Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11765, Samuel Wolcott, Conn. R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
SERVICE Conn.
Wolcott, Samuel
R 11765
P. J.
Sarah
CONTENTS

15 219 R New York
Samuel Wolcott
of Lexington in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, for the term of Nine Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 1 of Sep 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sep. 1818 and sent to Munson Buell Esq. Lexington Heights N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819. 97. 06 Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 1820. 48. 00 12 Mo 4 30 $145-06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Hon ble James S. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
City -
Washington
1907367

State of New York Greene County ss: }
I William T. B. Keermance Clerk of said County do certify that Levi H. Alden Esq. before whom the annexed declaration and affidavits were sworn. was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in & for the said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to said declaration & affidavits is his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this 24 th of September 1840.
William T. B. Keermance Clerk

Declaration In order to Obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 Entitled an act Granting Half pay to pensions to Widows
State of New York
Green County ss On this fifth day of September In the year one thousand Eight Hundred and forty, personally appeared before me S ir J. Haden one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York Sarah Wolcott a resident of the Town of Livingston In the County of Green an d State of New York, aged Seventy five on the Seventh day of October Next Who Being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath Make the following declaration In order to Obtain the Benefit of the pensions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 Entitled an Act Granting Half pay and pensions to Certain Widows, and she Is now the Widow of Samuel Wolcott who was a Soldier In the Revolutionary War In the service of the United States In the Militia and that He was a pensioner of the United States for many years, that His pension Certificate bears the date of the sixth day of September In the year 1818, And she further declares, that she was Lawfully Married to the said Samuel Wolcott on or about the first day of January in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty four the next year after the Revolutionary War Ended, that she Married at the dwelling House Where Her family Mother lived and formerly lived and died In the Town of Wallingford In the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut Her Birthplace, and that of Her said Husband Samuel Wolcott, Where they lived together for some years after their marriage, and she further declares that Caleb Cook Esq r an Justice of the peace In the Town of Wallingford In the aforesaid County, and State Married them, and she further declares that her Husband the aforesaid Samuel Wolcott died at His own House In Livingston In the County of Green and State of New York, on the sixteenth day of May Last, 1840. died of Old age and Infirmary, and she further declares that she was not Married to her said Husband the said Samuel Wolcott prior to his leaving the service but afterwards at the place and time previously mentioned In this declaration and that she was Married previous to the first day of January one thousand Seven Hundred and ninety four, and that she Has never been Married to any person Since the death

of Her Husband Samuel Wolcott, and She further Says that She has been informed and believes that there is not one person now living in life that was at their Wedding Except Mrs Lucy Bosse the Wife of M c Charles Bosse of Windham In the County of Green State of New York Sworn and subscribed to on the _____ Sarah Wolcott fifteenth day of September 1846 Before me Lewis H. Allen one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York State of New York
Green County Es Reuben Hosford Attorney at Law of the Town of Livingston In the County of Green and State of New York being duly Sworn according to Law on his oath deposeth and says that He was born In the Town of Wallingford In the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut Where He Lived for more than twelve years after His marriage, that He Lived within one Half of a mile of Sarah Wolcott formerly before Her marriage Her name was Sarah Hull, and sometimes five two miles from the said Samuel Wolcott, that I well remember that it was reported In the neighbourhood that the said Samuel Wolcott and Sarah Hull were married, I was not at the Wedding But am very confident that I was In the Spring of the year of the next year after the close of the Revolutionary War In the year 1846 and that I always Lived a neighbour to them until they and myself moved into the Town of Livingston aforesaid and for something like forty years I have Lived a neighbour to them within something like one mile, and I do further Say that on the Sabbath day of the seventeenth day of May Last, I followed his remains down to his grave and see Him Buried, and I do further say that the said Sarah Wolcott Is now alive and remains His Widow, of the said Samuel Wolcott deceased, and this deponent further says that very Soon after the demise of the said Samuel Wolcott His Widow the said Sarah Wolcott Called on me to make out Her application to the Honourable the Board of War for a pension, I then informed Her what was necessary for her to do to entitle Her to a pension, She then informed me that she and Her Husband Samuel Wolcott Were married at the House of her uncle Thomas Shepherd In Wal- lingford on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, and that Caleb Cook Esquire

