Newport and was discharged by  Gen^l. Cornwell.
3dly   He afterwards enlisted into a Regt. commanded

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by Col. Elliott and served against the common enemy at Newport and Providence for about one year and was discharged by said Col^o Elliott.
4thly    He afterwards enlisted under Capt. David Gifford and served in the Rear Guards, at Tiverton in said Rhode Island across the River east of Newport for three Months and was discharged by said Capt. Gifford.
5thly    He enlisted under Capt. Palmer in Col^o. Hawkins Regt. and served at Howlands ferry near Newport six months and was discharged he thinks by said Col^o Hawkins - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State, and in Answer to the interrogatories put to him by the Court he further declares and says that he was born near Bristol ferry in the State of Rhode Island (he believes) in the year 1758 but has no record of his age - that when he was called into Service he was living with his Master John Earl of Newport Aforesaid who consented to his enlistment - a short time before the close of the Revolutionary War my said Master Earl sold me to Lemuel Stoors [likely Storrs] then of Colchester, State of Connecticut in which Town he has ever since and now lives, About seven years after which he obtained his freedom.
That he was called into service by voluntary Enlistments - the discharges which were given him by said officers are lost and cannot be found - the following named persons living near and being well acquainted

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with him can testify as to his character for verasity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution viz. Col. John Isham and Newhall Taintor.  He would further state that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person who can testify to his service except Gideon Quas whose testimony is hereafter annexed. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Doming Earl his X mark
[different handwriting] Years allow^d 3..5 in the whole}
[original handwriting] I Gideon Quas of Colchester in the County of New London and State of Connecticut do depose and say that previous to my enlistment into the Continental line I served in Capt. Manchester's Company in Col. Crary's Regt and a part of the time under Col. Barton in the State Troops in the State of Rhode Island, that I was well acquainted with Dominy Earl as a soldier in Capt. Manchester's Company and Col. Crary's Regt. and afterwards said Company was commanded by Capt. Babcock and said Regt. by Col. Tappin and Col. Barton, all under Genl. Cornwal and I know that said Dominy served as a soldier in these different Companies about a year and I know that afterwards he served as a soldier in Capt. Palmer's Company and Col. Hawkins' Regt. at Howlands Ferry or Tiverton near Newport in said Rhode Island and I verily believe that his statement as to his service in Capt. Palmer's

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Company in Col. Hawkins Regt is correct and as to his other services I have no personal knowledge but verily believe them to be true, and further the deponent saith not. Sworn & transcribed the day and year aforesaid 
Gideon his X mark Quas
We John Isham and Newhall Taintor residing in the Town of Colchester, County of New London and State of Connecticut, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Dominy Earl who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  We further state that we have been acquainted with said Dominy Earl for more than thirty five years last past and that his character for veracity is good. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Isham
Newhall Taintor

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5014
Newhall Taintor
Ener
['Rejected' is crossed out]
It does not appear whether the claimant left a widow and if so what is her name.  a if not, who are the heirs entitled.  The facts must be certified under seal of court.
1 year private Infantry 
Crary Reg
1 year private Artillery
Elliott Reg
$90
died 30 Aug 1832
[illegible, strikethrough]
Hon. S. A. Foote
Colchester
Con

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30.750.26
2
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4500
1500
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19500
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650

4th Mar 32 . . .    90
4 mos . . . .          30
1 " . . . . . . .        7.50
26 days . . . .      6.50
[underline]
                       134.00

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[printed form]
WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, 83
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, [thus}). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of [handwritten] Dominy Earle 
[remainder of form handwriting illegible]
[printed form] I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions

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2
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or wo volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County here such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of  }
On this    day of     personally appeared (a) before     A.B. a resident (b) of    in the county of     and State, Territory or District of     aged (c)     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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)    , with    and served in the     (e) regiment of the     line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [hand pointing  rightward] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and je declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that o the Agency in the State of     
Sworn to an subscribed the day and year aforesaid.    A.B.

[an

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[printed form with no information added - not trasncribed]

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[handwritten text not legible - not transcribed]

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[upper right]
No. 5014
Dominy Earl
application
[illegible]
[vertically down left side]
Before me Benjn Trumbull Judge of the court of probate for the district of Colchester

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And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that Col. John Isham and Newhall Taintor who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in said Town of Colchester and are credible persons and that this statement is entitled to credit. 
Benj. Trumbull Judge of said Court
Attest Benj. Trumbull Clerk
I Benjamin M. Trumbull Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Colchester in the County of New London and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dominy Earl for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of July 1832
B. M. Trumbull

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I am well acquainted with Dominy Earl of Colchester and consider him a man of eminent piety and believe that the most entire confidence may be placed in all his statements.
Lyman Strong 
Pastor of the first [Illegible]
and society in Colchester Conn.

