Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,180, for Elias Lathrop, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Lathrop, Elias
P. 6. 180
Horcas.
B.L. Wt. 53752-160-55
CONTENTS

I Rufus Lathrop of Chelsea in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged sixty seven years do hereby testify and said that I was born in Norwich Connecticut and was raised in the same family with Elias Lathrop of Vershire in Vermont an applicant for a pension. In the year 1777 according to my best recollection said Elias Lathrop engaged in the service of the United States and left said Norwich as I then and have ever since understood to join the American Army. In the course of the said year I heard repeatedly that said Elias Lathrop was with the American Army and met upon duty of driving a team. I have ever understood that said Lathrop at that time served six months. Some time after the above mentioned service but at what time I cannot now state said Elias Lathrop served two months as one of the Garrison of Fort Ticonderoga but whether as a militia man or a continental I cannot state though I believe he was one of the militia. The said Elias Lathrop now resides in Vershire Vermont and is the identical person who applies for the pension.
Rufus Lathrop
State of Vermont } At Chelsea in Orange County July Orange County } 24. 1832 personally appeared Rufus Lathrop personally known to me and a credible witness and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. Before me
State of Vermont DALE BUCK Justice Peace Orange County Clerk's Office August 24 1832 I H. E. G. H. Loughlin Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit was taken in a matter of the peace duly authorized to administer oaths and that the signature purporting to be his signature in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. — H. E. G. H. Loughlin Clerk

I, Olive Warren of Middlesex in the County of Washington & State of Vermont do hereby testify, after being duly sworn, that I am the sister of Borea Lathrop, the widow of Elias Lathrop, late of Middlesex in the County of Orange, deceased.
My sister Borea was married to the said Elias Lathrop at Abner in the County of Orange on the 12 th day of January, A. D. 1797, by Reuben Hatch, a Justice of the Peace. I was then twentyone years of age, & my sister was in her nineteenth year. Our maiden name was Bohannon. This marriage was at the house of my brother, Stephen Bohannon, the same house in which Thomas Jones, Esquire, now lives - my sister Mary, now Mrs. Taylor, stood up with the couple when they were married -
Olive Warren
State of Vermont.
Washington County, ss. At Middlesex on the 29 th day of January, A. D. 1856, personally appeared Olive Warren & made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed in due form of law.
Before me
Charles Root, Justice of the Peace

258. 793
Act Mar. 3. '17 Apr. 4. '16
Dorcas Lathrop paid.
Elias Lathrop. Mri. Deceased
Deceased
Very. war.
Lee Penn. paper Oct 7. June 1832
Other Lathrop 32
Ad. 160 ac's Jan'y 12/57
Dodge
Stephen Thomas. West Fairlee. Vt.
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Charles Dethrop No 2563
Wormwood
Suspended Tea miter
6 in
6180

BRIEF in the case of  Elias Lathrop of Wenham  County of Orange  in the State of Vermont  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     April In 1777 6 Teamster   Oct 1 1778 Substitute 2 Private  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? 
 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Norwich. County of New London Connecticut 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Living & Traditional, two witnesses. No Klingyman in the vicinity of his residence 
Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Wilson Examining Clerk.

2.18. 793
BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Mrs. Doreas Lathrop
Widow of Revolution
Please Communicate with ; Stephen Thomas West Fairlee Vt.

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Widow of a deceased Officer or Soldier.
STATE OF  Vermont } On this 25 th day of April A.D. one County of  Orange s.s. } thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Dorcas Lathrop aged 78 years, a resident of Vershire in the State of Vermont who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Elias Lathrop who was a Private & Peunster in the company commanded by Captain in the
regiment of Great Britain commanded by in the war with declared by United States on the 1 st of July (She thinks) that her husband Enlisted at Norwich or Colechester Co on or about the day of A.D.
for the term of and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at on the day of A.D.
That she cannot state the particulars of the service of her said husband, but refers to his application for a Pension under the act of June 7 th 1832, which was suspended or rejected, and that she has not any record of her marriage or the death of her husband & does not know of any that she applied to the town clerk of Chelsea for a record of marriage but could not find any She further states that she was married to the said Elias Lathrop in Chelsea, Vermont on the 12 th day of January A.D. 1797 by one Benben Hattor a Justice of Peace and that her name before said marriage was Bohannon ; that her husband died at Vershire, Vermont on the 5 th day of March A.D. 1857 , and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855." That neither herself nor her husband the said Elias Lathrop have ever applied for nor received any bounty land under this nor any other act of Congress -
Dorcas Lathrop Mark
WE, Peter Bragg and Olive Bragg , residents of Strafford in the State of Vermont upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Dorcas Lathrop in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. That we knew the said Elias & Dorcas to live together as Man & wife for many years, that we attended the funeral of the said Elias on the 7 th day of March 1857 & know the said Dorcas Lathrop to be now a Widow
Peter Bragg Olive Bragg
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written : and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons : that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Stephen Thomas, Notary Public Justice of Peace.
VERMONT, } I, County, SS. } the County of
Clerk of the County Court for in the State of Vermont, which is a Court
Esq., is an acting qualified by the laws of this State to administer Oaths for general purposes; that I am acquainted with his going to be genuine.
WHEREOF, I hereby set my hand and affix the seal of said County Court, in said County, this day of

