Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18725, for Phinehas Page, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Page, Phinehas Jeremiah
N. 18725
CONTENTS
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Vermont-(Bur) 2,49.
Letter to E. Bigelow 23 March 185.
Jeremiah Page 2403.
widow of Phinehas Page, dead
Conn
who died on the 18 th of February, 1813.
of Rutland so in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Wm. Wilson of the Regt - commanded
by ————— in the Connecticut
line for 9 months private
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington — at the rate of 30 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Jan- uary, 1839 and sent to H. Bigelow, South Reading, Vt.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1838 = $225.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4. 6. 39- 15.00
$240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by S. S. Elliot Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 40.

Samuel Page affidavit

I Samuel Page of Shurton in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged Seventy one testify and say that in the Spring of 1775 soon after Lexington battle Phinehas Page of Coventry in the State of Connecticut a brother of mine at that time living with my father at Coventry enlisted in the army of the revolution for seven or eight months I should think eight - I think he went to Cambridge or some where in the vicinity of Boston - I should think he served his time out because after seven or eight months he returned home in the year 1776 or 1777 I should think in the Spring the said Phinehas Page enlisted again in the army of the revolution for eight months according to the best of my recollection and went to White Plains or near to Capt. Rush I should think he served his time out When he was at White Plains we heard that he was sick & by reason of his sickness he had lost his hair and when he returned home it was beginning to grow or stand out a little during all this time I was living with my father at said Coventry - the above two enlistments were before his the said Phinehas marriage - I well recalled that after the marriage of my said brother Phinehas he was out with the army of the revolution a short time - the reason I remember this is because in the said Phinehas moved his wife to my father's house & his wife resided there while my said brother was absent
Samuel P Page

State of Vermont Windsor County - Then on August 22 1838 personally appeared Samuel Page the subscriber of the within deposition & made oath that the same contains the truth - I further say that I saw him subscribe his name to the within deposition and that he is a person of credibility and entitled to full credit - Samuel Shattuck Justice Peace
State of Vermont I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do hereby Windsor County) certify that Samuel Shattuck is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified, and that the above is his signature. Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County Court this sixteenth day of September A.D. 1838 Benj. Swan Clerk
for the...

Certificate of the Marriage of Terriah Page
So Coventry St June 6
Free
Hon. Horace Emmons Washington D. C.

Town clerks office, Coventry, Ct. June 1 st 1838
Phinehas Page Jr. and Zeruah Lumb, both of Coventry Ct. were joined in marriage May 21. A.D. 1777.
Attested from Record, Jno. R. Howard Town Clerk.
State of Connecticut,
Tolland County, ss Coventry, June 1. 1838
Then personally appeared John R. Howard Town clerk of the Town of Coventry, and made oath that the foregoing is a true copy of Record before me Edward G. Huntington Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify, that at the time of the execution of the above certificate Edward G. Huntington was in the commission of Justice of the Peace for Tolland County Connecticut and his acts are entitled to full credit as such
Washington July 2 nd 1838 John Hall

Sir,
Yours of May 22, dated at Washington is received. The former Town Clerk died in the month of April. Your letter came to my hand, a few days since -
In compliance with your request, I herewith forward you, the Affidavit required.
In haste, your obt. Servt.
Hon. H. Everett Washington D.C.
Jno. R. Howard
South Coventry June 5 th 1838.

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Hn. H. Everett AR

State of Vermont } Rutland County, }ss
On this twenty second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Hon ble William Hall, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Rutland in the County of Rutland aforesaid, Teruah Page, a resident of Shrewsbury in said County, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836:
That she is the widow of Phinehas Page, late of Shrewsbury aforesaid, deceased, who was a private in the army of the revolution, and served one term of six or eight months under Capt. William Willson of Coventry in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut; in which town they both resided during the said revolution; and, according to her best recollection and belief, the said Phinehas was out on two tours of military service, she believes in the Connecticut Militia, sometime in the years 1775, 1776, or 1777, the last of which she is positive was after the month of May, 1777, but cannot say for how long a term. She has no particular documentary evidence in support of her claim.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Phinehas Page on the 28 th day of May, 1777; that her husband the aforesaid Phinehas Page died on the 18 th day of February, 1813, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Witness to the signing Jeph Gove
Teruah Page mark

