Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11723, Caleb West, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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West, Caleb
S. 11723
CONTENTS
carded

Reported
32688. M.
Vermont. Caleb West, dec'd
of Windsor in the State of Maine who was a private in the Comp'y commanded by Captain Sharp of the Reg't commanded by Col Mott in the Conn. line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834. & end 2 nd May 1836, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Dec r 1849 and sent to Ira Davis, Norwich, Vt.
Arrears to the 14th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Josiah B. West adm r for sole use of himself Pamela West and
Irena Dutton only surviving children
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by
Book E
J. P. Chase Clerk
Vol. 2
Page
109

Caleb West's 27.997 Declaration 2000 6 3/4 months M
Caleb West VL 32
Adm 6 mo /m $20 00 p an from 4 March 1831 to May 1834 the day of his death Newaba to Isaiah B West, a deed habeat for the sole use of himself Pamela West and her natural only surviving Children of Caleb West. etc.
Ira Davis Norwich V.B.
H. H. H. H. Aug 17 44
Ira Davis Norwich

State of Vermont, } ss.
COUNTY OF Windsor }
On this 16th day of August personally appeared in open court , before me Isaiah Raymond, Judge of the court of Probate for Hartford District, Caleb West a resident of Cornwall in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged 82 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, and served as herein stated.
In the month of July 1776 he enlisted with Lieut. Robinson of Scotland Conn. and service in Col Mott's Regiment as he thinks in Connecticut Line under the following named officers Capt. Sharp & Lieut. Robinson, the Ensign he does not recollect. He does not recollect any of the Regimental Officers except the Col. who he thinks was Mott. He was marched to Fort Ann in the State of New-York, where he was stationed until near the time of the expiration of his enlistment, he thinks about three days previous to that time when he was taken sick and was carried home and was confined to his place for about five months after he returned home. His sickness was occasioned by sleeping in a wet birth and his health has been feeble ever since. He was engaged while at Fort Ann in building the three mile causeway near that place. He returned home in the month of November 1776 being absent about 4 months.
He was also drafted in the month of November or December 1778 for two months under Capt. Robinson of Stafford Conn. and was marched to New London Conn. to help the Garrison at that place, where he staid until the expiration of time and returned home. While he was at Fort Ann the remainder of his Regiment was at or near Lake George. In the year 1779 he removed to the town of Westford Orange County Vermont and was frequently called out in alarms to suppress the Indians & Tories and was out at different times he thinks to the amount of two or three weeks.
I was born in Tolland Conn. in the year 1750. I have a record taken from the Town records in Tolland. At the time I entered the service I lived in Tolland Conn. but for the last 46 years I have lived in the town where I now live. I once entered the service as a volunteer & was once drafted. I never had any written discharge.
He does not know of any person by whom he can prove his service & has no documentary evidence.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any state, or (if any,) only on that of the agency in the State of Vermont.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Caleb West
L. Marsh, Register
We, Samuel Goddard a Clergyman residing in the Town of Cromwell and Royal Brigham residing in Cromwell hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb West who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 82 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Goddard
Royal Brigham
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. L. Marsh, Register
I, Isaiah Raymond Judge of the Court of Probate for Hartford District hereby certify that Caleb West the above applicant is unable to appear in open court by reason of bodily infirmity.
Isa. Raymond. Judge
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Goddard who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Cromwell and that Royal Brigham who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Cromwell and is a credible person, and their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Isaiah Raymond Judge of the court of Probate for Hartford District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Caleb West for a pension.
I hereby certify that Isaiah Raymond is Judge of the Probate court for the district of Hartford and the above is his signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 16th day of August. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
L. Marsh, Register

I Reuben Benton of Hanover in the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged Eighty years, depose and say that I was born in the Town of Tolland in Connecticut, & lived there until I was ten years of age. Caleb West late of Norwich in the state of Vermont was also a resident of said Tolland & lived near my father's & married my sister. I recollect very distinctly that when I was about eight years old, the said West enlisted, or went into the army as a soldier, and was gone some six or eight months. I also recollect that he was sick during the time and his father went with an ox team & brought him home.
In the Spring of 1779 I went to live in said West's family and remained there until about the close of the year. The said West told me that while he was in the army he was at or near Fort Ann in the state of New- York, and that he was sick & in the hospital a long time.
I lived a neighbor to said West in Tolland and in Norwich Vt. until 1826 at which time I moved to Hanover N.H. and during which time I heard said West a great many times tell of his services in the army and of his sickness, from which he never recovered & he a rugged man. The said West was a member of the Congregational Church in Tolland, and in Norwich for more than fifty years and always sustained an unblemished reputation.
Reuben Benton
Subscribed & sworn this 8 th day of September A.D. 1849
Before me B B Newton Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that Nathan Newton the above deponent is a man of strict integrity & truth, & a credible witness B B Newton Justice of Peace
STATE OF VERMONT, ) I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court, of the Coun- Windsor County, ss. ) ty of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Dexter B. Newton
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature foregoing (B. B. Newton) as is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said Coun- ty of Windsor, this 13 th day of October A. D. 1847
Norman Williams, Clerk.

