Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8178, for William Phelps, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Phelps, William
R8178
CONTENTS

14,045
William Phelps
Rolls - 5 m. 25 days
Rejected
Philo Curtis Esq r
East Rupert
Vt.

BRIEF in the case of William Phelps - County of Bennington in the State of Vermont (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 years -  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.     May In 1779 20 July '79 15 Jan. '80 8 Private Gen. Col' Prior Col' Brattle    Rolls
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Granby Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attach? are required 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Dutcher Examining Clerk.

BRIEF in the case of William Phelps-  County of Bennington in the State of Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 years -  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.     May In 1779 8 Private Gen. Col' Brattle   20 July '79   15 Jan. '80   Rolls  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Greenfield Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? The latter only  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attach? are required 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Boutelle Examining Clerk.

William Phelps
Pensioner
14,045.

State of Vermont County of Bennington Manchester District ss
Be it remembered that at a Probate Court held at Manchester in & for the said District on the Sixteen teenth — day of August 1832.
Present Hon. Myron Clarke Judge
On this sixteenth — day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally ap- peared in open Court before me Myron Clarke — Judge of the Probate Court of the district of Manchester in & for the county of Bennington in the State aforesaid. William Phelps now a resident of the town of Rupert in the said county of Bennington & State aforesaid aged seventy years & nine months 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, "Lated June 7- 1832" I William Phelps was born in the town of Hartford in the county of Hartford in the State of Connecticut on the twenty sixth day of October one thousand seven hundred & sixty two at which place I resided until the twelfth year of my age & then removed to Granby (then called Simsbury) in said county of Hartford where I resided for nearly twenty five years. From that place I removed into Vermont & have resided at the said town of Rupert in Bennington County for the last twenty five years — that in his seventeenth year as he believes. Some time in the month of May 1779 I enlisted at Windsor in the county of Hartford in the State of Connect- icut & entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution for eight months I mustered in Capt. Prizy Com- pany (Lieut. Wadsworth) Col. Bradley's Regiment Genl. Huntington's Brig — gade of the Connecticut line & was attached to Nelson's Point on the Hudson River opposite to West Point at which place I joined my Regiment and in the redoubts & fortifications where I was employed in building the redoubts & fortifications for over I remained about six weeks or two months & in a few days we marched to near Stony Point & from thence we captured the River Hudson where we encamped for four or five days & from thence we marched to Morristown & four miles from Morristown I assisted in building the barracks for our
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winter quarters which was some time in the month of December of the same year at which place I continued in the service of the United States until my term of enlistment for eight months was expired. whether I had any written discharge I do not recollect I am now unable to find any among my papers. but remember that I was honorably discharged at that time. & that he has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service and thereby establish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State of the United States that I resided in the said town of Granby until after the Revolutionary war - & since that period I have resided in the town of Pownal in this county for the term of five years or thereabouts from thence I moved to the said town of Rupert in this county where I have continually resided for the last twenty five years or more. that I am well known to William Jackson the Cleryman of the town of Dorset & the Hon. Grove Moore Esquire of the said Rupert & to them both for nearly twenty five years. & that I have no record of my age. except it is to be found in the clerk's office in the town of Granby in the State of Connecticut -
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid - Attest. Henry Robinson Register
William Phelps
Bennington County ss. We William Jackson a Cleryman residing in the town of Dorset in the Parish of Dorset & Rupert & Grove Moore of said town & Parish of Rupert in the County & State aforesaid hereby certify that they are well acquainted with William Phelps who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & Subscribed this 16 th day of August 1832 In open Court before me Attest. Henry Robinson Register
Wm Jackson Grove Moore

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states - And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that William Jackson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Dorset, & that Grover Moon who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Rupert, and is a credible person, & that their statements is entitled to credit -
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court
In testimony whereof, P. Henry Robinson Register of the Probate Court, has hereunto subscribed my hand & have affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Manchester this 16 th day of August A.D. 1832 - of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh
Henry Robinson Register

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
8178
P. O. William Phelps
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

ms. Hon. H. Hall 1834 - let to H. M. D. Russell Jan 5. 1833 - do. Hon. H. Hall Feb 27. 1833 - do. Hon. H. Hall
Vermont William Phelps Rejected 7 June 1832 letter to Philo Curtis. East Rupert 11 June 1833

Dec 28.
Wm Sheppard Mr [unclear]
Mr Edwards Prisoner D.C.
D. Russell H.R.