Subscribed and sworn to, on the day and year first above written, before me: and I do hereby certify, that the said Zeruah Page is not able, by reason of bodily infirmity, to attend personally in said Probate Court; and I do hereby further certify, that the said affiant is a person of credibility.
State of Vermont } Rutland County } ss
I, Henry B. Towler, Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Rutland in in the County of Rutland aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the Hon. William Hall is Judge of said Probate Court; that the said Court is a Court of Record; and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, at Rutland in said District, this twenty second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Henry B. Towler

I, Asahel Draper, of Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 40 years and upwards, do depose, testify and say, that Phinehas Page, late of Shrewsbury, deceased, and Terriah Page, now residing in the same town were my parents; that the said Phinehas Page, my father, died on the 18 th day of February, 1813; and, that the said Terriah was his reputed lawful wife in his lifetime, and has not intermarried since his said decease. And further this affiant saith not. Asahel Draper
State of Vermont } Rutland County } Be it known, that on this 22 d day of June, 1838, before me, The Hon. William Hall, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the Probate District of Rutland in said County, personally appeared Asahel Draper, who hath subscribed the preceding affidavit in my presence, and made solemn oath, that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth: and I do hereby certify that the said affiant is a credible witness. Wm Hall Judge
State of Vermont, } Rutland County } I, Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Rutland in said County, do hereby certify, that Hon. William Hall is Judge of said Probate Court; that as such he is duly authorized by law to administer the oath above written; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, at Rutland in said Probate District, this 22 d day of June, A. D. 1838.
Henry B. Towslee

Page 100
Marshall City, April 7
1862
Mr. Elisha Bigelow South Reading Vermont
Mr. H. G. Wood 1862

State of New York } ss. Oneida County }
On this 6 th day of April in the year 1838. Eliza Page of Marshall Oneida County New York, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Seventy Six years of age, that he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, that his brother Phineas Page enlisted as a soldier in the year 1775 and served 6 or 8 months under Captain Putnam and was stationed at Roxbury, that he again enlisted the next year for eight months and served that time and was stationed at White Plains and vicinity, under the command of Gen. Putnam the Captain's name not recollected. That these two enlistments were before his marriage - That he was married in the year 1777 That he was drafted in the year 1778 for the term of two months at Providence for the purpose of guarding the military stores under the command of Capt John Clark Lieutenant Joseph Salcott and Ensign McCoy. That this deponent served under the same officers a part of the last mentioned time.
Eliza Page
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6 th day of April in the year 1838
Henry J. Hawley Commission of Deeds.

State of New York Oneida County Town of Marshall
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Elias Bage and believe him to be a man of strict honor and veracity and that the within affidavit is entitled to full credit Dated April 6. 1838
Henry J. Hawley Commissioner of Deeds
am July 14 1838
J. H., Edward, Commissioner of Petition, Sir Thomas Emerson, agent for paying Petition in Linn County in Vermont; Since the Petitioners in Bills on the Bank of Windsor and the Bank failed the next week the Petition are left with these Bills on their hands good for nothing and generally destitute of means for their daily support, if there can be any means that they can be made good it would save them from suffering Your very Humble Servt Elisha Bigelow

Elisha Bigelow -
Manchester April 7. 1838 -
Sir I received your the 4th instant & have endeavored to comply with your request so far as I could recollect which I send you on this sheet it is so long since that my recollection is very imperfect with respect to the Officer he  second order - my love to your wife her mother & to all my friends in that region - my wife & youngest daughter are gone to their long home my health is as good as can be expected considering my old age & my friends in this region are well I live with my oldest son his wife & three oldest children I think. They have shown that good part that all men are fathers from their I believe all true religion consists in obeying god & serve Christ with all ye heart, soul unto death & I will give you a promise of life - ever truly Elias Wage -

