Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35361, Philo Treat, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Treat, Philo
NUMBER _____
S. 35361
CONTENTS

1886 Aug 12 J. S. Hopkins - history - Prior
Connecticut, 17868 R
Philo Treat -
of Simsbury in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel C. Webb - of the Connecticut line, for the term of One year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April, 1818. -
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of Oct 1820 and sent to Elisha Phelps Esq. Simsbury. Cont
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1820 231.73 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 4, 1821 48. -
28 mo. 29/30 Rollr: 279.73
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
21 May 1820

Capt Jewett & Ponds co.
Coe @ Chatham ref.
Cont line 
Jan 76 to Jan 77 :

Feb 17 1863 Chilo Great
Molonrolle 11
There are no rows for this period of service

I Philo Treat of Simsbury County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do on oath declare that on or about the the first day of January 1776 I enlisted as a private soldier for the term of one year into a company of Infantry Peter Perrett, Capt, Charles Pond 1 st Lieut. & Samuel Sanford 2 nd Lieut. & Reg t commanded by Colo. Charles Webb of the Connecticut line — that I served from the time of my enlistment in said Company, under Capt Perrett, until he & Lieut Pond, went into the naval service, & the Company remained under command of Samuel Sanford Lieut, — South Ensign — that I continued to serve in said Company until I joined a Company of Rangers commanded by the gallant & unfortunate Capt Hale, who was taken & executed by the British — after this I joined my Company again at the White Plains & served until on or about the first of January 1777 when my term of enlistment expired — & that I remained after this, with the army, among those who staid at the request of General Washington where that I am blind and in need of the assistance of my Country for support —
Sworn to & declared this 3 rd day of April 1818 before me
Jonathan Brant Judge of the County Court for the County of said
Phil J. read

Jonathan Brant Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Philo Brant did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the continental establishment - & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act - Hauferd, May 2 nd 1818. Jonathan Brant Judge as aforesaid -
May 4 th 1818 sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of the Honorable Jonathan Brant who is the Presiding Judge of said Court.
Thomas Chester Clerk

I Elisha Phelps of Simsbury County of Hartford & State of Connecticut of lawful age depose & say that I have been acquainted with Philo Graft of Simsbury aforesaid, subscriber of the foregoing application for Ten or Twelve years, during which time he has been blind, & believe that he is poor & in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Elisha Phelps.
State of Connecticut ss County of Hartford April the 8 th 1818
Personally appeared Elisha Phelps & of the signs of the foregoing deposition & made solemn oath that the facts therein stated are true
Before me
Jonathan Breese Judge of the County Court for Hartford County as maid

Philo Treat, Schedule
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "Oct 1860"]
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "1860"]

State of Connecticut, County of Hartford ss Special County Court at District of Connecticut for Hartford County Court of Common Pleas held by order of the Chief Judge of said special session held at Hartford within the County of Hartford on the first Tuesday of August A D 1920
On this 1 st day of August A D 1920 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County, Philo Stratton aged sixty four years resident in Simsbury in said County who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows in a Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Colo. Charles Webb and Company com- manded by Capt. Peter Ferris, & Charles Pond first lieutenant, and that he applied to the Secretary of War for a pension by petition dated the 6 th day of April A D 1918 which petition was not granted for want of sufficient proof of service.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 19 th day of March A D 1918 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any man- ner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so 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 service of the United States in the rev- olutionary war passed on the 19 th day of March 1918 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or se- curities 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.

One note in E. Phelps hands of Simsbury for collection $100. one note ag st Philo M. Vining and Co of Simsbury who are in low circumstances unable to pay at present Pri. & Int st about $20 } 20.00 one note vs. Moses Case of Simsbury at $15 — 15 00
135.00
Save the following debts, viz
  To Ebenezer Marshall of Framingham Mass.  103.     " — — — — — Edwards do  30.     " — — — — — Jonathan Dean — do  3.     " — — — — — Glover do  3  50    " — — — — — Asa Foster in State of New Hampshire  40     " — — — — — Peter Tufts State of Vermont  15  50    " — — — — — Elijah Hurd — New York  10       $175.00  
Philo Treat
And I further declare that when I enlisted and served in the revolutionary war I had a Father living of the same name & that I was known by the name of Philo Treat Jun r but believe that the word Jun r was not added to my name upon the muster roll of the army — that I am and for the last seventeen years & nine months of my life have been totally blind, unable to pursue any business whatever, or to proceed from one place to another without
Philo Treat