Elias Lathrop Declaration Verushin No 2.5638. L.
  1832  69  14    1833  69  14    1834  69  14  
Elias Lathrop No. 18
Please to make return to John W. Smith Chelsea Orange County Vermont

State of Vermont, ORANGE COUNTY ss.
At Chelsea in said County on this 21 st day of August
A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Titus Hutchinson  Daniel Coble & Thomas Jones , Justices of the County
the Court of said Orange County, now sitting, being a Court of Record and State of Vermont, aged 69 years, 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,
Elias Lathrop a resident of Weshire in the County of Orange That he enlisted in the service of the United States in the year 1777 as a teamster for the term of six months in 8 th Capacity. That at the time of his enlistment he resided in Norwich in the County of New London and State of Connecticut - that on or about the first of April 1777 he enlisted as a teamster also under Capt. John Champlaine - and started immediately from Colchester in Connecticut with a six ox team & went to Hartford in Connecticut & from thence to Kings Ferry on North River from thence to Peachkill . Fishkill & thence back to Danbury & Hartford in Connecticut & from thence back to Peachkill and so on continually till about the first of October following when he was discharged at Hartford in the State of Connecticut by verbal discharge - that during the period of this service he drew his rations the same as a soldier. Also that in the fall of the year 1778 about the first of October according to his best recollection - while residing at Norwich aforesaid he entered the service of the United States as a substitute for his father Elias Lathrop who was drafted, in the Militia Company stationed at New London in the State of Connecticut , and that he remained forthwith to New London and was attached to the Garrison of Fort Trumbull in B. New London for the term of two months. That he cannot recollect the Company Officers, nor can he recollect who commanded the 8 th Fort. That there were a number of Companies of Militia stationed at New London at that time. The name of the Commander of the Fort was Mines . That he was discharged verbally from the service at Fort Trumbull on or about the first of December of the year 1778, at the expiration of the 8 th two months. That he has no documentary evidence of his service above mentioned - and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except the affidavits of Rufus Lathrop & Elisha Lathrop -
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. to his knowledge
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Elias Lathrop H. E. G. H. Lacey Clerk
We Nathaniel Oak residing in Chelsea in said County of Orange and Hiram Huntington residing in the said Chelsea hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Lathrop who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be 69 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. also that there is no Chrysem residing in the immediate vicinity of Appleton who can probably testify to the above facts - said Huntington understands that the Applicant intends to go with the Team
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Hiram Huntington Nathl Oak H. E. G. H. Lacey Clerk

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H. E. G. H. Laughlin Clerk
We Nathaniel Oak — residing in Chelsea in said County of Orange and Hiram Huntington residing in the said Chelsea hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Datherap who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be 89 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. also that there is no Chrysem residing in the immediate vicinity of Applicant who can probably testify to the above facts — said Huntington understands that the Applicant intends to go with the Team
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Hiram Huntington. Nath! Oak H. E. G. H. Laughlin 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 further certify that it appears to them that Hiram Huntington who has signed the preceding certificate, is a — resident in Chelsea in said County, and that Nathaniel Oak — who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
H. E. G. H. Laughlin Clerk
1. H. E. G. H. Laughlin Clerk of the Court of Orange County — aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elias Datherap — for a pension. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 24th day of August — A. D. 1832.
H. E. G. H. Laughlin CLERK.

