Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45043, for Richard Otis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (conn)
Otis Richard
S 45043
CONTENTS

To M. H. 6/7/95. from Vermont.
Richard Otis
Barre in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington of the Connecticut line, for the term of 1 year
enrolled on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of Feb y 1819 and sent to Hon. Mr. Craft House of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 4 mo 29 / 30 39 73 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar 1819 48 73
$87 73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.
M rs Mary Otis, late of Barre, Vermont, do hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original document on file in the office of the Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.

Rich d Otis 6 April
Richard Otis, Jr. Col. Huntington's Comt. regt. 1775 - 1 year 6 Apr 1878
Admitted
Gratuitous

State of Vermont County of Washington ss. } Richard Otis of Barre In The County of Washington and State of Vermont. Being Duly Sworn Doth Declare Depose and say that on or about the twenty fifth Day of December A 1775 - I was Duly enlisted into the Service of the United States for the Term of one year. That I Belonged to Capt. Joseph Jeletic Company and Col. Judiah - Washingtons Regiment of the Connecticut Line - and serv d there in against the common enemy for the Term of one year as A Private Soldier - and was Honorably Discharged at Pikes hills on or about the first Day of Jan y A 1777 by further say I am now and have been a Citizen of the United States - and That my Reason of for  my Reduc d Circumstances in Life I am in need of Assistance from my Country for Support. — Richard Otis
State of Vermont at Barre April 6 th 1818 Washington ss. } personally appeared the above named Richard Otis and made Oaths that the above Affidavit is true Before me Warren Ellis Judge of Court
I Warren Ellis Judge of the Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Richard Otis did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Submission against the common enemy and I now submit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions of the above mentioned act of Congress
Barre April 6 th 1818
Warren Ellis Judge of Court

many and I now know that the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the provisions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Given April 8 th 1918
Warren Ellis Judge of Court
I further certify that the applicant is in reduced circumstances & needs assistance for support. — Warren Ellis
STATE OF VERMONT, } I, George Rich Clerk Washington, ss. } of the County of Washington aforesaid, Do certify, That the Hon. Warren Ellis
who made the above CERTIFICATE, and before whom the annexed Declaration was taken, was a Judge of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid, at the respective dates thereof, acting under the authority of this State, and duly qualified for that purpose ; and that his name subscribed thereto, is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County, at Montpelier in said County, this 8 th day of April in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen.
George Rich Clerk.

Richard Otis
No. 7

Alouatta P.E.G.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. At the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of record by law established, holden at Han- -over within and for said county of Grafton on the first Tuesday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Present the Honorable
Ezra Bartlett } Esquires Justices Daniel Blaisdell }
Personally appeared in Open Court Richard Ois aged seventy five years resident in Canaan in said county late of Barre Vermont who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Capt Joseph Jewett's company & Col. Sedg. Huntington's Regiment in the Connecticut line that his Original declaration is dated 6 th day of April 1818 And that he has received a pension And his pension certificate is numbered 6,795 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed And by me subscribed I further declare I am by occupation a wheelwright but am now unable to work at my trade & the infirmities of Old age bear hard upon me I have a wife aged

seventy nine years She is tolerable in health for a Woman of her age I have but one child at home who is an unfortunate widow named Ester Carpenter aged about 53 years, having lost her husband & son in the last war she has six children & two of them are with me & whom I am obliged to support by the law of parental affection, her health is rather poor & can near support herself & children but I have to make up the deficiency I have five other children at consid- erable distance from me and do not help me & never have & have no reason to expect help from them — And my circumstances are such that I really stand in need of my country's bounty & pray for a continuance of that favour.
Richard Otis
Witness John Purdie
I Richard Otis of Canaan do declare on oath that that the following schedule contains a true inventory of the estate real personal or mixed which I own or enjoy directly or indirectly excepting necessary Beds bedding & clothing viz twenty five acres of land by estimation lying in said Canaan being the same I now live on with the Old house and shop thereon $150.00 one Old horse and one Cow . . . . . 34.00 one Old gig Waggan & one Old single Sleigh & harness 14.00 one ax one hoe, one hay fork & six rakes and one hand knife and one hatchet and part of a draft chain &c } 4.00 Crockery & Glass Ware . . . . . 1.50 Iron ware . . . . . 4.00 All other household furniture / except beds bedding and clothing necessary for the use of my family } 6.00 one mans saddle and one womans do — 4.00 three small thin spring pigs . . . . . 3.00 one pew in Canaan meeting house & one share in Canaan Library ————— } 10.00 tools for making rakes & wheels & very old & poor — 6.00