the aid of a conductor & that I have no family having never been married, and no friend, or relative who are obliged by law to contribute to my support.
Philo Great
Sworn to & declared by said Philo Great on 12 th day of August 1920 before said board & it is the opinion of said board that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred twelve dollars
I Thomas Chester clerk of the County Court at Bristol of Common Pleas in & for the County of Bristol aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said board. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said board on this 20 th day of August 1920
Copy Philo Great
Th. Chester clerk as aforesaid

Rev. and 1813 War Section.
August 11, 1924.
Nettie A. Young, c/o H. C. Smith, Cheshire, Box 932 Conn.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35361, it appears that Philo, son of Philo Treat, was born in Milford, Connecticut, date not stated.
While residing in said Milford, he enlisted in January 1776 and was a private in Captain Peter Perritt's and Captain Nathan Hale's Companies, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment, he was in the battles of Long Island, Harlem, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton and served a little more than a year.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, while a resident of Simsbury, Hartford County,, Connecticut.
In 1820, soldier stated that he was sixty four years old and that he had never been married.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

35361
1924-Aug. 11-First. Loretta G Young
Very INVALID.
File No. 35361
Philo Sweet
Br. Rev. was
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 425-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

LADY FENWICK CHAPTER, D. A. R. CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT
July 12 th 1924 Pension Department, Rev. Records Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen; Will you kindly send me a copy of the Pension paper or record of Philo or Philosebrus Ives who served in the Revolutionary War. I belong to that family and wish to perfect the records I have. I am Very Truly yours, (Mrs.) Nettie A. Young of N. C. Smith Box 932 Cheshire, Conn.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington
Mr Lore

Simsbury Conn. August 4 th 1820 J. L. Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir
I transmit the original application of Philo Treat for a pension which was returned with your entry, that he was not on the rolls of the army. Mr Treat has obtained the affidavits of Capt Pond under whom he served, a gentleman of great respectability & worth. Also the affidavit of Joseph Whiting who testified that he served in the same company with Mr Treat & that he is inscribed upon the pension list. This proof together with the affidavits of Sipsie Burwell Zachariah Blakeyman & Amos Clarke for sent herewith I should believe will be satisfactory evidence. I am not acquainted with all the deponents, but have no doubt of their being gentlemen in whose testimony confidence ought to be placed. William Durand esquire advises that Clarke Whiting & Burwell are men of truth.
I am personally

acquainted with Mr. Treat & have been for several years. He is a man who sustains a fair & unblemished reputation. For more than fifteen years he has been totally blind. In consequence of which he has expended for the necessities of life the whole of his property except about $125 or 300 Dol. He has been very frugal in his living & expenditures. The manner of supporting himself has been to board at those places where he could board cheapest, & he has received many ducats of charity, from those whose hearts were moved by commiseration for his unfortunate situation. If he had not received the assistance of the benevolent he must have, before this, been dependent on public charity.
He has stated in the schedule a list of debts which he owes to persons living in the adjoining States amounting to more than the value of the debts due to him. It is not in his power to procure the affidavits of his creditors to prove the debts are just. That they are bona fide, & due I have no doubt. He never was married, has no family, he has no connections who by law are liable for his support, & has no property but the debts stated in his schedule, & his wearing apparel which is of the coarsest & meanest quality.

I do sincerely believe that he is intitled to the benefit of the pension law on account of his necessitous circumstances if any person is. Although not at present among the list of public paupers, yet he cannot pay the debts he owes, & sickness without the aid of private charity would consign him to the poor house. If any informality in preparing & presenting his case to you has occurred, I wish you would as soon as may be inform me that I may be able to obtain the requisite proof & carry to Washington in the fall when I hope to have the pleasure of again seeing you.
The reason why he of has forwarded to you the affidavits to no service in the army before is that he wrote to his friends at Milford, his native town remote from this requesting them to procure & transmit the requisite proof. By either from miscarriage of his letters, or the inattention of the person to whom addressed the business was not done. He has recently procured a friend in this town to make a journey to Milford for him & has thereby obtained the enclosed evidence.
I am very respectfully Yours &c Debra Phelps

