Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8059, for Isaac Peck, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Peck Isaac.
Tr. 8059
CONTENTS

Cleveland Ohio Jan'y 28. 1835
Col. Edwards Esq. Sir
I enclose Israel Perkins application for a Pension. The paper should have been forwarded long ago, but the Certificate has been mislaid
Yours mo. ob. servt
Geo. Hoadly

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
(See also 8058)
REJECTED
8059
P. O. Isaac Peck
Service: Camp who go to Ohio Capt Hinsdale Col Wyllys Enlisted at Berlin Conn
Enlisted: 1779 at burning of Fairfield, 18
Discharged: also at Danbury, 18
1784-5 moved to Vt then 1790 to Stephen town N.Y 1832 to Ohio
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Rejected
See letter to George Woodly Cleveland Ohio 17 Feb 1835
8059

Isaac Peck } Pennoner
Sworn to in Court March 18. 1834 ~

The State of Ohio Guyahoga County
South Common Pleas March Term 1834
On this 18th day of March A.D. 1834 personally appeared in Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Isaac Peck of a resident of Parma township, County of Guyahoga County and State of Ohio — aged seventy five years, who having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
1 st He entered at New Haven Connecticut for six months in the month of October. He marched to Stamford and remained there and at Horsneck since called Greenwich, at Ray in Westchester County, New York. Having served out his term he was honorably discharged at Larchmont so called in Westchester County. He served under Captain Hindsdale, Col Wyllie and General Putnam. He does not recollect exactly the name of the troops but he thinks they were called Con- necticut State troops.
2 nd The applicant in the year 1779 after the British came to New Haven in Connecticut turned out as a volunteer with the militia at New Haven aforesaid, He arrived at Fairfield just as the British were leaving it. The town was then on fire. Having served three months in Fairfield County chiefly at Fairfield set forward

he was honorably discharged. He served under Lt. Brannan of West Britain, but does not remember his Captain's name
In the year the year that Danbury in Connecticut was burned by the British the applicant volunteered his services with the Connecticut Militia, and marched from Berlin to Danbury. was there when General Wooster was killed. Having fired one even the horse honorably dis- charged
The applicant was born in the parish of West Britain in Berlin, Connecticut July 16. 1758, and that was his home until he was 26 or 27 years old - then he removed to Stockbridge Vermont where he resided five years - Then he removed to Stephen Town in New York about twenty miles East of Albany - Then he resided six or seven years - then he resided at Windham, New York seven or eight years - then one year at New Durham N.Y. one year then he resided in Vienna Onondaga County N.Y. two years - then at Godebursky Onondaga County N.Y. three years - then in 1832 he removed to Painesville Ohio where he has ever since resided - He may not exact to a year in these statements but there is no material error. His age was kept in his mother's bible and when she died an older brother took it to Vermont.
The applicant has no documentary evi- dence and no living witnesses to his service His health is feeble and his memory is considerably impaired especially as to dates and names.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State -
Isaac Pack
There is no chatty room in Painesville
I write to you in great haste
18. day of March A D 1834
Isaac Pack
W. H. Weldon Deputy Clerk. Com. Pleas.
Joseph E Tuttle of Painesville, Cuyahoga County Ohio, hereby certifies that I have been well ac- quainted with Isaac Pack who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration for eight years past, I believe him to be seventy five years of age, he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revo- lution and I concur in that opinion
Joseph E Tuttle
Sanford Hodge of Cleveland Ohio certifies that I have been well acquainted with Isaac Pack who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declara- tion for two years. I believe him to be seventy five years of age, he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and I concur in that opinion, he is a hardworking honest man and every way entitled to respect & help -
Sanford Hodge

Isaac Peck } Pension
Sworn to in Court March 18. 1834
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Joseph D. Tuttle & Sanford S. Colgate are residents in the County of Cuyahoga, and are credible persons and their statements is entitled to credit.
I Henry W. Alden Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Isaac Peck for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and impressed the seal of our said Court at Cleveland, this fourteenth day of June A.D. 1834.
H. W. Alden. Dep. Clerk