New London County State of Connecticut [Illegible]

Colchester July 11th, D 1832
Personally appeared the above named
Lyman Strong (Clergyman in this society)
and made oath to the truth of the above 
statement by him subscribed
Before me Benj'n Trumbull
Judge of the Court of Probate
for the District of Colchester

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State of Connecticut
New London County
June 11th 1833 Court of Probate, District of Colchester
Present Benj Trumbull Esq. Judge of said Court.
I Lyman Strong a clergyman residing in the town of Colchester County of New London and State of Connecticut do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Dominy Earl the foregoing applicant for a pension; that he died at said Colchester on the 30th day of August 1832, that I believe the said deceased to have been seventy four years of age and of eminent piety, that he was respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed this 11th day of June 1833
Lyman Strong
I Ely H. Gillet of Colchester in New London County and State of Connecticut aged thirty eight years do depose and say that I have lived for more than twenty years in the same neighborhood with Dominy Earl the foregoing applicant for a pension (now deceased) who was a credible person and have often heard him relate his Revolutionary services prior to his application for a pension which I have read, and believe his statement of services made therein to be true, that I believe him to have

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been seventy four years of age; that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution; that the belief was general, that I never heard a doubt expressed upon the subject and that I concur in that opinion. and further that I was well acquainted with Samuel Reid of said Colchester who was a credible person and a pensioner of the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary army and who [illegible] the Massachusetts forces [illegible] years ago and [illegible] I was informed since died, and have often heard him tell at different times prior to his removing from this state of knowing the said Dominy Earl, to have been with him a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and have known the said Reid to visit the said Dominy Earl (as he said) on account of the said Dominy being an old comrade in the Revolutionary Army.
Sworn to & subscribed June 17, 1833
Ely J. Gillet
I Amherst D. Scovell residing in the town of Colchester County of New London & State of Connecticut, hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Dominy Earl (now deceased) who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to have been seventy four years of age, that he was reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed June 17, 1833
Amherst D. Scovell

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[illegible] said Court hereby certifies that Lyman Strong who has subscribed and sworn to a preceding deposition is a clergyman resident in said Colchester and that his statement is entitled to credit.  That Ely H. Gillet and Amherst D. Scovell who have subscribed and sworn to preceding depositions are residents in said Colchester & credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit, and that Samuel Reid to whom the said Ely H. Gillet alludes in his deposition was a credible person.  As to the credibility of Gideon Quas who has subscribed and sworn to a preceding deposition there appears to be some diversity of opinion, the said Court declines certifying to his credibility.
Benj M. Trumbull Judge
Benjamin M. Trumbull clerk of this said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and supplementary proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dominy Earl for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of June 1833
B. M. Trumbull

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State of Connecticut
New London County
SS Colchester  September 27, 1833
I Benjamin M. Trumbull clerk of the court of probate for the District of Colchester do hereby certify that Dominy Earl the foregoing applicant for a pension late of said Colchester deceased died leaving a will; that said will has been proven before said court and by the said court approved accepted and recorded; that Newhall Taintor of said Colchester was appointed executor of said will and that he has accepted the trust and given bonds according to law.  And that the following facts have been this day proved before the said court and that the evidence adduced was satisfactory to the court.  To wit that the said Dominy Earl died leaving neither widow nor children.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th day of September 1833
B. M. Trumbull

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J L Edwards Esquire
(Commissioner of Pensions, City - Washington)

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Colchester Conn. Sept. 27th 1833+J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir, I [illegible] by Tuesdays mail, Elijah Treadway pension certificate, which I have this day handed him.  Likewise [illegible] by Wednesday mail the application of Dominy Earl for a pension returned for further proof.  I herewith forward the certificate of the Court of Probate as further testimony ([?] agreeable to your instructions) hope it will prove satisfactory - as I feel as though your War department have already had a great [illegible] of trouble from this quarter, on account of the incorrectness of the applications.
Very respectfully, your obed. serv.
John Isham

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[typewritten form] The National Archives Form VAM-51 12-5-41  Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME [handwritten] Earl, Ebenezer J. 
GRADE [handwritten] Private
LINE [handwritten] Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER [handwritten] 4075
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED [handwritten] Mar. 25, 1790
to - not shown -
[typewritten form]
* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General land Office records in The National Archives.