Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9,457, for John Phillips, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N.H.
Phillips, John
NUMBER
8.9457
CONTENTS
carded.

No. 250 New York in Phillips
in the State of New York Private in the Comp. commanded by Capt. Curtis of the Regt. commanded by Col.  in the New York line for 10 months
★ N.H. Line. Feb. 1835 Recorded
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Feb 1833 and to S. Hubbell Champlain
Arrears to the 4th of Feb. 33 $83.33 Semi-ant. allowance ending A.M. 34 16.66 $99.99
Recorded by Revolutionary Cl by June 7, 1833 So. Estelle Book E. Vol. 1. Page 11
Susp. see letter to P.G. Dec. 11. 1831. 1885 Mch 16 History to Hanover N.H.
Died Sept 23, 1835

Tom Phillips Pension Papers.
Admitted Private 10th on this
3 months in 1775 disallowed
J. Hubbell Champlain N.Y.

State of New York County of Clinton Co.
On this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton aforesaid in open Court, at Plattsburgh in said County, John Philips of Sherrington a resident of Sherrington in the District of Montreal & Province Lower Canada aged Eighty Seven years last Sep- tember, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. That some time in the month of April 1775 at the first news of hostilities with England he volunteered with a party under one Sawyer who was pilot & leader & was man- ned through the woods from Lancaster Upper Coos in the State of New Hampshire to the village of Lake to watch the St. Francis Indians, & guard against an expected invasion from them & give the earliest information of their approach after remaining in the neighborhood of his home for some time the party with Sawyer were led off on a wrong course by the pilot & were lost in the woods were five weeks without bread meat or salt & suffered almost every thing but death. After a home about the first of June having been gone a little more than two months was driven by the same Sawyer several times always a volunteer to guard the frontier route & reconnoitre through the woods employed by the Town authorities or Military officers served as a soldier on three expeditions as he believes a month or two. That some time in the month of September 1775 he the said John enlisted in the army of the United States as a volunteer soldier in the Company of Capt. Israel Curtis of the New Hampshire Militia and was immediately after he had marched with said Company to St Johns in Canada then joined Montgomery, went to Quebec where he was in the battle under the walls of Quebec where Montgomery was killed. As not all then took the command of the American troops remained in the same Com- pany spent the winter in Canada & remained in

in the same service until about the middle of April 1776 was discharged & returned home to Wa- verill New Hampshire. And the said John further testifies that in the month of September 1776 he again listed at Warner New Hampshire for three months into the company of Capt. Simpson in the New Hampshire Militia. That he remained in the neighborhood of Warner until he was employed with the Militia to guard the Frontier & in scouting and ranging through the woods into Vermont on New Hampshire grant. was discharged from this service in December having served out the said term of three months. That about the first of April 1778 he the said John again listed a soldier for one year in the New Hampshire line in Capt. Nathan Richardson's company at Han- daff in New Hampshire and was marched to Warner hill where he was stationed & employed in guarding the Frontier against the incursions of Indians was in active service in scouting & scou- ring the country and the woods for the term of one year & was discharged the last of March or the first of April 1779. Since he remains any further discharge that he recruits at any of the times when he was discharged as aforesaid. For the said John Phillips hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above said in note the words "a soldier" interlined above before signing, in open court before
Geo. W. Beckwith acting Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas of Clinton County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

Geo. M. Beckwith acting Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas of Clinton County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I George M. Beckwith acting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Clinton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mr. Philips for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court This Second day of October 1832
Geo. M. Beckwith acting Clerk

