Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,570, for James Powers, Connecticut

SERVICE
Conn.
Powers, James
NUMBER
S. 35570
CONTENTS

Connecticut Roll.
1,279 ✓
James Powers, Private, Capt Leavenworth
Connecticut line 1777. 3 years. In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of $8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to the Pensioner at Southington, Hartford Co. Conn te .
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
4 months 21/30. $37.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
sent to Thomas Chester Esqr 20 Oct 1820
Maryland Connecticut
4 and with orig. Bills Aug. 1823. ELP

James Powers April 14.
Correct D.H.
James Powers April 14.

To the honourable Jonathan Brace Esquire Judge of the County Court in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut.
The representation of James Powers of Southington in the county aforesaid respectfully sheweth. That he served as a private soldier in the Army of the United States during the whole of the Revolutionary war . He first enlisted as a volunteer under Benedict Arnold in the year 1775 and served at and near Boston during the summer of that year. That in the spring of the year 1776 he enlisted for one year under Jacob Clark who was afterwards a Colonel. That he served during that year and in the year 1777 he enlisted to serve during the war and served faithfully until discharged in June 1783. That when he first enlisted to serve during the war he belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. Douglas who died before he joined the Army and the Regiment was then under the command of Lieut. Col. Danning who died soon after. The Regiment was next commanded by Col. Meigs and when Col. Meigs left the Regiment and went with the Light Infantry Col. Zebulon Butler took the command of the Regt. and continued to command it until the peace. The Regiment to which he belonged was called the fourth Connecticut Regiment. That he was honourably discharged but his discharge is lost. That he the said James Powers is at this time in the seventy eighth year of age entirely destitute of property and by his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support.
He therefore prays that he may be heard upon his oath and by such other testimony as may be in his power to adduce relative to this application and upon its appearing to the satisfaction of your honour that the representation before made is true, that the same may be certified and the evidence in the case transmitted to the Secretary of War for the United States that he may be placed on the pension list according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 18 th A.D. 1818
James Powers
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford April 14 th 1818
Then personally appeared James Powers whose signature is affixed to the

foregoing representation and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts as therein set forth before me Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford -
I Jonathan Brace Esquire Judge of the County Court in the County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut do certify that on examination of the aforesaid James Powers together with the other evidence by him adduced in support of his application, to wit the Certificate of the Controller of public accounts in this State, the deposition of Lieut Giles Curtis, and of the Select Men of Southington all of which are herewith transmitted, am satisfied, that the aforesaid representation of James Powers is true, at least so far as that he served as a private soldier for the term of nine months at least in the Revolutionary war on the continental establishment - and that by his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support. And I do also certify that the said County Court is a Court of Record In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this 14 th day of April A.D. 1818
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford aforesaid -

We Moses Dutton, Jude Hart and Lucas Curtis Select men of the town of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut do testify and say that for thirty years past we have been acquainted with James Powers now residing in Southington aforesaid that we have always been informed and do now verily believe that the said James Powers served in the Army of the United States during the greatest part of the Revolutionary war - That he is now far advanced in life being as we believe between seventy five and eighty years of age - and that he is very poor and by reason of his age and reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support
Moses Dutton Jude Hart
Lucas Curtis
I Mark Newell of Southington in the County aforesaid testify and say that I served as a private soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. Meigs in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war three years upon the continental establishment and that James Powers now residing in said Southington served as a private soldier in the same Regiment with me for the same term viz for three years - That the said Powers is now upwards of seventy years of age very poor and from his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support
Mark Newell
Hartford County ss Southington April 13 th 1818 Personally appeared Moses Dutton, Jude Hart, Lucas Curtis and Mark Newell whose names are subscribed to the foregoing depositions & severally made oath to the truth of the same as by them subscribed before me Roger Kirtland Justice of Peace

