Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,271, Daniel Weed, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Weed, Daniel, Elizabeth.
PF 11.271
CONTENTS

I Amos Beecher clerk of the court of Probate within & for the district of Barkhamsted Conn t do certify that Hiram Goodwin of said Barkhamsted & within said District was on the 22 d day of July 1837 a legal Justice of the peace & duly qualified & commissioned to administer oaths, & the signature purporting to be his office to the deposition of Ephraim Sheldon, Thomas Sheldon & Merlin Merrill are his genuine signatures - In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal of said Court at said Barkhamsted this 22 d day of July AD 1837 Attest Amos Beecher Clerk

I Merlin Merrill, of Barkhamsted Litchfield County, Conn te & Town Clerk of said town depose & that it appears from the records of said town that Dan Reed was married to Elizabeth Lewis May 4 th 1780, in the words & figures following - in "Dan Reed & Elizabeth Lewis was married May 4 th Anno Domine, 1780" - And further saith not - Merlin Merrill Town Clerk
State of Conn te Litchfield County ss Barkhamsted July 22 nd 1837, personally appeared Merlin Merrill Town Clerk of said town & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition - & I further certify that the deponent is well known to me as a credible witness, & that the above is his genuine signature -
Attest Hiram Goodwin Just of the peace

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Elizabeth Weed widow of Dan.
Mass.
Maria 4 May 1780-
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G. N. Briggs HN

I Chloe Fair wife of Thos. Fair and daughter of Elizabeth Weed of Great Barrington Mass. aged twenty nine years - testify & say that my father Dan Weed died 17. Feb. 1878 - as I will recollect. Since his decease my mother has remained a widow -
I recollect of often hearing my father speak of his being a soldier in the revolution, particularly in that same winter when he died, as the subject was much talked of about provision being about to be made by Congress for granting pensions to Revolutionary soldiers. - I have often heard my uncle Nathaniel Lewis say that he knew my father was a soldier in the revolution, but said Lewis is now dead - I have often heard him say too that my father would have been entitled to a Chloe Fair pension had he have lived -
Chloe Fair
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. Aug. 15. 1837 Then the above named Chloe Fair to me well known who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed
Before me Sumner Jus. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. I Henry B. Bishop Register of the Court of Probate in the said County of Berkshire do certify that Increase Sumner Esq. who has subscribed his name to the attestation of the oath of the above named Chloe Fair, is a Justice of the Peace within the said County duly commissioned

and qualified. That I am well acquainted with his hand writing & know that the fore- going signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the Seal of said Court of Probate this Eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven. Henry W Bishop. Register Probate

I Allen Henderson of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire County of Mass of the age of fifty years on Oct 11. 1836, do hereby certify that I am a native of New Hartford in the State of Connecticut, where I lived until the year 1808 —
By reputation I know that a man by the name of Smith lived in said New Hartford, who was a justice of the Peace (as the tradition is) — He kept an Inn in the Northern part of New Hartford within a short distance of the adjoining town of Parkhurst.
My information in regard to him always was that he died before I was born — He is remembered by the name of "Esq. Smith" (his Christian Name I do not know) — Many anecdotes are related of him, and according to the tradition he was undoubtedly a jus. Peace.
I know Elizabeth Weed of said Great Barrington — Since the death of her husband Dan Weed she has remained a widow — Allen Henderson.
Com'th of Mass. — Berkshire ss. 8. August 1837. Then personally appeared the above named Allen Henderson to me well known, who is a credible witness, and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true, — before me
J. Gurner. jus. Peace —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss. I Henry H. Bishop. Register of the Court of Probate in the County of Berkshire ss.

County of Buteshire do certify that Mercator Sumner Esqr. who has subscribed his name to the certificate of the oath of the aforesaid Allan Henderson is a Justice of the Peace within the said County duly commissioned and qualified. That I am well acquainted with his hand writing & know that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County of Buteshire this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & thirty Seven.
Henry M c Bishop Regula Buteshire

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth County ss. On this eighth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the Hon. William P. Walker, Judge of Probate in and for said County at a Court of Probate holden at Great Barrington in said County, Elizabeth Weed a resident of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy five years, on the 23 d . Dec r . last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: -
That she is the widow of Dan Weed who was a private in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, who was twice draughted in the militia at Parkhurst in Litchfield County, Connecticut, after the marriage of said Dan to said Elizabeth as hereinafter stated - The first time he was draughted was in the year Seventeen hundred eighty one (the year after her marriage) the month she cannot tell but believes it was not long before harvest time - she is very confident that her neighbor Thomas Wilder (the deposition of whose son and widow is hereto annexed) went with him - Others also went at the same time from said Parkhurst but who they were she cannot say, and she can find none of them alive - She knows that her said husband was gone in the tour of service all of three months - It was

