Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17399, for William Nettleton, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Nettleton, William Zillah
W. 17399
CONTENTS

Date of death not on B
3950 Connecticut
Zillah Spittleton widow of William Spittleton, died who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the ————— 1820 of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Conn. commanded by Captain ————— of the ————— commanded by ————— in the Conn. Milia line for 7 yrs. 11. days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. at the rate of 24 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Augt 1839, & sent unto Chas. B. Phelps, Woodbury, Conn.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $ 73.65 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 12.27 $ 85.92
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. M. Curdy, Clerk Book A. Vol. 1. Page 201,

V 4144 Zillah Nettleton born: act. 4 July '36
a kin d act 7 July 1838

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connct. Oct. 31. 1838
I certify that on application for evidence of the Services of William Nettleton, I have examined the Books & Papers (remaining) in this Office relating to the War of the Revolution, And find his name on a "Pay Roll of the 8 th C o 6 th Regt o (raised by order of the Genl. Assembly of Connct. May 1775)" where he is entered as a private, Saml. Hale Capt., & enlisted May 8, Discharged Dec. 19. (making) 7 months 11 days
Henry Washburne Compt r

V 4144 Zillah Nettleton born: act. 4 July '36
adm d act 7 July 1838

State of Connecticut
Probate Court District of Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this twenty first day of November 1838 personally appeared before the said Court of Probate Zillah Nettleton residing in Woodbury in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged _____ 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 and the act supplemental of said act passed March 3 1837
That she was married to William Nettleton of Killingworth Connecticut who was a private in the Capt Samuel Gales Company in Col Samuel H Parsons Regiment of Connecticut Troops being the fifth Regiment. Said William enlisted into said Company on the 8 th day of May 1775 and continued to do service in said Company until discharged on 19 day of Dec r 1775

said Company franchise in and about Boston Massachusetts.
The further avers that she was married at North Killingworth a parish of Killingworth Connecticut to said William Nottleton by the Rev William Lawrence a Congregational minister of said North Killingworth parish upon the third day of December 1776 and that said William Nottleton died at Woodbury aforesaid on the 29 th day of November 1820 _____ and that she has not contracted matrimony since and is now the Widow of said William as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above written.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand my Lillah mark Nottleton and the seal of said Court of Probate on this 21 day of November 1838
Nathaniel B Smith Judge

State of Connecticut
Probate Court District of Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this 21 day of November 1838 personally appeared in said Court Abigail Nobleton of Offord in New Haven County whom the Court certify to be a reputable and credible witness and being first duly sworn on his oath declares & says as follows
I am thirty nine years of age and in the year 1820 I lived with my father William Nobleton at Woodbury in the State of Connecticut where William Nobleton died at home on the 29 day of November 1820. He died in a fit in the Barn yard near his house and I assisted in removing his dead body from the yard to the house and put him into the lower burying ground in Woodbury
My Mother Zillah Nobleton is now alive and is still the Mother of my father she has not been married since his death she resides in Woodbury aged

and further the Deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before me in Court.
Atty  for Plaintiff
Nathaniel B Smith Judge

State of Connecticut Middlesex County p o Killingworth
Be it remembred that on this 13 th day of Nov r 1836. before me
Elisha Phelps — a justice of the Peace within cause for the County of Middlesex personally appeared the Rev. Ephraim G. Swift who being first duly sworn & sworn on oath declared that he is now and has been for more than four years Pastor of the First Congregational Church in the Town of Killingworth since as such Pastor has in his hands a paper a certain Record Book containing the entire of memoranda celebrated by his predecessor in the pasturship of said Church. That from the year
1757 to the year 1782 the Rev William Linnæus was pastor of said Church: since that the hand writing of said Rev Mr Linnæus is well known to the deponent since that the deponent has inscribed on said Record in the hand writing of said Rev Mr Linnæus as

11 Since further the said Deponent says that said Record is the Record of the marriages in said parish for the period which it covers.
Sworn to before me Elisha Pelsy Justice of the Peace
Justice of the
I also certify that the Rev Ephraim Graft is a credible & reputable witness
Elisha Pelsy Justice of the Peace
follows - Here married "in the year 1776" (one thousand seven hundred and seventy six) December 3rd (third) "William Atkinson and Lilla James"
Ephraim Graft

State of Connecticut Middlesex County County Court Clk's Off ce
I Mr. D. W. Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Middlesex hereby Certify that Elihu Kelley Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex as per Commission on file in my Office & that his Name subscribed to the annex d Certificate mark d A. B. are his proper Hand writing & signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 21 st day of Nov r . A.D. 1838. D. W. Clerk

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connct. Oct 31. 1838
I certify that on application for evidence of the Services of William Nettleton, I have examined the Books & papers (remaining) in this Office relating to the War of the Revolution, And find his name on a Pay Roll of the 8 th Co. 6 th Regt. (ais le p te ) order of the Genl. Assembly of Connct. May 1775 11 where he is entered as a private, Saml. Dake Capt., & enlisted May 8, Discharged Dec r 19. making 7 months 11 days
Henry Kirbourn Compt r

