Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14049, for Sturges Ogden, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Ogden, Sturges or Sturgess
S.14049
boarded
CONTENTS

9772 Connecticut
Sturgess Ogden
of Fairfield in the State of Cont. — who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hill — of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dimes in the Cont — line for 22 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 - day of June 1833 — and to the Col. Fairfield
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 30 $146 66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep. 33 36 66 $183 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. E. Piles Clerk, Book E. Vol. B. Page 33

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss
On this 23 d day of May 1833 personally appeared before a Special Court of Probate held at Fairfield in & for the Probate District of Fairfield in Fairfield County, State of Connecticut & now sitting Sturges Ogden a resident of Fairfield in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aged now seventy one years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration explanatory of a declaration by him made on the 30 th day of July 1832 before the aforesaid Court of Probate at a Special Session thereof held at Fairfield in the District aforesaid on the 30 th day of July 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
In his original Declaration made before the Probate Court he stated that in the summer of 1779 he was drafted from a Company of Militia in the Parish of Greenfield in Fairfield Commanded by Capt Ebenezer Tille Col Simons Regt & served as guard of the Sea Coast of Fairfield Six months until sometime in the winter of the same year under the particular command of Ensign Chauncy Downs of the Militia Company. And he further stated in his original Declaration that early in the Spring of 1781 he entered as a volunteer in one of the boats commanded by Capt Caleb Brewster who had a commission to cruise Long Island Sound with several boats under his command in the Continental Service, in which Service he continued nine months until late in the fall of the same year. He also stated in his original declaration that he was drafted in the Spring of the year 1782 from the Militia Company in Greenfield in Fairfield Commanded by Capt Ebenezer Tille Col Simons Regt and served as the guard on the sea coast of Fairfield three months and was under the particular command of Sergeant James Bulkley of Capt Thorps Militia Company. Col Simons Regt. The Declarant now states that he is positive that all the foregoing services are correct & true - The Declarant further stated in his original Declaration that he perfectly recollects

of Serving on guard of the Sea Coast in the Parish of Greenfarms in S d Fairfield under Capt Joseph Bennet he believes for three months but what year it was in he cannot tell neither does he know of any person living that served with him. He now states that he is positive in saying that his Service on that occasion was not less than two months. He also states in his original Declaration that he also recollected perfectly of serving on guard of the Sea Coast in the Parish of Greenfarms in S d Fairfield under Capt Thomas Nash, he believes he served on this Tour of duty three months but cannot tell what year it was in but believes he served under Capt Bennet in the year 1780 and thinks he served under Capt Nash in 1782 & thinks he enlisted for both of the two last Tours. The Declarant now says that he is sure he served under Capt Nash for the full term of two months and that he cannot be any more positive than he has been as to the years in which he performed the last mentioned services, but is positive of S d Services.
The Declarant further says that he served in Embodied Corps maintained by public authority for the protection of the lives & property of the inhabitants against attacks of the British who were in possession of Long Island, and that he always served as a private Soldier on land & as an oarsman & marine in the boat under S d Capt Brewster and that his Services were constant & uninterrupted & that his whole time was devoted to his duties as a Soldier & marine & that he attended to no other business during his Services aforesaid and further that he herewith sends the best & only evidence in his power in support of his claims and that he knows of no other material facts that will be useful in the investigation of his claims.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before
George Ogden
Daniel Hill Judge of Tribunal for the district of no and -

