Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,998, Elnathan Weed, Conn.

SERVICE
Weed, Elmhurst
NUMBER _____
D. 23. 998
CONTENTS

24.414 New York
Chatham Weed
of Westchester Co in the State of New York who was a pr Corp. in the Company commanded by Captain Brown of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for pr. 15 m. 17 _____ Coop 9 ..
Enrolled on the Roll of New York at the rate of 83 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Dec r . 1833 and sent to Hon. A. Ward. H. Chap n
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833. $207.30 Eme-ant. allowance ending Sept 1834 41.50 $249.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, k E Vol. 4 Page 128.
let to N.Y. City & Albany agents Apr. 21. 1835.
in let to Mr. Fleming Aug 23 d 35.

Two State of New York } On this Twenty Westchester County } th  th day of December A.D. 1898 personally appeared Before me Ezra Lockwood one of the Juges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Westchester otherwise Need of the town of Poundridge in the County of Westchester aforesaid 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 in the revolutionary War under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say on or about the Month of May and as this declarant thinks about the first of the month of May aforesaid in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy five in this Declaration enlisted at Stamford Fair- field County & State of Connecticut as a private for the term of Nine Months in a Company commanded by Captain Sylvanus Brown and attached to Colonel David Waterbury's Regi- ment for for the term of Nine Months and from the town of Stamford aforesaid he marched to New York and from there to Fredericksburg in said State of New York and from said Fredericksburg to St Johns in Canada and continued under arms and in actual service that this Declarant recollects General Montgomery at St Johns who had the command at the time of the capture and Surrender of St Johns aforesaid to the American Army that this Declarant a few days and shortly after the Surrender of the Fort at St Johns was taken by the American Army this Declarant was
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taken sick at St Johns aforesaid and carried to the Hospital where this Declarant remained for about two Weeks and until he was able to be removed and then was taken to Fredericksburg and there remained until the next February or thereabouts and as this Declarant thinks it was nearly or quite the Month of March when he reached home at Stamford Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aforesaid and at the place where he this Declarant first Enlisted and was there Honorably Discharged by his Captain aforesaid That this Declarant again Enlisted at New Canaan in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut under Captain Samuel Reece This Declarant was enlisted by the Lieutenant Beard Dells in said Company and marched to New York where he joined the Company That this enlistment was for nine Months as a private Soldier and this Declarant thinks this Company was attached to Colonel Philip Bradleys Regiment This was in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Six and as this Declarant thinks about the Month of May this Declarant with the said Company was marched into the State of New Jersey near Stationed near (Staten Island in the State of New York) The particular place in New Jersey this Declarant cannot now recollect the names but continued in actual service until the term of his enlistment expired That during this time the Declarant was attached to different Companies that in this Declarant with the American troops was marched to Trenton in said State of New Jersey and there broke into Pennsylvania That this Declarant well recollects

1776
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General Washington having the command of the American troops during the Summer of 1776 that this declarant thinks it was some time in the Month of December 1776 when the American Army under General Washington crossed the Delaware River at Trenton. That this declarant continued in the actual service in Pennsylvania after crossing at Trenton til his said time of enlistment was faithfully served out which was some time in the winter of 1777 and was there Honorably Discharged and then returned home to Stamford Fairfield County & State of Connecticut. That this declarant again enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Stephen Mills at Bedford Westchester County and State of New York for Eight Months that this was sometime in the Month of May or June and Seven Hundred & Seventy Seven. That this declarant enlisted as a private in said company & served his time out in actual service under arms and was Honorably Discharged at Bedford aforesaid sometime in the winter following by his said Captain. That in this last enlistment the said company was marched down upon the lines in Westchester County sometimes they were guarding the Prisoners in the Great House which was kept at Bedford. That this declarant again enlisted under Captain Abraham Waring at Stamford aforesaid which was in the Month of May 1778 and marched to West Point with two yoke of oxen and cart and was there employed in building the fort at West Point aforesaid with his brother Stone and timber and helped last the Chain which was put across the North River at that Place and continued there to do whatever the commanding officer directed this declarant to do.