James Powers
1279.
Sept. 1818

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD,
ss. Special County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden by order of the Chief Judge of said Court, on the first Tuesday of August, 1820.
ON this Second day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
James Powers aged Eighty One years, resident in Southington in the County of Hartford,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
that he enlisted in the Summer of 1775 to serve for the term of One Year in a Regiment commanded by Col. Huntington and a company commanded by Capt. Heaverworth that he served out the full term of his enlistment, that he was in the Battle at Dorchester Point, that in the next Year he enlisted to serve during the War that he served in the Regiments of Col. Hunt Col. M c Intosh - that he was in the Battle at White Plains and at Flatbush Island, that he served faithfully till the Peace with Great Britain, when he was honorably discharged. That the original declaration made by him for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of June 7, 1812, was dated the 14 day of April 1818 and And I do solemnly swear, of 18 th March 1818 that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, 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 provisions 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 18th 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."
the act of June 7, 1812, was dated the 14 day of April 1818 and And I do solemnly swear, of 18 th March 1818 that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, 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 provisions 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 18th 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."
Not any property whatever except necessary clothing, that I have no family, that my occupation has been that of a day labourer on land but am now so reduced by the infirmity of age and disease that I am unable to labor
James Powers,

ington which he was pension under that in pursuance.
this
Sworn to and declared by said James Powers on the Second day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
dollars and cents.
Said James Powers has no property
I,
Thomas Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 26 day of Augt 1820
Th Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.

35570 Rev INVALID.
Sept 24-1901 Miss, Martha A. Neale Southington Conn.
File No. 35570
James Powers Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 485
[Arrangement of 1870.]

W. H. Davis
Southington, Aug. 28-1901 Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir: -
1279-32
I am desirous of joining the D. A. V. and would be glad of any information in your possession in regard to my great-grandfather James Powers, who was a pensioner of the army of the Revolution.
All the older members of the family from whom I could learn anything are dead. But I know that he lived at one time, I think at the time of the war, in the parish of Farmingbury Ct., which was taken partly from the parish of Southington in the town Farmington, and partly from Waterbury, and is now the town of Wolcott, in New Haven County. He died in

Southington, Hartford Co., Ct. at the home of his son (my great-uncle) Barnabas Powers. His daughter, my grandmother, was living in New York state in "the new country" and communication was difficult and infrequent. In her Bible, under the date of the death of the wife of the pensioner I find this entry. "James Powers died on the 17 th of 3 d month 1822" This I suppose to be the date of the death of the pensioner - although the age is not given - perhaps because when she was notified of his death they omitted to give the age and she was not sure. He was born in England. He was buried I believe in Wolcott but it is on top of a mountain and difficult to reach from here -
I have the pension papers of my great-grandfather. The following is
a copy of the original certificate -
"War Department"
I Certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th March 1818 James Powers
late a private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of eight-dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight-hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States this thirtieth day of June one thousand eight-hundred and 18.
J. C. Calhoun Secy of War. "
On the 21 st of Dec. 1821 he gave Barnabas Powers power of attorney to draw the pension in his behalf.

In Sept. 1898 I wrote to the Pension Office asking for data in regard to James Powers, Revolutionary pensioner. In Dec. I received a letter asking for more information. Circumstances prevented my giving it any attention until now, but in view of my earlier application could not my present request take precedence over those received lately?
Please give any information which you may have in regard to age, place of enlistment, date of death, or any thing in regard to him, and greatly oblige
Yours respectfully (Miss) Martha A. Neale
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Giles Curtis's Affidavit

This certifies that James Powers of Southwick was a Private Soldier in the Continental Army in the revolutionary War, enlisted for During the War, in 1777 & served till June 1783 in fourth Connecticut Regiment, firstly in Capt. Eli Loomis's Company, after wards was transferred & served six years in said Service, on the Establishment —
Giles Curtis Lieut in Col. Moseley's
Hartford County St. Berlin April 11 th 1810
Personally appeared Giles Curtis whose signature is annexed to the foregoing Certificate and made solemn oath to the Truth of the same — Before me — Daniel Durban Justice of the Peace

Elizabeth McBrady certificate for James Powers

State of Connecticut Comptroller Office Hartford April 10. 1818
On examination of the Books of this Office It appears that James Powers served as a Private in Col. Zebulon Butler's Regiment of the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary war from the first day of January to the thirty first day of December 1781. It does not appear by the Books that he was then discharged - but the pay of the Connecticut line was after that period settled by the Paymaster General with the Army
Certified by Elisha Root Compt r of Public Accounts