Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11773, Phinehas Wheeler, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass.
Wheeler, Phinehas
S. 11773
carded
CONTENTS

let to Geo Richard June 23 rd 46.
New York
Phinehas Wheeler
of Warren Co in the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Asa Wheeler of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Veyon in the Massats line, for the term of the war, from February 1777 to 31 March 1782
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 120. — Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of July, 1832 — and sent to Perkins at Warrensburgh, Thurman P.O. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $120. — Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: " 60. —
$180. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Rec Book D Vol: 5, fol: 155.

Wheeler * Sergeant Phineas Wheeler (sergeant) Nixon's Regt. Massachusetts Line. 10 th March 1777 - War .
6 th April 1810 -
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The Judge has not certified as to reduced circumstances of Applicant -

State of New York County of Warren ss. Phinehas Wheeler being duly sworn saith That he this deponent served as a soldier noncommissioned officer, against the common enemy on the continental establishment in March and for the term following - That this deponent in the month of January or February say, the day this deponent does not distinctly recollect enlisted for and during the war of the revolution afore- said into the first company under Captain Adam Wheeler in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment Com- manded by Colonel Thomas Nixon in the Massachusetts line, and served in said company, Regiment and line as a sergeant part of the time as a corporal and a part of the time as a sergeant until the last days of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, and then received his discharge from the army in consequence of having procured as a substitute the enlistment of James Wheeler into the company Regiment and line aforesaid to serve in the stead of this deponent for and during the continuance of the war aforesaid. That this deponent was released from the service aforesaid by Colonel Smith (as this deponent believes who then commanded the said Sixth Regiment)
That this deponent in the month of January or February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three again enlisted into the service aforesaid for and during the war aforesaid against the common enemy aforesaid into the company commanded by Cap- tain Benjamin Hayward in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment aforesaid commanded by Colonel Sargent and served in said company and Regiment against the enemy aforesaid as a sergeant until the last day of June

in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when this deponent received his discharge from the army aforesaid at Newburgh signed by Genl George Washington with a badge of Honor for his faithful service in the war of the revolution aforesaid. This deponent having served as a private in the war aforesaid for several short terms not mentioned in this affidavit -
Which discharge this deponent put into the hands of an executor John Williams then of Salem in the State of New York some years since to enable the said Williams to obtain any land this deponent should be entitled to for his services aforesaid this deponent having ever such right to the said Williams. That the said Williams is since dead nor does this deponent know what became of said discharge -
And this deponent further saith that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States That he resides in the Town of Caldwell in the County of Warren and State of New York -
and this deponent further saith that he is in the sixty first year of his age and that he is now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support
Sworn this 6 th day of April 10/10 Before me
Phinehas Wheeler
Hobart first Judge of Warrenton Common Pleas -

Know all men by their presents that I Phinehas Wheeler the deponent in the foregoing affidavit in order to interple myself to the benefit of the act entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed March 10. 1810 Do hereby relinquish my claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the Laws of the United States - Be witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen -
Read & delivered In the presence of
Phinehas Wheeler
A. H. Olards
State of New York County of Warren - ss. I, Platiah Richards of the Town of Goodwin in the County of Warren and State of New York being duly sworn, depose that he is acquainted with Phinehas Wheeler the deponent to the foregoing affidavit That he the deponent verily believes that the said Phin- ehas Wheeler is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support and further said not.
Sworn this 6th day of April 1818 before me -
Platiah Richards
A. H. Olards first judge of Warren Co. -non seculas -
affidavit

County of Warren State of New York I Phinehas Wheeler named in the first preceding affidavit being duly sworn further saith that during the time of his service as mentioned in his said affidavit  that he this deponent was in the battle at Ridgefield where the enemy left Danbury - and in the battle at Cumpotick in the State of Connecticut under General Arnold, and in the battle at Jones Mills near Fort Edward in the State of New York with the Indians. and in the Battle of Fort Edward with the Indians according to the best of this deponent's recollection the Fort was then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Whiting. and this deponent further saith that he has no other evidence in his power to offer as proof of his services as aforesaid and further saith not - Sworn this 25 th Day of April 1818 Phinehas Wheeler before me H. H. Hobbs first Judge of Warren County Common Pleas
State of New York Warren County I do hereby Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above named Phinehas Wheeler did serve me in the revolutionary War as is stated in the fore going statement or declaration against and I further certify in regard circumstances and under the support of Governor the Common Pleas, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the afore- said act of Congress. Certified this 5 th day of May 1818 H. H. Hobbs first Judge of Warren County Comm. - on pleas -  Phinehas Wheeler