Whale Boat 2 mile Capt. Lockwood
until the said term of his enlistment had expired and then was Honorably Discharged and then returned home to Stamford after the Summer of one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine and as this Ensign thought about the first of June of said year this Ensign volunteered in a private under Captain Samuel Lockwood of Stamford or Greenwich in Fairfield County & State of Connecticut and went on board of a Whale Boat so called and was employed in the Long Island Sound where we had frequent engagements with the enemy that used to pass from Long Island to the opposite shore and thence and was in actual service during the Summer and fall of 1779 That this Ensign volunteered under the said Captain Samuel Lockwood who was required to raise a company of volunteers by the Governor of the State of Connecticut to go across on to Long Island and there to take a man called Judge Jones who was in the British Service and who ranked as high as a Militia General in order to exchange him for General Silliman who had been captured by the enemy at Fairfield in Fairfield County & State of Connecticut and carried to New York That this Ensign in company with about thirty men did volunteer under the aforesaid Captain Lockwood crossed the sound to Long Island in the night and after remaining there for several days being concealed in the dry time we took the said Jones Prisoner and brought him across from the Island to

Corporal G. Mott Brought at Fairfield County & State of Conn in the night and the said John was exchanged for General Silliman in about one Week That this Deponent enlisted under Captain Auburn Leffils on or about the first of April 1780 for Nine Months as a Corporal and had his time out faithfully in actual Service and was Honorably discharged by his said Captain as will appear by his Affidavit which will be hereunto annexed That this Deponent had a Sergeants warrant in the Spring of the year or Summer of 1781 and was ordered on the lines by General Mott where the Deponent continued during that season until Winter and then returned home and did not go into actual Service any more but frequently turned out in Alarms. That this Deponent was born on the fourteenth day of April one Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty Eight at Stamford Fairfield County & State of Connecticut where about fourteen years of age he lived with his Brother in the State of New Hampshire about two years at a place called Piermont but cannot recollect the County Then this Deponent came back to said Stamford Fairfield County & State aforesaid and resided there til the year one Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Two when he removed to Pomperidge Westminster County & State of New York and has always resided there since in said County That this Deponent has a record of his age in his family Bible which is

now before him and from which he has made the above statement of his birth & present age That this Declaration here at Stamford when called into the room as aforesaid but never was drafted but he always volunteered or related as aforesaid and sworn for himself but never as a substitute That this Declaration recites the following Regular Officers & Regiments that were with the troops where he served as aforesaid viz General Washington General Montgomery General Schuyler Colonel David Waterbury Colonel John Mott Colonel Allen Colonel Thomas Thomas Captain Amos Hopkins Captain Samuel Lockwood Colonel Charles Webb That this Declaration dont recite of receiving but on written discharge that was at West Point which is lost That this Declaration was always a true friend to the Independence and he here by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the interest and believes that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year as aforesaid before me - Ezra Loomis, Judge
Elizah Weed

Chathan Weed application for extension
28.570
Corpl 2
Corpl 9
private 9
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Adm 2
9 mo Corpl
15 mo pri
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Mr. W...

State of New Jersey Wiltshire County } ss On this Twenty Second day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared before me Lyman Lockwood one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Wiltshire aforesaid David Lockwood of the Town of Poundridge County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is now aged Eighty Six years of age That he has been well acquainted with Elkanah Wood who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding Declaration That in this Deponent has read the preceding Declaration read and understands the contents thereof That this Deponent enlisted in the same Company and marched with the said Elkanah Wood from Stamford to New York and from there to Poughkeepsie and from there to St Johns in Canada and well recollects that the said Elkanah Wood was at the engagement and capture of St Johns in Canada as stated in the preceding Declaration and well recollects that they was in the same Camp near so called together and as near as this Deponent can state was at or about the time and well recollects the said Elkanah Wood was a good Soldier and a true friend to the Independence This Deponent well recollects that he enlisted on or about the 1 st of May one Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Six as a private in a Company commanded by Captain Samuel Keeler and was attached to Colonel Philip Bradly Regiment and that the said Elkanah Wood was in the same Company in actual service and was also enlisted for Nine Months the same time of Nine Months as read this Depo- nent and marched to New York and passed into the State of New Jersey and fully agrees with the state- ment in the preceding Declaration made by the said

Another man having heard the same read except the American Army camping at Trenton that this Deponent was taken sick a few days before the said Army camped at Trenton and was carried to the Hospital with the sick or some place where the sick were carried and what place this Deponent does not now recollect that this Deponent well recollects that at the time he was taken sick he left the said Nathaniel Weed in the said Company of Captain Samuel Kuler well recollects this was in the Service of one thousand seven hundred seventy six that this service was said as near as this Deponent recollects the time he was taken sick must have been about the first of December as this Deponent well recollects there was snow on the ground at the time and this Deponent well recollects that during the Revolutionary War but the particular time or the year he cannot say with certainty he recollects that the said Nathaniel Weed started with two yoke of oxen for Watpoint in the State of New York as was said at the time for to assist in building a fort there at that place but this Deponent did not go himself and only means to be understood that he saw the said Nathaniel start as before stated I see him first in the fore part of the Month of May or thereabouts I late in the fall or fore part of the winter return home and this Deponent further saith that towards the latter part of the aforesaid War he saw the said Weed in actual Service on the lines in Watkins County under General Shad and was some part of the time attached to the same Company with the aforesaid Nathaniel Weed and thinks the said Weed must have been out for six months or more on the lines under General Shad or under some of the officers under the said