then one of the Justices of the Peace In Wallingford married them and this deponent further says that the said Caleb Cook was own the own brother to his mother, and own uncle to this deponent, and that I always lived a near neighbour to him until I moved into the State of New York, and he further says that his uncle Caleb Cook Esquire was a Justice of the Peace In Wallingford before the war as he believes and during the war and for many years after until some few years previous to his death, and that he was in the habit of marrying persons, and he further says that his said uncle Caleb Cook Esquire Justice of the Peace as aforesaid has been dead something like twenty years, and he further says that something some five weeks since this deponent was about setting out to make a visit to his relative found in the aforesaid town of Wallingford, when the said Sarah Wolcott employed this deponent to procure from the records of my said uncle or from the Town Clerks Office a certificate of their marriage, the business I promised her I would faithfully attend to, Augustus Cook Esquire who has been a Justice of the Peace for many years the son of my uncle Caleb Cook my own Cousin had informed me that his father Caleb Cook Esquire had left no record of marriage there neither could he find any there, this deponent then went to the Clerks Office of the Town where all the births marriages, and deaths, are or ought to be recorded, by Law, as he has been informed, that this deponent and the young Clerk spent a considerable part of a day in searching the records of marriages births and deaths, and this deponent says that he found his own marriage recorded there, and almost every other person there of his former acquaintance But the name of Samuel Wolcott and Sarah Hull was not to be found by us although we several times went through the Books, very carefully, and search for their names but not to be found in any of the Books of the record In the said Office of the Town Clerk -
Sworn and subscribed this 15th day of October of September 1840 Before me
Levi H. Glidew one of the Justices, of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York

State of New York Green County ss. Lucy Borse the Wife of Charles Borse of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York Being duly sworn according to Law on her oath deposeth and says that she was born and brought up in the Town of Wallingford in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut that she will know Samuel Wolcott and Sarah Hull previous to their marriage, that she said Sarah Hull was her own Cousin, that she well remembers that on or about the first day of January in the year one thousand Seven Hun- dred and Eighty four the next year after the close of the revolu- tionary War Borse does not remember the day of the month for certain, the said Samuel Wolcott and Sarah Hull her Cousin came to the House of her father in said Wallingford in the evening of the said day in the year aforesaid and that Caleb Cook Esquire one of the Justices of the peace in said Wallingford a Neighbour to her and well known to her, that she was then present and second heard the said Caleb Cook Esquire in time as aforesaid marry them as lawful Man and Wife, that they soon went into House keeping and lived together as Man and Wife and raised a great family of Children and that they have always been esteemed as two very pious persons for many years believe that the few that attended their Wedding are all dead but herself all this I well know to be true
Lucy Borse
Sworn and subscribed this fifth day of September 1840 Before me Levi H. Alden one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York
State of New York Green County ss. Samuel B. Wolcott of the Town of Livingston in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to Law on his oath deposeth and saith that Samuel Wolcott deceased and Sarah Wolcott his Widow is my father and mother, and he further says that his said father was a prisoner of the United States for many years before he died, and that he died at his own House in Livingston on Saturday the sixteenth day of May last 1840 and that his said Mother Sarah Wolcott is now alive