Several Old books & pamphlets 5.00 several small articles not included in the above 2.00
Richard Otis
$ 243.00
We the undersigned hereby certify that the above property shown to us by Richard Otis the above signed is not in our opinion worth more than the above sum of two hundred and forty four dollars and that the net annual income could not be more than twenty two dollars by the year Elyah Blasdell Elyah Porter Canaan July 1. 1820
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss July 1. 1820 Then the within named Elyah Blasdell & Elyah Porter personally came before me & made Oath that the within certificate by them signed is just & true Daniel Blasdell Jus Peace
In addition to the foregoing schedule I have in my possession 1 Sett cart boxes of Value $1.75 & I do not know of anything else I own, but said cart boxes where omitted by forgetfulness Richard Otis Witness John Pynchard
Sworn to and declared on this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty — Geo Woodward Clerk
State of New Hampshire } Grafton ss } I George Woodward Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court, And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred forty four dollars seventy five cents —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty
Geo Woodward Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Richard Otis , 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. S. 45043.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 1776 1 year Pvt. Joseph Jewett Jedediah Huntington Conn.                                                   
Battles engaged in, None stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Apr. 6. 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Barre, Washington Co. Vt. Ganoa Grafton Co.
Age at date of application, 75 years in 1820.
Remarks: In 1820 soldier had a wife 79 years of age names not stated, and 6 children one a daughter Esther Carpenter, 53 years, who had lost her husband and a son in the war of 1812 and who had 6 living children. Names of wife, children + grandchildren not stated, there is no further family data.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
24 in 1820

45043 Revg  INVALID.
1913 Oct 20: First to Mrs. John J. Morrison. M.B.H.
File No. 45043 Richard Otis Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 373
[Arrangement of 1870.]

When the application for transfer arrives, issue a not n of Con- tinuance to make the transfer —
Oct. 10 1820
Libb Wm H. Montague July 3/50

Cram Mariner " 8 Shute, Ensign " 20 Thomas, Privt. " 8 Voorhies " " 8 Witlock Lieut. " 20 Waters " Privt. " 8 Wilkinson " " 8

Concord Oct 18 March 1818
Richard W. H. $8 per month
To what time last paid pd to 1 st Sept. 1830,
131.93.

Please
Hon: Sam d C. Crafts
24 Jan y 1879
James

Washington, 17 th of Jan. 1819
Sir, I have received the declaration of Richard Otis, with the accompanying papers - with a request that they be laid before you - in order to obtain a pension -
Yours very respectfully
Sam l Crafts
S. S. Edwards Esq r -

Richard Otis's ap- plication for transfer from Vermont to New- Hampshire - 6 Nov. 1820.
Transf d 9 Dec r 1820.
Mar 19

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton — ss.
On this sixth day of November 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Grafton personally appeared Richard Otis of Concord in said county who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Joseph Jewett in the regiment commanded by Colonel J. Huntington in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Vermont from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New Hampshire where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Richard Otis
Sworn and subscribed to, before } me, the day and year aforesaid. }
John Burie Justice Peace
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

State of New Hampshire
I George Woodward a public Notary in and for said State duly commissioned and sworn Do hereby certify to whom it may concern that John Currier Esq. whose name appears on the other side of this sheet, is a Justice of the peace within and for said county of Grafton duly qualified to administer oaths & that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his attestations as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my Notar- ial seal this seventh day of Nov r in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty and of the Independence of the United States the forty fifth.
Geo. Woodward

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Lett to Hon J Wentworth June 28/50

Washington, June 26/50
Sir:
I find the following persons as having received pensions in the continental line.
Richard Otis, private, Grafton Co. N.H.
Paul Otis, private, Strafford Co. N.H.
Elyah Otis, private, Strafford Co. N.H.
I wish to get the town in which these men live or did live when they last received their pension; & their ages, as near as may be.
Yr Obedient
for J. L. Edwards
John Wentworth

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War. Washington City.
Mr. Calhoun Jan. 10. 1841