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } Fairfield.
On this 30 th day of July 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before a Special Session of the Court of Probate held at Fairfield in and for the Probate District of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut now sitting Sturges Ogden a Resident of Fairfield in said County and State Aged Seventy years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, that he Entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and Served as herein stated, (viz). that at the commencement of his Service in the Revolutionary War in the Summer of the year 1779 Soon after the Town of Fairfield was burnt, then a Resident of said Fairfield, he was drafted from the Militia Company in the Parish of Greenfield in said Fairfield commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Hill, Col. (Dinner's) Brig t and Served on Guard of the Sea Coast of the Town of Fairfield Six Months until some time in the Winter of the same year, and was Stationed at an Old Shop on Fairfield Green which was saved by the Enemy as he supposes to prevent Burning the Dwelling house of an Old Lady both stood near together, Ensign Chauncy Downs had the particular command of the Guard, he does not know any Superior Officer, Except S c Capt. Hill & Col. Dinner. Said Downs belong d to S c Capt. Hill, Compy of Militia, and Early in the Spring of the year 1781. he Entered as a Volunteer in one of the Boats commanded by Capt. Caleb Brewster, who had a Commission to cruise Long Island Sound with Several Boats under his command in the Continental Service, in which Service he continued Nine Months , until late in the fall of the same year he says he Rudeck of taking a Sloop near Stony Brook which they ran aground and could not get her afloat again, and was obliged to abandon her, he was Drafted in the Spring of the year 1782 from the Militia Company, in Greenfield in said Fairfield. Commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Hill in Col. (Dinner's) Reg t and Served on the Guard of the Sea Coast of the Town of Fairfield Three Months . he was Stationed at Mill River in said Fairfield at an Old Shop belonging to William Buckley, and was under the particular command of Sergeant James Buckley of Capt. Eliphalet Thompson's Company, Col. (Dinner's) Brig t . there was two Col. (Dinner's) in Fairfield one commanded the Militia and one the State Troops or Continental, and which he don't know, also S c Capt. Tharp commanded the Militia a part of the Time & he believes part of the Time State Troops but which he commanded when he served under him he cannot say but he was

Drafted from the Militia Company as afore said he faithfully Resists of Serving on Guard of the Sea Coast in the Parish of Greensboro in S d Fairfield Under Capt n Joseph Bennett and was Stationed at an Old house belonging to John Henkum he believes for Three Months but what year it was in he cannot tell neither does he know any person living that served with him he also Resists perfectly of Serving on Guard of the Sea Coast in the Parish of Greensboro in S d Fairfield under Capt n Thomas Nash and was Stationed at the Same Old house as Under Capt n Bennett, he believes he served on this Four Three Months but cannot tell what year it was in, but believes the time under Capt n Bennett was in the year 1780 and thinks he served under Capt n Nash in 1782 & thinks he enlisted for both of the time last. Four of Duty, and knows of no person living who served with him, he never Rec d any written discharge to his knowledge, if he did it is long since lost. he has no Documentary Evidence of Service he was born in Fairfield afore said on the 26 th day of July 1762 when he has some time lived he has no Record of his age except in his Family Bible to his knowledge, he was living in the Town of Fairfield when called into the Service and was called into the Service by being drafted from Capt n Ebenezer Hill's Company of Militia and has lived in said Fairfield ever since he can name no other officers except what is before stated nor any other General circumstances of his Service, he never Rec d any discharge from Service to his knowledge if he did it is long since lost, the Hon. Gideon Jenkins, (the Hon. David Hill and others of the Most Respectable Enablistants of the Town of Fairfield are acquainted with him and can testify to his Character for veracity and their belief of his Service as a Soldier of the Revolution - the said Sturges Ogden hereby Relinquishes Every Claim Whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State, Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year afore said known to and subscribed in the day and
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two
David Hill Clerk of the Court of Pensions for the district of Mason I.D.
Sturges Ogden
We Reuben Sherwood & Jesse Burr residents of the Town of Fairfield hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sturges Ogden who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration & that we believe him to be seventy years of age & that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion Sworn & Subscribed the day & year afore said
Reuben Sherwood
Jesse Burr

and the sd Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to the Court that Reuben Sherwood & Jesse Burr who have signed the preceding certificate in favor of sd Attorney Ogden are residents of the town of Fairfield aforesaid & are persons of good standing in the community & possess indisputable characters for truth & that their statement is entitled to credit and the Court further certifies that John Robenson Joshua Davis who have subscribed the annexed Depositions are also persons of good standing in the community & men of truth District of Fairfield July the 30 1832 David Hill Judge, Probate
I David Hill Jun Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield in Fairfield County & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the sd Court of Probate in the matter of the application of Attorney Ogden for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 30 th day of July 1832 David Hill Jr Clerk.

I Joshua Davis of Fairfield in Fairfield county & State of Connecticut aged seventy five years, being duly cautioned & sworn do testify & say that in the fall of the year 1778 I was detached from the Continental army in which I was enlisted & serving, for a special service on board a certain whale boat under Capt Caleb Brewster who commanded a small fleet & had a commission to cruise Long Island Sound in the Continental Service, & that I served on board of said boat till the end of the war of the Revolution and I further testify & say that I have personal knowledge that Sturges Ogden of Fairfield Early in the Spring of 1781 entered as a volunteer on board of the same boat in which I was under the same officers, & continued in service with me the Deponent on board of said boat till late in the fall of the same year & I should say for a term of nine or ten months. In witness whereof the Deponent hath set his hand at Fairfield this 28 th day of July 1832
Joshua Davis
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Is Fairfield July 28 th 1832.
The foregoing Deposition of Joshua Davis was taken, subscribed & sworn to before me
Thomas Robinson J us Peace
I hereby certify that Joshua Davis who has signed the foregoing Deposition & who is a pensioner of the United States is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court, and I further certify that the said Davis is of good standing in society & possesses an indisputable character for truth.
Thomas Robinson J us Peace

State of Connecticut Fairfield County
§. I Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Thomas Robinson Esquire before whom the Deposition of Joshua Davis on the other side hereof was sworn, is a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned & duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions &c. I further certify that the official signatures to the Certificates on the other side hereof are genuine and in the proper hand writing of the said Thomas Robinson.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 28 th day of July A D 1832.
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of said County Court for Fairfield County

I John Robenson of the Town & County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut aged Seventy years being Duly Cautious & Sworn Do Testify & say that I am personally knowing to the services of Sturges Ogden of D o Fairfield in the War of the Revolution In the latter part of the Summer & fall of the year 1779 I fre- quently saw him the D o Ogden on Duty in a Guard Stationed at an old Shop on Fairfield Green under the Command of Ensign Chauncy Downes myself being on Duty at the same time in a Guard Stationed at Black Rock in D o Fairfield East of the Guard in which D o Ogden was serving. How long he was on Duty I cannot tell but believe for at least six months and under what Superior Officers he served I cannot tell but know that Ensign Downes belonged to a Militia Company in the Parish of Greenfield in D o Fairfield commanded by Capt Ebenezer Hill - and in the Spring of the year 1782 myself & D o Ogden served together three months in a guard of the town of Fairfield under the Command of Captain Bulkley of Capt Elephalet Dyer's Company but in the Regiment I do not recollect & further than as afoot with met
John Robenson
Sworn to and subscribed at Fairfield in the District of Fairfield July the 30 th 1882
before me David Hill Judge of Probate for said District

Nathaniel Freeman of Fairfield lately of Weston in Fairfield County State of Connecticut do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Sturges Ogden who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That I believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is reputed & believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion and I further certify that he is of good standing in Society & that his character for truth is unquestionable. Sworn & subscribed the day & year above & before David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid.
Nathaniel Freeman.
And the Court hereby declares its opinion that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution & served as he states and that his character for truth is unquestionable and further certifies that it appears that Nathaniel Freeman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman now residing in the town of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut & that his statement is entitled to credit. David Hill Judge of Probate
I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield, State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing explanatory declaration of Sturges Ogden was subscribed & sworn to before the Court & that David Hill whose own proper signature known to me to be genuine is affixed thereto is the Judge of the Probate Court & has been for more than one year past the Judge of the Court duly commissioned and acting as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 23 d day of May 1833. David Hill Jr Clerk

Rev. War
14049 INVALID.
File No. 14049
Sturgess Ogden Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ogen, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12444 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 1, 1794 To — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ogg, James GRADE Private LINE Rhode Island
WARRANT NUMBER 3369 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 16, 1791 to Deborah May, Ad. x
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ogilby, George GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10185 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 25, 1794 to Gideon Merkle, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.