Hann of Np n D.C. Dec r 27 th 1836.
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Yrs in I have been
requested to obtain the papers of William Phelps of Rupert in the State of Vermont from your office, presented some time since for a pension, there has been I understand an or more Supplemental declarations and all with- out success, the object is to lay them before the Committee on Pensions, will you have the goodness to forward to me all the original papers or copies, your early attention is desired -
I am Respectfully D. D. Root

4392
Feb 19.
Inat Geoffrey At
Shepherd Col July 38
J. [unclear] 18/10/38
L. Edwards
Cour of Pensions
Mr H. Hall MR

House of Reps. Feby 16. '39
Sir
I enclose the pension papers of Abigail Godfrey— on which I beg leave to ask your early action.
I am inquired of about a pension application from Bennington, Vt, said to have passed thro' my hands, but of which I have no memorandum or recollection— The name is Wm Phelps — Will you have the goodness to inform me if there is such an application, & the situation of it— very respectfully
Yours W. Moall
Col J. Sedgwick,

Rec. 4. Feb. 1834 Evidence for Wm. Phelps equity claim per Vermont
Manchester Vt } Jan 29
free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner. Va
Pension Office Washington

East Auburn Jan 28 1834
Dear
Enclosed is the additional probate certificate & Affidavit of William Phelps, who has had been re-judged for insufficiency of letters of administration. He now petitions to Eliza Ann Surran as guardian to the Benjamin Pease - which was omitted from inventory. I am well satisfied myself that his claim is fair & that he is a man of unquestionable integrity - you will please to direct your communications to the Post Office at this place - Respectfully your obedt.
Saml. H. Philbrick

John Phelps
Oct 1832
Reported
V. Ellis
Vermont roll
(John Phelps Reported)
8178

Know all men by these presents, That I, John Phelps a party interested in the claim herein mentioned, do hereby constitute and appoint VESPASIAN ELLIS of Washington City, my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of William Phelps for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my Hand and Seal this 22 nd day of July A. D., 185 3
John Phelps
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
2 E. B. Burton E. B. Burton
STATE OF Vermont COUNTY OF Bennington } ss.
On this 22 nd day of July A. D. 185 3 before me, the subscriber, personally appeared John Phelps and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned, and also made oath that he is a party directly interested in the claim above mentioned, as a claimant.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, { the day and year aforesaid.
E. B. Burton Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont, } BENNINGTON, ss. COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. }
I, SAMUEL H. BLACKMER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bennington, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that
Elias B. Burton Esq. was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, &c.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Bennington, in the County of Bennington, this 22 nd day of February Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three  S. H. Blackmer CLERK.

I, _____ before whom the foregoing paper was executed, do hereby certify that E. B. Britton was at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and that the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this _____ day of _____ A. D. 185_____
Clerk.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State Vermont William Phelps of the town of Rupert in the County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn upon his Corporal oath doth depose & say that in addition to his former declaration in this matter set forth & now on file in the office of the commission of Pensions in that depart- ment in the city of Washington that in the fall of 1778 as this deponent believes in the month of November he was called out in the Militia of the State of Connecticut from the town of Granby where he then resided in a company of Artillery of that town under the command of Captain Oziel Pitkin (the subaltern officers have escaped from my memory) & was marched from said town into the town of Sheffield & thence to the line of the State of Massachusetts where our Company with other State Troops & then there formed a guard for the safe conduct of the Prisoners then lately taken by General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga & this deponent further saith that he continued in such service & marched through the towns of Simsbury thence on to the town of Norfolk & so on through the several towns in the State of Connect- icut to the line of the State of New York at the town of Sharon (if this deponent rightly remembers) where the said Prisoners were delivered up to the Troops of the State of New York & this deponent further says that he was actually engaged as such guard for the term of Eleven days in his March & countermarch, that during the said term of Eleven days he was actually engaged in said service with an armed Corps called into service by competent authority was a private Soldier all that time & was not employed in any civil business during the said term & further states that I served at least five Months & twenty five days as was sufficiently stated in my former decla- ration & Eleven days in the Militia as aforesaid in the whole six Months & six days - in the war of the Revolution for such service I claim a Pension - further saith not.
11 days
William Phelps
Manchester January 28 th 1834
State of Vermont Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of probate Member of the District of Manchester County of Bennington & State of Vermont the above named William Phelps who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit & made solemn oath that the said Affidavit contains the truth & nothing but the truth -
Myron Clark Judge

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Phelps of the town of Rupert of former who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of truth & veracity & that full faith & credit is to be given to his testimony.
Myron Clark Judge
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of this Probate office at Manchester in the Probate District of Manchester this 28th. day of January A.D. 1834.
Frederick H. Blackmer Register