I Thomas Day Secretary of the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the Seal there- of, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That William Durand Esq. whose name is sub- scribed to certificates annexed to the Depositions of Charles Pond and Joseph Whiting taken before the said Durand, is, and for more than one year last past has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of New Haven in said State, duly appointed com- missioned and sworn, and that Samuel B. Gunn Esq. whose name is subscribed to certificates annexed to the Depositions of Zachariah Blakeman, Jer- Burrill and Amos Clark jun. taken before the said Gunn, was on the sixth day of September last, and for more than six months before and after that time, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of New Haven, duly ap- pointed, commissioned and sworn, both the

said Justices having by the laws of said State, full power and authority to administer Oaths to Witnesses, and to take Depositions and Affidavits out of Court; and I further certify that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to their official acts and attestations respectively.
In faith whereof I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Thomas Day

I Charles Pond of Milford in New Haven county - State of Connecticut of Lawfull age Depose and say - that I served as a Lieutenant in a company comman- ded by Capt Peter Perrot - in a Regiment under the command of Col. Charles Webb in the Army of the United States States in the Revolutionary War & that I received my appointment to said office in January first 1775 & that my commission was signed by John Hancock as President of Congress & by Charles Thomson as Secretary - and further that Philo Treat then called Philo Treat Junr - a native of said Milford: but now a President of the Town of Simsbury - in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut served as a soldier in the same company & Regt with me - but for how long a time I know not - as I left the Land and went into the Naval service I left the Regiment in May & took command of the Schiller Armed Stoop in the service of the United States and further the DepONENT saith not Charles Pond
Milford June 22nd 1820

State of Connecticut ss.
Milford County of New Haven June 22nd A.D. 182 I hereby certify that Charles Pond the Person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Deposition appeared personally before me on the day of the date above written and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before
William Durand Not Public
I also hereby certify that the said Deponent is a near neighbor of mine and is a gentleman of Respectable standing in society and is well entitled to credit
William Durand Not Public

I Joseph Whiting of Milford, in the County of New Haven, State of Connecticut — — of Lawfull age before and say, that I was a Soldier in the Army of the United States, in the War between the United States and Great Britain usually called the Revolutionary War — and further that I served in a Reg t commanded by Col. Charles Webb — in a company company under the command of Capt. Peter Ferris I enlisted in said company in January 1776 — & further that Philo Treat then called Philo Treat Jun r — a native of said Milford — but at present Residence in the Town of Simsbury in the County of Hartford Hartford in the State of Connecticut — was a Soldier in the same Reg t and company with me and served with me — the the whole term of my service in said corps — and that said Treat was to my certain knowledge at the present at the taking of Fort Trenton in New Jersey in the Dec r 1776 & was also in in the attack on Princeton in said New Jersey in the Month of January next following & further that I know that said Treat served in said corps a full year

I further that I have obtained a Pension upon the same ground on which said Treat claims. I further that at the time of the time of the I was advanced to the rank of sergeant in said company in which capacity I served till my term of service expired. I further saith not. Joseph Whiting. Milford June 22nd 1820
Milford County of Newtavern
State of Connecticut ss
June 22nd A.D. 1820
I hereby certify that Joseph Whiting the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Deposition personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the same before me William Durand Sub. Dean
I also hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Whiting & know him to be a man of Respectability and entitled to credit. I also hereby certify that I am well acquainted with both Burrill & Amos Black Junr of this Town whose Depositions were taken before Samuel B. Gurney Esq. & that said Burrill & Black are both men of

Character & Veracity and are entitled to credit — William Durand Ind. Dean

The deposition of Joseph Whiting of Milford to be read before any board of Records in the State of Connecticut for the benefit of Philo Treat, since of Simsbury in said State - an application for a Pension - under an act of Congress providing relief to persons in a State indigenous who were in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the War of the Revolution - taken and sealed up by me William Durande Esq. Clerk

mt c. 1780 The deposition of Amos Clark June to be improved before any courts of Record in the State of Connecticut by Philo Treat a soldier in the American Army, in the Revolutionary War, claiming a Pension under the act of the Congress of the United States, making provision for persons in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War — taken & sealed up by me Samuel B. Gunn Just of Peace