and to examine His Widow, and he further Swears that he has duly Carefully and Correctly Examined the record that His father Samuel Wolcott deceased made In his own Hand Writing In his Old great family Bible, of His own age and my Mothers, and also of all their Children, Which is set down In the names Characters and figures Herein after named and as I have always lived with them until lately and now live with them a few rods from them I have long known this to be my fathers great family, and have many years ago seen and read this same record as It is now written, But there is not one Word wrote In the said Bible of their marriage, I have the Concern of the family, the record begins and runs thus, Samuel Wolcott Born January 3 rd 1760, Sarah Wolcott Born October 7 th 1765, Electa Wolcott Born August 22 nd 1785, Ziba Wolcott Born January 3 rd 1787, Martin Wolcott Born November 16 th 1788, John Wolcott Born January 31 st 1789, Ransom Wolcott Born December 10 th 1791, Joel Wolcott Born October 2 nd 1794, Lois Wolcott Born July 4 th 1796, Julius Wolcott Born August 17 th 1798, Reuben Wolcott Born March 24 th 1800 - Levina Wolcott Born August 27 th 1802, Malinda Wolcott Born January 28 th 1804, Aaron Wolcott Born April 7 th 1806, Samuel Wolcott Born April 4 th 1808, Samuel B. Wolcott Born December 29 th 1809, This Is a perfect and Correct Copy of the record set down In my fathers Old family Bible as above said sworn and subscribed this Samuel B. Wolcott
fifteenth day of September 1840
Before me Henry A. Alden one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York State of New York
Green County 3 rd Electa Diston Widow of William Diston demand Being duly sworn according to Law on her Oath deposes and says that she Is the daughter of Samuel Wolcott deceased and Sarah Wolcott above named that she was Born In the Town of Wallingford New Haven County State of Connecticut on the twenty Second day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighty five as Her parents always informed Her and she further Says that Her said father Samuel Wolcott died on the

Sixteenth day of May First at his own House In Livingston and that my Mother Sarah Wolcott Is now alive and remains His Widow and has never been married Since Sworn and Subscribed this Electa Distin fifth day of September 1840 before me Levi H. Alden one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York
I the said Levi H. Alden Judge as aforesaid do Hereby Certify that I am Well acquainted with Mrs Sarah Wolcott Widow of Mr Samuel Wolcott deceased Reuben Hoxford Esquire, Mr Surenay Dore, Samuel B. Wolcott and Mrs Electa Distin who Have above signed their Names and I swear to their above several Affidavits well know them to be persons of respectability Truth and veracity and are entitled to full Credit as Witness underneath or otherwise Levi H. Alden - Judge as aforesaid
Judges Certificate
I the said Levi H. Alden Judge as aforesaid do Hereby Certify that Is my Opinion and belief that the said Sarah Wolcott the above applicant by reason of Old age and Bodily Infirmary Cannot attend Court by any Means - Levi H. Alden Judge as aforesaid

Evington Heights Green Cy, N. York Sep r 14 1846 Hon ble James P o Edwards Esq r Dear Sir
Enclosed I send to your Honours the pension application of Mrs Sarah Wollott Will your Honours make your returns to me as soon as may be, your Honours made me a Fitter Something like two months since mentioning that you should send the returns of Sabina Robinson and John Goats in a few days In something like two weeks after Friend Robinsons But I have received no returns from Goats Care
I remain Hon ble Sir
Very respectfully Your obedt Servt
Ruben Hoxie

Copy of Samuel Wolcott's
Deed to
Ransom Wolcott
" "

State of New York } On the twenty seventh day of January in the year 1824, personally appeared in open court being a County } court of record called the common pleas court for the county of Greene and state of New York Samuel Wolcott resident of the town of Lexington in the said county aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818, the first of Mar, 1820, and the first of March, 1823 and that he the said Samuel Wolcott enlisted on or about the first day of March as near as he can remember in the year 1777 enlisted for nine months in the state of Connecticut enlisted in Captain Smith's company in Col. Chandler's Regiment in the Connecticut line and under the continental establishment and that he continued to serve in the said corps nine months and was discharged at or near a place called Valley Forge, some miles from Philadelphia in Pennsylvania was discharged on or about the first of Jan. 1778 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March in the year 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 Revolutionary war" passed the 18th day of March in the year 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property in 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 and that the original declaration of the said Samuel Wolcott for the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" bears date the first day of Septem- ber in the year 1818 to the best of his knowledge and belief and is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New- York Agency by certificate No. 15219 I do further swear that I have never made application in a schedule since I first received my pension otherwise than the one last sent on, of September term 1823 and returned since for further testimony and has never been stricken off from the roll by any former inventory or application which he knows -
Inventory of Property -
I have no deed or lease of any lands but my wife Sarah Wolcott has a deed of twenty two acres of land lying on what is called the mountain in Lexington a very great part of the same is very ledge rocky and stoney a great part of the same is worth nothing but to let cattle and sheep graze upon with a small house and barn on the same near thirty years standing - Very little was ever done to the old house in the inside which said property at most is not worth more than two hundred dollars as he believes that it would be absolutely impossible for me to maintain my family on such a rough ledge rocky stoney piece of ground if I and my family enjoyed good health without the assistance of my friends which have greatly assisted me in living otherwise I and my family must have suffered greatly for it would be impossible for me in any shape whatever to support myself and family on this small rocky piece of ground as it would produce very little indeed - This is all the real estate myself or wife owns in life - Worth two hundred dollars and no more as he believes - $200.00
Inventory of Personal Property -
  One old horse worth $25. two cows worth $20, four small sheats worth $5, all worth  $51.00    Seven sheep worth $6, one old cart worth $7, two old tables + six old chairs worth $2, all worth  15.00    Some old knives and forks and earthen dishes, old pails and barrels worth $3, iron pot and kettle $3.50  6.50    This is all the personal property I possess to my knowledge all worth Seventy two dollars and no more  $72.50  

