Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21112, Isaac Child, Vt.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE | *star symbol | NUMBER
Vt. | Child, Isaac | S.21112


CONTENTS

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21112
Revolution
INVALID

File No. 21,112
Isaac Child (handwriting)
(illegible) 

Act: (illegible) 7'' 32''
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 68
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[verso]
11,607
Vermont
Isaac Child of Craftsbury in the State of Vermont who was a Pri in the Company commanded by Captain - - - of the Regt commanded by Col. Ward in the Vermont ['line for' crossed out] Troops - 
10 Mo Private - $53.33
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1833 and Sent to Perfiner, Barton., Oh
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833      106.56
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr'     26.66
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133.32
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 3 page 56  

[recto]
Hon. Thos L Harris - June 21/50
to same 5the July 1850

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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps - 
Washington June 21/50

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 21st replying to mine of the 19th sent making certain enquiries concerning Isaac Child, late a Rev. Pensioner o the Vermont rolls - I have to say that I wrote on behalf of Mr Charles L Child who is a constituent of mine and is a son of said Isaac Child - 
I do not understand the object except it may be for some family purpose - as I am not aware that any thing is due to the heirs of said Isaac on his act - or that any thing is claimed as due - 
If there is, however it will be esteemed a just [illegible] to be informed of that fact - 
Very respectfully
Your obt. servt.
/s/Thos. L Harris

Hon Com'r Pensions

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[handwritten letter]

HR June 19/50

Sir,
Will you please inform me if the name of Isaac Child is upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners - or rather was - for he died in 1840 at Craftsbury Vermont.
I am informed that he drew a pension - but I wish to learn the corps in which he served - the length of time he was in the service - &c - 
Very respectfully
your obt servt
/s/Thos. L. Harris
[illegible] J L Edwards
Com Pensions

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admitted
11 months
$53.33

Pensioner
Barton Vt

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10.558 (circled)

BRIEF in the case of Isaac Child of (unsure) in the State of - Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 

3. How old is he? 70 years --

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Services. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

   | Years, Months, Days, | As a | Gen. Heath T. Ward

In 17775 - | -- 8 --- | Teamster | Jno Goddard - 

(unsure) close of my (unsure) services - until the fall (unsure) (vertical squiggles) |  -- 8 --| Ditto | - Ditto- | Ditto

5. In what battles was he engaged? None - 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Not stated

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Only by ^the trade from any evidence of several witnesses - certified by the court to be credible persons -- 

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

(right justified) Examining Clerk.

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State of Vermont
Orleans District ss} On this 24th day of August 1832 personally in open court before the Hon. Probate Court now sitting at ['within' crossed out] Craftsbury in said District Isaac Child a resident Craftsbury in the district and county of Orleans aged seventy 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 provisions of the act of passed June 7th 1832 - that in the year 1775 my Father Isaac Child lived in Brooklyne Massachusetts adjoining Cambridge and Roxbury and was a minute man, so called, that immediately after the Lexington battle he joined the Revolutionary army then gathering about Boston and enlisted for eight months I believe in May as a Waggoner in teamster as as a private I took my Fathers place a served the period of eight months and was employed as a teamster or Waggoner. The enlistment was as I understood under Gen. Heath - The team I drove belonged in the army and I was under the direction of the officers of the Army and more particularly under the direction of Lieut Goddard whom we called Waggon master General. That we were under the general direction of Gen Ward until Gen. Washington arrived at Cambridge. When under him - that I ['was a [illegible]' crossed out] served said time at eight months in conveying baggage, [illegible] ammunition &c. about Boston + Vicinity -

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That at the close of my eight months service my Father reenlisted by an enlistment similar [margin note: 2d] to the former and left his place and continued in in the service until late in the fall I think until some time in November or December and was under the same Waggon Master General Goddard, as the year before That I served as a teamster about Boston and vicinity, and was sent ['to' crossed out] with the barge to Bennington Vt. to Worcester to Springfield a number of times and the Kitts Kill New York - 
I was born in Brooklyne Mass May 2d 1762 I know of no record of my age except one in my house that I have resided in since Vermont and Sturbridge Mass and the last nineteen years in Craftsbury Vt my present residence - that at the close of my first term of service I received no written discharge at the close of my next period I received received a written discharge at Springfield Mass signed by a colonel whose name I cannot ['and' crossed out] recollect and the discharge I have lost - 
and I further state that no documentary evidence of service and know of no person living unless a brother in ['Boston' crossed out]  Sturbridge who is now near eighty years and very infirm by which I can provide service - And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare  that my name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State - 
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid - 
/s/Isaac Child

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We Waram Mason and Elijah Scott residing in the Town of Craftsbury in the County of Orleans do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Child who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution according as he has stated in his declaration and we concur in that opinion - 
Sworn and subscribe the day and year aforesaid
/s/Waram Mason
/s/Elijah Scott

I, Samuel C Crafts, of Craftsbury, in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, aged sixty three years, late a member of Congress, and also late Governor of Vermont, do depose and say that I have been here personally acquainted with the within named Isaac Child, for more than forty years; that I have always considered him a person of truth and veracity; that I have heretofore heard him state the service he performed in the Revolutionary war; and that his statement compared to the statement in the accompanying declaration; and that I have a full belief that he performed the services in the manner stated in his said declarations - 
Subscribed and sworn to, this twenty fourth day of August in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
/s/Samuel C Crafts

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the within Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states - 
And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Waram Mason, Elijah Scott and the heir Samuel C Crafts, late Member of Congress + also late Gov of ['the' crossed out] Vermont. and are residents of Craftsbury in the County of Orleans and are all credible persons - and that their Statement is entitled to credit
I John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court for the District of Orleans aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the application of Isaac Child for a pension - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of August 1832 
/s/John H. Kimball Register 

10558
Isaac Child
Declaration