General Shads Command as this Person was in the service at the time and will recollect of seeing the said Weed after one season in actual Service and knows the said Weed to be a good Soldier and a true friend to his Country
Sworn to and subscribed David his Lockwood
The day and year aforesaid
before me Ezra Lockwood, Judge -
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my Opinion after the investi- gation of the matter, and after hearing the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And I do further certify that the witnesses who have subscribed and sworn to the Annexed Affidavits are credible persons and that their State- ment is entitled to Credit.
And I the said Judge do further certify that the above named Appli- cant, cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court for the purpose of making his aforesaid Application.
Ezra Lockwood One of the Judges in and for Westchester County
I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the County of Westchester State of New York, do hereby certify that the Hon. Ezra Lockwood before whom the foregoing declaration of Eliza- than Weed was sworn to, and before whom the swearing of affidavits of David Lockwood and the annexed affidavit of Levi Tuttle was sworn to, and who has subscribed the several Journals thereof, and certificates was on the day of the dates thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & sworn and that the signatures subscribed thereto as his are genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 3 rd day of December 1833
N. Bayles Clerk

I certify that from information derived from the estate of Monahs Lockwood that Davis Lockwood is a credible witness Dec 14 th 1833
A. Ward. M c G.

I certify that from information derived from the estate of Moncks Lockwood that Davis Lockwood is a credible witness Dec 14 th 1833
A. Ward. M.C.

State of New York Wiltshire County } on this Twenty Second Day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand and Eight Hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared before me Byron Lockwood one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Wiltshire aforesaid Levi Futter age Seventy Seven years of the town of Wiltshire Fairfield County & State of Con- necticut who being duly sworn according to law both on his oath State that he this Deponent is well acquainted with Jonathan Ward of Pomfret who has subscribed & sworn to the preceding Declaration both before the Revolutionary War and in said War and since. This Deponent enlisted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War under Captain Mathew Mott of Milton Fairfield County & State of Connecticut regiment attached to Colonel David Waterbury's. This Deponent enlisted on the first Monday in May 1775 and marched to St Johns in Canada and or near there where one said Company had a fight with the Indians and was wounded and not able at that time to do service for several months and had a furlough to return home and did so return and while at the Northend in 1775 I saw the aforesaid Jonathan Ward there in Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment under arms in actual service and this Deponent further saith that in the fore- part of the Summer 1776 he this Deponent enlisted in a Company commanded by Captain Samuel Kelle and was attached to Colonel Bradleys Regiment that this Deponent marched to New York with the said Company

dropped into the State of New Jersey. That his disponment enlisted for nine months and served his time out faithfully and was Honorable Discharged. That the disponment was marched to different places in said State of New Jersey saw General Washington who had the command some part of the time but the names of the places this disponment came at now recollect numbers Trenton & Fort Lee That during this said nine months service this disponment well recollects that the aforesaid Elnathan Wood was in said company in actual service and marched with the American Army at Trenton into the State of Pennsylvania some time in the fore part of the Winter following said enlistment and knows the said Elnathan Wood to be a good soldier and a true friend to the Independence and has no doubt but the said Elnathan Wood served for nine months in this disponment served for that period of time and verily believes the said Elnathan Wood served as long as this disponment Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Assever me Ezechiel Wood Judge
I do certify that the above named Levi Tuttle is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief. Ezechiel Wood Judge
Elnathan Wood