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18,725
Jeremiah Page Widow of Phinehas Page Pr. Ber. Mass.
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. M , Page 114
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Vermont } L. Stephen Gleason of Rutland County } Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont being fifty five years of age depose and say that I came to the Town of Shrewsbury to reside thirty ago and have resided ever since that time and lived within forty Rods of Phinehas Page from me till the year 1853 when he the said Paid died and his Widow has resided in the same house ever since they raised ten Children and all lived to be men and Women they lived together as Husband and wife and I have never heard the Legality of their Marriage disputed or called in question and further the said of the said Page has always been considered a person of strict truth and veracity
Stephen Gleason
Shrewsbury Feb. 24 1838 Sworn and subscribed before me
John Root Master Justice Peace
I here by Certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Gleason and further say that he is a man of truth and is credable person
John Root Master Jus. Peace

State of Vermont Rutland County } Robert Pigeons Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland Certify, that John Buckminster is a Justice of the peace for said County, and that his signature to the within cer- -tificates is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this fifth day of March A.D. 1838 R. Pigeons

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Mr Elisha Bigelow. South Reading Vt Windsor Co

State of New York Otsego County
Lachlan Downer had Eighty two years of residence in County of Otsego and State of New York as before & say that soon after the Lexington Battle there was a Page of Company in Revolutionary Infantry as a part of Colonel Sims Captain Simms Putnam's Company a son of General Putnam was known by the name of General Putnam's Regiment and commanded by Col d Dasher the Chief of the time the fore Part of May Seventeen hundred and Seventy five and I Lachlan Downer was at at the time the Page being at High Bridge we both started with our Officers to Camp back to Page if he had been living would have been Eighty two or three years old the time we enlisted for was six or seven months the enemy impression it was seven but not certain and in the first year Seventy six he enlisted again and went to New York and I think he was with the first troops was raised in Officer I have forgot and think they enlisted for Seven months in Seventy seven I was in the Continental Line whether he was out in the Militia I don't know but think it was likely for about that time about every able bodied man had to turn out for Putnam was appointed Aid to his father and our Company was commanded by Lieut Samuel Robinson and Asa Avery
Subscription and Sworn this 3 d day of February 1838 Before me James C Waldo Atty at a Judge of Otsego County Court
Lachlan Downer
I certify that I am well acquainted with Lachlan Downer and that he is a reliable person and that the above deposition is his own free act and that he is entitled to full credit J. C. Waldo Atty for Judge 45 in his statements

11 State of New York } Jesse Rose clerk of said Orengo County } County do hereby certify that James C. Walworth Esqr before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been Sworn on the day of the date of the same a Judge in and for Orengo County duly Commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand- writing of the said Judge and verily believe his name subscribed to the within Affidavit and the annexed Certificate of Credibility to be his genuine handwriting and signature Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 5 th day of February 1838 Jesse Rose CLR By George Nelson Deputy

Jonathan Hart
State of New York,
Albany County } ss:
I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the County of Albany in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Jonathan Hart is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly Commissioned and qualified and his Commission was dated on the first day of January 1837. and will expire on the 31 st day of December 1840. and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my Hand and the Seal of said County this second day of November A.D. 1837.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk

4 V 3206 Jeremiah Page Wid. of Phinehas W. Act 4 July '36
M married 21 May 1777 Died 18 Feb 1813
adm d 9 mo pri 30 A
No deduction
E Besselow Esq 5 th Reading V L

Washington 2. July 1828
Sir
I enclose the application of the Widow Gertrude Page for a pension & am respectfully &c Horace Everett
J. L. Edwards Esq Govt of Pennsylvania -

South Reading Wt July 17 1838 } free
Hon. J. L. Edwards
me at P.D.
Commissioner of Posts
Pension Business
Washington (City)

South Reading July 9 th 1835
J. L. Edgerton.
Sir The claim of Herman Page for a Pension that Hon. H. Everett has had the agency of; You may communicate to me if you have an occasion and when the certificate is ready you will please direct it to me (South Reading, Vt.,) I have not employed Jesse Gove to do any business in the case except making the Widow's Declaration and I have now learnt that S d Gove has sent the Declaration to you two weeks since when I was all that time expecting he would send it to me, that I might enclose all the papers to you at the same time - which deranges the business materially.
N.B. I enclos d the balance of the invoice the 6 th inst.
Very Respectfully your ob t serv t
Elisha Bigelow

Elisha Boglelow Esq. South Reading Vermont

Page
South Bend, Ind. July 6 Aug. 10 In. at. J. Camp free Hon. S. L. Edwards Commissioner Perth Washington City

