Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11305, for Hezekiah Ripley, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
born continental
Ripley, Hezekiah or Hezekiel
S. 11305
CONTENTS
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Connecticut 5323.
Hezekiah Ripley
of Windham in the State of Conn. who was a priv. of in the Company commanded by Captain Edelin of the Regt commanded by Major Brown in the Conn t Troops time for
Quartermaster — 3 mo. Dep y Commissary 10 " Private 1 " 15 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 178. Dollars 33. Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Feb y 1833 and sent to Hon. E. Loring, B. of R.
Arrears to 14th of Sept r 1832 — 267. 39 Semest l . allowance ending 4 th Mo th 1833. 89. 16
$ 356 55.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis T. Francis Clerk, Book 10. Vol. 3 d Page 64
Hezekiah Ripley, Conn. vs Continental. Records corrected. Apr. 18/55.
ans d Hon. E. Loring Apr. 15 th 1834
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 to the of the 4 th Mo th 1838 from 4 Sept 1836 to 11 Nov 1836. the day of his death Age notified 16 Sep 1839

Agd notified per letter. letter to N. C. Smoll Oct 26. 114
Dear Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 Sept to 1st Nov 1836. Agd notified 30 Jan'y 1845
Let. to Genl MacRay July 1 th 48
Connecticut 5523
Payable to his children, Hzekiah Ripley, Mary Ann Hiley, widow, Eunice Tracy, widow of Lucy Bliss, wife of Elijah Bliss.
Hzekiah Ripley, du?
of Windham Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a Def. Cong. & Spn. L. H. S. Biv. in the company commanded by Captain Ederlin of the regt. commanded by Major Brown in the Conn. Troop, * time for Conn. Continental. Apr. 18/25. Records corrected, &
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 295 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834. Ending November 11. 1836, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Nov. 1841 and delivered to A. Ray Increased from $178.33. (Present)
Arrears to the 14th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }

Her. Ripley
No 1362. July 30, 1882
London Office
With the address
Handwritten
H. J. R.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT County of Windham
} ss. Windham
On this 23 rd day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Windham in the county of Windham and state of Connecticut, now sitting, Herekiak Ripley a resident of Windham in the county of Windham and state of Connecticut, aged 83 years, and who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832—That he served in the Company of a Connecticut Detachment of State Troops under the command of Maj. John Phipley then of the State of Connecticut at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island which detachment was then under the Genl Command of Maj Genl Spencer of the United States Army that the time he served as aforesaid was according to his Belief from about the latter part of the Month of December 1777 to the last of March 1778 & that from the Month of May 1778 to the Month of April 1779 he served in the Company of Assistant Commissary of Issues at Danbury in the State of Connecticut under an Appointment from Samuel Gray Esq. then Deputy Commissary Genl of Issues that he finds by an Account lately shown him by the said Samuel Gray Esq that he settled his Account with the S. Gray on the 28 th of June 1779 when all his Papers & vouchers relative to his official duties as Assistant Commissary of Issues were delivered over to the said Sam l Gray Esq and was as he now informs me sent on to the Head of the Department at Philadelphia — That he has no documentary evidence of his services, That he was born in Windham Connecticut & resided there when he entered the service & has resided there ever since; That his commission or warrant is lost.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H. Ripley
We, Richard F. Cleveland a clergyman residing in the town of Windham and Elisha White residing in said Windham hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Herekiak Ripley Esq who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 83 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.
Richard F. Cleveland Elisha White

Samuel Gray of Windham in Windham County and State of Connecticut. do on the 23 rd day of July A.D. 1832 declare & say - that I appointed Heshkiah Ripley Esq. of Windham an Assistant Commissary of Issues, on or about the first day of May 1778 - and that he served as such about nine months, and was stationed at Danbury in Connecticut. The exact time he served I cannot now ascertain otherwise than by an account now in my possession by which I find that I settled with him for his services as Commissary of Issues June 28 th 1779 - but that the vouchers for the same were sent to Charles Stewart Esq. Commissary of Issues - by his order. Given & subscribed this day & year aforesaid. Samuel Gray
This certifies that Heshkiah Ripley Esq. was born in Windham Windham County & State of Connecticut Sept. 25 th 1748 as appears from the town records of said town of Windham. Certified by Thomas Gray Town Clerk
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 fur- ther certifies, that Richard F. Cleveland who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in said Windham & that Elisha White who has signed the same is a resident in said Windham & is a credible person. That Samuel Gray who signed the above deposition is a resident of said Windham & that Thomas Gray is the town Clerk of said town of Windham & are credible persons & their statements are entitled to credit. [District of Windham ss.] I, Thomas Gray clerk of the Court of Probate for the the county of Windham do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Heshkiah Ripley for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have my hand and seal of office, this 23 rd day July A. D. 1832
Thomas Gray Clerk