State of Vermont
District of Hartford ss } I Lyndon A. Marsh Register of the Probate Court for the district aforesaid do certify, that at a session of said Court this day holden at Woodstock in said District, satisfactory proof has been presented, that Caleb West late of Stowe in said District, died on the 2 d day of May A.D. 1836 and that the said West left no widow, and that Josiah B. West and Pamela West of said Stowe, and Irene Dutton of Hartford in said District, are the only surviving children of the said Caleb West. And I also further certify that the abovenamed Josiah B. West has been duly appointed Administrator of the estate of the said Caleb West and has given bonds for the faithful discharge of that trust as the law directs.
In testimony whereof, I do hereto affix the seal of said Court, this seventeenth day of December, A.D. 1849.
L. A. Marsh, Register

Caleb West
Vt
Sol to Ira Davis Augt 13:45 " to Ira Davis Jan'y 31:46 " to same Sept. 17:46 " to same, Oct. 20/49
act 7 June 1832

Rev. West
N o 123 INVALID.
File No. 11,723 Caleb West Rev. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832 Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 899
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 24/43 Caleb West Wm N. Cleveland Department of Interior Good Pension Office Washington City
1843
FREE

Stoakie VT Dec 29 1809
Dear Sir
Some 4 or 5 weeks since I forwarded the certificate of the Probate Court in relation to the death & surviving children of Colele West. Having heard nothing from the case since, supposing it may have been lost, I now enclose another certificate which also shows the appointment of an administrator.
Will you have the goodness to forward the certificate in that case soon.
Yours Respectfully, Ezra Davis

Comptroller Office Connecticut Hartford 19 June 1845
On application for evidence of the service of Caleb West in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this Office relating to that War, and find in the books of the late "Pay Table Office", an account with Cap. Elijah Sharp of Mott's Regiment, commencing 19 June 1776, wherein he is charged to Order on the State Treasurer for money for use of his Company, Viz, — 1776 June 19 th £852. Aug. 12. 1776 £230. On the 20 th same Month £10. And is Credited by Amt. his Acct. rend? Decem. 28. 1779 £949. 12. 6. — In another Pay Table book is an account thus headed, — "Col. Samuel Mott's Regiment — supposed to be raised in June 1776 to serve in the Northern Army till the first of Decem. 1776 — see Journal of Congress June 17. 1776 Pa. 197-216." — From another entry it would appear that Col. Mott served at & near Tienderoga.
In "Naskell's Receipts", under head of "Expense of the Post at New London", Cap. Abner Robinson is credited for Amt. his Account rend? £2.855. 19. 8 — And in a "Pay Table" Day Book is this entry, — "War Dr. To Order on Treas. for Cap. Abner Robinson for his Pay Roll for his Co. Col. McClellan's Regt. '78-9" — Both entries dated March 5. 1779.
In a "Pay Table" day book, I find this entry, — "United States Dr. To order on Treasurer in full Caleb West's Hospital bill Col. Mott's Regt. '76" — (£15. 15. 0) Date of entry 21 st Feb. 1777.
No Pay Roll has been found of either of the Captains above mentioned.
J. Carrington, Comptroller

Oct 15, 1846 R.W. OCTO
Recd
Caleb West
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Stonich Vt Oct 8 1846
Dear Sir,
I have recieved yours of the 17 th ult in relation to the claim of Caleb West. And I think on a re-examination of the Papers in the case you will find more proof, than your letter intimates.
Mr West in his declaration, says that after serving about 4 months in N.Y. he was taken sick while at work on the 3 mile causeway.
Now the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut shows not only that the Officers under whom he declares he served were in service at the time he states, but also that West was on the sick list and in the hospital, and the amount expended there on his account, which fact corresponds remarkably well with his declaration. I also transmitted to you the affidavit of Rev. Reuben Benton, who went to reside in West Family about the time of his return from his service in New York, and was ever after intimately acquainted with him until his death. Benton at the time was quite young, it is true, but old enough to have any circumstance of the kind make an indelible impression upon his mind.
In your letter of August 13 1845. you say, "He should sustain his own credibility and reputation as a Soldier by the best attainable proof. If he cannot produce the testimony of comrades." Now on examining his declaration you will find the certificate of Rev. Mr. Goodare the Minister of the Parish, certifying to the reputation of

West as a Revolutionary Soldier, You have also the affidavits of Dea, Benton above mentioned, and David Lyman, both of whom are very respectable citizens, which go to the reputation of Mr West as a Soldier.
In yours of the 17 ult you say, "No evidence except his own affidavit, showing that West was in the service during the Revolutionary war has been filed"
I have always understood the rule of the Department in relation to the Connecticut service, (excepting the regular line) to be this,—that where it is shown by the Books in the Comptroller's office, that the officers under whom the applicant alleged to have served, were in service at the time alleged by such applicant, that the proof was sufficient, and in fact I have never before been required to produce any other testimony, except to establish the reputation of the applicant as a Revolutionary Soldier. I suppose this rule to result from the well known fact that with the exception of the troops of the line, but very few rolls of the Connecticut service can be found, while on the other hand, the accounts kept with the Officers, are nearly if not all in the Comptroller's office.
From the coincidence of Mr West's statements with the facts set forth in the certificate of the Comptroller, and his reputation as a soldier, as proved by the affidavits sent, I can scarcely see room for a doubt in the case. Will you have the goodness to re-examine & compare the papers, especially in relation to the facts above stated.
Yours Very Respectfully
Ira Davis