I Amos Clark Junior of Milford in New- Haven County State of Connecticut of Lawfull age before I say - that I was a Soldier in the Army of the United States in the War between the United States & Great - Britain (usually called the Revolutionary War) at that I was a soldier in a Company under the command of Capt Peter Pente - which company belonged to a Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - & further that Philo Treat (then called Philo Treat Junr), a native of said Milford but now a Resident in the Town of Simsbury in Connecticut was also a soldier in the same company and Regt & further that the company & Regiment to which we belonged was at Boston in the spring & the year 1776 - & after the British Army left Boston we were sent to New York - & further that the said Philo Treat was in the Battle on Long Island & in the Skirmishes at Harlem & White Plains & that said Treat with myself & others were sent into the Jerseys & further said Treat was in the Skirmishes at Trenton & Princeton in the attacks on those places & further the deponent saith he is positive that that said Treat was in actual service nine months and further saith not Milford Sept 6 th 1819 Amos Clark Jr.
New Haven County State of Connecticut ss.
Milford Sept 5 th 1819
Personally appeared the above named Amos Clark Jnr and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition before me Samuel P. Gunn Just of Peace

The deposition of Zachariah Blakeman to be improved before any court of Record in the State of Connecticut by Philo Treat a Soldier in the American army in the Revolutionary War claiming a Pension under the Act for grants of the United States making provision for persons who in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War taken & sealed up by me Samuel P. Gunn Just of Peace

I Lacharick Blakeman of Stratford in the county of Fairfield State of Connecticut of Lawfull age Depose & say that I was a Soldier in the Army of the United States in the War between the United States and Great Britain (usually called the Revolutionary War) and further that I belonged to a company under the command of Capt Edward Shipman in a Reg t commanded by Colonel Charles Webb & further that Philo Treat was a a native of at that time an Inhabitant of the Town of Milford in the county of New Haven State of Connecticut but now a Resident in the Town of Simsbury in said State - was also a soldier in the same company  Reg t a company commanded by I further that said Reg t  Regiment was at Boston in the year 1775 & after the British Army left Boston they we were sent to New York - & further that said Philo Treat was in the Battle on Long-Island & in the skirmishes at Harlem & while fleeing & also in the Battles in the attack on Trenton & Princeton in New Jersey & further that saith that he is positive that the said Philo Treat continued in actual service a full year or more and further saith not - Milford Sept 5 th A 1819 - Lacharick Blakeman
New Haven - County State of Connecticut ss:
Milford Sept 5 th A 1819
Personally appeared the above named Charles Lacharick Blakeman and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition
Before me Samuel B. Gunn Just of Peace

cid for t Off ch
The Deposition of Serah Burwell to be improved before any Courts of Records in the State of Con- necticut by Philo Treat a soldier in the American army in the Revolutionary War, claiming a pension under the Act of Congress of the United States making provision for persons in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary
War taken & sealed up by me
Samuel B. Gunn Supt of Pensions

I Sirh Burwell of Milford in the County of New Haven - State of Connecticut of Lawfull age Depose and say that in the War between the United States and Great Britain (usually called the Revolutionary War) I was a Soldier in a corps raised in the year 1776 - and belonged to a company commanded by Capt Peter Pitts which company belonged to a Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Charles Webb - and further the said deponent says that Philo Frost a native of said Town of Milford - at that time called and known by the name of Philo Frost Junr - was also a soldier in the same company & Regiment - and further that the said Frost was in the Battle on Long Island in said year 1776 and also in the Skirmish at Harlem in the same year - and further that said Frost with myself & others belonging to said company & Regiment were sent into the Jerseys with General Sullivan previous to the Battles of Trenton & Princeton and further that the term of said Frost's actual services in said corps exceeded nine months - and further the deponent saith not Milford Sept 6 th 1819 -
Gene Burwell
New Haven County State of Connecticut ss:
Milford Sept 5 th A D 1819 -
Personally appeared the above named Sen Burwell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition
Before me
Samuel B. Gunn Just of Peace -