State of Connecticut } Wp Windham Nov. 26 1832 Windham County }
Personally appeared in Open Court on the day & year above mentioned before the Court of Probate for the District of Windham State of Connecticut, Hunkiah Ripley a resident of Windham who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following further declaration in addition to what he has heretofore stated on the 23 rd of July 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. Viz
That he was born at Windham in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut on the 25 th day of Sept r A D 1748 O.S. and that he has ever since his Birth resided in that Town excepting four years when he was a member of Yale College in State viz from 1760 to 1764. And by a Catalogue he has recently seen of those graduated at that College at that  time appears that himself with one of his Classmates and one of the Class next preceding are the only three whose names remain undistinguished by an asterisk before the year 1763) and also excepting the time he was employed in the public service and attached to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War and this Service was performed as follows Viz In the latter End of the Month of December 1777 or early in the month of Jan y 1778 he was appointed Quarter Master to a Detachment of Militia who under the Command of Maj r John Phipps then of Windham were ordered to march to Rhode Island. This Detachment consisted of three Companies One commanded by a Cap t Lefingwell of Norwich, another by a Cap t Prine of Preston, the Name of the Cap t of the other Company I do not recollect neither do I recollect the precise day we left Windham for Rhode Island but this I distinctly remember that there was Snow on the Ground and that I went from Windham on a Sleigh in Company with Maj r Phipps & M c Elisha Abbe of Windham who was appointed Adjutant of the detachment under Maj r Phipps Command that We passed through the Towns of Canterbury Plainfield Sterling & Foster to Providence

when arrived at Providence we were under the gen l Command of Maj r Gen l Spencer who I frequently saw while in Providence and with one of whose Adjutants Maj r Sanford Kingsbury I had been previously well acquainted in belonging to the Town of Windham we continued in Providence several Weeks when the Militia which was the Militia sent from Connecticut with some others that had before that time been in Providence were ordered by Gen l Spencer to proceed to Bristol under the Command of Maj r Dippley we were accordingly embarked aboard flat bottomed Boats for the purpose of going down the river by Water to Bristol, but had not proceeded far before a Squall occasioned by a strong South Wind made it unsafe in the opinion of our Commander to proceed any further in our flat bottomed Boats and was landed at Warren on the east side of Providence River and from thence marched by Land to Bristol on a point of the main land but a short distance from the north End of Block Island of which Island the British Troops had the possession & here in Bristol I continued to do the duty of Quartermaster for all the Troops stationed there until the latter part of the Month of March 1778 when I was employed for a short time in the Commissary department at Providence that same time in the Month of April 1778 I received my appointment as assistant Commissary of Issues and went to Danbury in this State and took the charge of the Magazine & issuing Store established in that place about the 1 st of May 1778 that he there continued steadily employed with the assistance of two Clerks in the discharge of his duty as assistant Commissary of Issues until about the last of March 1779 that then on account of the death of his Father which happened in the month of Feb y preceding he was obliged to relinquish any steady or active duties in the Store at Danbury & the charge of it was committed to one of his Clerks that during the time he acted as assistant commissary at Danbury there was full and constant employment for himself and both his Clerks this being the Depot or magazine to which was sent a very great Proportion of the salt provisions and Spirits from the East for the use of the continental Troops stationed at their different posts on or in the vicinity of y e north River some of which particularly the Spirits came up the Sound and was landed at Fairfield and other places bordering on the Sound and from thence transported by Land

