Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,889, for Eliphalet Phelps, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Phelps Eliphalet Elizabeth
N. 26,889
CONTENTS

2502 Massachusetts
Elizabeth Phelps widow of Ephraim Phelps who was a Private in the Mass line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Oct 1843 and sent to Varn S. Hinckley Northampton Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 51
Rep. Col. 28

Bedfordshire Elizabeth Phelps 5559
Elizabeth Phelps-
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S. L. Hinckley Northampton Mass-

State of Massachusetts 21-22-boarding County of Hampshire ss 24
On this fourth day of June A. D. (1839) Eighteen Hundred & Thirty-nine personally appeared before the Hon. Jonathan Cooksey Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County now in session Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps a resident of Northampton in said County aged seventy six years, who, being first duly following declaration to law & then in her oath, makes the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed July 7 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Stephen Phelps, who was a private in the War of the Revolution & who was enlisted for six months, but she served nine months under Capt. Joseph Lyman at Friendshaga in 1776 in Col. Woodbridge's Regiment and she was also in the service three months at Albany (two or three years after the above mentioned service) under Capt. Lyman, she is not able to find any testimony to the last mentioned service; but she has often heard her husband relate anecdotes connected with his service at Albany as aforesaid, he was never in any engagement, he enlisted both times, the latter part of the time at Friendshaga he was in the Artillery, he with Sam L. Wright & others in the same mess went over to the artillery called the Jersey Blues, she does not remember the name of the Capt. of the Artillery Company, but has heard her husband say that Capt. Lyman did not "like it because" that mess went over to the Artillery for they were the "trimmest" mess in the Company, Job Clark was one, Sam L. Wright & Sam Lapham were others in the same mess.
She further declares that she was married to the said Elizabeth Phelps on the fourth day of November A. D. 1781 Seventeen hundred eighty one

State of Massachusetts 21-22-boonly or County of Hampshire ss 24
On this fourth day of June A. D. (1839) Eighteen Hundred & Thirty-nine personally appeared before the Hon. Jonathan Cooksey Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County now in session Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps a resident of Northampton in said County aged seventy six years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law & then on her oath, made the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed July 7 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Ephraim Phelps, who was enlisted for six months, but she served nine months under Capt. Joseph Lyman at Ticonderoga and she was also in the service three months at Albany (two or three years after the above mentioned service) under Capt. Lyman, she is not able to find any testimony to the last mentioned service; but she has often heard her husband relate anecdotes connected with his service at Albany as aforesaid, he was never in any engagement, he enlisted both times, the latter part of the time at Ticonderoga he was in the Artillery, he with Sam L. Wright & others in the same mess went over to the artillery called the Jersey Blues, she does not remember the name of the Capt. of the Artillery Company, but has heard her husband say that Capt. Lyman did not "like it because" that mess went over to the Artillery for they were the "trimmest" mess in the Company, Job Clark was one, Sam L. Wright & Sam Lapham were others in the same mess.
She further declares that she was married to the said Elizabeth Phelps on the fourth day of November A. D. 1781 Seventeen hundred eighty one

rightly and by the Rev. Solomon Williams; that her husband the aforesaid Nathaniel Phelps died on the first day of July - January 1807 eighteen hundred & seven, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, sometime between and until - for viz; at the time sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written
Before me
Elizabeth Phelps
Jonathan Cook judge of Probate
I, Samuel F. Lyman Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Phelps for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of June A.D. 1839
Saml F. Lyman Regt Prob.

"Marriages" "Eliphalet Phelps & Betsey Clap Nov r 6 th the Seventeen hundred & eighty one"
"Deaths" Eighteen hundred & seven A.D. "Eliphalet Phelps of the dropsy left a widow and daughter, 52 years old Jan y . 1 st "
The foregoing are true extracts, copied from the records of the "First Congregational Society" in Northampton now in my custody, of the marriage and death of Eliphalet Phelps, with the exception of the date of the marriage which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows; "1781 Nov r 6 th " and with the exception of the date of the death which is expressed as aforesaid in figures as follows; "1807 Jan y . 1 st "
Chas. Wiley
Pastor of 1 st Cong. Ch. Northampton
I Charles Wiley above named depose & say, that I am am a clergyman of the "First Congregational Society" in Northampton in Massachusetts and that the above are true extracts from the records of said society with the exceptions above named as certified by me
Sworn before me this fifteenth day of June 1859
Chas. Wiley
Sam l C. Hinkley Jus. Peace