p. 200. or  Inventory of Personal Property
  One old horse worth $25. two cows worth $20, four small sheats worth $6, all worth  $ 51. or    Seven sheep worth $6, one old cart worth $7, two old tables & six old chairs worth $2, all worth  15. or    Some old knives and forks and earthen dishes, old pails and barrels worth $3, some petticoats & drawers $3.50  6. 50    This is all the personal property I possess to my knowledge all worth Seventy two dollars and no more  $72. 50  
A true and exact account of all the real and personal property which I possessed on the 18th day of March 1818 or at any time since that time which I have possessed and since that time possessed and since that time disposed of and to whom sold and the proceeds arising therefrom how applied
On or about the year 1808 I purchased fifty acres of land of Menson Parker adjoining the small piece my wife owns for two hundred fifty dollars. I obtained the loan of two hundred and eighty dollars in money from John Hull of Wallingford in Connecticut, to pay him the annual interest yearly, at the same time for the express purpose of paying the said Parker for the land and did pay him the same money after receiving the same. And that since that time I have continued to pay the said Hull his interest until within about four years past when I, through the long sickness of my family and my own infirmity and great expense could no longer pay the interest. and I have been obliged to sell the same and I have been obliged to sell the same fifty acres of land to pay the said Hull for his principal and interest which amount was about three hundred and thirty eight dollars principal and interest unpaid. And on the twenty third day of July in the year 1823, I bargained, sold and deeded the said fifty acres of land to one Bransom Wolcott of Livingston for the sum of three hundred dollars which money has gone to pay the said Hull. The copy of the same deed is attached to these proceedings.
The answer why I have not come forward with my schedule previous to the first of March 1823, is this: That I have always lived in hope that some way or other I should be able to pay the money to Hull and keep the land;

and not be obliged to call on my country for charity but being obliged to do otherwise I am compelled thus to do — I am also greatly in debt to physicians and otherwise during the many the many years sickness in my family — I answer that I have sold one pair of small cattle and six sheep to Ransom Wolcott to pay him what I owed him for money lent and paid out for me to Doctor Benham cattle and sheep sold at thirty six dollars — Here I have given my reasons for not sending on my schedule at an earlier period than this —
I have a wife whose name is Sarah aged fifty nine has been sick and lame for many years unable to do but very little labour of any name or nature — I have three children living with me, two sons and one daughter My daughter's name is Malinda aged twenty who has always from her youth been very sickly — My son named Aaron aged eighteen years old my youngest son named Samuel aged thirteen — I was formerly bread a shoe-maker but I am now so blind and infirm as not to be able to do but very little of any thing — I am very infirm, exercised greatly with the rheumatism — I have experienced great sickness for years in my family — Not long since lost a daughter about nineteen or twenty years old who for going on two years lay on a bed of sickness with a complaint called the consumption — Myself my wife and daughter are now not able to do any thing of any value have no means to support me no lands to work on for to get a living but this little small piece of mountain rocky land was I ever so well in health I could not half support my family on it had not my friends contributed to my support I should long ago suffered with my sickly family — I do therefore pray for relief from my country for support —
Samuel Wolcott
Sworn and subscribed in open court the twenty seventh day of January
1824 before me
Elisha D. Hall Clerk
State of New York, Common Pleas, January Term, the twenty seventh day of January 1824 the opinion Greene County ss. of the court here is and is hereby declared to be that the value of the above petitioners estate and effects both real and personal does not exceed the sum of two hundred and seventy five dollars and fifty cents —
John V. D. Scott Wm. Talley } Judges Nunson Buel
Greene County ss. I, Elisha D. Hall — Clerk of the county of Greene in the state of New York do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Samuel Wolcott did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under an engagement in the continental establishment — I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and fifty nine dollars —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty seventh day of January A.D. 1824
Elisha D. Hall
Clerk of the Court of the County of Greene

