Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43220, Ephraim Watkins, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Watkins, Ephraim
S. 43220
CONTENTS

8300
New York
Ephraim Watkins private
Col Swifts Reg t 77, O. years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of March 1819 and sent to Cyrus Sibley Esq r Judge Delaware County New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 9 20 / 31  4 / 31 mo $ 79. 73
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 $ 48
$ 127. 73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued - on the 16 Oct o 20
Notif n sent Gen l at Harnenfield, NYR 16 Oct r 1820

State of New York Delaware County ss
On the Sixth Day of May One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen Came Before me the subscriber One of the Judges of Delaware Court of Common Pleas Ephraim Watkins Aged Seventy Eight years Resident of the Town of Harbersfield County of Delaware who Being by Me first Duly Sworn according to Law Doth On Oath make the following Declaration In Order to Obtain the Provisions of the late Act of Congress Entitled an Act to Provide for Certain Persons Engaged In the Land and Naval Service In the Revolutionary War and that he the said Ephraim Watkins saith that On the twenty third Day of April One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven In the Town of East Haddam In Connecticut he Enlisted In a Company Commanded by Captain Hamilton In the first Battalion Ordered to be raised In the State of Connecticut to serve During the War and that he served In said Battalion and In the service of the United States untill the war was Closed and was In the Battles of Monmouth and the Taking of Cornwallis and that he Is In reduced Circumstances and stands In need of the the Assistance of his Country for Support
Ephraim Watkins
The Above Statement was Subscribed In my Presence But Although I Believe the Statement correct, On account of the Debilitated State of health of the Applicant I thought he was not a Proper subject to Administer an Oath to Governeur Gibbs
Robert Watkins Being by Me Duly Sworn Deposeth and saith that In the year One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty In the Month of January he Entered the service of the United States for three years In a Regiment Commanded By Col Neman Swift and that Ephraim Watkins was In the same Regiment In a Company Commanded By Chamberlain and that he Continued In the same Regiment with him untill some time In the year 1782 when the said Ephraim was Discharged and he believes honorably but what has Become of his Discharge he Does not know

and further that he has ever understood that the said Ephraim Enlisted and served during the War and that he knows him to be in very reduced circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for support and that this Deponent Does not know of any other Proof that can now be Obtained Sworn and subscribed Before Robert Watkins Me the Day the Sixth Day of May 1818
Cyrenus Gibbs
I Cyrenus Gibbs One of the judges of Delaware Common Pleas Do Certify that It appears to my Satisfaction that the said Ephraim Watkins Did serve In the Revolutionary War as stated In the within Declaration and the Preceding with Part against the Common Enemy and I now In mit the Proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War Pursuant to the Directions of the Affore Mentioned Act of Congress
Cyrenus Gibbs
In testimony that the said Cyrenus Gibbs is one of the Judges as aforesaid and that he subscribed his name to the preceding affi- davit a certificate I have affixed the Seal of said court this 8 th May 1818
H. R. Phelps Dep. CLK

Robert Watkins Deposeth and saith that Ephraim Watkins Is now so much Broke with Age that his Memory Is Nearly gone But this Deponent was knowing to the said Ephraim Watkins Enlisting In the Revolutionary War In the year 1777 as stated But who the Colonel was he Does not know until the Month of January 1780 and then this Deponent Entered the service and at that time the said Ephraim was In Colonel Heman Swift Regiment In General Parsons's Brigade and the said Ephraim Continued In Swifts Regiment untill Swift was appointed General and then Colonel Ephraim Johnson took the Command and that the said Ephraim Continued In the same Regiment untill the Month of June One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three (But 1782 which was a Mistake) and then the said Ephraim was Discharged at what was then called Gallow's hill Near Pictskill In the State of New York. The reason this Deponent knows so well Is that from the Month of January 1780 untill the month of June 1783 he was In the same Regiment with him the said Ephraim and further saith that the said Ephraim has Been Maintained By his Children (to whom he never gave any thing) for some years Robert Watkins
Sworn and subscribed Before me this 7 th Day of December 1818 and I Certify that the said Robert Watkins Is a man of good Moral Character and full faith and Credit as to be given to his Testimony. Cyrenus Gibbs

State of New York } Delaware County } p. On this twenty eighth day of August 1820. personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Delaware and de- clared a court of record by the acts of the Legislature of the State of New York in such case made and pro- vided Ephraim Watkins aged eighty years resident in the town of Hempstead in said County of Del- aware, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolu- tionary war as follows: that he enlisted into a Com- pany Commanded by Captain Holmes as he believes in a regiment Commanded by Colonel Heman Swift in the Connecticut State line in the year 1777 for during the war and continued in such service until the close of the war when he was regularly dis- charged. and that the date of the original declaration of this deponent was as he believes the sixth day of May 1818. and that he has received a pension Certificate the number of which is 8.300.
And I the said Ephraim Watkins do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposal of my property or any part thereof with in- tent 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 service of the United States in the Rev- olutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust

for me any property, or securities, 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
Ephraim Watkins
Sworn in open Court this 28 th day of August 1820
H R Phelps Clerk Schedule of Property
I have no property whatever and am entirely supported by the Charity of my Children. I am totally unable to labor any at all. I am weak and feeble from old age and have a rupture which is extremely troublesome. It is with difficulty I can go about without assistance
I have no wife, nor family except myself
Ephraim Watkins
I Honor R. Phelps Deputy Clerk of the County of Delaware do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the record of the said Court. and I do further certify that
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this sixth day of September 1820
H R Phelps Clerk
Ephraim Watkins Sept 1820