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } p. Probate District of Stamford.
On this 23 rd day of October A.D. 1832 before the Court of Probate in for Said District, personally appeared Stephen Bishop of Stamford in Said District, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath in open Court depose & say that he has for above fifty years well known Jonathan Weed of Pound Ridge in Westchester County in the State of New York - In the year 1775 in May, said Weed enlisted in company of infantry commanded by Capt. - Lieut. Sylvanus Brown in Col. David Waterbury's Regiment - The term of enlistment of deponent thinks was nine months. Deponent was a soldier in the same Company - The Company of Regiment of Said Weed of deponent with them went by the way of Albany of Lake Champlain to St. Johns & participated in the Siege & reduction of that place - After the place was taken said Weed was sick & discharged & came home to Stamford which was his place of residence at that time & he did not join said Company a second time. Said Regiment belonged to the Connecticut Line.
Stephen Bishop
Sworn to & subscribed this day of year aforesaid -
John H. Wardlaw Judge -
And now on this 26 th day of October 1832 before said Court personally appeared Reuben Scoville Esq. of Said Stamford aged eighty nine, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath in open Court depose & say that in the Revolutionary War in the year 1780 he was Captain of a Company of Infantry belonging to Col. John Mear's Regiment of Connecticut State Troops - said company did duty in the service of the United States in Said Town of Stamford in protecting the country against the enemy who lay on Long Island & on the mainland from New York City up to the Connecticut Line & who made frequent incursions into Connecticut. The term of service began about 13 th of 1780 & ended January 1 st 1781. During this time said Company was constantly in actual service - see a

entered into the Service by the government of Connecticut as Department Troops. Said John Milled commanded on the lines - This Department has been well known Elmer Milled formerly of said Stamford now of Pound Ridge in the State of New York. Said Milled belonged to said Company as above mentioned - he enlisted in said Company as a Corporal on the 4 th day of April 1780 & constantly did duty therein as a Corporal until said 1 st day of January, being in the whole nine months & three days. These facts Department knows from his old pay roll which is now in his hands & was before him - Said Milled's character for truth has always been good - Daniel Hoyt was Department's Lieutenant & Benjamin Webb his Ensign - both are dead.
Sworn to & subscribed the 2 nd day of June 1792
Reuben Safford
Chs. H. Woolsey Judge
And on the same day before said Court formally appeared Jesse Hoyt of said Stamford who being duly sworn & oath for his oath before & say that he well knows Elmer Milled above mentioned - That Department was an enlisted soldier in a Company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Capt. Reuben Safford of Litchfield, Daniel Hoyt in the year 1780 in the Revolutionary War - said Company was out in Service against the enemy from some time in March 1780 to the first of the next year - The Service was rendered in said Stamford - said Elmer Milled was an enlisted soldier of a Corporal in said Company & did duty therein during most of the Campaign - Department does not know the precise time of his enlistment, but he continued in the Service after he enlisted until the end of the year - His character for truth is perfectly good.
Jesse his Hoyt mark
Sworn to & subscribed by the said Reuben Safford & Jesse Hoyt the day of June aforesaid
Chs. H. Woolsey Judge

And now on this 30 th day of October last said before said heard again appeared Stephen Bishop maker of the first fore- going deposition of in addition thereto, deposes & says, have been only sworn according to law, that he did not in- tend to say that said Eliza had been taken sick was immediately after the claim which was taken, dis- charged, he only meant that after said claim was taken sick he then deponent said no more of him in those words but for aught this deponent knows said claim continued the army, or in the service, until the regular expiration of the period of his enlistment - Stephen Bishop
Sworn to & Subscribed this 30 th day of year aforesaid
Ch. M. Lewis Judge -
I certify that from satisfactory and clear evidence I have and under the oath of Hester Lockwood that Reuben Scovil, Stephen Bishop & Ioseph Mayhew are credible witnesses. Dec. 14 th 1833
A. Ward. M. Co.
State of Connecticut Fairfield County
ss. Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Charles Hawley Esquire whose own proper signatures known to me to be genuine are annexed to his Certificates on the foregoing Depositions is now for more than one year last past has been Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in said State & County & that full faith, is due to all his official acts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 25 th day of May. A.D. 1833. Thomas B. Osborne of said County Court.

Proclamation
23998 INVALID.
File No. 23998
Chatham Feed
Coop Rev No.
Act: June 7 th 88 99
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 442
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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W. Stewart
James H. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mechanics Bank New York 18 th April 1835
Sir
The name of Jonathan Weed a Private and Corporals at $83 per Annum has been by mistake transferred from the Books of this, to the Albany Agency, as a resident of Franklin County, whereas this Pensioner resides in Poundridge Westchester County, and has resided there for the last twenty four years. Will you be pleased to have his name re-transferred from the Albany to the Roll of this Agency
I am very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt M c Klemens Presd & Spousag.
No 24414
James L d Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Weed, Ephraim GRADE Private LINE Sheldon's Dragoons (Connecticut)
WARRANT NUMBER 6709 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 10, 1789 To Isaac Trowbridge, assignee
*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.