Concord N.H. Nov. 17, 1820
Hon Sir
Enclosed is the application of Richard Otis for a transfer of Pension, it is hoped the application is sufficient, and that the Certificate of his being continued on the Pension list will be made accordingly and forwarded to me as soon as convenient.
I am Sir with the utmost & right regard
Elijah Plummer
Hon J. C. Calhoun Secy.
Sec of War — Washington City

W. Edward will state the obj n in this case J 66
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Washington - City
Recd August 1839

Haverhill August 1 st 1820
Hon J. C. Calhoun secretary of war of the united states As I find that the papers of Richard Otis of Cincinatti as forwarded to your office from George Woodland our Clerk some weeks since, hath been suspended at your office for consideration. And as he is a near neighbour to me permit me to state that altho he owes 26 acres of land yet that land is almost unfenced and unproductive and so soon as he is struck from the list petition, he must inevitable be immediately supported by the Town as he is very infirm and old & his family by no means able to support themselves. The above facts together with many others strongly in favour of his being continued on the list are within my own knowledge And I pray you to review his case with this line before you
Daniel Blaisdell one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas within & for the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire

I Dan Lee of Lyme in the County of New London State of Connecticut do testify depose & say that I well recollect Richard Otis then of said Lyme but now living in the Town of Barre in the State of Vermont entering & serving in the Army of the United States in the time of the Revolutionary War that the said Richard Otis entered the service & did duty as an Enlisted Soldier or Corporal in Capt. Joseph Jewett's Comp y Col. Jedediah Huntington's Reg t in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment from some time in the month of Dec r 1775 January 1776 until the reg t was discharged which was on or about the last day of Dec r 1775 that I belonged to a Regiment rais d by Col. Samuel H. Parsons during the whole of said Period & was well acquainted with said Richard Otis. ————— Dan Lee
I Theophilus Lord of Lyme in the County of New London State of Connecticut do testify depose & say that I Enlisted as a Soldier for the term of one year from the first day of January 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Jewett in Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment in the Connecticut line under the Continental Establishment that I Enlisted some time in the Month of Decem r 1775 that I well recollect Richard Otis then of said Lyme but now residing in the Town of Barre in the State of Vermont at Enlisting as a Soldier in said Comp y that said Richard Otis joined said Company & Reg t some time in the Month of Dec r 1775 or February 1776 and that said Richard Otis served as a Soldier in said Comp y & Reg t until the Reg t was discharged which was on or about the last day of Dec r 1775 Theophilus Lord
State of Connecticut ss County of New London December 10 th 1818 This day Personally came & appeared before me Dan Lee & Theophilus Lord signers of the above depositions & made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated — Sworn before me
Calvin Folsom Justice of the Peace I certify that the above deponents Dan Lee & Theophilus Lord are persons of credibility & that full confidence ought to be given to their testimony Certified by Calvin Folsom Justice of the Peace

Return here
New London County ss
I do hereby certify that Calvin Selden of Lyme in said County Esquire is & for more than three months last past hath been a justice of the Peace in said County, duly qualified and acting under the authority of the State of Connecticut and that the signatures to the attestation of the within affidavit and certificate are his signatures and in his hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court of said New London County in Norwich in said County this 11th day of December A.D. 1818
Charles Lathrop Clerk

State of Vermont, } Jonah Palmer of Hartland in the County Windsor County ss } of Windsor, aforesaid, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that he is personally acquainted with Richard Otis of Barre in the County of Washington & State of Ver- mont and well knows, that said Otis did exist in Capt. Joseph Jewett's Company of Col. Jew- ett's (or Col. D. Huntington's) Regiment of the Connecticut line, the latter part of 1775 & of service in said Company a part of the time as a private & part of the time as a Steward in said Company until about the first of January 1777 when he was honorably discharged.
This deponent served the whole time with said Otis in the Company & Regiment aforesaid being more than twelve months, to wit, one year.
Jonah Palmer
Sworn & subscribed before me this 21 st day of December A.D. 1818. ~ And I further certify that the above named Jonah Palmer is a credible witness in my opinion. Stephen Farnsworth Justice of Peace.
State of Vermont, } I, Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Windsor County ss. } aforesaid do certify that the magis- trate, before whom the above affida- vit appears to have been taken, was at the time thereof a justice of the Peace duly qualified, acting under the authority of this State & that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper hand writing. —
Witness my hand & the seal of said County this 22 nd day of December A.D. 1818. Benj Swan