Reg
WIDOW, &c.
26889
File No.
24678
Elizabeth Phelps
wid of
Alphalet Phelps
Dis Mass Line
Act:
March 3 d 48
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129
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4649
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Phelps widow of Eliphalet Phelps etc.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15 th January 1807 of Hampshire in the State of Ms. who was a Private in the Comp y . commanded by Captain Lyman of the Reg t . commanded by Col. Woodbridge in the Ms. line for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ms. at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Nov: 1839 and sent S.
L. Winckley Northampton Ms. Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 1839 $ 70:00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 4 th . 10:00
$ 80:00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by N. A. Adison Clerk. Book 4 Vol. 106 Page 121

5559 Sec 1. E. Hinckley, 8 th Ans 7. 39 - same Oct. 23. '39 - To same Oct. 21, 1839. to do Nov. 6. 1839
Act 7 July 38
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Samuel L. Hinckley Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of June A. D. 183 9 .
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Sethos Clark Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of June A. D. 183 9 .
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Mass.
Nov 22
Hon J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington
Thos

Northampton Mass Oct. 29 th 39
Ann J. L. Edwards Pension Office Washington Sir
Will you allow me to inquire whether William Cheney who is transferred from the Albany agency to the Mass ts pension roll, will be paid in Albany or in Boston the pension due him on the 4 th Sept last? Also should he will be paid the pension due him on the 4 th March next? His certificate of transfer purports to take effect from & after 4 th March 1839.
The case of Mrs Elizabeth Phelps must submit to the Department with such evidence as they now have. Neither the widow or her friends can recollect Elizabeth Phelps service on the Rhode Island alarm - but they are confident he was 3 months in service at and about Albany in the Fall of the year. What year this service was, they cannot say, but they think it was two or three years after his service at Livedrop. They may be mistaken in the name of the Capt. The season of the year they fix from certain anecdotes related by Mr Phelps soon after his return from the service.
In the case of Mrs Judith Perkins widow of William Perkins due - was not his service after the "exchange of the ratifi- -cation" and before the Army was disbanded , such service as was contemplated by the Act of Congress granting pensions? Very Respectfully Your ob t Serv t Sam l J. Hinckley

maps.
Nov 22 o
Hon J. S. Edwards Secy of Revenue Washington
J. S. H.

Northampton Nov 16 th 39 Hon J. L. Edward Commiss n of Pensions Washington Sir
On the 6 th inst. I rec d . notice from the Chief Clerk of the Pension Office that "no allow- ance can be made in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Phelps on the present exhibits." In your letter to me of the 8 th Aug t last, you say "in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps" "the proof of the date of the marriage and of six months  survival in '76 is satisfactory."
Will you do me the favor to send me the Act of 7 th June '32 with such printed regulations & opinions affecting said Act as may be com- -municated at your disposal? Very respectfully your ob st serv t Sam l L. Hinckley

Oct 2. map. 1000 & proof Phelps.
Hon. J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
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Northampton Mass ts
Sept 28 1839
Am J. L. Edwards Comm ee of pensions Washington
Sir
I enclose the deposition of Simon Clapp to be used in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Phelps applicant for a pension under the Act of July 1838
Very Respectfully
Your obed serv t
J. L. Hinckley

Northampton Aug 12 1839
Hon. J. L. Edward Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Sir
I have seen & conversed with Mrs Elizabeth Phelps in relation to the service of her husband (deceased) under Capt Oliver Lyman. She knows of no one living who can testify from personal knowledge of the service for 3 months under Capt. Oliver Lyman The Rhode Island Alarm. There are three living who have heard Mr. Phelps in his lifetime speak of his 3 months service under Capt. Oliver Lyman.
The widow informs me that he was spor- tively out on that occasion for 3 mo. that it was in the Fall of the year and was subsequent to her term of service at Secondogus of four months. She does not remember the year, but he went in the Fall of the year to Albany from here. She has no evidence of the three months service under Capt. Oliver Lyman, documentary, or other than the statement of aged person who are

willing to make affidavits that they have conversed with Mr Phelps on the subject in his life time and they have always been of the impression that he was out three months in service under Capt Oliver Lyman
You advise me that proof of 6 months service under Capt Joseph Lyman in 1776 is satisfactory. The widow informs me Mr Phelps en- listed six months and staid another month afterwards at the request of Genl Gates. He was at Fredericksburg 7 months at the same time and in the same Comp y . She thinks with Genl Wright, whose widow Chloe Wright has made application for a pension under the act of 1838.
I have thought it best to receive instructions from you if such testimony as I have alluded to in the case of Mrs Phelps will be material before

putting her to any expense which may be needless. She is very poor and as the depositions will not be positive only of impressions, I will be much obliged to you for instructions.
Very Respectfully Yours Ob t Serv t . Sam l L. Hinckley

