Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6076, for Elisha Lad, Connecticut

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or Lad, Elisha Ladd
P. 6076
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 State of Connecticut } ss County Court August County of Tolland } Term Dec 1837
On this 22 nd day of August 1837 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court named sitting Deacon Elisha Ladd a resident of the Town of Bolton in said County and an tax clerk of Tolland and a native of Connecticut aged 84 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 That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer and served as herein stated. - I left home in Bolton on the 18 th day of April 1775 on hearing the alarm of the British having gone to Lexington & marched with other volunteers immediately to Danbury near Danstan where I joined a company under the command of Lieut Edward Payne afterwards, Capt Payne - Gen Heath & Collier the commanding officer till the arrival of Gen Washington - I staid in said service and did duty as a fifer until about the 20 th of June 1775 being two months - I can not recollect the names of any other of the officers - and am not certain that Gen Washington arrived before I returned home

I was regularly discharged from the service when I left the army - and on the last part of August 1796 I believe the 3 or 5 day of Aug. I belonged to a company of Militia men commanded by Capt. Ezekiel Root of said Bolton, that part of said town then called North Bolton, and then marched with said company to P'keepsie and there remained in the service of the United States with said company as a fifer the term of two months when there we were discharged and returned home - I do not recollect any other officers - I also belonged to a company of minutemen formed in said North Bolton in 1778 or 1779 and held in readiness for actual service in and with said company from the formation thereof till the close of the war - I was a fifer in said company - when said company was formed they elected to a chain of officers by Col. Jesse Root who was Col. of the Reg t and afterwards Chief Judge of the Superior Court in Connecticut - I do not recollect the names of the other officers - I have no documentary evidence of the above statement and know of no

Person whose testimony I can prove to prove my belonging to a company of minutemen - I should have made application for a pension sooner but was not informed till lately that my case would come within the provision of the pension law - I do not know that I had a written discharge from the service - If I had written discharge they are lost -
I was born at Rutland in the year 1754 I have no record of my age that I know of Some of the Revolutionary men I have heard in North Bolton now called Rensselaer also in Wilbraham & other places known to the persons who have signed the annexed certificate Elisha Lord
We hereby certify that we are acquainted with the above declarant that he is an honorable and respectable man and we believe that the services were rendered by him as stated in his declaration and that the statement therein contained is true -
Aug 22 1837
Calvin Niles Horatio C. Chapman Levi D. Loomis Elisha Stearns Ezra Chapman
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories submitted by the war department, that the above named

applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. The Clappmen in this vicinity are young men and know nothing of the facts stated in the foregoing dictation. And that Calvin Wiley Esq. late a member of the United States Senate, Novatus Chapman now Judge of Probate for the district of Tolland, Titus Long an associate Judge of Tolland County Court, Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace in said County, Charles Chapman Sheriff of said County of Tolland who have signed the within certificate are residents in the towns of Tolland & Coventry in said County of Tolland & are all credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Court of Tolland County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Elisha Ladd for a pension.
In testimony I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 9 th day of September a 1837.
Jeremiah Parish Clerk
34,143. V E Elisha Ladd
Coventry
7 June, 1832

Rejected
see let. to Elisha Stearns, Sept. 22, 1837.
6076

OK
Ladd.
Signs Lad
Am inclined to believe the man could not write well enough to to correctly spell his name
107 June 21, 1906

Adams Conn. Sept 11 1837
Sir
Enclosed is the application of Deacon Elisha Ladd for a pension. The evidence I hope will be satisfactory being the best that could be obtained.
Very respectfully yours President
Hon. James L. D. Read
Elisha Stearns

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
6076
P. O. Oliver Sams
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Cont
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Vernon June 19 th 1837
I Leonard Rogers of Vernon in Tolland County & State of Connecticut aged Eighty two. on Oath depore & say. That on the ninth day of June 1775 I enlisted into the Company under the Command of Capt Edward Payne & marched immediately to Roxbury in Massachusetts, arrived there the Sixteenth day of the same month, & there saw Elisha Saddel who was among the volunteers who turned out on the alarm which was given of the British marching to Lexington, he continued in the service sometime afterward I cannot say how long, The abovenamed Elisha Saddel then belonged to the Town of Bolton in said Tolland County, in that part of said Town which is now the Town of Vernon, & was a Fifer
Leonard Rogers
Tolland County ss. Vernon June 19 th 1837 Personally appeared Leonard Rogers signer of the foregoing Deposition and made Oath to the truth thereof before me Oliver H. King Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally ac- quainted with the abovenamed Leonard Rogers and consider him to be a man of truth & veracity, Oliver H. King Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut. County of Tolland ss. County Clerk's Office I Jeremiah Priest Clerk of Tolland County Court do certify that Oliver H. King Esq before whom the accompanying depositions of Leonard Rogers & Elisha Saddel were sworn to by sd Deponents, is a Justice of Peace within sd Tolland County legally appointed & sworn that his Commission bears date the 7 th day of June 1837 & will continue until the 20 th day of June 1838 & that the signatures to the foregoing certificates are genuine to the best of my knowledge at my hand & seal of office at Tolland in sd County this 9 th day of June 1837

Vernon June 19 th 1837
I justice Salecott of the Town of Vernon in Tolland County and State of Connecticut aged Seventy seven, on Oath depose and say That in the fore part of August 1776. The Company of Militia under the Command of Captain Ezekiel Olcott Hartford Bolton were ordered to march to New York. I then belonged to & went with said Company to New York. Elisha Ladd of said North Bolton now Vernon belonged to said Company & went with us to New York - we staid there as near as I can recollect about two months.
Ezekiel Salecott
Tolland County ss. Vernon June 19 th 1837 Personally appeared justice Salecott signer of the foregoing Deposition and made oath to the truth thereof before me
Oliver H. King justice of Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the abovenamed justice Salecott and consider him to be a man of Truth and veracity.
Oliver H. King justice of Peace