This Indenture made the twenty third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three between Samuel Wolcott of the town of Lexington in the county of Greene and State of New York of the one part, and Sarah my wife being of the first part, and Ransom Wolcott of the same place of the second part, Witnesseth: That the said Samuel Wolcott and Sarah his wife party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to them in hand paid at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged, have granted bargained sold aliened, remised released conveyed assured confirmed and confirmed, and by these presents doth fully freely and absolutely grant bargain sell alien remise release convey assure, useffand confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever, All that certain piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the town of Lexington and county aforesaid, being a part of Lot No. 70 on Stephen Day's patent and bounded as follows: Beginning at a heap of stones on the S.W. corner of the said lot No. 70 and runs from thence N. 33 degrees East 20 chains to the north west corner of the said lot No. 70 to a stake and stones; thence S. 57 degrees E. twenty five chains to a stake and stones; thence S. 33 degrees west 20 chains to a stake and stones; thence to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres: Together with all and singular the appurtenances privileges and advantages whatsoever unto the said abovementioned and described premises in any wise appertaining or belonging, and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof, and also all the estate right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever as well in law as in equity of the party of the first part of in and to the same or any part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances; So Have and to hold the above granted bargain and described premises with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns for their own proper use benefit and behoof forever. And the said party of the first part, their heirs executors and administrators doth covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns that the said party of the first part, at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these presents was lawfully seized in their own right of for and to the aforesaid described premises here by granted and conveyed with the appurtenances as of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the law in fee simple without any manner of condition to alter change determine or defeat the same and hath in themselves good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and release the above described land and premises with the appurtenances.

with the appurtenances; To have and to hold the above granted bargain and described premises with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns for their own proper use benefit and behoof forever. And the said party of the first part, their heirs executors and administrators doth covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns that the said party of the first part, at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these presents was lawfully seised in their own right of for and to the aforesaid described premises hereby granted and conveyed with the appurtenances as of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the law in fee simple without any manner of condition to alter change determine or defeat the same and hath in themselves good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and release the above said described land and premises with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns in manner aforesaid and also that the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter peaceably and quietly have hold occupy possess and enjoy the said hereby granted and bargain premises with the appurtenances; And furthermore the said party of the first part, their heirs and assigns engage to warrant, and by these presents forever defend the above described and released premises. In witness whereof the said party of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Sealed and delivered in presence of Oliver Hosford Nelson Buel
Samuel Wolcott (L.S.)
Sarah Wolcott (L.S.)

State of New York
Greene County —
On the twenty fifth day of July 1823 came before me the within named Samuel Wolcott and Sarah Wolcott his wife both of them persons well known to me who both of them acknowledged the execution of the within Indentures. And the said Sarah being examined by me separate and apart from her said husband, confessed that she executed the same freely and without any fear or compulsion of her said husband. I do therefore allow the same to be recorded.
Munson Buel
One of the judges of the county court of the county aforesaid.