July 31, 1937
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RA-J/HEL Qu William Nettleton-W.17399
Mrs. Boyd F. Carroll 1105 Vineyard Square Jefferson City, Missouri
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of William Nettleton, born in 1754, in Killingworth, Connecticut; William Ray, of Rhode Island; Joseph Manger, of Massachusetts, soldiers of the Revolutionary War and Thomas Stanton, who landed in Virginia in 1635, went to Boston in 1657 and died in 1677.
This office has no record of services rendered in the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War, hence no record of Thomas Stanton.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war. You are furnished herein the record of William Nettleton, the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, the data for which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W.17399, based upon the military service of that soldier in said war.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of William Nettleton are not shown.
William Nettleton enlisted, place not shown, and served from May 8, 1775 to December 19, 1775, as a private in Captain Samuel Gale's Company, Colonel Samuel H. Parsons' 6 th Connecticut Regiment; the service was rendered at Boston and vicinity. This sol. in Conn. Regt in this service
William Nettleton died November 29, 1820, at his home in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was buried in the burying ground at that place.
The soldier married December 3, 1774

Connecticut, Zilla or Zillah Parmelee. He was then of Killingworth and they were married by the pastor of Second Congregational Church, the Reverend William Seward, and the marriage was recorded on the records of said church. The date and place of birth of Zillah and the names of her parents are not stated.
Zillah, widow of William Nettleton, was allowed pension on her application executed June 2, 1835, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and resided in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
The only name of a child that is given is son Ashley Nettleton, who, in 1835, was aged thirty-nine years and resided in Oxford, Connecticut.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Zillah Nettleton, widow of William Nettleton(W.17399), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Zillah Nettleton, widow of William Nettleton Certificate No.3950 Issued August 22, 1839 Rate $24.55 per annum Commenced March 4, 1836 Act of July 7, 1835 Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

V 4144 Sec. C. B. Phelps. May 31-39.
alt 4 July '36.

Handwritten cursive text, possibly bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mirrored and difficult to read, but appears to include the word "Dear" followed by a name and a closing.

571 War Dep Per: H 31: Aug 85
Sir
The claim of Mrs. Zillah Kettleton widow of Mr. Kettleton dec.? under the act of 4 July 36 has been examined & disallowed. The act provides for those only whose marriage took place before the expiration of the service & it appears that she was married  married in Sept. 76 just 12 mo after the service of her late husband expired.
Chas B. Phelps Esq. Woodbury Conn.

Dear Friend
The accompanying application I have made on new. supporting it better than attempting an amendment of the first.
Please to advise me when reply is made
Yours respectfully
RWB Phelps
Woolbury
Conn

MRS. BOYD F. CARROLL 1105 VINEYARD SQUARE JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI
July 18, 1937
Pension Dept., Veterans Administration Bureau Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I hereby request a summary of the papers of the Revolutionary War (or any earlier war if you have them) records of the following men, whose descendant I am:
1. William Nettleton, born at Killingsworth, Conn., 1754: ✓ 2. William Ray, fought at Bennington, Vt., Saratoga, Albany, etc., from Rhode Island or perhaps Block Island: ✓ 3. Thomas Stanton who landed in Virginia from the Bonaventure in 1635, went to Boston and, in 1657, moved to Stonington, Conn., dying Dec. 2, 1677; or his descendants: ✓ 4. Joseph Munger, Sr., 1719-1805, minute man in Mass. Joseph Munger and his son Joseph both turned out at the Lexington Alarm from Brimfield, Mass.
Any information you can give me concerning any or all of these men will be greatly appreciated as I wish to join both the D.A.R. and the D. A. C.,

MRS. BOYD F. CARROLL 1105 VINEYARD SQUARE JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI
and must have proof of the war records of these men. I will be very grateful, too, if you can send this information promptly as the chapter roll for charter members of the D.A.C., closes in September here in Jefferson City.
Very truly yours,
Marie Stanton Kettleton Carroll
(Mrs. Boyd F. Carroll)
Any news of their descendants will be welcomed.

J L Edwards Esq
Com Pensions

To Honorable Esq
Wm Pownall
Mrs Jellah Atkinson has appointed me her Attorney to correspond with you & etc and receive her pension certificates
Respectfully yours
Thos B Phelps
Woolbury
Conn
26 Nov 1838.

1837-July 31-2 List to Mrs Betsy F. Carroll, Exec
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17399 Zillah Nettleton Wid. of William Nettleton Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7. 1838
Index:—Vol. M , Page 81
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Gillah Nettleton wife of William Conn
Ad July 7-1838 Mama 1776 died 1820
Allen 7 m 11 d for Sam Maltbie
CH P Phelps Woodbury Conn

State of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of Woodbury
On this 2 nd day of July 1839 personally appeared before the Court of Probate aforesaid Elizabeth  Stetson a resident of Woodbury in said District in the County of Litchfield age seventy nine 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 7 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of William Stetson who was a private in the army of the Revolution and served in a company commanded by Capt. Dale being the 8 th Company in the 6 th Regiment said Stetson enlisted 8 May 1775 and was discharged 19 Dec r 1775 as will appear by the certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts in Connecticut now in the pension office at Washington annexed to a former application of declaration of this applicant. Since her marriage for seven months 11 days
She further declares she was married to said William Stetson at Killingworth Connecticut on the third day of December 1776 as will appear by the deposition of

of the Rev Ephraim Swift Pastor of the 2 d Church in Billingsworth aforesaid which Deposition is attached to a former Declaration of this applicant now on file in the Office of the Comptroller of Pensions
said marriage was contracted December Thirte One Thousand Seven Hun- dred and Sixty six.
and that her aforesaid husband died on the 29 th day of November 1820.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the place of above specified but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Twenty Hundred and Sixty four by at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Nathaniel B Smith Judge of Probate for the District of Woodbury -