State of New York Clerk's office Warren County
I certify that by Letters patent and Qualification Roll now in this office William Robards whose Signature appears on the annexed affidavit and certificate was a first Judge of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Warren aforesaid on the "6 th day of April 1818" also on the "25 th day April 1818" and on the "5 th day of May 1818" & I further certify that I am acquainted with the said William Robards and his Signature therein I believe to be his In Testimony whereof I
have caused the Seal of our court of common pleas to be hereunto affixed this 22 nd day of May
1818
MYRON BRACK Clerk

Phinehas Wheeler
7404 Franklin County
Pensioner
Little Baldwin T. Caldwell Warrenton N.Y. Agent
Con. I.L.E.

STATE OF NEW-YORK:
AT a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House, in the town of Caldwell, in and for the county of Warren; on the 24th  25th day of September , 1820:
PRESENT, their Honours, John Ruhards — Esquire, Senior  First Judge, James Taugh } Esquires, Judges. Deba Biglow }
Personally appeared Phinehas Wheeler — residing in Caldwell in said county, and being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he is now a pensioner of the United States, under the act of Congress, of the 18th of March, 1818; that his Pension Certificate is numbered 7404 and that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows,
In January or February 1777. he enlisted as a common soldier for during the war, under Capt. Adam Wheeler, in the 6th Mass. regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Mison, and faithfully served in that regiment until March 1782. when he procured a substitute by consent of his officers and was honorably discharged. — In January or February 1783. he again enlisted in the place of his brother for during the war, in the same regiment & company and faithfully served to the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged (as a sergeant) with a badge of merit for six years faithful service. — his discharge was signed by Genl. Washington — this discharge was given a number of years since to one Genl. Williams to whom this deponent sold his bounty bond, and is now supposed to be in some one of the public offices at Washington — during his service in the Revolutionary War, this deponent was in several battles & skirmishes that he has drawn a pension at the rate of Eight dollars per month from the sixth of April 1818. to the 4th of March 1820. by virtue of the certificate aforesaid.
And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820, I, Phinehas Wheeler 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, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent 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 Revolutionary 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.
Subscribed and sworn, this Eight day (signed) of May — A.D. 1820, in open court. Phinehas Wheeler
Thomas Chickibald Clerk

A full & true & full inventory of the Estate of Phoebe Wheler of Caldwell in the County of Warren a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of March 18 th 1818. — David —
Inside on a farm containing sixty acres of land in Caldwell aforesaid, with a log house and frame barn on it — this land was formerly mine, but was sold in March last by the Sheriff of the County of Warren, by virtue of an Execution issued against me on a judgment rendered against me, about the first of January last for $100. 50. damages and costs; the farm was sold at vendue for $110. 00 — By the laws of the state, I have a right to redeem the farm by paying the incumbrances before the 10 th of June 1822. but this is not now in my power to do, nor have I any expectations of redeeming it, except my pension should be continued — I have the use of the farm for this season, which as I am unable to work it, and must therefore hire it out, I value at Twenty five dollars ————— $ 25. 00
The above mentioned farm is also } advertised for sale by the Comptroller } of this state for quit rent due on it — }
I have in my possession 1 cow, which I took about } 3 years ago, to keep & retain the 1 st of May next, she } is not mine —