Date of July 14, 1862, and March 6, 1875.
6180
REJECTED
P. O. Elias Salhrojo
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Vermont Elias P. Lathrop Rejected
See Letter to P. Smith
23 Aug 1833
ans? Hon. H. Evarts, Mar.
19: 1834 =
Let to J. N. Smith 26 Nov 1835
Hon. D. Foot Mar 30/54
258/93

S. Frost W. T. H.
32 69 63
Hon. Elias Lathrop W. Aug 32
L. P. Waldo, Clerk of Pensions Pension-Office.

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J. A. Edwards Esq
M.P. of Preston
H. H. Everett

Washington 15. Decr 1832
Sir
The enclosed letter represents that Elias Lathrop enlisted as a soldier - and drew his clothing and pay as such - and that his application for a pension is rejected because he was selected to perform the duty of a teamster . I wish to be informed if the facts are as stated - and the principle on which the claim was rejected. — I am very respectfully
Your obedt
H. Everard
J. L. Edwards Esq Comr. of Pensions

Eliza Lathrop
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J. L. Edward Comm. of Rivers
J. M. Smith Esq. Chelsea Orange County Vermont

War Department Pension Office August 23. 1883
Sir.
The claim of Elias Lothrop being founded upon but two months military service has been rejected. His employment as Teamster upon the facts stated is not within the Act of 7 th June. The papers are placed on file
I am Respectfully Your. Obed t Serv t J. L. Edwards
John W. Smith Esq Chelsea Orange County Vermont

Birney Phelps Deposition

I Bissell Phelps of Waitsfield in the County of Washington and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Capt. John Chamberlain of Colchester in Connecticut who served as a Captain of a company of teams and teamsters in the Quartermaster General's Department in the Revolutionary war, in years 1777 and 1778, that he served under Army regulations and not under civil contract . That he received his appointment from Nehemiah Hubbard D. Q. M. General.
Bissell Phelps
Washington County ss. } Waitsfield Sept. 23. 1834.
I hereby certify that Bissell Phelps this day personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains is just and true, before me Jerison Jones Justice of Peace.
I also certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Bissell Phelps for nearly forty years and that I believe him to be a credible man.
Jerison Jones Justice of Peace.
State of Vermont ss. } Joshua W. Vail Clerk of the Washington County ss. } county Court within and for the County aforesaid do certify that Jerison Jones is a magistrate duly appointed & acting under the authority of this State and that his signature above as such is his own proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 24 th day of September A. D. 1834. Joshua W. Vail Clerk

Robert J. Edwards. Carmel, Russians
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you additional evidence in the case of Rufus Bicknell an applicant for a pension. whose papers are on file - In your letter to me you say that his claim is rejected in consequence of his age being too young to enter military service I hope in the additional proofs. he now furnishes will satisfy the Department that he served as a warrior as he states -
I send also additional proofs in the case of Elias Lathrop an applicant for a pension whose papers are also on file - I have very intimate acquaintance with Elias Lathrop and his well known character for integrity and strict honesty and the facts that Elisha Lathrop a half brother of his for several services is placed on the pension lists - I hope a favourable Decision will be had in his case see our file 1892-
Relation to the case of Elijah Blake whose papers are now on file in your office I have to say that Mr Blake is so infirm and feeble and so far advanced in life that he will be able to do nothing more to substantiate his claim. a claim which I suppose stood on the best foundation of almost any one for whom I made application Mr George an old pensioner was in the service with him. and if he the said Blake by reason of age and infirmity was mistaken in the statement of our term of his service. still if he has without any question performed several terms

of service of which he is fortunate enough to make proof - Ought he to be rejected wholly because he had the misfortune to live till he was so old and superannuated that he could not in his doting state correctly all his terms of service! If any terms of service are incorrectly stated he asks not for a pension on such terms, but on those which he has proved beyond controversy -
I submit the case to your decision
Yours. Obedt Servant -
Chas. H. Cross
John W. Smith
16. 1835

✓ Feb. 1853
S New Amz

I, Mary Taylor, of Montpelier in the County of Washington & State of Vermont, having been duly sworn, depose & say, that I am the sister of Dorcas Lathrop who is the widow of Oliver Lathrop, who died at Newhine in this State about five years ago.
My Sister Dorcas & the s d Oliver Lathrop were married at Chelsea in this State on the 12 th day of January, A D 1797, by Reuben Hatch, a Justice of the Peace. I was then in my seventeenth year, & her youngest sister, & stood up with her bride at the ceremony. Our maiden name was Bokonon.
Mary Taylor
State of Vermont } Washington County } ss. At Montpelier on this 29 th day of January, A D 1856, personally appeared Mary Taylor & made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed was true, in due form of law. Before me
Charles Reed, Justice of Peace.
State of Vermont } ss. I, Shubael Wheeler Clerk of the County Court for the County of Washington in the State of Vermont which is a Court of Record hereby certify that Charles Reed Esq r is on this 29 th day of January A D 1848 a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified to administer Oaths for general purposes - that I am acquainted with his hand writing and believe his signature to the foregoing Certificate to be genuine. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said County Court, at Montpelier in said County this 29 th day of January A D 1856 Shubael Wheeler Clerk

STATE OF VERMONT.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
Montpelier, Sept. 25 1856 }
I Certify that Stephen Thomas Esq., whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand-writing to the foregoing Certificate, was at the date thereof, a Notary Public , within and for the County of Orange duly qualified, with full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws of said State to administer Oaths and take Depositions, and Acknowledgments of Deeds, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are, and ought to be given.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office, this 26 th day of September A. D. 1856
Charles W. Millard
Secretary of State.