State of New York
Clinton County ss;
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Commission duly appointed and authorized to take affidavits
in the County of Clinton aforesaid John Phillips of Sherbrooke in the District of Montpelier Province of Canada, who being duly sworn upon the oath, saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection he served not up than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades That is to say, in the month of April 1775, after the news of Lexington Battle there was a call for volunteers to guard the frontier of the State of New Hampshire from an apprehended invasion of the Indians, in the Town of Standish where he the said John then lived in the State of New Hampshire. Then this call or requisition was made by public Committee & Authority of the Town called the Committee of Safety, upon which he the said John volunteered & was embodied with a party under one Sawyer and served as stated in his Declaration, as militia volunteer two months
2 months The manner of the service being particularly detailed in his Declaration hereto annexed. And the said John further saith, that when he served in the Company of Captain Curtis and went to Quebec & served under Montgomery in 1775 as mentioned in his said Declaration he the said John served seven months
7 months And received seven months pay when he was discharged. That in 1776 when he enlisted into the company of Captain Simpson he the said John served three months. The term for which he enlisted. That in 1778 when he enlisted into Captain Richardson's company
3 months

1790 He listed as a Militia soldier for one year & served out his term of one year under said Captain Richardson. John Black was lieutenant in the same company - at the several terms of service that Colonel was in command the said John Black was one Timothy Bogle - he was called Colonel Bogle & acted as Colonel. In the said Colonel Bogle was at St Johns when he the said John was there in 1775 & it was said that Bogle went to Montreal - And the said John further says that when he was going down to Quebec he was in an action at Sorel under Colonel Eason, when an attack was made on certain British vessels and were taken by the American troops partly by stratagem & partly by hard fighting. In the said John was in the hottest of the fight in one of the batteries - And the said John further saith that during the time he served as above set forth he was not employed in any civil pursuit. That was That in all the services above mentioned he was a private soldier - And the said John further says that he was several times during the Revolutionary war employed as a volunteer soldier & served several short terms in actual service over & above the terms above particularly mentioned. Then additional terms he believes in all would amount to more than one year
Taken & sworn to the 19th day of June 1833 before me Elias Hubbard Commission of Deputies for taking affidavits
John Phillips

State of New York Clinton County ss.
I Nathan Taylor Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Silas Hubbell Esquire whose name is subscribed to the above and foregoing affidavit was on the day and date of the said affidavit, a Commissioner in and for the County of Clinton dwelling in said County commissioned and sworn and duly auth- orized by Law to take affidavits and the proofs and acknowledgement of Deeds and discharge of Mortgages &c. And further That I am aqua- inted with the hand writing of the said Silas Hubbell Commissioner &c and verily believe that the signature of the said Silas Hubbell is Genuine In testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 31 st day of August 1833
Nathan Taylor Clerk
many, effect the winter in our own...

I, John Waters of lawful age, testify & say, that in the year A. D. 1775. I listed into Capt. Timothy Bedel's Company, in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, & marched to Quebec in lower Canada, where, on the first of January 1776, my time having expired, I listed into the Company of Capt. Charles Nelson, & continued there till the May following. John Phillips went on with me in the same Company. When our time had expired on the last of December, 1775, the said John Phillips listed into Capt. Curtis' Company of volunteers in January, 1776. & I think he continued there till April following.
John Waters
Grafton ss. State of New Hampshire, Bath, Feb. 26. 1825. John Waters personally made solemn oath to the above affidavit, before me,
David Smith, Jus. Peace.

John Phillips Pension Papers
Original Pension Claim sent by J. D. Woodward of Pittsburg, Pa.

John Phillips Pension Papers
Original pension Claim sent by J.D. [unclear] of Plattsburg, N.Y.

An Inventory of the property goods and Chattels of John Phillips -
Real estate none either in my own or in the right of my wife -
Personal property
One bed. Bedstead and bedding 3 chairs. 3 Pots and Kettles. Six knives and forks Six tea cups and saucers - one table. Two suits of clothes, one for myself and one for my wife - one cherry stand, one old looking glass and ONE GUN . -
my wife Sarah is Seventy four years old and has been confined to her bed for the most part of the last Eight or ten years. - we have three children viz - my daughter Elizabeth is a Widow and resides in Charrington in the Province of Lower Canada aged forty three years. - she is in indigent circumstances & resides with her Brother Bethuel who is also poor - my son Bethuel Phillips aged twenty eight years resides in Charrington. L. C and is in low circumstances - my son Elathan Phillips aged twenty four years resides in Montreal is a cartman & supports himself by his daily labor - he is poor. I am by profession a mason but in consequence of my advanced age a rupture above the right groin, and the Rheu- -matism I am wholly unable to labor and have lost the use of my right arm - I have had no steady place of residence for

