Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,658, for James Storey, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn!
Storey, James or Story
S. 15658
Carded.
CONTENTS

22.871
Connecticut
James Story of Norwich in the State of Conn who was a Pri of Artil in the Conn commanded by Captain Shaply of the — commanded by — in the Conn troops line for 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 100 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of December '33 and Sept George Hill Norwich.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '33 $ 2 50 Semisat. allowance ending 4th Mar '34 5 0
$ 3 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Issued by C. Laurie Clerk E Vol. 3 Page 42

James Story
24002
1797-
1.
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State of Connecticut, County of New London Dorrs. On this 15th  2nd day of July  June 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the city court of the city of Norwich in said county now sitting James Story a resident of said city aged seventy two years, who being first sworn according to law, to the effect his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, he entered in the State troops of the State of Connecticut May 1779 for one year and again enlisted in May 1780 for one year, breaking the the term of two years under Capt Adam Shapley as a private soldier served continuously in the in the fort at New London from the Fort Trumbull at New London and occasionally at Fort Griswold, Groton Connect. for the full term of two years & was discharged at the end of his term of enlist- ment in the month of May next before the burning of New London by Arnold, but had no written discharge, Col Sedgwick who was murdered at Fort Griswold in Sept 1781 had the command of both the Fort, town & Griswold & Trumbull the whole term of his service Capt Shapley was wounded in Fort Griswold in Sept 1781 and was one of those thrown by the British into a cart from over the hill against a tree, he died of his wounds about three months after the battle at the fort, that at the time of his enlistment he resided at said New London, that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose tes- timony he can procure who can testify to his service except the annals of the the others all being dead

the present, and requested that his name be not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -
To the first interrogatory propounded by the court he answers that he was born in Norwich, New London County, Conn. and will be 72 years old on the 10th day of Sept next, to the 2 d he says he has no records of his age and knows of none to the 3 d he answers that he left New London when he entered the service as stated above and since the revolutionary war has resided at said Norwich from which at said Norwich - to the 4 th he answers that he was called into the service as stated above, to the 5 th he answers that his answer in contained in his Declaration above - and his answer to the 6 th is also contained in his Decla- ration, to the 7 th he answers that
to the 7 th he answers that Mr. Shubael Col. Asa North Ward, Rev David H. Bentley and Isaac Story, Esq. a Justice of the Peace for said New London County, are persons living in said can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes all every claim for a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
James Hovey
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open court
Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk

We William Palmer a clergyman residing in the town of Norwich and Ichabod Ward and David Tracy residing in the town of Norwich hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Story who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be 72 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
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Attest Alex Lathrop clerk
W m Palmer - Minister of the Gospel Ichabod Ward - David Tracy
and the said Court do hereby certify declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories 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 William Palmer who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Norwich and that Jeremiah Harding and Joseph Smith who have signed the same residents in the town of New London are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit and that Ichabod Ward and David Tracy who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Norwich and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
Certified by Alex Lathrop clerk

State of Connecticut } City of Norwich } 3
I Alex Lathrop Clerk of the Court of the City of Norwich do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the originale proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Story for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said City Court this 15 day of December 1832
Alex Lathrop Clerk

15.658 INVALID.
Jan 10-1920 Geo B Reel New London Conn.
File No. 15.658
James Storey Ex Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 362
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Nov 1 st 1897
Hon Secy of War, Dear Sir, —
Will you kindly in- form me when the pension of James Stoy  ceased , He was a pensioner in the revolutionary war , on connections , list of enlisted men , with no date of his death to be found, Was 80 years old when he died, but no date of his demise can be found, —
If you can give date when his  pension  was  stopped I would be pleased to have as  some , you will greatly aid the claim of a Lady to join the Daughters of the Revolution. Kindly mail to { Trusting you will oblige 15 Blyman St. { Yours Sinc. New London, Conn. { Geo B. Reed.