To Danbury, the greater part of the salted provisions was bro't from the embarkation by Teams and the same Teams carried back for the Use of the Troops at Rhode Island & other places at the east for large quantities of Flour all which passed through the Store at Danbury. That while I had the Charge of the Store at Danbury there were issued from it daily Rations to a Corps of Artillery that was stationed besides frequently Rations to small parties of Patriots on their way to join the Regiments to which they respectively belonged. That in the Fall of the year 1778 a division of the Continental Army under the Command of Gen l Gates came to Danbury and encamped at a short Distance from the Store from whence they were supplied with Provisions during the time they continued there which was until they could not be comfortable in Tents. That in the following Winter, another division of the Army I believe Gen l Putnam's took up their Winter quarters at Reading a Town adjoining Danbury and also drew their Provisions from the Store at Danbury.
My Account as assistant Commissary was not finally closed with the deputy commissary Gen l until the 28 th June 1779 the Amount being $1283 and although I had ceased from any steady or active employment in the Store from and after the last of March 1779 I was obliged occasionally to attend to some matters appertaining to the commissary department until the time of settlement. I have no distinct recollection of the Items composing my Account but presume there was included in it besides what was charged for allowances & wages due me but also for the same due the Clerks & others employed by me in the business of the Store besides probably some allowance for Horse expenses as I had frequent occasion to make use of a Horse in getting in Provisions from Fairfield & other places. Br d Gray has stated in his affidavit accompanying my declaration of the 28 th last July that he forwarded my Account with the Vouchers to supposed it to Col o Stewart the Commissary Gen l at Philadelphia I suppose it probable these papers may now be found among the Files in the War Office at Washington. I now further state in addition to what I stated in my declaration dated the 28 th of July last which has been returned from the Pension Office after I returned from Danbury to Windham in May 1779 a Company having been formed by an Act of the Legislature of this State from those who before that time had been exempted from there doing military duty in the Town of Windham in which

Company I was enrolled as a Private and that the first time this Company met and had chose their Officers (Viz Lieut Colonel Joshua Pillsbury Cap t M c Bang t Lathrop Ser t and M c Sam t Webb Ensign) an Order came to the Cap t directing him to draft Six Men from his Company of which number I was one and M c Eliza White A said Windham was another the Name of the other four I do not recollect but believe they are all dead. These Six together with a number drafted drafted from the other militia Companies in Windham and in its vicinity supposed to form a Cap t 1st Company were placed under the Command of Cap t Nehemiah Tinker then of some Windham that we were drafted for a Tour of Two Months that we marched from Windham about the middle of the Month of May 1779 through Norwits to Groton in this State that when arrived at Groton Cap t Tinkers Company was placed under the Command of Col t Samuel M c Clellan then of Woodstock who commanded a Regiment that had been previously stationed part of it at Groton & the remainder at New London on the opposite side of the River that I continued at Groton about Three Weeks performing the duty of Clerk or orderly Sergeant for Cap t Tinkers Company when an Order came to Col t McCellan directing him to send two Companies from his Regiment under under the command of Maj t Thomas Brown who was the Maj t in his Regiment to Stonington Point and there to take the Command of two other companies of Militia which had been previously stationed at the Point Maj t Brown appointed me to do the duties of Adjutant to the said Companies under his Command at Stonington for about Fifteen days when Maj t Brown was ordered to discharge the two Companies that had been detached from Col t M c Clellans Regiment in consequence of this Order I was discharged from any further military service and returned home I believe about three weeks before those that were drafted with me were discharged. The reason why I did not state this Tour of duty in my former Declaration was not because I had wholly forgotten it but because it having been but a short Tour & performed more than half a century since I was not then able to state it in so particular a manner as I supposed would be required, since that time from conversation with M c White and from a memorandum found among some old papers by which I have ascertained part of the time I was at Groton I have now no hesitation in saying the Account I have given of it is substantially correct, and likewise in saying that the time I was employed and spent in the Service of the United States now enumerated amounted in the aggregate to fifteen Months though I have not been able to find any documents by which to determine the precise days when each Tour of Duty commenced or ended, - I am to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid. Her s Dippley
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after

The investigation of the matter that the F t Her o Ripley Esq r was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states.
Thomas Gray Clerk of the Court of P. S. & C. The District of Windham do hereby certify that the foregoing additional declaration of Herekiak Ripley Esq r contains the original proceedings of the P t Court in the matter of the application of F t Her o Ripley for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 26 th day of November A D 1832.
Thomas Gray Clerk
The last mentioned proceeding are the only those which remain unacknowledged and also excepting the last he has been

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Alexander Ray Esq Washington- District Columbia

State of Connecticut County of New London
Probate District of Stonington
July 6. 1841
I Asa Fish Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Stonington aforesaid, hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been this day adduced before this court, now in session that Hezekiah Ripley Esq., late of Windham in the County of Windham, in the State aforesaid deceased, was up to the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, on the Roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of 178 Dollars & 33 cents per annum, and that the said Hezekiah Ripley died at Windham, on the 11 th day of November A D 1836, leaving no widow - four children survived him, namely, Hezekiah Ripley, son Mary Ann Wilson, daughter, who is now a widow - Eunice Tracy, daughter, who is now a widow & Lucy Bliss, daughter wife of Elijah M Bliss -
Asa Fish Judge
I John D Noyes, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stonington hereby certify that there is such Court in existence, that Asa Fish Esq is Judge thereof, that his signature to the above Certificate is genuine and that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter therein contained
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this sixth day of July A D 1841
John D Noyes Clerk 31