Samuel Wolcott
Private
44 to 48 - 9 Mo.
Charleston Conned.
Resh.
Admitted

State of New York Green County
On the first day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York personally appeared Samuel Wolcott resident of the Town of Esopus in the County and State aforesaid aged fifty eight who being by me first duly sworn according to said acts on his oath made the following declaration In order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress Entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war that he the said Samuel Wolcott enlisted at Poughkeepsie on the first of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the Town of Cheshire in the State of Connecticut under Captain Wolcott  Wolcott In the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Chandler In the Brigade Commanded by General Parsons enlisted for nine months and continued to serve in the said Corps the full time of nine months agreeable to my enlistment and was then honorably discharged at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania And the said Samuel Wolcott further says that he again enlisted for nine months In a Rhode Island Regiment but cannot recollect the Captain or Colonel's name and served in said Corps nine months and was honorably discharged that he was in the battle of German Town and Red Bank and that he is now in reduced circumstances and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support that he has a numerous family to support and unable to do but a very little labour and has now the other evidence in his power of his said service
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Warren D. Burl-
I Warren Burl one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Wolcott did serve in the revolutionary war as he stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Pleas and from thence the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the provisions of the aforesaid Act of Congress given under my hand and the Seal of the Court this tenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Warren Burl-

And I do further State that from testimony before me and oath I am satisfied that the said Samuel Wolcott is a very poor man and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Munson Root
And do further certify that the witness I am personally acquainted with Deacon Samuel Hitchcock and have been for some years past and do know him to be a man of truth and veracity and on the oath of the said Samuel and Samuel before me I am satisfied that the testimony in his shape is entitled in this application
Munson Root

James B. West
Application
Green County 3 d I hereby certify that Clerk's office of the with in returned Munson Buel was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, at the time of signing the with in affidavit & further testify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Munson Buel & know the same to be genuine given under my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of said County
the 14 th Day of June 1819 -
Frank H. Tansbrough Clerk of said County -
State of New York 26 May 1819 3 8 m Col - Chandler Connecticut
Found on Roll in Chandler's Record for S. M. on the only one of the affix. must be same the Col. under whom he last served the war this will make

State of New York —
Green County ss Samuel Wottott the aforesaid applicant deposeth and saith that on or about the first day of March 1777 he was Impannelled for the small pox that On or about the Eighteenth or twentieth day of the same month he came out of the pox in Stone and that within three or four days after he enlisted In the said Corps which must be on some of the first days of March or on the first day of April aforesaid. That he did enlist for nine months And that he continued to serve in the said Corps in Chandlers Regiment for the full time of nine months and was then Honorably discharged on some of the first days of June — in the next year after all this he is certain of and further says not
Sworn this 7 th day of August
1819 before me Watson Root Samuel W. Scott one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State New York

This deponent further says that he enlisted in the year 1819 for the term of nine months and that he was discharged at the expiration of said term and that he has since resided in the town of Windham in the county of Greene and state of New York and that he is now a resident of the town of Windham in the county of Greene and state of New York and that he is now a resident of the town of Windham in the county of Greene and state of New York
State of New York Green County, ss. Samuel Hitchock of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York deposeth and saith that he was a Lieutenant in Chandler Regiment in the year One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven well recollects that there were recruits raised that year for nine months that joined this regiment that there was no eight months men that year that joined this Regiment well know Samuel Walcott the applicant named in the declaration for a pension to be a soldier in the said Regiment in the said year That sometime in the month of April he recollects, the former the deponent and truly believes that from his own knowledge that the said Samuel did serve the nine months agreeable to his enlistment and that there must be a mistake on the roll that there is no question with this deponent respecting his serving the time he being present the whole time of nine months This deponent further says that he knows that for many years has lived in the same town with the said Samuel Walcott and says that the said Samuel Walcott is a man of truth and veracity and his word would be respected as well as his oath In any part of the country where he is known should depend on his oath as being sufficient to establish any fact where he is acquainted as was never disputed
and further saith not sworn before me the 7 th day of August 1819 before me Hudson Bowditch one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas sit and for the County of Green

