Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19129, Elisha Town, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass.
Town, Elisha
S. 19129
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4549
Vermont
Elisha Town
of _____ in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Caryl — of the Reg t — commanded by Col Wheeler — in the Camp a line for Private 2 years — $80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Jan y 1833 and sent to Hon ble H. H. H. H. H. W. L. Smith
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 — $120.00 Semizant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 — 40.00 $160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk Book D Vol. 4 Page 87

1572 Vermont
(on rolls)
Adm d
Private
2 yrs
$80
Non H. Seymour
U. S. Senate

BRIEF in the case of
Elisha Town, of Stowe of Washington County in the State of Vermont (Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
73 Years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Feb In 1776 — 2 — Volunteer Gen. Capt. Genl. Carrys   May — 1776 — 7 — — Col. Josiah Wheelers Regt. under the same officers   Dec. — — 1 15 — Capt. Towne, Col. Schuyler Regt.   Aug. — 1777 — 5 — — Capt. A. Lamb, Col. Castkings Regt.   July 1778 — 1 — Drafted Capt. Reuben Putnam   Aug. — 1778 — 1 15 Volunteer Col. Putnam, Col. Whiteleys   July 1780 Mass 6 — Continental Genl. Putnam, Col. Moulton, Col. Weston, Genl. Laurens  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
Saratoga 7 Oct 1777
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Oxford Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living witnesses as to the services of 1780 & 7 months in 1776
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Traditional as to the rest
They are not
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Approved
2 years — — —
Robt. Hale Examining Clerk.

84
Elisha Town
1715 1/2
1.20

State of Vermont. On this 8 th day of August 1832 Washington County personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges or Justices of the County Court within & for the County of Washington Elisha Dowe a resident of Stowe in the County of Washington & State of Vermont aged 73. 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 7. 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers & served as here in States. That about the first of Feby. 1776. he volunteered to go to Cambridge for a period of two M th s. That he was in Capt Sam l Carryle's Company & in Colo Josiah Whiting's Reg t . That the duty which he performed was guarding & fortifying Cambridge point. That he served the said term out. That about the 1 st of May in the year 1776. he again volunteered into the Service of the United States under the same officers aforesaid, & was stationed at a place then called Winterset. New Hill & was employed & served there for the term of seven Months. in guarding & fortifying said place. That on or about the 1 st Dec r . 1776 the British fleet having made their appearance off Newport Rhode Island. he again volunteered & marched under Capt John Dowe, in Colo. Holman's Reg t . to the defense of Providence in R.I. & there served in fortifying & guarding the latter place a period of one & one half Months. That in the Month of August 1777. he volunteered into the Service in the Company commanded by Capt Elijah Lamb. in Colo. Cushing's Reg t . that he was Marched to Bennington Vt. from which place he volunteered into Capt Parker's Company and an expedition to White Hall in N. York, from thence he Marched to Bemis Heights. & there about the 1 st of Sept. joined his Reg t under Colo. Cushing That he was in the battle of the 7 th Oct. at which time the British retreated to Saratoga That he continued at the latter place, until the army under Burgoyne. Surrendered

from thence, he was Marched down the North River to a place called at that time Scarsdale & there remained until about the 1 st of Jan y . 1778. Mr. Brinsgold of about five Months. That in July 1778 he was again called into the Service under Capt. Paulus. Putnam, & served about a month, in guarding a place called Dunderberg point That in August 1778 he volunteered to go to Newport in R.I. under Capt. Paulus Sibley, in Colo. Loyalist (Whitcomb's Regt. & Genl. Silcox's Brigade & there served one & one- half Months, part of the time at Newport & the remainder at a place called Palmar, That about the 1 st of July 1780. He enlisted into the Continental Service in the Massachusetts Line, for the term of Six Months, into Capt. Wadsworth's Company, Colo. (Weston's Regt. & Genl. Garmy's Brigade, in Barrow's Line. That he served out the time of enlistment, & was discharged at West point, by Colo. (Weston, which S. discharge is lost. That in the whole of the aforesaid periods according to the best of his recollection he served a period of a least two years. That he has no documentary evidence, & that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure to testify to his services, as what is herewith transmitted He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State And in answer to the question put to him under the instruction of the Secretary of War. He further states, that he was born in Pictou County in Mass. on the 14 th day of Apr. 1759 That he has no record of his age, That when called into the Service he was living in Oxford Me. That since the revolution he has lived in Charlton Me. & in Stearns Me where he now resides, That he was called into the Service by Volun- -teering, & enlisting. That Nathan Robinson & David Cook both residents of Stearns & who can testify to his veracity of char- acter, & their of his services as a revolutionary Soldier.
Signed and subscribed the day & year above said - Elisha Droot Attest J. Hall Clk -