State of Connecticut New London County ss:
On this 7 th day of July A.D. 1841.
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, Mrs. Eunice Tracy, a resident of Stonington who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her Oath, state, that she is one of the surviving Children, of the late Hezekiah Ripley, who was a Quarter Master, and an Assistant Commissary of issues in the War of the Revolution, & later a pensioner under the Act 1832. State of Connecticut at the rate of $178. 33 / 100 p. year, that he died on the 11 th day of November A.D. 1836 and left no widow. Four children survived him as follows Hezekiah Ripley, Mary Ann Wilcox now a widow - Eunice Tracy also a widow & Lucy Bliss - Wife of Elijah Bliss. - He the said Hezekiah Ripley, continued to receive his pension up to the day of his death.
Now the Object of this Declaration is to request the difference of Amount of pension between the sum he was paid, and that to which an Assistant Commissary's pension would entitle the heirs to claim from the 4 th March 1831 up to the time of his death.
And as hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to any pension or annuity except the present to which the said Hezekiah Ripley would have been
entitled during his Life.
Eunice Tracy
So far as subscribed this 7 th day of July A.D. 1841
Elisha Wason Jr. Justice of Peace for New London County.

Power of Attorney Charles & Eunice Armstrong to George MacKay.

Know all men by these presents That we Charles Armstrong and Eunice Armstrong wife of said Charles of the town of Franklin in the County of New London State of Connecticut, legal representatives of Hezekiah Ripley deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner, the said Eunice Armstrong being the daughter of the said Hezekiah Ripley deceased, have nominated, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate, constitute and appoint George Mackay our true and lawful attorney in fact, for us and in our names, place and stead, to prosecute before the Congress of the United States, or any of the Departments of the government into an allowance of any and all arrearages of claims for pension due the said Hezekiah Ripley for services during the Revolutionary War, and to receive a certificate evidencing said allowance payable in our names.
In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seals on this 16 th day of June AD 1845.
In presence of Levi H. Goad Geo. Perkins
Charles Armstrong
Eunice Armstrong
County of New London } Be it known, that Charles Armstrong and Eunice State of Connecticut } Armstrong personally appeared to me known to be the legal representative of Hezekiah Ripley a revolutionary pensioner, and acknowledged that they executed the above instrument for the uses and purposes therein expressed, and desired the same to be certified.
Given under my hand and seal of Office on this sixteenth day of June AD 1845.
George Perkins. Judge of Probate for the District of North Connecticut.

Rev. Nathan May 1836
Washington City
Wm Lloyd Nov 24 - Hon. Thomas Young Esq. Member of Congress
Wm Lloyd

Windham May 26 th 1834
Henry Edwards Young Dear Sir
By a communication from the Pension Office at Washington, received a few weeks since under cover of your frank, the object of which is to ascertain if it can be procured some additional documents from Mr. Phillips to establish the statement he made respecting the time I served in the Capacity of Assistant Commissary at Danbury, he having stated in his Affidavit that the time I served was Seven Months, whereas Esq. Gray had stated it to have been only four, immediately on the receipt of this communication I addressed a Letter to Sam l W. Phillips Esq. requesting him to furnish me with any additional documents he could find to corroborate the statement he had before made respecting my Term of Service at Danbury. I have within a few days received an answer in which he says that he has no written documents in his possession which will precisely fix the time when my service commenced, but that it ended on the 1 st of April 1779 will appear not only from his Affidavit but from a Copy of his Accounts which Esq. is now at Washington.
Mr. Edwards will have observed that Esq. Gray testified

that the Time I served at Danbury was at least Ten Months I believe my last declaration was expressed in the same Manner although I never had a doubt but that my Service in the Conn's Department commenced by or before the 1 st of May 1778 yet I had some doubts respecting the time precise time when it terminated. I had a clear recollection that on the Death of my Father which happened in Feb y 1779 it became necessary for me to quit the publick Service and return to Windham. I accordingly as soon as I could accomplish a settlement of a variety of Accounts and some of them of a complicated Nature I delivered over the publick Stores to Mr. Philips who succeeded me as Commissary of Issues, when I made out my last affidavit and I was not quite certain whether this delivery was not made a few days previous to the 1 st of April 1779 but on seeing a copy of his Account of the Stores received of me & the date of which it was no reason to doubt but should without hesitation say that the Time I served in the Commissary Department was at least Eleven Months.
in addition to the many favours you have already conferred on me you will be good enough to communicate the foregoing to Mr. Edwards you will add another to the Number. Your Friend W m Phipps