South Reading August 6 th 1838
Sir I herewith send you the reply of the Comptroller, not very intelligible —
Sir if it would be any satisfaction to you in the case of Deborah Page, I think I could prove the the disposition of one Man to say that he resided in the neighborhood of, Phoebe Page and was knowing to the D r . Page? being out two two tours but cannot say how long, and likewise as brother of the D r . Page who was at home with his Father at the time D r . was out but cannot number how long & I think will say two tours, those two dispositions, will be attend with considerable expense
we have three widows in this place who are entitled to portions under the act of 1838, will you have the goodness to send me the regulations in the case
Respectfully your ob t Serv t
Ebenezer Bigelow

J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

South Reading Sept 1888
Sir I herewith enclose one other affidavit in the case of Jeremiah Page, I have read some distance in order to ascertain all the cases I have found four other men that resided in Coomassie the residence of the D. Phinehas Page but they are men from 82 to 84 years old and somewhat broken but they all knew him and say he was out in 1775 1776 and 1777 they all agree in thinking he must have been out in D. years as long as 15 years but cannot remember to any degree of certainty how long he was out, or who his officers were or where he went, Sir I feel very certain from conversing with them that he must have been out to that amount of time, but their recollection are so broken that I did not take their affidavits
Sir I have wrote to one other man but I learn he is 83 years old and I cannot flatter myself much from him
Am very Respectfully Your old Servt
Elisha Bigelow

Sept 17 1892 Fourth Reading Sept 17 1892 Page 10 Item 10 file in the No. 11 free J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City,

South Reading Sept r 13 th 1838
As I wish you to defer the decision in the case of the widow Lemah Page, I expect to obtain an other deposition which I have written to which lives 100. miles Distance, which will probably take two or three weeks before I shall be able to send to the department which I think will be very important in the case
Your Humble Servant
Elisha Bigelow

South Reading Octo 12 th 1888
Sir inclos. I send one other affidavit in the case of the Widow Sarah Page, which I think will fully substantiate the seven Months service in 1775. The two months service at Providence guarding the Military stores under Capt John Clark I understand you are satisfied.
The great Difficulty which remains is the service of seven months in 1776.
Sir I cannot find any person that was with him in that service, but in addition to what you have before you I can could send affidavits from two other credible persons that were residents of Country bar, at the time the second service was performed, that feel all the confidence possible in stating that he was out seven months in 1776, from various circumstances, which fully satisfies me of the service. You will however act judiciously in the claim and the widow must yield
Your very humble serv t
Elisha Bigelow

I David Hibbard of Concord in the County of Essex and State of Vermont Testify and say that I was acquainted with Phineas Page of Coventry in the State of Connecticut in the year 1775 as I lived in said Town a neighbor to said Page. I further say that said Page served in the war of the Revolution in the year 1775 seven months in Col. Storer's Regiment under Capt. Israel Putnam as I served at the same time under the aforesaid officers & knew said Page in the army, he served as a private.
David Hibbard
State of Vermont } Essex County ss } Concord September 25th 1838 Then David Hibbard who subscribed the above affidavit personally appeared and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth. Before me H. G. Fry Justice of Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Dea. David Hibbard who subscribed to the above affidavit, and have been for many years. I know he is a pensioner under the act of Congress of 7th of June 1832. and is considered a man of undoubted veracity and his statements entitled to full credit. H. G. Fry Justice of Peace

State of Vermont, ss. I, the undersigned Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States for the District of Columbia do hereby certify that the within copy of the decree of the said Court in the cause of David H. Morrison vs. John G. Graham is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court is hereunto affixed this 10th day of March, 1844.
He received a letter of thanks from President Lincoln in all the same for his services at Manassas. The same is given to others. — 22 — Farewell Address of President Lincoln at the Capitol Jan. 13/65
19 All of us well