N. York Sarah Wolcott Saml mt. to R. Morford 30. Sep. 1840 Rejoined to Mr. A. Vandervoort 26. Dec. '40.
11765

New York.
Original schedule under act May 18
Samuel Wolcott, private, served 9 months from March 1777.
Schedule, dated 27 th January 1824, con- tains, in right of his wife, 22 acres of land lying in what is called the mountain Lexington, a great part of it ledge, and rocky, and worth nothing but to let cattle and sheep graze on, with a small barn & house, of 30 years standing, valued at $200.00
old horse, 2 cows, 4 shoats, sheep, 1 old cart, and sundry articles of furniture — 72.50 CON- $272.50
In giving an account of property dis- posed of since 18 th March 1818, he states that in 1808, he bought 50 acres of land from Nelson Parker, for $250. He borrowed $280, from John Hull, stipulating to pay the interest thereon yearly, for the express purpose of paying Parker for the land, and did pay him — that un- til about 4 years ago, he continued to pay P. Hull the interest — but that through the long sickness in his family, great expenses, and his own infirmity, he could no longer pay the interest, and he has been obliged to sell the land to pay P. Hull the principal & interest, which amount to about $338. That he sold the land

1823, to Ransom Wolcott, which was paid to said Hull. (copy of deed is produced.)
His reason for not exhibiting a schedule of his property before, is that he hoped to be able to pay the money borrowed from Hull without selling the land, and not recall on his country for assistance. He also states, that he sold a pair of small cattle and 6 sheep to Ransom Wolcott, for $36, to pay s d Ransom that he owed him for money bo- rowed, and to pay Dr. Benham and that he is now greatly in debt to Physicians —
Claimant aged 64 formerly a shoemaker but now so blind and infirm as to be unable to do any thing. Wife aged 59 sick & lame for many years. 2 Sons aged 18 & 13 - 1 daughter aged 20 very sickly.
Continued 16 Augt. 1824, I sent to Reuben Hosford, Lexington Heights, N.Y.
Mar: 1820

War Department, Pension Office, 23 rd June 1824.
Sir,

Pension Office Sept 30. 1840
Sir,
The papers of M rs Sarah Wolcott, widow of Samuel Wolcott, an applicant for a pension under the act of July 7. 1838, have been examined and filed. The claimant it appears was not a widow at the time the act was passed; her claim is therefore not embraced thereby, and is consequently rejected.
I am respectfully Your Obedt. Servt. J L Edwards
Reuben Hosford, Esq. Lexington Heights N. York

Dear John (Albion Esq) V. J. W. W. City Hastington

Monatona Heights, Green County, N. H. June 26 th 1824
Rev John C. Calhoun Esq
Sir -
I have enclosed the pension proceedings of Samuel Wolcott and Benjamin Chamberlain for your department. I think all the required facts agreeable to your written instructions are included before you as Early as I have as I am constantly & Sincerely Enquiries
I am very respectfully your obedt Servt
Richard H. Taylor

RALPH E. PRIME ALANSON J. PRIME ARTHUR J. BURNS RALPH EARL PRIME, Jr.
NEW YORK STATE BUILDING ROOM 20 All Correspondence must be addressed to Yonkers, N. Y.
Law Offices of R. E. & A. J. PRIME & BURNS, 25 Warburton Avenue.
TELEPHONE NUMBER 924.
11705 Reg. March 26 1905 Yonkers, N. Y.
Commissioner of Pensions:
I find in the book of Connecticut men in the war of the Revolution the name of Samuel Holcomb as a Connecticut pensioner residing in New York State, pensioned under the act of 1818.
May I ask information from what may appear in your office, the date of his application for pension, the place of his residence when pensioned, where in N.Y. State he resided, & if possible, the place in Connecticut from which he hailed while in Revolutionary service - as such as you can give me?
Yours truly RALPH E. PRIME

Apr. 20/95 Will West to Ralph E. Prine. Yonkers, NY m. al.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
11765
P. O. Sarah Woodcott
Service: Samuel
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: 1-0 _____, 18 11-0
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Dec 21. 1840
Miss Julia
Edwards Esqr Commissr of Pensions Washington DC
Hon A. Vanderpool H.R.

Washington
20 th Decr 1840
My dear Sir
I enclose you the letter of Reuben Hosford Esqr. one of my constituents, respecting the case of Sarah Noble. He would be glad, if you would read his letter & reconsider the case. May I ask of you the favor to look at it again & communicate with me
Yours very truly A Vandusen
J. L. Edmonds Esq