Hon E. G. Young
off to the class of H. B. Ripley

Washington
H. of Reps
Jan 12 1854
Sir
I take the liberty to enclose to you these two letters. Judge Repley is in company as soon with you to the one I communicated to him from you a few weeks ago - that of Capt. Paine in relation to his Pigeons - The facts stated in this letter are if I recollect a party his doctor's opinion. He is now of second mind & many of the most unexceptionable characters - There can be no nobler descent of the truth & correctness of the facts stated.
I hope his wife will be present at the engagement
ever my own Sir
Yours Truly O. D.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm. Do

State of Connecticut, County of Windham ss Windham Jan'y. 21 st 1833. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Windham Derecius Ripley Esq. of S d Windham aged 84 years and after being sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in addition to what he has before made on the 23 rd July & 26 Novem r 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 viz -- That he entered the service of the United States on or about the last day of Decem r AD 1777 and rec d the appointment of Quarter Master to the detachment then ordered by the Governor & Council of Safety of the State of Connecticut which was placed under the command of Maj r John Ripley then of S d Windham and that he rec d his appointment of Quartermaster from Maj r Ripley and that Elisha Abbe of S d Windham (now dead) was adjutant of said detachment & that Maj r Ripley, Elisha Abbe and himself went together in a Sled to Providence R.I. That there were three companies of 100 men each went down at the same time, & that there were two companies then when we arrived, that he continued in the service in that campaign until the last week in March following making in the whole time three months, & that in the latter part of the time he was sent to Boston on business not exactly belonging to him as Quarter Mas- ter, but on business connected with the Army - That he has no record or certificate of his appointment, but he is confident he served as Quartermaster to said

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detachment with the rank of Lieutenant at least two months in actual service - That he has endeavoured to find something among the papers of Maj: Ripley which may throw some light on the subject, but is informed by the family that in rebuilding the United States Hotel at Hartford a few years since, Maj: Ripley's papers were destroyed; and all that can be found relative to his campaign on the second belonging to this State is a vote of the Council of Safety directing such detachment of 5 companies of 100 men each to Providence, & no officers names are mentioned. and on the pay table Books an entry of an account settled with Maj: John Ripley May 14. 1777 and another March 9. 1780. The first for £ 1861. 10. 7 The last ————— £ 5334. 16. 0
Moneys on this last account had been advanced from Jan'y. 1778 to March 1779. & in neither account is the term of service mentioned — Maj: Ripley is now dead & no record of his appointment can be found & his commission or warrant is lost & he knows of no one living by whom he can prove said services, or the capacity in which he served —
That in the month of April 1778. he rec d the appointment of Assistant Commissary of Issues, & that about the 1 st of May he entered upon his duties in the service at Danbury in Connecticut and served as stated in his former declaration, and

continued in said service as A.C. of Asses until some time in the month of March following. & he is confident he was in said service at least 10 th  ten months -
He further states, that after he returned from Danbury to Windham. (on act of the Genl. Assembly of this State having been passed, authorizing & directing the enrollment of those who were previous- ly exempted from military duty) he was enrolled in a company commanded by D o ct r Joshua Elderton (They were called reformades) & that in the first draft made from S d company he was one of six drafted & went to Groton as a private soldier and was in Capt. Asahel Tinkers company. That while in S d company he performed the duty of orderly sergeant, being about three weeks; that he was then taken into, & served in a detachment at Huntington Point under Maj t Thomas Brown as adjutant & was in this service three weeks or more and returned home as stated in his declaration of the 26 th Nov r last; and that he served in this 1 th campaign at least one and one half months .
He would further state that in this campaign he does not claim any extra compensation for holding an office, for he was only a private soldier, and he recollects & supposes that the places of sergeant and of adjutant were only given him on account of

his previously having held an office & to relieve him from doing the duty of a common soldier, rather than for any superior skill in military matters.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in presence of Thomas Gray Waterman O'Clark
Horatio Phipley
And I hereby certify that the said Horatio Phipley who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration in my presence is to me well known & is a credible person & his statements are entitled to credit
Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut County of Windham } ss. Windham
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windham aforesaid on the 21 st day of January A.D. 1833. Samuel Gray Esq r a resident of S t . Windham and after being sworn according to law deposes & says, that he is eighty one years old. That in the war of the Revolution he was Deputy Commissary Gen l about five years, that on or about the 1 st of May 1778 he appointed

