Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13778, for Noah Lockwood, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Lockwood, Noah
S. 13778.
CONTENTS
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Connecticut. 31234.
Noah Lockwood
Fairfield in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Waring of the regt. commanded by Col. Mead in the Connecticut line for
9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of October 1837 and sent to H. G. J. T. Whittlesey, M. C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1837 $195. 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar ch 38 15. 00
$210.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. M. Gandy, Clerk, Book E 2. Vol. 3. Page 24.

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } Stamford Probate District
On this second day of September 1887 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for said District now sitting Noah Lockwood a resident of Greenwich in said County in State aged seventy four years who being first sworn according to law and on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz -
That, on the 1 st of April 1782, he enlisted, as a private soldier, for a period of nine months in a company of Town or Coast Guards in said Greenwich commanded by Lieut. (afterwards Capt.) Henry Waring and served continuously, during the period of his enlistment, on the lines in said Greenwich. The service of said company consisted principally in guarding and protecting from incursions the coast in said Greenwich, which borders on Long Island Sound - but was, sometimes, when emergency required, called into service at Byram - Horse Neck - Rye.
The Regiment to which said company belonged was commanded by Gen. John Mear - who as this applicant believes, had command of all the troops which were stationed along the lines -
He further declares that he was born in Greenwich in said District on the 20 th day of September 1713 and has resided there ever since his birth - That he has no record of his age. That he received no written discharge from the service - He refers to Ebenezer Joseph & Drake Lockwood of said Greenwich who are his neighbors, have been neighbors of his, & testify as to his character for veracity & their knowledge of history of his services -

This applicant 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 -
Given to subscribers the day & year aforesaid Before me Charles H. Dudley his Judge Done also in presence of Joshua D. Ferris
And now on this 4 th day of September A.D. 1837 before said Court now sitting personally appeared Ebenezer Jessup of Greenwich aforesaid aged seventy four years who being duly sworn testifies & says that he was born in & has always lived in said Greenwich - That in the Revolutionary War of on the first of April 1782 this deponent enlisted for the term of nine months in a company of coast guards raised by the State of Connecticut in said Greenwich for the defense of the coast of Connecticut and that said company was commanded by Captain (called Capt.) Henry Waring now decd. of Secondore Point (called Cape.) Henry Waring now decd. of Secondore Point the whole period of his said enlistment in said Greenwich having previously in 1781 served in the same guard then commanded by Timothy Lockwood now decd. - That about Lockwood of said Greenwich the applicant above named enlisted in the same guard with this deponent April 1 st 1782 for said term of nine months of secondore the whole of said term with this deponent in said guard, as a private soldier - The service was rendered in said Greenwich with I was continuous service in the field in patrolling & guarding the coast - said Waring has always from his childhood been a near neighbor of this deponent of his character for truth & respectability has always been good - I knew the fact of his service from being in the service with him -
Ebenezer Jessup

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. Probate District of Stamford on this 18 th day of September AD 1887
Personally appeared Duke Lockwood of Greenwich in said District age seventy four years, before the Court of Probate in said District and sitting whole being only sworn to the truth that he well knows Duke Lockwood of said Greenwich & has always well known him having always lived near him in said Greenwich - That he then appeared in the Revolutionary war in the years as he thinks 1780, 1781, 1782 and in a company of Coast guards stationed in said Greenwich & commanded for a long time by Lieut (called Capt.) James Lockwood & afterwards by Lieut (called Capt.) Henry Waring, both of whom are now dead. He well knows that said Duke served in said guards for he has seen him on duty therein - but his memory is much impaired & he cannot now state in what year it was, nor for how long a term nor whether under said Lockwood or said Waring - But it was under one or the other of them. I think from my recollection of having seen him on duty in the guards he must have served therein at least nine months -
Sworn to & subscribed on
the day & year aforesaid
before me & I certify that I know the appearance of that he is a credible person.
(Duke Lockwood)
Chas. Hawley Judge

We Thomas Paine a clergyman residing in the Town of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut & Charles Hildreth residing in the Town of Stamford in said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Noah Larkwood who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be some thirty three or almost forty years of age - That he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion - That the said Paine is the pastor of the Society within which said Noah lives & the said Charles at the time of said Stamford resides within half a mile of said Noah's residence; each living close by the line which separates said Greenwich from said Stamford -
Subscribed on the 14 th day of September A.D. 183
Thomas Paine Charles Hildreth
Before me
Chas. Hawley Judge
And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the Ward opined that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier of whom as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to said Court, that the Rev. Thomas Paine who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the Town of Greenwich in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut & that Charles Hildreth who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Stamford in said County near adjoining said Greenwich & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Chas. Hawley Judge

I Joshua B. Ferris Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Noah Lockwood for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 18 th day of September A.D. 1837.
Joshua B. Ferris Clerk
34 3/4 Noah Lockwood
Conn.
Ad o gms. per $30 per ann.
Cont. Not here
pay the same
at next
Rev. T. Whittier H.R.

