Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23775, for Roswell Loomis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Loomis, Roswell
S. 23775
CONTENTS

New York 32093
Reported
Roswell Loonis of Oneida Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Munsen of the Regiment commanded by Col. Chandler in the Connecticut line for 6 mo. 18 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany. at the rate of 22 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Decem- ber 1843 and sent to Hon. S. Beardsley House of Representatives.
Arrears to the 14th of September 1843 275.00 Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1844 11.00
285.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. O. Ames Clerk, Book 82 Vol. 4 Page 42

216. 238.
Rosmele Loomis
Mr Bales - Chandlers 12 June 77. to 1 Jan'y 78 6 mo. 18 ds - pri
admt.
6 mo 18 ds pri
22 $
Hon: S. Beardsley N.H.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. —
State of New York } Oneida County ss. }
On this 30 th day of May - in the year 1833 personally appeared in open court before Nathan Williams Vice Chancellor of the Fifth Circuit of the state of New York in the Court of Chancery now sitting. Roswell Loomis a resident of New Hartford in the county of Oneida & state of New York aged almost eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the follow- ing Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. —
That he was born in the town of Torrington in the state of Connecticut in the year 1754 & that he lived in Litchfield Torrington in said state at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war - that soon after the commencement of said war he enlisted under a recruiting officer, by the name of Daniel Hodge (if his memory be correct) as a private soldier in the army of the Revolution at Litchfield Torrington aforesaid, and was immediately put into the company of Captain Munson in the regiment commanded by Colo. Isaac Chandler. that he has been informed his name is spelled Rosel Loomis & this circum- stance brings to his recollection that he was then called Rosel & he believes the sergeants wrote it down so, but his proper name is Roswell & he is sure no other person but himself by the name of Rosel or Roswell Loomis then belonged to said Munson's company. — He has not at this time any distinct recollection of enlisting in any other company than Capt. Munson's. The great lapse of time & old age increasing upon him must be an excuse for not recollecting more particularly. Soon after his enlistment as aforesaid he was marched away from Litchfield Torrington aforesaid to meet the enemy: He was soon detached from Colo. Chandler's regiment & with several others placed as a sentinel on guard in which service he was chiefly employed for a great portion of the term of his service. At the time Burgoyne surrendered he was stationed in the fort called Independence about four miles from Montgomery. His orders were to watch  guard the ships of the line on the North River & to give information when the British came up: as a signal of which they guard were to fire a cannon twice distinctly & then throw it over board into the river. About ten o'clock in the morning five ships of the enemy hove in sight. The signal was given as ordered

and the enemy's ships approached and fired occasionally till about two o'clock in the afternoon. The next morning the guard went to Montgomery fort. At this time Colo. Chandler's Regiment to which the said Loomis belonged had gone to Philadelphia, as was said, the guard aforesaid excepted which was left in the fort aforesaid. By General Putnam's orders the next morning the said Loomis with the guard aforesaid & others followed a British vessel up & down the river from Fishkill to New Windsor & from New Windsor to Kingsbridge & from this place to Kings Ferry. At one time the said Loomis was ordered with others from White plains to Litchfield as a guard to convey fifteen Tories to Litchfield jail. While the British vessels were up the river as aforesaid the guard were under marching order for five or six weeks & were constantly on duty. After a hard tour of service of this kind which occupied a long time the said Loomis was ordered to Philadelphia where he joined the said regiment commanded by Colo. Chandler aforesaid where he remained some small distance below Philadelphia for some time he cannot now say definitely how long - but during the time he was taken with the small pox & was suffered extremely under the operation of the disease, indeed he narrowly escaped with his life. He was dismissed from said service below Philadelphia before he had entirely recovered from the small pox, being so weak that he could not walk more than four or five miles in a day & had to subsist on the charity of the people.
And the said Loomis further says that by reason of the great lapse of time & the infirmities of old age he is unable to detail his services more minutely than he has done as aforesaid. That in performing the services before stated & others which he was undoubtedly called on to perform, he spent nearly three years, certainly not less than two years & a half in the revolutionary war, doing whatever he could under the orders of his officers; but he knows of no person now living by whom he could prove any part of his services - for he believes he has outlived all his acquaintances in the said service; but if any of them live, he does not know where they may be; nor has he any written evidence of his services - if he ever had any, it is all lost & gone & he himself is also nearly worn out & gone down to the land of silence. He was regularly discharged below Philadelphia aforesaid but has now no written discharge & if he ever had one it is lost.
And this deponent further says that he resided in Torrington aforesaid some years after the close of the Revolutionary war and then removed into the state of New York, into that part there called Whitestown now New Hartford in the county of Oneida where he has ever since resided and now resides.