We Nathan Robinson & Rimey Camp residing in the Town of Stow Co. of Washington & State of Vermont do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Town who has Subscribed & Sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is up and I believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in the opinion
Nathan Robinson
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid Rimey Camp at My State Clerk And the S. C. do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter I after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named application was a Revolutionary Soldier & found as her stated. And the Court testifies that it appears to them that Nathan Robinson & Rimey Camp who have signed the foregoing Certificates are residents in the town of Stow & are entitled thereto & that their statement is entitled to credit
Attest. Joshua W. Vail Clerk
I Joshua W. Vail Clerk of the C. for the S. C. of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Town for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 9th day of August A.D. 1832
Attest. Joshua W. Vail Clerk

Affiant of John Hudson

I John Hudson of Waterbury in the County of Washington & State of Vermont do depose & say that I was present at the time that Elisha Dowe New a resident of the Town of Stowe in S. County enlisted into the Service of the United States in the northwestern War, that he enlisted about the 1 st of July 1840 for six months, at Oxford in Massachusetts. That I again saw him at West point at the time he was discharged from his enlistment. That previous to his entering the army We were acquainted, & lived Neighbors. Then saw the S. Dowe called upon me at my tent after having procured his discharge, to inquire if I wished to send any thing to family. My time having not then expired.
John Hudson
State of Vermont Washington C. B. Stow Augt. 8. 1832 Personally appeared before me John Hudson & made oath that the above deposition made & submitted by him is just & true P. G. Camp Dist. Prov I hereby certify that the above deposition is a credible Witness Attest P. G. Camp Dist. Prov
State of Vermont Washington County ss. 3
I Joshua W. Peck Clerk of the County Court sitting & for the county of Washington do hereby certify that Philo G. Camp Esq. before whom the foregoing affida- vit was taken is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed & acting under the authority of this State and that his name to the same as such is his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 8 th day of August 1832 Atto. J. W. Peck Clerk

This affidavit exhibited in Court in the case of the application of Elisha Town Atty Dist. Mail Clerk

Affidavit of Amos M. Hintray

I Amos McIntosh of Hyde Park in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont do hereby certify and say that Elisha Town of New in the County of Washington and State of Vermont, served with me in the Revolutionary war in the year 1776 in a Place called Bennington, now Hull, seven months, in the Company commanded by Capt. Jonathan Covel, and in the Regiment Comd by Colonel Josiah Whitney, and further the Deponent saith not
Amos McIntosh
State of Vermont } Hyde Park July 23 rd 1832
Orleans County } ss
The above Affidavit sworn to before
Jonathan Bean Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above deponent is a credible witness Jonathan Bean Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont Secretary of State's Office Montpelier, Aug. 9 th 1832.
I hereby certify that Jonathan Bean Esq. was a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans, on the 23 rd day of July A.D. 1832 duly commissioned and constituted and that to his acts and attestations as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given. —
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this office this 9 th day of August A.D. 1832.
Timothy Merrill Secretary of State.

I 19129
INVALID.
File No. 19129
Elisha Jones
His Rev. Wm
Act: June 7 th 82
Index :—Vol. 1 , Page 377
[Arrangement of 1870.]