Note of Omeleck County of Fairfield
Pr. Probate District of Stamford
on the 9 th day of October A.D. 1837 before the Comr of Probate in the said District were sitting personally appeared in person Col. John L. Lockwood of Green- wich in said District who being duly sworn accord- ing to law with me his oath made the Declaration supplementing to his original Declaration recently for- warded to the Probate Department for a pension under the law of June 7 th 1832; viz; he says that the said Corps of Coast guards in which he served as in P. original Declaration set forth was a Corps of State troops raised & organized by the State of Connecticut for defense against the public enemy - the Decla- rant cannot now recollect with any certainty the number of soldiers who composed said Company, but they were as many as thirty or thereabout accord- ing to his recollection - The soldiers, including the Declarant drew regular pay & rations - His service was constant & continuous service in guarding the Coast of patrolling of such a character as pre- vented the Declarant & his associates from follow- ing any regular civil pursuit - The general the- atre of our service was in the old Society of Green- wich on the East side of Milford Harbor, tho' we sometimes went to the West side of said Har- bor of once we went down into New York State near Morristown - We generally served in small detachments stationed at different points along the shore to guard against intruders by the enemy's boats of small parties - our headquarters were most of the time at Jericho Dennis's - The officers commanded us in person - each detachment being under charge of a Sergeant & corporal of the

Captain in person used to attend to order out the different detachments to the different stations. Our service was under regular enlistment, gave our regular pay & rations just as regular soldiers in the continental service did - - Oliver Davis now dead, acted as our Commissioning officer Joseph Hurst now dead, as our quarter master - we were on duty according to my recollection twice a week - The whole company very frequently was all out together in one place on active duty on occasion of alarms which sometimes occurred twice a day. I walked with him with the men on the land but many times, I should think as many as twenty times, we had skirmishes with them in attempting to come on shore in their boats, they firing upon us from their boats as we were returning therefore from the land, we always drove them off -
As to my delay in applying for a pension I state that in the summer of 1832 I did call on the judge of Probate for Stamford District for the purpose of applying for a pension - I also called on the Rev. Daniel Smith of Stamford (knowing that no clergymen in the society when I live) to get him to certify for me as the regulations require - we did not find him at home - Charles Lockwood late of Danbury now dead was with me - he has been several years dead - I had delayed it till his death, as I intended to avail myself of his testimony, & he was gone of as at the time I could not get a full pension I have delayed until recently making my application before - my circumstances however are such that a small pension

would be of great service to me in supplying me with the comforts which my starved circumstances as (in short my poverty) at present prevents me from procuring. I have therefore been induced to delay no longer, conscious as I am that the services I render are such as entitle me to a pension. — Would his X Lockwood sworn to & subscribed } the day of year aforesaid } before me & I certify that the word "as" on the first page was in- terlined before signing or oath.
Chas. Hawley Judge —
Sworn to & subscribed in } presence also of } Joshua B. Ferris
I Charles Hawley Judge of the Court of Probate for the Dis- trict of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that I was Judge of said Court in the year 1832 — That sometime in the summer or fall of that year Noah Lockwood the applicant above named called on me at my office for the purpose of applying for a pension & I had conversation with him on the subject — but the particulars of that conversation I do not now recollect. I also recollect hearing about that time, others, particularly Enos Lockwood & Eleazar Wheeler, both of whom are now dead, speak of him as having as they understood served in the guards at Greenwich, tho' I do not know that they claimed to have had personal knowledge of his services — Stamford Probate Office October 9 th 1837
Chas. Hawley Judge —
I Joshua B. Ferris clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Noah Lockwood for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at said office this 9 th day of October A.D. 1837 —
Joshua B. Ferris Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
14.18778  In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Lockwood a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1. 1782 9 mos. Pvt Henry Waring in Coast Guards Genl John Head Conn                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, Greenwich Conn.  Date of application for pension, Sept. 2. 1857  Amch. naval.  Residence at date of application, Greenwich Fairfield Co. Conn.  Age at date of application, born Sept. 20. 1763 at Greenwich, Conn.  Remarks: No data as to his family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Hampden Oct. 9 th 1837
Hon. J. L. Edwards Sir
Mr Noah Lockwood has shown me your letter to Mr Ferris of this place in relation to his (Lockwood's) application for a pension - in which you call for documentary evidence of having the services of the officers under whom he served, to be of such a character as entitles those under their command to pensions -
At his request I take the liberty to refer you to the certificate of Mr Comptroller Phelps forwarded on the applications of Enos Lockwood, Messrs Lockwood & Drake Lockwood - to which of the applications it was attached, if to either, I am now unable to state - It was forwarded in support of the whole -
Similar evidence I believe was also procured from Mr Comptroller Field last year on the application of Jeremiah Reynolds -
These documents were forwarded to prove the services of Lieut Timothy Lockwood & Lieut. Henry Waring - both of whom are generally called Captains by applicants, because they they had respectively the command of the guard in Greenwich, at different times -
These documents it is presumed will furnish satisfactory evidence of services rendered by the officers under command of those two officers -
I am Sir very respectfully Your obedt Servant
Chas. H. Hovey

1915 July 21 Hish. to Hanford Kobisa - V.L.M.
Revised
13778 INVALID.
File No. 13778
Rah Lockwood Phil. Pa. war.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 225
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev Sec St. George's Lodge No. 6, F. & A. M.
Warranted by the Grand Lodge of England, Sept. 14, 1774.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
OLD SEAL OF THE LODGE
PRESENT SEAL
Schenectady, N. Y., July 16, 1915.
Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen, Will you kindly furnish me the record of Noah Lockwood, who was a soldier of Connecticut, and was given a pension for service during the Revolution, it being in the pension list of 1840. The information is desired to prove my claim for admission into the S. A. R. Thanking you in advance, I remain, Yours respectfully,
Harland Robison, 6 Front St.,
Schenectady N. Y.