Almost took down $25.00  Personal property  2 sheep skins white & value off 2.50  1 staple string 37 1/2  1 small yoke for calves 2.50  1 singlet whip & bridle 62 1/2  1 iron plough chain 50  1 iron dog wedge & hook 50  1 wedge 12 1/2  4 pitchforks 1.00  1 scythe & handle 1.25  3 casks 1.50  1 flax brake & the table 75  1 chain (old) 50  1 axe pole 50  1 scythe & handle 50  3 rakes 1.12 1/2  1 shovel & shovel (old) 1.00  3 augers 75  part set of cooper's tools 6.00  1 curry comb 12 1/2  1 hammer 37 1/2  1 half bushel measure (old) 12 1/2  1 fire shovel & tongs 1.37 1/2  1 iron trammel 75  1 small bar of iron 50  3 hooks 18  1 lantern & candle moulds 31  1 chest & 1 stand 4.50  6 chairs 75 - 4.50  6 chairs 25 - 1.50  1 padlock 25  1 cheese hoop & basket 50  1 1/2 bridle bits 12  22 lbs flax 2.75  1 horn & a whetstone 37 1/2  1 candle box & candles 25  1 razor 25  6 table spoons 37 1/2  1 rule 37 1/2  1 old chest 25  1 wash tub & 1 louse tub (old) 50  1 salt mortar & salt 25  1 tea kettle 50  1 skillet 25  1 dish kettle 25  1 do. - small 25  1 spider 20  1 small iron pot 25  carried up $04.66 3/4
Almost took up $04.66 3/4  1 quart kettle (old) 50  1 frying pan 62 1/2  6 bus! potatoes & a basket 2.50  12 sap buckets 1.50  4 pails 75  1 meal cask 1.00  2 small tubs & string 75  1 barrel 50  1 churn 75  2 tubs & 1 kule 1.00  2 quarts molasses 25  1 old saddle & bridle (very old) 1.00  3 spinning wheels 4.00  1 basket 25  1 trunk (old) 37 1/2  1 soap cask & soap 2.50  1 box with feathers 25  some seed corn 25  1 barrel & flour in it 2.25  dried apples 1.00  1 bread tray 37 1/2  pipes & snuff 50  4 geese 2.00  6 dinghills fowls 1.00  3 small hogs 5.00  1 table 1.50  1 axe & 3 sickles (old) 1.12 1/2  2 candlesticks 25  3 bottles & 4 phials 50  1 tin canister & coffee pot 50  1 pepper box & 1 pint cup 50  1 set tea cups & saucers 1.00  9 plates 56  2 bowls & pitcher 25  10 knives & 13 forks 75  6 tea spoons 25  1 cow bell 75  1 inkstand comb & snuff 1.00  1 wine glass 16  1 dye tub 25  1 1/2 small stuyards 50  10 bus! ashes bag 1.25  1 bible 4.00  Some other books 5.25  $115.27  carried over

Amount brought over _____ $115.27
Jordley Farlin is indebted to me on a due bill _____ .44
Samuel Ellis indebted to me _____ 2.20
Abiel Friesdale owes me for clover & apple trees _____ 3.94
Samuel Wheeler is indebted to me _____ 4.65
Michael Brady is indebted to me _____ .16
The above demands I consider to be collectable — $126.86
Ebenezer Mallory is indebted to me on a note dated April 1816. he has gone to the Ohio & I do not even expect to get it } $5.00
Solomon Voorst is indebted to me — he has gone to West & I now expect it to be paid } $1.00
Birdsall Hawley is indebted to me — I do not know where he is & I now expect it to be paid } $0.45
David Smith is indebted to me for clover chaff, as I suppose which he refuses to pay & I do not know as I could collect it, even should I prosecute for it } $1.87
I am indebted to several persons in all amounting to $25.12 3/4 which is all now due and ought to be paid without delay — I have no means of paying without distressing myself or my family —
I have no more clothing or bedding than is absolutely necessary for myself & my family —
My family — My wife who is sixty three years old, is in very poor health, is much troubled with the asthma & rheumatism and unable to labour but very little — My son Samuel is 23 years old, lives with me at present — since he became of age I have paid him for his services to me till now, and he has taken the farms above mentioned for this year at work ordinary — he is not able to assist me except by his annual labour — My daughter Harriet is 19 years old — lives with me and always has been in full health — My eldest daughter is 37 years old — is married. Has five children, her husband has left

She now makes it her home with me, with one of her children a girl, aged about eight years, they are in no situation to assist me, my other children all reside away from me — —
I was born in Rutland in Massachusetts, am now in my 64 th year, my health has been quite poor for a number of years — and I can labor but very little I am troubled with a very bad break in my body — I am by occupation a cooper — (signed)
Phinehas Wheeler.
State of New York
Franklin County. Clerk's Office
vs. J. Alvin Lyon, Deputy
Clerk of the said County of Franklin, by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, Do hereby Certify that the preceding is a true Copy of the Schedule and Statement of Phinehas Wheeler a pensioner of the United States this day exhibited to the said Court — And by Order of the said Court I do further Certify that the value of the property mentioned in the said Schedule is One hundred and Twenty six dollars and Eighty six cents. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the common seal of the said County this eighth day of May 1821. —
Alvin Lyon Dep. Clerk

July 19 1802 P. Off
Respectfully referred to the War department
Treasury dept July 14 th 1832
See

Shymean NY July 10 1832
Dear
Hon Louis Mc Lane
Secy of the Treasury Washington Not having been able to place her under a $1200 annuity since her marriage in June 1832.
July 19 1832 L. Off
Respectfully referred to the War department
July 19 1832 Treasury Dept

Thymin NY July 10 1832
Thy
Hon Louis Mc Lane
Secretary of the Treasury Washington Dear Sir: Please plan his arrival at June 7- 1832 Sept 120k ann.
July 19 1832
L. Off
Respectfully referred to the War department
Treasury Dept July 14 1832
L