I Elisha Lathrop of Watbury in the County of Washington and State of Vermont aged sixty seven years do hereby testify and say that I was born in Norwich in the State of Connecticut and was raised in the same neighbourhood with Elias Lathrop who now resides in Vershire Vermont and is an applicant for a pension. In the spring of the year 1780 I enlisted into the service of the United States under Capt Sanford Cartee and two or three years before my enlistment I know that said Elias Lathrop left said town of Norwich as it was said to join the American Army. I understood at the same time that he had enlisted into the service of the United States. The said Lathrop was absent some months, I have always understood six months, and then returned to said Norwich. While I was in the Army in 1780 I heard the said Elias Lathrop spoken of by those who said they had been comrades and served with him. I have always understood & believe that said Elias Lathrop died while in the Army of the United States during the war of the revolution and such has been the general reputation in relation thereto. Elisha Lathrop
State of Vermont At Chelsea in said County the 24 th day of July 1832 personally appeared Elisha Lathrop personally known to me and a credible witness and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. before me
GARROUCK Just Peace
22 o 1832 State of Vermont Orange County Clerk's Office August 1 st 1832 I H. E. G. H. Lucephlen Clerk of Orange County do hereby certify that D Azra A Buck before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is a Justice of the peace for said County duly authorized to administer oaths and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. H. E. G. H. Lucephlen Clerk

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H. P. Harkness

I Elias Lathrop of Vershire in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 87 years depose & say that I have heretofore made an application under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, for a Pension, which has not as yet been allowed; that I now ask of the Commissioner of Pensions to reexamine my application And I hereby appoint Col. H. H. Sylvester my agent to prosecute the claim before the Pension Department Elias Lathrop
Sworn to and Subscribed by the above affiant This 7 th day of May 1850
Before me
Stephen Thomas Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office Montpelier July 3. 1850
I hereby certify that Stephen Thomas Esginre, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is, and was at the date thereof a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orange in said State, duly appointed and qualified, and that to his acts and attestations as such full faith and credit are due.
Given under my hand and the seal of this Office this third day of July, A. D. 1850.
Fernand J. Merrill Secretary of State

Eliza Lathrop Affidavit
Eliza Lathrop to affirm that to the best of

State of Vermont } Chelsea in D r County Sept 23. 1835
Orange County to } Personally appeared before me the Scales herein a justice of the Peace within and from the County of said Elias Lathrop of Vermont in D r County an applicant for a pension, who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he was born of old age and consequently loss of memory he cannot swear more positively than he has done in his Original declaration as to the precise length of his service but according to his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades for six months I served as a teamster in Capt John Chamberlain's Com- pany in 1877 and for two months I served as a private in Fort Ticonderoga and for such service I claim a pension. He also testifies and says that he recollects three Captains of teams who were then in the service and commanded enlisted Company of Rensselaer Vols. Capt John Cham- berlain (his Captain), Capt. Buckley & Capt Phelps - and that his Company were all enlisted men - and were all named as follows - Clerk Carter, Langford Carter, Samuel Northam for Northam, two Men by the name of Bliss, (brothers), Will Foat, and one Bissell & one Billings & himself - he knows his team were a Continental team & that when discharged he had a Continental horse to ride home as far as Col- chester, and that while in service one of his oxen died and another was taken from the Con- tinental oxen -
Elias Lathrop
State of Vermont } at Chelsea in D r County on the Orange County to } 23 rd day of September 1835 then personally appeared Elias Lathrop above named a person well known to me and a good credible wit- ness and made oath that the above description by him subscribed is just & true - before me John M. Smith, Justice Peace

State of Vermont Orange County ss
I Harry Hale, Clerk of the County Court, for Orange County do hereby certify, that John W. Smith is a justice of the peace, within and for the County of Orange aforesaid, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths, and that his signature hereunto attached is his genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of said County Court, at Chelsea in said County, this 7 th day of November A.D. 1835. Harry Hale, Clerk.