Oct 12/22
Rev.
Geo. Hill
Norman
Pension office
Free
$180
Engines
Promoted Artillery
Hon. Secretary of War
City of Washington
Street

Norwich Conn 18th Nov 1833
I am very sorry to say that the mutilated state of your father's papers should have given you any trouble, the poor old man is in the slim house, without friends from single pointed by the persons who were to attend the house for him whose names were to have been and as being able to testify to his character, which circum- stances are his friends for the alterations, interlineations &c. Please have the goodness to communicate with me on the subject of the mutilated papers.
I am very respectfully Yours & Geo. Hill

State of Connecticut county of New London ss. On this 11 th day of November 1833. Person- ally appeared in open court, before the city court of the city of Norwich in said county, now sitting, James Story a resident of said city aged seventy three years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the bene- fit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832; that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, he entered by enlistment into the State troops of the State of Connecticut in the month of May 1779, the day of the month he does not remember, for the term of one year as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. Adam Shapley in the Regt of Col William Sedgwick and faithfully and without inter- ruption served out the full term of his enlistment in said company in the service of the United States in Fort Trumbull at New London in Connecticut and occasio- nally at Fort Griswold in Groton county, that he again enlisted into said company of said Capt Adam Shapley in the State troops of the State of Connecticut in the service of the United States, at the end of his first term of enlistment, in the month of May 1780, for the term of one year, and served as a private soldier in said company without interruption in said Fort Trumbull and

and a part of the time at said Fort Griswold the full term of his second or last named en- listment, making in the whole two years of actual service in said company of said Capt Adam Chapley without attending to any other business, that he was discharged from said company in May 1781. by Capt Shapley, but did not receive a written discharge, Col. Sedgwick who was killed at Fort Griswold in Sept 1781 commanded the troops at Forts Trumbull & Griswold for the whole term of his enlistments and service in said Forts. Capt Shapley was wounded in Fort Griswold in Sept 1781 and died of his wounds a few months after. That at the time of his said enlistments he resided at said New London, that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can produce, who can testify to his service except the persons the persons who have given the annexed affidavits, the others all being dead. To the first interrogatory propounded by the court, he answers that he was born in the town of Norwich in the county of New London and state of Connecticut on the 10th day of September A.D. 1760. To the 2 d he answers that he has no record of his age and knows of none and never saw any. To the 3 d he answers that he lived at said New London when he entered the service of the United States as stated in his declaration, and since the war of the revolution he has resided at said Nor- wich where he now resides. To the 4 th he answers that he was called into the service as stated in his declaration, to the 5 th he answers that his answer is contained in his declaration. that small detachments of militia occa- sionally were called into the fort where under the command of Col. Sedgwick there were no continental troops in the fort. He served in the fort

his answer to the 6 th interrogatory is contained in his Declaration. to the 7 th he answers that Lemuel Ward, Col. Asa Root and Isaac Story and all of said Norwich, are persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim for a pension or annuity except the present present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn and subscribed to James Story in open Court before me Nov. 11 1833 Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk
We William Palmer a clergyman residing in this town Norwich and Lemuel Ward and David Tracy residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Story who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed to Nov. 11 1833 in open Court before me Attest Alex Lathrop Clerk
W m Palmer Baptist Minister Lemuel Ward David Tracy

I Jeremiah Harding of New Britain in the State of Connecticut do hereby say that James Story of Norwich in said State served to my knowledge with me as a soldier at Fort Mimbale in said New Britain in a Match Company commanded by Capt Adam Shapley in the Regt commanded by Col Wm Ledyard of the Connecticut State troops. I found him a soldier at Fort Mimbale when I joined the Company how long he had been there I do not know, but he remained there after I came on year this was in the year 1780. Jeremiah Harding
State of Connecticut ——— County and Town of New Britain
On this 17 th day of Feb At 1862 Personally appeared the above named Jeremiah Harding to me well known to be a person of truth & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Wm G. Mance Justice of the Peace

