Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,946, Ned Freedom, Conn.

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SERVICE                                             NUMBER
 Conn.         Freedom, Ned                S. 37.946

  
CONTENTS

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10,115
R
Connecticut.
Ned Freedom
of Fairfield in the state of Connect. [sic]
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Meigs of the Cont
Line, for the term of six years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st of April, 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Apr 1819
and sent to Pierpt Edwards Esq
Bridgeport, Connt.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 (illegible) 4/(illegible number) 89.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1829  48.00
$137:03

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

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[Text on right side of fold]
Exam'd [sic] with orig. Rolle [sic]
Orig. 1883
C. S. P. 

[Text along right margin]
Notification sent the 26 June 1820 to David
Burr, Esq
Fairfield Connt. [sic]

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District of Connecticut SS
On the 1st day of April A.D. 1818,
Ned Freedom of the Town & County of
Fairfield, in said District, before the Hon.
Pierpont Edwards Judge of the District 
Court, for the District aforesaid, being the
District in which said Ned resided, on
oath declare that in the month of
August 1776, he enlisted into the Company
of Capt. Joseph Mansfield, in the Regiment
under the command of Col David
Dimon, in the Connecticut line, on the
continental establishment, and served in
the army of the United States, until
the termination of the revolutionary war,
when, at West Point, he received a
discharge under the hand of Gen. Washington, 
duly & legally countersigned & registered,
to which was annexed a certificate of a
badge of merit for his faithful service;
which discharge and certificate dated
in June 1783, were, about two years
after the date thereof, stolen from his
church & have never by him been 
found. and [that by reason of his (illegible)
(illegible) in life has in mind of the
(illegible line)] [appears to have been written by another person]
Ned X Freedom
mark

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District of Connecticut SS April 1st 1818 the within
named Ned Freedom came before me & in my
presence subscribed the within declaration [by mark] [inserted] &
made Oath that the form is true
Pierpont Edwards [signed]
District Judge of said District

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Ned Freedom --
(illegible line)
Lt: Col. Dimon's
Conn. Regt.

1777 -- (illegible)
con
1st. April 1818 --

Adm. [symbol]
The certificate of the
Judge as the reduced
circumstances of  Affiant,
is wanting --

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District of Connecticut Stratford
County of Fairfield April 1st A.D. 1818
We Gershom Wakeman & William
Williams now serving in the Town & County
of Fairfield, in said District, do testify & say
that we have been well acquainted 
with Ned Freedom now residing in the
Town & County of Fairfield, in said District,
who is the same person who submitted
the declaration to which this affidavit
is annexed, from his youth to the present
time: and will remember that Ned in 
the year 1776 or 1777 left said Town of Fairfield
& as these Deponents understood entered the 
service of the United States & remained 
therein on the continental establishment 
until the termination of the revolutionary
war, as these deponents (illegible) 
believe & then returned home to said
Town of Fairfield, living in the dress
of a Soldier, & as these deponents then
understood & (illegible) believe, being regularly
discharged from said Service; and they
further testify & say that said Ned is now &
since the termination of said war has
been a resident citizen of the
United States, & that he is now by

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reason of his reduced circumstances in
life, in need of assistance from his 
Country for support.
Gershom Wakeman [signed]
William Williams [signed]

April 1st 1818 Sworn before me
Pierpont Edwards [signed]
District Judge of the District of Connecticut

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I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of 
Connecticut do testify that it [sic] affiant to my satisfaction
that Ned Freedom who made & subscribed the declaration
in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary
War against the Common Enemy as stated in his 
said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings
& testimony to them & had before me in his Case to the
Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to an Act
of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings
& testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule.
May 20th 1818  Pierpont Edwards [signed]

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District of Connecticut SS Stratford April 21 1819
I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of said District do
Certify that the within named Ned Freedom by
reason of his reduced circumstances in Life does stand
in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Pierpont Edwards [signed]

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Ned Freedom

10.115 (Ex [symbol])

[Illegible - word in smudge]

Sept 1819

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District of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield}   SS Fairfield --

On this 14th day of June 1820 personally appeared in
open Court being a court of record for said County
& having a seal Ned Freedom aged fifty nine
years. Resident in said County & District who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath declare that he served in the revolutionary
war as follows: that is I enlisted I think in the
year 1776 or 1777 am not certain which as a private =
during the war = in the State of Connecticut
in Col. Meigs's Regiment & Capt. Mansfield's company
and served until the close thereof when I
was discharged on the 2nd day of June 1783 at
West Point. State of New York -- as per his
declaration forwarded to the war department on
April 1st 1818 -- The number of the pension
certificate is 10.115 on which he has received pay at
the rate of eight dollars per month from the
1st day of April 1818 to the 4th day of March
1820 -----
And I do 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] [inserted] 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

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to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land &  
naval services of the United States, in the Revolutionary
War" passed on the eighteenth day of March
1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust
for me, any property or security, contract or debt
due to me, nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me
subscribed -- except necessary (illegible) appraised (illegible)

Schedule --
1 Table (illegible) @    $
3 old chests --
2 chairs --
1 Tea kettle --
2 pails --
2 plates --
1 axe --
1 Tub -- 
1 set knives & forks --
1 Porridge pot --
1 Hoe --       $7.14 value
      his
Ned X Freedom
     mark
And I do further say that my occupation is that of
a day labourer [sic]. my family consists of a wife and
three children. Priscilla, my wife, is forty six
years old -- Alton is 14 years old: Marcy is nine
years old and Aurilea is six years old -- I am
able to labour [sic] but not to support my family
without some assistance -- 
      his
Ned X Freedom
      mark

Subscribed, sworn to & declared in open Court aforesaid --
whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof made in Court, of
opinion that the total amount in value of the property exhibited
in the aforesaid Schedule is Seven dollars & 14 cents - ; and doth
order these proceedings to be entered in the record of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk [signed]

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State of Connecticut, SS. Fairfield County

I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State,
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from
the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule of Ned Freedom
is Seven Dollars & fourteen cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at
Fairfield, this 14th day of June A.D. 1820.

David Burr [signed]  Clerk of the County Court for said
                                       County of Fairfield.

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37 946
INVALID. [in bold]
Revy

File No.   S7, 946
Ned Freedom
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 145

[Arrangement of 1870.]