Sept 5. 1846
Q.
Dear Mr. Carr
Dear West.
Col. J. L. Edwards Commission of Pensions Washington City

Storrs Vt. Aug. 31 1846
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the affidavit of David Lynn an in support of the claim of Caleb West.
I think on a re-examination of the affidavit of Dea. Reuben Benton you will find your former conclusions not fully justified.
When he went to reside with Mr West it is true he was a young lad. but had been acquainted with him from that time, to the time of his decease. & for the most part of the time was his neighbor. and of course had his recollection refreshed from time to time by Mr W's own statements. of his services.
You will find too upon Mr West's declaration, the certificate of the Minister of the Parish, that he was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier, you will notice also that the certificate of the Comptroller of Conn. Shews him in the hospital, at the same time that he alleges, he was sick in the service.
Mr Lyman became the neighbor of Mr W. as early as 1792. and remained so until the decease of the latter. I think the tes- timony must now be satisfactory.
Yours Respectfully Ira Davis

Aug 8. 1845
Charles T. ...
Col. ...
War Department
Perdix office Washington city

Norwich Vt July 3 1845
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send the certificate of the controller of acct of Connecticut in proof of the service of Caleb West. His declaration was made some years since, but I have been unable to produce the evidence from Conn. until now. I returned his papers to the Pension Office by J. Bryant, nearly two years since, and now send the evidence required by your circular.
Yours Respectfully Ira Davis
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Jan 26. 1846
Adalton con West.
Ja Davis, Present.

I Reuben Benton of Danvers, County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged Seventy six years depose & say I was born in Lollard in the State of Connecticut, & lived near Caleb West late of Konwick deceased, and I well recollect that said West enlisted into the Army in the year and was absent some months but cannot tell the exact time. I recollect also that he came home sick, I afterwards lived in his family & frequently heard him tell of his service that he was at Fort Linn, & was sick in the Army, I was well acquainted with said West from that time until the time of his death, and that he also sustained an unblemished reputation for truth & veracity. Reuben Benton
State of Vermont } Windsor County ss, Personally appeared Reuben Benton who I certify is well known to me, & is a person of strict veracity and subscribed & made oath to the foregoing affidavit this 20 th day of November AD 1845. Before me J. D. Davis Justice of Peace
State of Vermont } I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Windsor ss Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Ira Davis was, on the 20 th day of November AD 1845, a justice of the peace in and for said County of Windsor, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the foregoing Certificate is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock in said County this sixth day of December AD 1845
N. Williams, Clerk
1845 76 69-

I David Lyman of Norwich in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do hereby depose and say that about the year Seventeen hundred and ninety two I removed from the town of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut to this town (Norwich) At that time I bought the lot of Land I have ever since lived on and Caleb West owned & lived on a lot bordering on mine - That I soon formed an acquaintance with S d West who then informed me that his native place was Tolland, Connecticut. That said West informed me that he did service in the war of the Revolution, That he ever had the reputation of being a revolutionary soldier - That in our 4 th of July celebration he used to walk in procession with and sit with the revolutionary soldiers That he was an honest man, and no one who ever knew him disputed his words - That from the time I first became acquainted with him to the time of his death, he was my personal friend and neighbor; and That for many years previous to his death we were members of the same church Witness my Hand David Lyman
State of Vermont
Orange County ss { Sworn to before me this 11 th day of Aug 1846 and I hereby certify that David Lyman who subscribed the above affidavit is personally known to me - That his age is 85 yrs, That he is an upright man, and a credible witness
William Sweat Just, Peace

STATE OF VERMONT,
ORANGE COUNTY, ss.
I, Caleen Rodyte Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
William Sweet Egan
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- five and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature hereunto affixed is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court, this 20 th day of August A. D. 18 46
Caleen Rodyte Clerk.

Payment to be made at Montpelier by Thomas Reed Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Vermont
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book Vol- ume Page by
J. P. Chase Clerk.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Claim for Military Service.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Caleb West, die d late of Vermont, who was a private in the Revolution and died on the 2 nd May 1836, is inscribed on the roll of pensioners at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, commencing March 4 th 1831 and ending 2 May 1836.
The amount is due & payable to Josiah B. West as administrator for the sole use and benefit of himself, Pamela West and Irena Dutton, only surviving children of the said Caleb West, deceased.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this 28 th day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty= nine.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Secretary of the Interior.
Commissioner of Pensions.

Oct 29/49 Ira D. Rand.
Oct. 15. 1849
Aff. t of Reuben Benton, in the case of Caleb West
W. Allin
immediate attache
✓ Comm. t of Pensions
Dept of the Interior } Oct. 19 1849 }