Herekiah Ripley Esq r of S. Windham an Assistant Commissioner of I s ues and that T s Ripley was sent immediately to Danbury in S t ate and continued there in said service until the month of March following; and I am confident he was in the service in S t capacity of Assistant Commissioner at least Ten months. Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. -
Sam l Gray
In presence of Walterman C. Clark Thomas Gray
And I hereby certify that Samuel Gray Esq r who has Sworn to & Subscribed the foregoing declaration is a resident of S t Windham & a credible person & his state- ments are entitled to credit -
Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } County of Windham } S t Windham Jan y 21. 1833.
I do hereby certify that Thomas Gray before whom the preceding declaration of Herekiah Ripley & deposition of Sam l Gray were executed is a Justice of the Peace for S t County of Windham, & I believe that the signature purporting to him is genuine. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name the day & year aforesaid.
Isaac M c White Notary Public

War Department Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 th June 1832, Hezekiah Ripley, late of Connecticut, who was a Deputy Commissary of Issues, Quarters, charter and Private, in the War of the Revolution, was entitled to receive $295 per annum, but being pensioned  which is payable  at the rate of $178.33 per annum only, and having died  on the 11 th November 1836, the amount due, at the first  mentioned rate, from the 4 th March 1831, to November 11. 1836  to the time of his death, is payable to Hezekiah Ripley, Mary Ann Wilcox, widow, Eunice Tracy, widow, and Lucy Bliss, wife of Elijah Bliss, Children of said Hezekiah Ripley deceased. All payments on the former certificate  to be deducted , but having been pensioned at the rate of $178:33 per annum, the amount paid at that rate is to be deducted.

Elisha White Deposition for Her t Ripley —
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State of Connecticut } Windha Nov. 26, 1832 Windha County }
I Elisha White of Windha in Windha County, State of Connecticut do on this 26 th day of Novem r 1832 before the Court of Probate for the District of Windha in open Court depose and say that in the month of May 1779, I was drafted from a company of Militia in Windha upon which was commanded by Capt. Joshua Elderton and in which Mr. Saml Webb was Ensign & Benj. Sathrop Lieut. went to Groton in the State of Connecticut - The draft was for sixty days. Jeremiah Ripley Esq d of Windha was drafted from the same company went to Groton with me at the same time, Matthias Sanger of Windha was also drafted at the same time & three others who are all dead, we quartered when at Groton at the Bailey house we belonged while there to Capt. Tinker's Company & Col. McCallen's Regt. after we were there a few days, Her. Ripley was sent with others to Stonington Point & I saw no more of him in that campaign - Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Elisha White

Elisha White Deposition for Rev. Ripley
Windham Probate District of Windham in the State of Connecticut. November 26. A.D. 1832. On this day personally appeared Mr. Elisha White a resident of Windham aforesaid to this Court well known to me to have been sworn to the truth of the within Deposition by him subscribed. This Court hereby certifies that the said deponent is a credible witness & his statements are entitled to full credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 26 th day November A.D. 1832.
Thomas Gray Clerk

State of Connecticut } County of New London } S/S Franklin
I Eunice Armstrong of Franklin in the County of New London & State of Connecticut, late Eunice Tracy of Stonington in s d New London County, one of the heirs at law of Herekihah Ripley Esq r late of Windham in Windham County & State afores d . deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United - do hereby constitute & appoint Nicholas Carroll Esq r of Washington City D.C. my lawful Attorney for me respectfully to ask of the Hon. J. S. Edwards Commis r of Pensions to examine the papers establishing the claim of Her d Ripley Esq r deceased to a pension & also the application of the heirs for an additional allowance, together with the additional proof which may be offered and allow such amount in addition to what has been received as the heirs of s d Herekihah Ripley Esq r are justly & equitably entitled to. Sign In witness whereof I have hereunto In presence of Set my hand this 8 th day of Decem r Geo L. Williams 1843.
Eunice A. Armstrong
Eunice Armstrong

H. Ripley
Con D 52
Papers for
L. H. Pugh
April 7 th 1851
Ex N. H. Pugh
May 9 th 57

State of Connecticut } County of New London } ss.
I Eunice Armstrong of the town of Franklin County and State aforesaid are of the children of Noyes Rich Ripley deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $178 23 / 100 per annum, subsequently raised to $295. and died November 11 th 1836. do authorize Dr. L. H. Beardsley of Milford, County of New Haven, State aforesaid, to request an examination of the said Noyes Rich Ripley's pension papers with the view of obtaining such an increase of pension, as he may have been justly entitled to. — The testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 2 nd day of April A.D. 1857. —
Eunice Armstrong
State of Connecticut } New Haven County } ss Milford April 4 th 1857. I hereby authorize S. H. Pugh Esq. of Washington City respectfully to request an examination of the pension papers of the said Noyes Rich Ripley deceased — L. H. Beardsley