the last few years but have for the most part resided with my children who are now unable to support me. I have now no means of support except from the charity of the inhabitants, "John Phillips" "Witness" Douglas Woodward
Original Claim
State of New York County of Clinton ss. On this tenth day of May 1825 personally appeared in open court (Being the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County and a court of record) Mr John Phillips a resident in said County aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 - that he the said John Phillips enlisted for the term of one year in the Spring of the year 1780 in the State of New Hampshire in the Company commanded by Captain Luther Richardson in the Regiment - commanded by Colonel Timothy Bedel in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the old con-

-tinental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said Corps until 1781 when he was discharged from the said service in Grafton in the State of New Hampshire -
That he was in the battles of Chamburg, St Johns & Quebec at the time Genl Montgomery was killed and at the taking of 13 British Vessels on the St. Lawrence River about 15 miles from Sorell - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the affidavit of John Waters herewith annexed which only proves that he served as a volunteer in 1775. and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 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 -
Witness J D Woodward
John Phillips

Swoon to and declared on the tenth day of May 1825 before the court of common Pleas of the County of Clinton at the court house in the town of Plattsburgh in said county in open court. — "John Walworth Clerk"
State of New York County of Clinton ss. I John Walworth Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton (the same being court of Record) do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule then to annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said court: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty One dollars . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 11 th day of May. 1825. — John Walworth Clerk

November 3, 1934
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Mr. Ralph David Phillips 152 Seventh Avenue South New York New York
BA-J/HEL John Phillips-S.9457
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Phillips, pensioned November 15, 1833, while living in Clinton Township(now Greenbush) Rensselaer County, New York.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.9457, based upon the military service of John Phillips in that war.
The place of birth and the names of the parents of John Phillips are not shown nor are there any data in regard to his brothers and sisters.
While residing in Landaff, New Hampshire, John Phillips enlisted in April, 1775, upon receipt of the news of the battle of Lexington, served under one Sawyer, rank not given, who was the leader and pilot of a company of men who marched through the woods to Lake Umbagog to watch the St. Francis Indians and guard against an attack by the Indians; their leader lead them in the wrong direction and they were lost in the woods for five weeks without food and suffered many hardships before they reached Landaff about June 1, 1775; September 1, 1775, he volunteered, served as private in Captain Israel Curtis' New Hampshire Company, marched to St. John's, Canada, there joined the American force under General Montgomery; was in the battle at St. John's, in the engagement on the St. Lawrence River near Sorel under Colonel Easton where a number of British vessels were captured; in the battle of Chambly and in the engagement under the walls of Quebec when General Montgomery was killed; spent the winter in Canada, and was discharged in April, 1776, having served seven months; he enlisted in September, 1776, served three months in Captain Simpson's New
See Losing VOL. page 181 & 182

Hampshire Company, was engaged in scouting and ranging through the woods and protecting the frontier: he enlisted April 1, 1778, served as private in Captain Luther Richardson's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, again acted as guard to the frontier and was discharged April 1, 1779.
this was the only serr. I could identify in N.H. vol
In 1825, John Phillips was a resident of Clinton County, New York, and then gave his age as seventy-six years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2, 1832, at which time he was residing in the District of Montreal, Lower Canada, and stated that he "was aged 87 last September."
Could not make out the town. so left it out. Reached map
He died September 23, 1835, place not shown.
There are no data as to wife and children.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Rechar
9454
INVALID.
File No. 9457
John Phillips
Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 295-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED 8199.
P. O. John Phillips
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____
Discharged: _____
Application filed: _____
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____

The ruling in the letters of May 21, 1825 and Nov 14 1825 was that Beekie's regt. was only considered Continental in 1776.
19,642
John Phillips, Clinton Co. N.Y.
J. D. Woodward, Plattsburg, N.Y.
Recd. 21 May 1825.
Rejected - The letter of 21 May 1825 and 14 Nov 1825 -
John Phillips Washington D.C. 8/19/99 See way

