Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43257, Zachariah Weston, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Weston, Zachariah
S. 43257
CONTENTS

19.548
New York
Ebenezer Weston
of Washington in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Swift of the regiment commanded by Colonel Beers in the Continental line, for the term of one year from March 1776 to March 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of December 1825
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of May 1826 and sent to the Hon. H.C. Martindale House of Reps
Semi-annual account ending 4 Mar: 1826. $23.48
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }

H of R. Dec 20 th 1825
Sir I enclose you the Declaration & Papers of Zachariah Weston a soldier of the Revolu- -tion, and who now resides in my village. He seems to have made his application soon after the passage of the Law of 1818. which it seems was deemed insufficient for some reason. He then resided in New Hampshire, and his papers were returned it is supposed to his Atty in that State. His poverty prevented his prose- -cuting the subject further at that time. He has since obtained corroborating Affidavits and has now made his Declaration anew. I think his papers will be found sufficient very Respectfully & Yours &c
Henry C. Washburne

Peter Mill. & Lyman Clark
Depositors
E. Morton

I Peter Mills of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age testify and say that I was a Lieutenant in the Company of Capt Jiah Swift in the Regiment of Col. Charles Bull in the Continental service in the year 1776 at the Southward that I was well acquainted with Leheriah Weston the petitioner and know that he was a soldier in said company and that he served in said company during a year to the best of my recollection I know that said Weston enlisted into said company about the 1 st of March 1776. and served with me in said Com- pany until March 1 st 1777 Peter Mills
I Cyrenus Clark of Kent in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut of lawful age testify and say that I was a soldier in the Continental service in the year 1776 at the Southward in the company of Capt. Jiah Swift in the Regiment of Col. Charles Bull and that I was acquainted with Leheriah Weston the petitioner and know that he was a soldier in said company that he enlisted into said company about the 1 st of March 1776 and served in said company till about the 1 st of March 1777 Cyrenus Clark
Litchfield County So. Kent Sept r 22 nd 1825 Personally appeared Peter Mills and Cyrenus Clark the above deponents and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavits before me I also certify that they are men of undoubted veracity and fully entitled to credit. Nathan Holsen Justice of peace

[Faint circular seal on the left margin] P Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Nathan Slosson Esq. was on the 22 nd day of instant September, and that he now is, a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, legally com- missioned & qualified, and that his name subscribed to the within Certificate is, as I verily believe, his proper hand writing. Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 28 th day of September, A.D. 1825. Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

In the Matter of Zephaniah Weston a Soldier of the Revolution
Ad care 19.836 Zephaniah Weston Washington Cy. N.Y.
Re: Dec 21. 1825
admitted Commence
Dec 7 1825
Hon: H. C. Martineau 18 Rep

Sanay Hill N.Y. 13 Decm
Free
Hon. Henry C. Martindale
Member of Congress
Washington City.

State of New York County of Washington
On this seventh day of December 1825 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York being a Court of record proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a Jurisdiction Unlimited in point of Amount Keeping a record of their proceedings - and having also the power of fine and imprisonment for the said County of Washington Zechariah Weston aged seventy five years upwards resident in the village of Sandy Hill in the town of Kingsbury in the said County of Washington in the said State of New York - who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows to wit for the space of one whole year in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrell in the company commanded by Captain Sirah Swift in the Connecticut line That he enlisted into the said company about the first of March 1776 and continued in service and service from the time of his enlistment until the first of March 1777 and after; making a little more than one whole year. That he went as such Soldier into Canada under the command of said Captain Swift and Colonel Burrell and wintered at Ticonderoga - he believes that a Captain Cook succeeded to the command of the company before the expiration of the term of his enlistment. his Christian name this deponent does not know. That he caused application to be made several years ago for a pension but was refused on account of the insufficiency of his papers and has never received a pension - the time of his application he does not recollect
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 entitled "An Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. to wit-
Of real property I have none whatever neither have I any interest whatever in any real property
Of personal property I have none except my necessary wearing apparel a pocket book & pocket knife of the value of fifty Cents - My Occupation is that of a Tanner and Essex Currier but now am and for several years last past have been utterly unable through age and infirmity to pursue it - I have no family residing with me and do not keep house - I am not now neither have I been for several years last past able to labor or to follow any business to obtain a livelihood or any part of it - and in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of My Country
Zechariah Weston
Subscribed & sworn to in Open Court this 7 th day of Dec r 1825.
M c Dawver Clerk

I Matthew D Danvers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington, in the State of New York do hereby certify that foregoing draft and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record 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 described in the aforesaid schedule is fifty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Seventh day of December 1825.
M. D. Danvers

Pa. Dec 21. 1825
Registered

43257
INVALID.
Rev y
File No. 43.257
Zachariah Weston Dr Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 552
[Arrangement of 1870.]