War Department.
Pension Office
26 th December 1832.
Sir,
All the papers in support of the claim of Hezekiah Ripley have been examined. He gives no acct. whatever of his Commission as Quarter Master. As the regulations require the best evidence to be produced, he must either produce this Commission, or shew the fact that he was appointed, by the Certificate of the Officer in charge of the Records. The naked declaration of individuals as to their rank, is not regarded as sufficient, where Records of their appointments exist. Mr. Ripley has not stated the period of his

his service as Quarter Master with sufficient precision in either of his declarations to enable the Department, if his rank was established, by the proper testimony, to ascertain the rate of pension to which he is entitled under the act. The same remark applies to his statement of service as assistant Commissary of Quarters. Mr Gray, under whose appointment he acted, says Mr Ripley served about nine months. This is the most distinct statement that can be found in relation to the length of this service but is, as you will perceive indefinite. The claimant should state directly and explicitly that he served at least a certain specified period.
The papers are herewith returned

returned to you. I have the honor to be, respectfully, your abt. Servant. J L Edwards
The Hon ble Ebenezer Young, House of Representatives

Hezekiah Ripley Dec. — act June 7. '32
Increase to $295 per ann.
Payable from 4. March 1831
to Nov. 11. 1836, at the rate of
$295 to his children Hezekiah
Ripley, Mary Ann Wilcox,
widow, Eunice Tracy, widow,
& Lucy Bliss, wife of Elijah
Bliss —
Hand cut to A.
Ray, Present

Hos Nuphy
adm
2 nd Mr 3 rd
10 th Com 10
Adm
$178:33 per am
Russ - 3
268 - 10
147 months
Hon. E. Young H.R. E. Young of Vermont

Rev. War
11305 INVALID.
am
File No. 11,305-
Hezekiah * Ripley Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 317
Hezekiah * Ripley. Records corrected Apr 18, 1905, B. [Arrangement of 1870.]
Always resided in Hartford Conn. D in 1836.

Sept 28 '41
Wes: Ripley, Jr. Connt. vol 1832
James
J. Edm. Smith Esq.
Commissioner of Customs

Washington Sep. 28 1841.
Sir
I enclose you a declaration made by the representatives of the late Hezekiah Ripley of Connecticut. Who, during his life time was a pen- sioner under the act June 7. 1832. at the rate of $178. 33 pr year. as an assistant commissary of subs. &c. He has now claimed an increase of pension from the 4 March 1831. to the 11 th Nov. 1836.
I am very respectfully Your obedt Servt Alex. Ray
J. L. Edwens Esq. Cout of Penns. -

Samuel H. Phillips of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy three years and upwards being duly sworn do depose and say that I was born in Granestown in the State of Massachusetts that in the year 1775 I entered the service of the United States as a clerk of the Committee of supplies and was transferred to the commissary department when the same was organized by Act of Congress and in the year 1777 came to Danbury in the capacity of a clerk in the commissary department and have resided in said Danbury ever since with the exception of a short residence in the place of my birth. I depose and say that after my coming to said Danbury (whether in said year 1777 or in the year 1778) a commissary Keyesiah Ripley now of Winship in said State of Connecticut came to said Danbury where was a magazine of provisions and an assistant commissary. The said Keyesiah Ripley had charge of the magazine of provisions at said Danbury and served there in the commissary depart- ment from the time he came to Danbury until the 10th day of April 1779 as an assistant commissary. On said 10th day of April 1779 I was appointed his successor and took charge of said magazine in his stead. For how long a period the said Keyesiah Ripley resided in said Danbury as an assistant commissary I cannot at this distance of time speak from recollection but from accounts and documents in my possession I am confident and have no doubt that he was dismissed from said assistant commissary and that said magazine on the 10th day of February 1778 and continued to serve as such from said 10th day of February until the

1 st day of April 1799 when I became his timekeeper - as aforesaid.
I am also confident that he was such commissionary and had charge of said magazine in Danbury for some considerable time before said 1 st November 1798, but not having any documents or memoranda to refute my recollections at the period of his second removal I said 1 st November cannot say for how long a time he served as such commissionary I said 1 st November.
I am N Phillips
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss.
On this 22 d day of January 1833 before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State now sitting at Danbury in said District personally appeared Samuel H. Phillips Esquire the above named Deponent and acknowledged the foregoing deposition and being duly sworn made solemn oath that the truth of the same, and said Court further noting that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 22 d day of January A.D. 1833 -
Edw. Taylor Clerk