N.Y. Plattsburg, May. 10. 1821
Hon The Secy of War.
The enclosed papers are sent to the Department for the purpose of obtaining a pension -
Respectfully &c
J. Douglas Woodward

State of New York County of Clinton ss. John Phillips of the town of Champlain in the County aforesaid applicant for a Pension under the act of March 18 1818 in addition to his former affidavit on the subject of his claim being duly sworn on the holy evan- gelists says that he enlisted as a Soldier under Captain Luther Richardson in the year 1778 in the Regt. which this deponent under- stood to be commanded by Col. Bedel. This deponent further says that after he served in the said Company for the term of one year - This deponent further says that after he had served as aforesaid he was dismissed the service by Capt. Richard- son at Gunfret New Hampshire - that the affidavit to which this deponent subscri- -bed was read to him & he supposed it to be correct at the time but he has since recollected that it must have been in the year 1778 that he went into service & served under Capt. Richardson as this deponent is confident & will recollect that he was married the year before which was 1777. - This deponent further says that he enlisted once at Landaff N. H. under Capt. Richardson & once at Gunfret N. H. under Capt. Simpson - and once this deponent went as a volunteer under Capt. Curtis - that he was mistaken in.

saying that he enlisted under Capt Richardson at Grafton - Captain Richardson lived at Grafton & Deponent at Landaff N.H. Sworn to & subscribed John Phillips before me this 1 st day of Nov. 1825.
J. Lynde Justice of the Peace

19.642 John Phillips.
N.Y.
J. Douglas Woodward, Plattsburg, N.Y.
Recd. 12 Nov: 1825.
Sheely War Washington D.C.
Conrad

Plattsburg N. Y. Nov. 1. 1825.
I enclose you the affe of Mr John Phillips to substantiate his claim to a pension. his papers were sent some time since & are now on file agreeably to the regulations.
The old man is poor, ignorant & forgetful.
Your ob t Servt.
J Douglas Woodward
Hon. Secy War.

The
John Phillips mentioned In April 1775 on the news of hostilities Volunteered under a pilot & leader who led the party thro' the wood from Lancaster (Upper Coos) to the Ma gade lake to watch the St. Lawrence Indians & guard against an expected invasion from them & to give the earliest information of their approach. After remaining in the neighborhood of the lake for some time, the party was led off in a wrong course by the pilot & lost in the wood some 5 weeks without bread meat or salt, suffering almost every thing but death before arriving home about June 1 st . In Sept 1775 he enlisted at Haverhill in the Co. D. M c Intosh & at once marched to St. Johns where giving Genl. Montgomery. He went to Quebec & was in the night apart on that place Dec 31. Continued with the Co. thro' the winter & until middle of April 1776 when disbanded returned home. He served several short terms on the northern frontier until 1778 when enlisted for a year in Capt. Richardson's Co. in April 1778 from our place at Landaff & marched to Haverhill where & in the surrounding country engaged in guarding the frontier against Indians. In 1832 states living in District of Montreal at Canada aged 87 yrs (no other place of enlistment or residence given)

152 Seventh Avenue South, New York City. Oct. 23 1934.
Pension Office Washington, D. C.
Re: Revolutionary Soldiers Pensions.
Gentlemen:
According to records JOHN PHILLIPS of Clinton 29 Township (now Greenbush, Rensselaer County, N.Y.) was pensioned Nov. 15 1833 and was then 88 years of age.
Will so be so kind as to advise whether or not you have any more data concerning him, particularly the names of his wife and any brothers or sisters and other pertinent data. It is believed he may have been the son of a Capt. John Phillips and had a brother Joseph, b. 1739, d. 1813, also of Greenbush, N.Y.
Any data concerning the above will be greatly appreciated by the writer.
Very truly yours,
Ralph David Phillips  Oct 24 250 Ralph David Phillips.
John Phillips - b. 15-1833 Died Sept 23. 1835-