Warrensburg July 9th 1832
Hon Louis McLane Secy of the Treasury
Dear Sir
Enclosed is a Resear- certifikat which I surrender according to an act Supplemental to the act for the Relief of certain Surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution passed 7th June 1832 for the purpose of obtaining a certificate according to said act Should any further proof be necessary my Discharge signed by Geo- Washington & Capt Benjamin Hayward of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment which may be found in the Land office of the United States will be sufficient - please Return your Discharge to me at Warrensburg N.Y. yours most Respectfully
Phinehas Wheeler
My object in sending this is to obtain a certificate allowing me full pay which was the condition for my withdrawal
P.S. I do not recollect the col. name

February 6, 1933
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BA-J/EEI Phinehas Wheeler-S.11773
Mrs. Jessie W. Armstrong Yellow Springs Ohio
Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11773, based upon the military service of Phinehas Wheeler in that war.
Phinehas Wheeler was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, date not given.
He enlisted, place not stated, in January or February, 1777, served as corporal and sergeant in Captain Adam Wheeler's (no relationship to soldier shown) Company, Colonel Thomas Nixon's 6 th Massachusetts Regiment until the last of March, 1782, when he employed James Wheeler (no relationship shown) as his substitute and was discharged by Colonel Calvin Smith, then commanding the said 6 th Regiment; he again enlisted in January or February, 1783, as a substitute for his brother, whose name was not given, served as a sergeant in Captain Benjamin Heywood's Company, Colonel Tupper's 6 th Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged June 10, 1783. He stated that he also served several short tours, no dates or officers' names given. He was in the battle of Ridgefield, and in engagements at Camp Hill in Connecticut, and at Jones' Mills and Fort Edward in New York, the last two engagements being with the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he was in the sixty-first year of his age and resided in Caldwell, Warren County, New York.
In 1820, he referred to his wife, as aged sixty-three years but did not give her name or the date of their marriage, and stated that the following children were residing with him: his oldest daughter, aged thirty-seven, who was married and had five children; the name

of the daughter and names of her children are not stated; his son, Samuel, aged twenty-three years; and daughter Harriet, aged nineteen years, and that his other children were away; no other names of children appear, and there are no further family data.
Phinehas Wheeler died June 1, 1836.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

7404.)
4
New York
Phinehas Wheeler
of Caldwell in the state of New York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Mass. line, for the term of 6 years War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Mar 1819 and sent to Judge Richards Caldwell New York
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10m. 28/31 = 87. 69 semi-ann. all'ce ending 6 Sep 1819 - 48.
813 5 69
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notes sent to Fitch & Baldwin Jr. Esq. 5 Jan. 1821. Caldwell, N.Y.

Rev. Mr.
11443 INVALID.
1933 - Feb 6 - Dist to Jessie H Armstrong - Est
No. 11773
Phinehas Wheeler
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index: Vol. A , Page 405-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next
at the Branch Bank U. States at New York Principals  Wheeler
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Phinehas Wheeler late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pen- sion List, Roll of the New York . . . . . Agency, at the rate of eight . . . . . dollars per month, to commence on the Sixth . . . day of April . . . . . one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth . . . day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Capt Benjamin Haywood Lomax Infantry 8 th Massachusetts — Regiment Rupert Bunnings Co. Vermont 17 years. left 1821 in Calais

February 6, 1933
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BA-J/MCF/eel
Mrs. Jennie W. Armstrong Yellow Springs Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of January 11, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of a Colonel Hayes, Josiah Betts, Phinehas Wheeler, a soldier with surname Crandal, also of a Civil War soldier, Phineas Wheeler.
Searched ny mth 11/71
Revolutionary War data furnished by the Veterans Administration are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land based upon service in that war.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of such a claim based upon service of a Josiah Betts. It has not been possible to identify the record of soldiers with surnames Hayes and Crandal. The record of Phinehas Wheeler, S.11773, Revolutionary War soldier is enclosed herewith.
Your letter has been referred to the proper division for reply in regard to the Civil War soldier named above.
Very truly yours
A. D. KILLER Assistant to Administrator,

Warrenton 13 June 1846
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
Phineas Wheeler died 1 June 1836 leaving the balance of his pension at rate of $120. per year, from the 4th March previous, due. We have a power jointly from all his surviving children appointing Platiah Richards their attorney to receive the money from the pension agent in Albany N.Y. where the pension was always paid - Upon proof of facts as above stated, will the agent at Albany pay to P. Richards? If not. What further will be necessary to obtain the money?
Respectfully
Geo. Richards