June 10
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Northampton 6 th Jan 1859
Sir
I forwarded to the Pension Office at Washington yesterday the Declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Phelps, (alias Betsey Phelps) with depositions in support of her case - I can procure depositions of other good men as to the service of the husband of Mrs Phelps at Ticonderoga, should they be required. The widow has no documentary evidence of the service aforesaid.
Any instructions in her case, or her certificate, if pension be granted, please transmit through your office and to Hon J. L. Edwards & very Respectfully Pension Office S. L. Hinckley Washington

2915
Elizabeth Phelps
$20 per ann.
Saml. L. Hinckley Northampton Massachusetts

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7 1838
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } On this eighteenth Hampshire County ss } day July A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed a justice of the Peace within for me legally Elizabeth Phelps a resident of Northampton in said County aged eighty years, she being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Elizabeth Phelps who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution and served at Trenton and Princeton under Capt Joseph Lyman & afterwards joined the Artillery, or Jersey Blues as they were called for the term of 6 or 7 months afterwards was in the service at Albany under Capt Joseph or Capt Oliver Lyman for the term of 3 months that she rec d a pension of twenty dollars a year under the Act of July 7 1838 & her certificate numbered (4649) was returned to the pension office soon after the expiration of the five years contemplated by said Act of July 7 1838 She further declares that she is still a widow sworn to & subscribed by Elizabeth Phelps, who is known to me personally on the day of year above written before
Elizabeth Phelps
J. L. Hinckley Jus. Peace.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that William L. Hinckley Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said William L. Hinckley and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this Twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three .
Samuel Wells
Clerk.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Samuel L. Hinckley Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Samuel L. Hinckley and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
S. Wells
Clerk.

I Simon Clapp of Northampton aged seventy nine years before say I have al- ways lived in Northampton Mass ts & have always known Eliphalet Phelps A. S. North- ampton deceased whose widow Elizabeth Phelps now lives in Northampton and has made application for a pension under the Act of Congress passed in July 1838. Said Eliphalet Phelps was according to the best of my recollection and as I have always been informed in the service of the United States as a soldier under Capt Joseph Lyman at Ticonderoga seven months in 1776 and afterwards three months under Capt Oliver Lyman under Capt Oliver Lyman for the three months he went to Albany or that way I think. And it is strong in my mind that the same club or party went with Phelps to Albany that went with him to Ticonderoga. I think it was late in the Summer or early Fall when he went to Albany. Eliphalet Phelps has been dead many years I think as many as thirty years. He was a neighbor of mine & we were often together ordered together about services of ourselves in the Revolutionary War and I think I cannot be mistaken in my statements. I am confident, but not positive that it was two of these men after he went to Ticonderoga that he went to Albany — Simon Clapp
Northampton Sept 26 1839
Then Simon Clapp above named before me appeared & subscribed & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit & full credit may be given to the statement of S. Clapp as a man of truth & respectability
Sam l L. Hinckley Justice of the Peace

I Asa French of Northampton in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty one years and of lawful age do testify depose and say that I am a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that I was well acquainted with Eliphale Phelps deceased of Northampton in the Revolutionary war I know that he served seven months as a private in the Massachusetts Militia in the company of captain Joseph Lyman in Col Woodbridge Regiment said Phelps and myself were in the same company same service at Ticonderoga our service was performed in the year 1776 we were volunteers further the deponent saith not
Northampton May 28 1839
In presence of Isaac Clapp
Asa French his X Mark
Hampshire ss. May 28 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Asa French a credible person to me known and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is to the best of his knowledge and belief true
Before Me Luther Clark Justice of the Peace

I Elijah Bartlett of Northampton in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty one years and of lawful age do testify depose and say that I am a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that I was well acquainted with Eliphalet Phelps deceased of Northampton in the Revolutionary war I know that he served seven months as a private in the Massachusetts Militia in the company of Captain Joseph Lyman in Col Woodbridge Regiment said Phelps and myself were in the same company some service at Ticonderoga our service was performed in the year 1776 we were volunteers further the deponent saith not Northampton May 28 1839 In presence of Isaac Clapp                      Elijah Bartlett his X Mark
Hampshire ss May 28 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Elijah Bartlett a credible person to me known and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is to the best of his knowledge and belief true
Before me Luther Clark Justice of the Peace