In this deponent further says that being now almost eighty years of age & not being able to find any witnesses of his services aforesaid, he is well known to the Rev. Charles Giles, Robert H. Griffin & Russell Blackstone, residing in his present neighborhood & the town of New Hartford aforesaid who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
And 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.
Subscribed & sworn R. OSWELL LOOMIS the day & year aforesaid before me -
N. Williams Min. Chanc.
State of New York. On this board of Chs. Charles Giles a Minister of the Gospel, Robert H. Griffin & Russell Blackstone
being duly sworn according to law depose & say that they reside in the town of New Hartford in the county of Oneida & state of New York - that they are well acquainted with Roswell Loomis of the same town & know him to be the same person named in & who made the foregoing declaration and affidavit - that it is the belief of the neighborhood that he was a soldier of the revolutionary army - that they concur in that opinion & belief that he did render services similar to those described in his declaration & affidavit, as of the age therein stated & that he is a respectable citizen and man of truth.
Subscribed & sworn this 30 th day of May - 1838. before me.
N. Williams Min. Chanc.
Charles Giles Robert H. Griffin Russell Blackstone
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 Charles Giles - who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident

in the town of New Hartford & county of Oneida and that Robert H. Griffin & Russell Blackston who have also signed the same are residents in the same town & are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
M c William New Chan. u
I James Watson Williams, Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York for the Fifth Circuit of said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Roswell Loonis for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this Thirty first day of May A.D. 1833.
James Watson Williams: Clerk in Chancery 5 th Circuit N.Y.

Providence
23775 INVALID.
Nov. 29, 1904 History to Mrs. Norman Austin Clinton, N.Y.
File No. 23775
Roswell Loomis
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Roswell Loomis
Hand Beasley 1702
Matthias Loomis unattached

State of New York Oneida County
On this fifteenth day of November, Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County, Roswell Loomis a resident of New Hartford, in the County of Oneida and State of New York, aged Eighty nine years, who is prevented from appearing before a court of record by reason of bodily infirmity, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832: That he enlisted for the first time in the army of the United States as near as he can remember in the year 1777, as a private in a company commanded by Captain Munson, in Colonel Chandler's Regiment, of the Connecticut line, one Daniel Hodge was a lieutenant in the said company, one sergeant name was Whitney and another was named Ryce that he enlisted for eight months and was discharged after a service of six months, and was sick at the time of his discharge, that at the time that General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga he was stationed as guard at Fort Independence and that their principal duty was to watch the ships of war belonging to the British and to give notice of their approach. That after his discharge for that time he was several times drafted into the Militia of the State of Connecticut and as often enlisted into the Regular Service, but from his age and infirmity and the consequent loss of memory he cannot designate
Note the words "as a private" were interlined before execution Sworn to at Manchester Place

the regiments or officers with precision, but he can remember of serving some time under Colonel Webb, and at another time under Captain Mores Seymour in the cavalry. That after the passage of the act of June 7. 1832 he made application to the War Department of the United States for a pension under that act, and was denied in part for the reason that his name was spelled on the rolls of the Department, as Rosel , instead of Roswell , that he never saw how his name was spelled on the roll, but that Roswell was the way in which his name was pronounced at that time and for many years afterwards, and by some at the present time. That at the time of his enlistments he lived in the town of Torrington in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut. - that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and has not been able after diligent enquiry to find out any one of his fellow soldiers who are now living.
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.
Roswell Loomis
Sworn and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid } before me.
Jeremiah Manchester Dace
We Elias Bowen a clergyman, residing in Paris in the county of Oneida and State of New York, and William Gere, residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Roswell Loomis, who has

Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty nine 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:
And the above named William Gere would further state that he has known the above named Roswell Loomis for more than forty years last past, and that his name was generally pronounced Rosrel when he first became acquainted with him and by many it is so pronounced at this time.
Sworn & subscribed the 3 day and year aforesaid before me
Jeremiah Manchester Peace
Elias Bowen William Gere
I Jeremiah Manchester the Justice of Peace above named, do hereby declare my 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 I further certify, that I am acquainted with the above named Elias Bowen who has signed the preceding certificate, that he is a clergyman, resident in the town of Paris above named, and that William Gere is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that I have known the applicant above named for more than thirty years last past and fully concur with William Gere in what he states in his certificate respecting the

the pronunciation of the applicants name. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year above written
Jeremiah Manchester Brace
State of New York Onida County. Clerks Office
I, P. Sheldon Root, clerk of the courts of Onida County, and State, aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jeremiah Manchester, is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1844, and will expire on the last day of December 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County, this 16 th day of Novem- ber 1843.
P. Sheldon Root, C.M.

The commissioners of pensions will perceive that although the annexed sheet is cut a part of the way it is in fact one piece of paper and the certificate of the county clerk impressed through both pages.
Manchester Place.

Dec 19 43
NY. R. Loring
Edwards Pension Office
Hon S. Beardsley 1702

Washington Dec. 18. '43.
Sir, I send additional papers in the case of Russell Loonis', which was suspended some time since. Allow me to ask you to look at this application with attention. The old gentleman is honest & he served his country - he may be in an error as to the duration of his service but he is not mistaken in the fact that he served I am &c Saml Bradley
L. L. Edmards

J. 23, 775
Roswell Loomis
Roswell Loomis
May 30, 1833 New Hartford
Oneida Co., NY b. 1754
in Torrington, Conn. there at end.
77
Pr. Capt. Munson
Col. Isaac Chandler.
Conner line
Sta. at Ft. Independence at the time of Pongoupe! surrender. - 6 m
servant in Mil. under
Capt. Moses Seymour
Col. Webb.

03295 W
Nov. 10-1904
Commissioner of Pensions, Dear Sir.
Will you kindly send me the record of my great-grandfather Who served in the Revolutionary war.
His name was Roswell Loomis, residence, Sanguoi, Town of Paris. Oneida Co. New York.
Thanking you in advance I am yours truly Mrs. Norman Austin
Clinton Oneida Co. N.Y.

New York
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