O. W. & N. Division.
P.S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., September 10, 1895.
Miss:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of EPHRAIM WATKINS a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. See supplemental statement.
Battles engaged in, MONMOUTH and surrender of Cornwallis.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, East Haddam, Conn.
Date of application for pension, May 8, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Harpersfield, Conn.
Age at date of application, Seventy-eight years.
Remarks:
Miss Carrie L. Watkins, Cooperstown, N. Y.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div. F. S. H. E. C.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 26, 1895.
Miss:
Replying to your communication of September 16th, you are advised that the date when the pension of Ephraim Watkins, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, ceased is not a matter of record in this Bureau. It is probable that you may be able to obtain the same, however, by addressing an inquiry to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, giving the number of his pension certificate (8300), the date when issued (March 24, 1819), and the agency at which paid (New York).
The Bureau has no record of any application for pension for the services of Joel Hubbard who was born about the year 1728, nor if Samuel Scoville, born February 27, 1735, and died in the year 1808.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Miss Carrie L. Watkins, Cooperstown, N. Y.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Supplemental statement.
Ephraim Watkins.
His services are not very definitely stated in his pension papers but the following information has been gathered from them and from other records on file in the Bureau:
On April 23, 1777, he enlisted for the war as a private in Capt. Eliphalet Holmes' Co., in the 1st. Connecticut Regt., commanded by Col. Jesechiea Huntington, and was discharged on March 29, 1780; from January 4, to December 31, 1781, was a private in Capt. Ephraim Chamberlain's Co., Col. Heman Swift's Regt., but during this time (in August, 1781), his company was detached and placed in the Battalion commanded by Col. Alexander Hamilton under whom he served about one month; from January 1, to June, 1783, he served as a private in Capt. Samuel Comstock's Co., Col. Swift's Regt.

Cooperstown Aug 26 th 95-
To the officer in charge at The old Army & Navy Office,
Dear Sir;
I have just learned that Ephraim Watkins of Haddam, Conn. - who settled in Harpersfield, N.Y. with his son Robt., and died at Harpersfield, was a Pensioner from N.Y. State in 1818 - Will you kindly give me the record you have - I have not yet learned in what year he died.
Neither have I his age, or date of birth, for which I am searching - I shall be greatly obliged to you Very sincerely,
Miss Carrie L. Watkins. Cooperstown Otsego Co. N.Y.
Correct

P.S. Would not Ephraim Watkins son Robert b. 1766 be too young to serve in war of 1776 to 1783 - Is there a record of Robt. Possibly there might have been another Robt. or the father of S. be named Robert - C.L. Jr.

Conferstown, Sept. 16 th 1895
Mr. Wm Lockwood
Dear Sir:
Your
kind reply to my request for statement of the military history of Ephraim Watkins, pensioner in 1818, is received. Please accept my sincere thanks for the information you have gathered from records for me. May I trouble you for the year, when the fragment of pension ceased to Ephraim Watkins. I wish to learn what year he died. I have not been able yet to learn from town records the date of his death. which I suppose was about 1824 or 1828.
Have you any record also of a Joel Hubbard (born about 1728) as of Haddam Conn.

Revolutionary soldier, or a fencein- er - He had a son, who was Capt. Joel Hubbard , who served in the war of 1776 but as I am a descendant - from his, Capt. Joel's sister Anna Hubbard , his record is no value to me, only that of Joel Hubbard the father of Anna , who I think was in the war - and died at Harper's field, as also died  Capt. Joel H.
Also; Have you a record of Samuel Sevill, as a fenceiner from either Rad- dam, Conn., or Durham, Greene Co. He was born Feb. 27 th 1735 - died 1808 He had a son, who was Samuel Jr. but I am not seeking his record only the older Samuel Sevill - what think likely, was a resident of Durham 1775, or Conesville, Schoharie Co. N.Y. The Counties were divided differently about that time. I have been trying for sometime to learn of the war record of these ancestors through

other descendants, but have almost failed so far. Perhaps you can give me some information regarding them, which I shall certainly appreciate. Thanking you again for your kindness I am
Sincerely Yours,
Currie L. Watkins.
Corferstown Osteo Co. N.Y.

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Sept. 10/93 Visit to Miss Carrie L. Watkins, Coeymans, N.Y. Sept. 26/93 Letter to above reuel. M.E.C.