Reuben Booth of Danbury in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of the court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in the said county and state, do hereby certify that all whom it may concern that Edward Taylor Edgare who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing certificate & caption of the deposition of Samuel H. Williams is Clerk of the said court of Probate duly appointed and sworn and was such Clerk at the time the same purports to have been signed and certified by him that the preceding signature purporting to be the signature of the said Edward Taylor is in his proper hand writing - and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such Clerk -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 22 d day of January A D 1833
Reuben Booth Judge of the court of Probate for the District of Danbury Conn -

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Jan'y 3 d , 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, One of the 4 Child n . of Hezekiah Ripley, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of one hundred & twenty eight Dollars and 33 Cents per. annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. to the 11 th Nov. 1836.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

S. Cole Esq. Chief Clerk Pension Office

Washington July 15/50
S. Cole Esq. Chief Clerk P. 6 Sir
The papers on file in the case of Hester Ripley dec d late of Connecticut ad t 1832. show my agency in the case and also in the case of Eliza White dec d ad t 1832 Connecticut
May I respectfully request - to see the papers in these cases. I have evidence in these cases. if it has not been already presented . and an allegation made thereon.
Yours most respectfully Rev. N. May

Application of the heirs of Hezekiah Ripley who was an Issuing Commissary - for an annuity - proof of 2 years service
U. Carroll Atty.

New-York, July 30 th 1844
Sir
I enclose the Power of Atty. of Eunice Armstrong, one of the heirs at law of the late Hezekiah Kipley Esq.
Hezekiah Kipley was an Issuing Comy. during the War of the Revolution, serving for upwards of two years - and entitled thereby to a pension of $600 per annum. The heirs now claim the arrearage due therefrom from 4 th March 1831 to the day of his death.
I refer you to the 2 d & 3 d Volumes of "Provisional Returns" in the "State Department" for proof of his service - which will be found therein signed by Saml. Gray & John Fitch Deputy Commissary Genl. of Stores - Returns made in June & August 1778 & in Jan'y 1779 - There are also other Returns proving in all upwards of two years service.
I am Sir
Very Resp'y,
Mr. O. H. Smith.
Am. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.
Richd. Carroll

Washington D.C.
July 3 rd 1848
To the Comr. of Pensions -
Sir
I herewith enclose you a power of Attorney from the Heirs of Hezekiah Ripley, authorizing me to investigate and obtain an allowance for any arrears of Pension due said Hezekiah Ripley at his death. He was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States on the Connecticut roll at $178.33 c per annum for services per- formed as Dr. Mr. and Commissary.
They are, and I am satisfied, the allow- made by you when the pension was first granted

was not as great as he was entitled to.
The rate of Pay of a Dr. Mr. under the Resolution of May 11 th 1779 of the Continental Congress was - $140 per month and of a Commissary $140. per month, and the highest rate of pay granted by the act of 1832 is $600. per annum. Now I respectfully ask your consideration of this application to increase the allowance in accordance with the aforesaid Resolution of May 12. 1779 and the terms of the act of June 7. 1832.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv.
George Macka

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 3, 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Three of the four children of Hezekiah Ripley, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of one hundred 78 Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of September 1836, to the 11 th Nov: 1836, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
W. B. Parsons Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

House of Reps Washington July 21 1833
Sir
accompanying this is an additional affidavit in consequence of the appointment of H. B. P. by the War Department. about which I conversed with you a day or two ago. That he was D. C. by the 11. months instead of ten as he stated as the most he would put it positively. With this addition if it can apply & you give full credit to his declaration (and you may be assured he is not a man that would on any account overstate as this paper incidentally confirms) his whole service amounts to 16 1/2 months thus —
  1st Company Battery — left service from 1st Dec. to 1st week in March fairly (tho he scrupulously says not less than 3 months)  } months.  3 1/2    (in a part of this time he went to Boston say one month for he says he was 2 mo in actual service at his post months of over three months  } months.  1 1/2    and so on

bro + own _____ months 3. 1/2  Dep't Gany James at Danbury } 11 — 10. with this add'ition  1 1/2. term at Exeter } 1 1/2 _____ 16 months
really — in declaration of no. —
Have 4 add'ns to attend to at once — for if you have any that deserves it it is this — tho' all may say so also. — yours with much, if just so beloved Elmer Hovey
Jennie P. Edwards Esq P.S. off
Ripley, Hezekiah Conn. Cont. 511305