Elisha Bigelow Esq. South Reading Vermont

Comptroller's Office Hartford Jan 19 1838
Dear Sir
Your favour of the 16 th is before me, I have again examined all the Pay Rolls in this office for the name of Amos Page - without success - we have no Pay Roll of Capt. Israel Putnam - we can give you a Certificate of Capt. Israel Putnam's Account of Wages &c. for his Company in 1775 which will answer if you have parole testimony that Page served in his Company in 1775 at any rate it will go to corroborate your testimony - if such is the fact - also for 1776 if you can prove the service of Page by any one for that Year - by giving the name of the Captain he served under this is all we can do - when Pay Rolls cannot be found -
To Elisha Bigelow Esq.
Very Respectfully I am Yours Henry Rootes Compt

1 Jan 1880 Received of the W. H. C. P. 27-6 for the balance of account W. H. C.

South Reading Dec 26 th 1888
Sir I have written to the Comptroller in Connecticut for further information and have recd the within, which I send, I hope it will satisfy the Department as it regards the seven months service in 1875 and I understand you have two months service after the mar- riage at Providence under Capt John Clark
Sir I have all the correspondence from the family that he served 7 months in 1876 but cannot yet find any one that was out with him, think you had better send the certificate of the same months service soon in great haste am &c
Hon
J. L. Edwards
Your obed t Serv t Elisha Bigelow

4 Zemah Page Hid of Phoebe de Vernon
to Hon. H. Everett
March 9. 1838. do do
July 3 rd "
Set. to Elisha Bigelow, July 20, 1838.
Set. to Same, 11 Aug t 1838.
" " " 29 Sept "
" " " 26 Nov "

Phinehas Page, d c Zeruah his widow. V o
The 7 mo. service in '75 found by H. H. Page and Dooner, & E. Page.
8 mo. in '76 by Dooner. —
* 2 " 78 " E. Page.
* In his declaration, Elias Page claimed for one small — In his papers Ad m N.Y. No 24639 , and that he served the most for his brother Phinehas who was drafted at Bays- Blade Co. This statement contradicts that made in his afft. dated Sept 1838 when he swore, that served with his brother

Sir know I have had very old mess to do Business with and have obtained all my affidavits by writing to them and was not present to refresh their minds - I think there is as good a correspondence as could be expected E. Bigelow
J. S. [unclear] J. S. [unclear] Comr. [unclear] Washington D.C.

Sir
South Reading Jan'y, 18 th 1839
In answer to yours of the 12 th Dec 1838 requesting where care & intended that Letter I have to answer, I intended it in the case of Sarah Page widow of Phinehas Page late Dec'd. Now Sir I should not presume to trouble you any more if I was not confident beyond a doubt that something is wrong or mis- understood in Elias Page's affidavit; I have written to S. Page for an explanation but have not yet reciv d an answer — Sir fearing that some of the facts may have been misstated I will say to you that you have the Proof of the marriage, you have Deborah Dorr's affidavit with who serv d in Capt. Israel Putnam's company in 1775 seven months and was knowing to his going out the next year but did not go with him — you have Deo d David Hibberd's affidavit who serv d with Phinehas in Capt. S. Putnam's Com y in 1775 — you have the Capt. Dorr's second Letter who says Capt. Putnam's Roll is not there but he finds on the account Pay made to Capt. S. Putnam for his services; you likewise have Samuel Page's affidavit younger brother of P who resided at home with his Father and was knowing to P being out in 1775 & 1776 seven months each tour and after these tours the P married and moved his wife home to his Father's House and resided in one of the Chambers and after this the P went out to Rhode Island and serv d at short time — you will bear in mind the circumstance of the P's Phinehas being sick in 1776 and in consequence of his sickness he lost all the Hair of his head and when he returned the new hair had begun to grow — you will refer to my letter of the 3 rd Dec I should like to be informed of traditional evidence of what the widow has told her neighbouring women of her sufferings and troubles in consequence of her husband being in the army after the marriage where she resided in the Chamber, Long before any pension laws were thought of would give satisfaction to the Department I am Respectfully yours, Elisha Bigelow
my letter of the 3 rd of Dec to apply to
in S. Page affidavit

South Reading Vt, March 11 th 1839
Sir enclosed, I send you the certificate of Jerriah Page, I find it payable in Burlington Vermont; her connections reside in Reading Windsor County who will assist her in procuring her money and you would confer a favor if you would transfer her name payable at Bellowfalls, as she is over one hundred miles from Burlington and but twenty miles from Bellow Falls only , you will return the certificate and inform me —
Elisha Bigelow