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth County ss. On this eighth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the Hon. William T. Walker Judge of Probate in and for said County at a Court of Probate holden at Great Barrington in said County, Elizabeth Weed a resident of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy five years on the 23 d Dec r last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: -
That she is the widow of Dan Weed who was a private in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, who was twice draughted in the militia at Parkhamstead in Litchfield County, Connecticut, after the marriage of said Dan to said Elizabeth as hereinafter stated - The first time he was draughted was in the year Seventeen hundred eighty one (the year after her marriage) the month she cannot tell but believes it was not long before harvest time - she is very confident that her neighbor Thomas Wilder (the deposition of whose son and widow is hereto annexed) went with him - Others also went at the same time from said Parkhamstead but who they were she cannot say, and she can find none of them alive - She knows that her said husband was gone in this town of service all of three months - It was

in the Autumn that he returned but the precise day & month she cannot state - He marched Southward but the particular place to which he went she is not able to state
The next year (1782) in the Spring before planting time, but she cannot state the time any more precise, she said Dan at said Parkhamsted was again draughted - went into the service of the United States and performed another tour in said service of three months . - She cannot give particulars as to the places through which he marched, nor when he was stationed; but he went Southward - Nor can she state the precise time of his return, nor is she positive about his officer's name, but is pretty sure that in one or both of his tours his Captain's name was Austin or Shepard, or perhaps Capt: Austin was his Capt. the first tour and Capt: Shepard the second.
Aside from her recollection of the fact that her husband was absent three months each tour, she remembers well that when he was draughted it was understood that the draught was for three months
She has recently been to said Parkhamsted to get proof but finds that all who served with her husband are dead - The aforesaid Thomas Wilder (who is deceased) she understands drew a pension. - A reference perhaps to his application in the War Department may afford some evidence - She lived with her said husband in said Parkhamsted until the Spring of 1812 when they removed to said Great Barrington where she has ever since lived - Her maiden name was Eliz- abeth Lewis - Seth Smith Esq. the justice

who married her died more than fifty years ago. He kept an Inn in said New Hartford. - She has no documentary evidence. She has caused examination therefor to be made among the revolutionary rolls & papers at Hartford but none can be found. - She has no record of her marriage in the Bible nor has she any family record thereof.
She further declares that she was married to the said Dan Weed by Seth Smith Esq. Just Peace (deceased as aforesaid) on the fourth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty - that her husband the aforesaid Dan Weed died on the seventeenth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed -
Elizabeth
Her Hand Mark.
S.
Subscribed & sworn to
William P. Walker Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss.
I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Weed for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this eighth day of August A.D. 1837. Henry W. Bishop, Register of Probate.

I Tahpenas Wilder (aged Seventy Six) of Bartholomew Litchfield County & State of Connecticut, do hereby say that I have been acquainted with Elizabeth Reed ever since she was a small girl, her maiden name was Elizabeth Lewis, she was married to Dan Reed in the year 1798, who then lived in Bartholomew. some time after they were married Mr. Reed went into the service of the United States, & served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, how long he was gone I cannot tell, or to what place he went, though I think to the south part of the State, & it is generally reported & believed that Mr. Reed was in the Revolutionary war. Col Seth Smith who was a Justice of the Peace, & lived in New Britain a town adjoining this, married me, & so he did Mr. & Mrs. Reed - there was no Clergyman in this town at that time. And further saith not  signed in presence of - } Tahpenas her Wilder Thomas Wilder } mark Hiram Goodwin }
Litchfield County ss Bartholomew July 22 nd A.D. 1837 Personally Tahpenas Wilder signed the foregoing deposition & made solemn oath of the truth of the same - & I further certify that the deponent is well known to me as a credible witness & that her signature above made is her genuine signature Attest Hiram Goodwin Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Wilder of Bathomsted, Litchfield County Conn t aged fifty two do hereby say that I knew Mr. David Reed who lived in Bathomsted formerly, & I also knew his widow Elizabeth Reed. They lived at that time in Bathomsted & it is reported & generally believed in this town that Mr. Reed was a Revolutionary soldier, & I have frequently heard my father say, (who is deceased) that Mr. Reed was in the service with him, they both lived in the same town during the war. And further saith not Thomas Wilder
State of Conn t Litchfield County ss Bathomsted July 22. A.D. 1837. personally appeared Thomas Wilder signor of the foregoing deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same. & I further certify that the deponent is well known to me as a credible witness. Aaron Goodwin Just of the peace

11,271
P. O.
Elizabeth Weed
Service:
Da
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .