Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,579, for Paul Price, Connecticut

SERVICE
Price, Paul
NUMBER
S. 35.579
Conn.
CONTENTS
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80124 Connecticut
Paul Price
of Goshen in the state of Connecticut who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of Six years
enrolled on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1813
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of March 1819 and sent to Theodore North Esq Goshen Litchfield Co Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of March 1819, 11 4 25 31 30 87.69 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.
$135.69
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Respectfully sent October 9th 1820 to Honorable Nathaniel Morton, Secretary of State

I Paul Price of Goshen in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby depose and declare, that in the month of April 1777 I entered the service of my country in the Revolutionary war against the Common enemy as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Joseph A. Wright in Colo. Bradley's Regiment and continued in said Regiment until the Regiments were reduced from the number of seven to the number of five when I came into the Regiment commanded by Colo. Heman Swift - I joined the army at Peekskill in the state of New York and continued in said service until the close of the war - For about the term of three years before the close of the war I served as a sergeant - After Ratification of the Treaty of Paris I was discharged from said service - The warrant which I received upon being appointed a sergeant and my discharge from said service by him or an officer have been mislaid or lost I further depose and declare that I am now in the seventy fifth year of my age, and such are my reduced circumstances, that I need the assistance of my country for support The Regiment commanded by Colo. Swift above mentioned was called the 2 d Connecticut Regiment Paul Price his Mark
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss April 6 th day A.D. 1818 - Personally appeared the within named Paul Price, and made solemn Oath to the truth of his above affidavit before me Augustus Pitkin Chief Judge Litchfield County Court

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss. I I Augustus Pettibone Esq. Chief Judge of the County Court for the said County of Litchfield do hereby certify the foregoing Affidavit and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Paul Pierce served in the Revolutionary war as a private soldier  and sergeant against the common enemy on the Continental Establishment for the term stated in his affidavit for the term stated in his affidavit That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support &
To the Hon ble Secretary of War ~
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed this 6 th day of April Anno Domini 1818 Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge
I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Augustus Pettibone Esq. is Judge of said Court, that the above signature is his hand writing, & that the seal hereto annexed is the seal of said Court. July 3 d 1818.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
Paul Pierce Sergeant Col. H. S. H. Inf ty Reg t Connecticut Line 1777-8 years

District of Connecticut ss, County of Litchfield, County Court.
On this 4 th day of July 182 0 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison, Paul Price
aged 76 years resident in the said county, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows :
That in the month of May (according to his best recollection) in the year 1777, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Company of Capt. Allen belonging to the 5 th Reg t in the Connecticut line commanded by Col. Phillips & Bradley, that he enlisted as aforesaid at Danbury in Connecticut & soon after joined said Reg t at Fishkill in the State of New York, that he served in said Reg t at different places in the State of New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania for the term of about three years till the Regiments were reduced, when he was transferred to the 2 d Reg t of the Connecticut line commanded by Col. Heman Swift & continued to serve as long as different companies belonging to the said last mentioned (serving last in the Company of Capt. Chapman) until the close of the war. - That his original declaration upon which he obtained a pension under the act of Congress of the 18 th was dated the 4 th day of April 1818, and the amount of his pension certificate is $82.20.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an 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 on the 18 th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; 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.

And I the said Paul Price do also solemnly swear that I have no estate whatever of any kind, except my wearing apparel. - That since the Revolutionary War my employment has principally been working by the day at Farming business for such as employed me - That I am now unable from the infirmities of age to perform any labour, of consequence I have had a family but my wife is dead and my children support themselves but are not able to assist me - That for two or three years before I received my pension, I had been dependent upon & the only support from the town of Goshen, and since that time my pension has supported me without any other assistance or income whatever.
Paul Price His X mark

Sworn to and declared on the 4 th day of July A. D. 1820 before said Court
Asst. Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
Paul G. ... 601 ... 10642
I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Nothing dollars and cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 17 th day of July 1820
Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

35 579 Rev INVALID.
File No. 83-579
Paul Price
Seiz Rev Ins
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Paul Pine -
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Hon. John C. Calhoun
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Secretary of War
See records
Washington City

April 1 st 1819.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War.
About ten months since, I enclosed by mail for the War department an affidavit of the same Paul Prier, whose affi- davit is here inclosed, and for the same object. That affidavit bore date the 6 th of April 1818, which was the time it was in fact made. It was not accompanied by any evidence, and was not known at that time what evidence might be required, in case the name of the Applicant was not found on the Roll. Indeed, it was believed from the length of time which he served, that his name would be found on the Roll. But no return has been received nor anything heard of that affidavit. It is apprehended that said first affidavit must have been mislaid or in some way lost. Should that af- fidavit be found, it is the request of said Prier, it might be returned, that if his name be not found on the Roll, he may return it to the War Department with sufficient evidence to obtain a Pension from the date of it. But if that affidavit is not found that the one now inclosed may be acted upon.
It is requested that the return may be addressed to the sub- scribed at Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Theodore And

1 State of Connecticut } County of Litchfield -
In this 30 th day of March in the year 1819, before me the Subscriber, Chief Judge of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, personally appeared Paul Price aged Seventy five years, resident in said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war". That he the said Paul Price enlisted sometime in the Month of in the year 1777 May at Litchfield in said State, in the Com- pany commanded by Capt. Joseph D. Wright which company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Philip B. Bradley (the Col. of said Regiment and being according to his recollection the 5 th but of which he is not positive) and that he afterwards became and served as a Sergeant in said Company and that he continued to serve in said company from the said time of his en- listment in the year 1777 till the regiments were received in the year 1780, and that he was then transferred to the Company of Capt. Elijah Chapman in the Regiment commanded by Col. Nathan Safford of the Connecticut Troops, belonging to the Brigade of Genl. Jedidiah Huntington and that he continued to serve as a Sergeant in said Chapman's company till the close of the war in the year 1783, and then received his discharge signed by Genl. Geo. Washington at a place called the Highlands on the river Hudson in the State of New York - which discharge he has since lost & is not able to find - That he was in the Battles at Germantown and at Monmouth & others of less note - That he the said Paul Price is in reduced circumstances and states in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence in his power of his said services, except the deposition hereto annexed -
I swear to & declare before me the day & year aforesaid Augustus Willibone Judge -

I Augustus Pettibone, Chief Judge of the County Court in & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Paul Paine, named in the within affidavit did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the within declaration against the common enemy, and it also appears to my satisfaction, from testimony adduced before me that the said Paul Paine is in need of very indigent circumstances & absolutely needs the assistance of his country for his support - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Litchfield March 30 th 1819.
Augustus Pettibone Judge

State of Connecticut ss. Litchfield County -
On the 3 rd day of March in the year 1819 personally appeared before me the Subscriber, James Morris Esq. of Litchfield in said County, known to me to be of respectable character & of unquestionable credibility, & being duly sworn according to law, on his oath deposes & says that in the year 1777 he the said Morris was a Lieutenant in the company of Capt. Joseph A. Wright belonging to Regiment of Col. Philip B. Bradley, and that Paul Price now residing in Goshen in said County was by him the said Morris enlisted in said Company at said Litchfield as a private and that said Price was afterwards a Sergeant and continued to serve in said Company until the Regiments were mustered, when he belonged to the Regiment of Col. Sherman Swift, (and according to the best recollection of him the said Morris in the company of Capt. Chapman,) and that said Price continued to serve as a Sergeant in said last mentioned Regiment till the termination of the war in the year 1783, and further saith not -
Sworn before
Theodore North Justice of Peace

The deposition of Samuel Waugh of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield and state of Connecticut of Lawful age is as follows - min
I will know that Paul
Price enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Joseph A. Wright in the forepart of the year 1777 during the Revolutionary in the Regiment commanded by Col: Philip Burr Bradley in the Connecticut line of the Army of the United States of America, and that the said Price continued in the service a faithful soldier till the close of the war, when the Regiments in the Connecticut line of the army were disbanded in the year 1780 the company in which the said Price served was transferred to Colonel Sherman Swift's Regiment the company was commanded by Capt. Elijah Chapman. and in said Chapman's company, the said Paul Price was promoted to a Sergeant and then continued till the close of the revolutionary war in the year 1783 further saith not. Dated at Litchfield March 26 th 1819.
Samuel Waugh
Litchfield County ss Litchfield March 26 th 1819
Personally appeared Captain Samuel Waugh to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deposition, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same. Said Samuel Waugh is a credible witness
James Morris Justice of peace

I Julius Beach of Goshen in the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut do hereby certify. That that I was a Soldier in Captain Elijah Chapman's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col: Herman Swift. and that Paul Price a Sergeant in said Company, and that he the said Paul Price served till the close of the war in the year A.D. 1783, and I also further testify, that the said Paul Price is an inhabitant of the town of Goshen, and that he is very poor, and stands in need of support from his Country. Litchfield March 26 th 1819 Julius Beach
Litchfield County ss. Litchfield March 26 th 1819
Personally appeared Julius Beach Esquire the signer of the above deposition and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same. the said Beach is a credible witness.
James Morris Justice of Peace
I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, or County Court, within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify that Augustus Pettibone Esq. is Judge of said Court & that his name subscribed to the preceding Certificate is his hand writing; I further certify that Theodore North and James Morris Esquires, are Justices of the Peace within said County, and that their names subscribed to the preceding Certificates are their respective hand writings, & that the Seal hereto annexed is the Seal of said Court. - March 31 st 1819. Frederick Wolcott.