See Story 100797.
State of Connecticut New London County ss I John D Witt Clerk of the County Court for the New London County do hereby certify that W m F Brainerd as before whom the within deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace within the New London County and that his signature thereto affixed is in his own proper hand writing In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County this 13 th day of August A D 1832
John D Witt Clerk #

I Joseph Smith of the town of County of New London testify as follows -
I have this day been called upon by Mr James Story of New London Connecticut whom I have not seen until now for 40 years to my remembrance & whom I had forgotten. I was in the State Service under Col. Sedgwick in Capt. Adam Shapley's Comp y . in Fort Trumbull in New London from the spring of 1779 to the spring of 1781. Mr Story relates to me in private conver- sation a great number of incidents & private & particular events particularly as regards our going to Peleg Island in a boat when the British fleet was in Gardiner's Bay & landing as how the water & being fired upon from the Bank & one man's ear being struck by a bullet & several such circumstances so particularly that I have no doubt he was in the Company of Capt. Shapley. The event referred to was in the summer of 1780, when I was a Sergeant. The enlistments were from year to year in that service. I have no doubt that Mr Story served two years in that service from his recital of such small incidents as he relates & which none could have known but a person there present & living
Joseph Smith
New London County, ss New London July 27 th , 1832 Personally appeared Capt. Joseph Smith to me well known to be a gentleman of truth & respectability & I was out that the above deposition by him subscribed was true before me Wm H McLean and Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut New London County ss I John D e Witt clerk of the County Court for said New London County do hereby certify that 10 m F Brainerd is of informed whom the within deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace in H or S o New London County that his signature affixed thereto is in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 13 day of August A D 1832.
John D e Witt clerk
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I John Atkinson of the town of Trentbridge, county of Orange State of Vermont depose and say that I entered the service of the United States in the State Troops of the State of Vermont in the company of Capt Adam Saphy in Fort Ticonderoga at New London in Connecticut in the fall of the year 1780 and continued in said company in said service in said Fort for the term of absent service in months and further testify that James Story of the town of Norwich, county of New London and State of Connecticut, belonged to said company and served therein as a private soldier, in said Fort, from the time when I entered said company Fort in the fall of the year 1780 till sometime in the latter part of the month of April 1781, I have said Story to be in said service in said Fort uninteruptedly from the time I entered said company & service in the fall of the year 1780 till the latter part of the month of April 1781 said Story and myself belonged to the same mess & lived in the same room from the time I entered said company till he left it in April 1781 - I have not seen said Story for many years till yesterday, but I distinctly recollects

him as soon as he could we met face to face, I found him Story in said Fort in said service where I entered said Fort and served as a private soldier and further said not. John Stephen
State of Connecticut ss. New London county ss July 12th 1833- Personally appeared Johnathan Allen and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Geo. Stillington of Peace.
State of Connecticut, New London County } ss I John DeWitt clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby certify that George Will esq r before whom the above and foregoing deposition of John Hopkins was taken was at that time & still is a Justice of the peace in and for New London County, and that his signature thereto affixed is in his own proper hand writing - For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 9 th day of November A D 1836
John DeWitt Clark

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 Revd William Palmer who has signed the preceding certificates is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Norwich and that Ichabod Ward and David Tracy who have also signed the same are residents in the town of Norwich and are credible persons and that their statement is intitled to credit and that Jeremiah Harding and Joseph Smith who have signed the preceding certificates are residents in the town of New London and are credible persons and that their statements is intitled to credit and that John Mophins who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Turnbridge County of Orange and State of Vermont is a credible person and that his statement is intitled to credit
Certified by Alex Lathrop Clerk
State of Connecticut } City of Norwich }
I Alexander Lathrop Clerk of the City Court of the City of Norwich do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Story for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said City Court this 11 th day of November A D 1833
Alex Lathrop Clerk