Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8021, for Eleazer Payne, Connecticut

SERVICE
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Conn.
Payne, Eleazer or Paine
R. 8021
Aurel
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Wendrick son to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 14 th day of February 1789.
Franklin son to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 15 th day of January - 1791.
Charles Cook, son to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 6 th day of May - 1793.
Eleazer, son to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 19 th day of November, 1795.
Aurel, daughter to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 15 th day of September, 1798.
Mary Trumbull, daughter to Eleazer Payne & Aurel his wife was born the 1 st day of October, - 1801.
Office of Town Clerk, East Windsor Dec r 5 th 1856) I, Phineas L. Blodgett, do depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of East Windsor, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, and that the above is a true extract from the Town Record of Marriages, Births, and Deaths in said town.
Attest,
Phineas L. Blodgett, Town Clerk.
Hartford County ss East Windsor Dec r 5 th 1856.
Personally appeared the above named Phineas L. Blodgett & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed before me.
Homer D. Allen Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut, Hartford County, } ss. Superior Court Clerk's Office,
I, WAIT N. HAWLEY, Clerk of the County of Hartford and of the Superior Court within and for said County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, hereby certify that
Homer D Allen Esquire!
was on the 5 th day of December A. D. 1856, ever since has been, and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County, duly elected and sworn, with authority by the laws of this State, to administer Oaths, and take the acknowledgment of Deeds and other instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand-writing, that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine, official signature, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of Connecticut.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Superior Court, at Hartford, in said County and State, on this 18 th day of December A. D. 1856.
Wait N. Hawley Clerk.

The following was copied from East Windsor Town Records of Births Asa. Daughter of Job Ellsworth & Mary his wife was born, 23 rd Feby the 24 th Day of October 1767. —
D. Osborn 2 d T. Clerk
There is recorded in said records of Births the births of Six children of Eleazer Payne & Asa his wife; first born Feb. 14: 1789. last recorded Born 1 st day of October. 1801.

The State of Ohio } On this Twentyninth day of December Lake County ss } A.D. 1856 Personally appeared before the Probate Court of the County of Lake and State of Ohio Franklin Payne a resident of Painesville in the County of Lake aforesaid aged Sixty five years and eleven months and over who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows.
That Wendrick Payne and Franklin Payne are the only surviving children of the said Elazar Payne, and Aural widow of the said Elazar Payne a revolutionary Soldier who served in the year A.D. 1780. he entered the service from Windsor Hartford County and State of Connecticut on the 5 th day of July A.D. 1780. for the term of Six months, as a Short levy man Raised to fill out the companys of the several Regiments belonging to the Regular army, in the place of the Sick or Wounded or discharged men, and that he served under Col: Zebulon Butler who Commanded the 2 d Connecticut Regiment — as a private and that he served also in the year 1781. he entered the service on the 28 th day of July for Six months, as a Short levy man and joined the 3 d Regiment commanded by Col: Samuel B Webb as a private, and that the said Elazar Payne died at Painesville aforesaid on the 10 th day of February in the year A.D. 1804. and that the said Aural widow of the said Elazar Payne was a Widow at the time of her death which took place on the 27 th day of July A.D. 1844. at Painesville aforesaid, and that the said Elazar Payne and Aural aforesaid were not married prior to his leaving the Service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January A.D. 1794, v iz , in the year A.D. 1787, at West Windsor aforesaid, and that the said Aural has not, neither has her chil- =dren, before made application for a pension, —
And that Solomon Payne a brother of said Elazar Payne, who was also a Soldier in said War in 1780, under the Command

of Col. Sherburn was at my house in the year 1832, and that the said Solomon Payne said to me that my father the said Clearar Payne was a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the year 1780, and occasionally during said service was employed by his officers to write for them, by which means he fared comparatively well, while he Solomon suffered more hardship in the year 1780, than any other time during the war. And that my father the said Clearar Payne in conversation with his Brother Josiah Payne in my hearing mentioned certain things that took place in the Revolutionary army in connection with the sickness and leaving the army of one Elijah Sudd a soldier from Hartford County. This conversation took place when I was twelve years old, to wit in the year 1803. —
Franklin Payne
State of Ohio 3 we David D Aiken and Albert Paine residents of County of Lake 3 3 Painesville Lake County and State of Ohio, upon our oaths declare the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Franklin Payne in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be. —
D. D. Aiken
A Paine
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. — And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons. — That the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Probate court.
Lord Sterling Probate Judge

The State of Ohio } On this twenty ninth day of December A.D. 1856. Personally Lake County ss appeared Sally M Payne a resident of Painesville Lake County and State of Ohio, aged fifty nine years and over, who being sworn according to law, doth on her Oath say, I was acquainted with Eleazar Payne and Aurel his wife and their family in the year A.D. 1803 and since, they being from East Windsor, Connecticut and that Wenderick and Franklin are the only children now living, of the said Eleazar Payne and Aurel his wife and that the said Eleazar Payne Died on the 10 th day of February in the year A.D. 1804, at Painesville aforesaid And that Aurel Widow of the said Eleazar Payne was a widow at the time of her death which took place on the 27 th day of July A.D. 1844, at said Painesville, and that the said Aurel in my hearing that the said Eleazar Payne was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. —
And I verily believe that the said Clearar Payne is the Identical Clearar Paine who served in the regiment of Col. Butler in the year A D 1780. — and further this deponent saith not.
In presence of
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person & that I have no interest in the claim
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the Probate Court the day & year first above written Lord Sturminster Probate Judge

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford Nov. 26 th 1856
I certify that on application, for evidence of the service of Eleazar Payne in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this office and find the name of Eleazar Payne on a Pay Roll under the following heading vis. "Pay Roll of the Short Levies in Capt. Bell's Company, 2 d Conn t . Regiment, Commanded by Zebulon Butler Colonel, where the said Payne is credited with service as a private from July 5 th to Dec. 9 th 1780. 5 months, 4 days." Said Payne is entered on the Roll as belonging to the town of Windsor. On the book called "Haskells Receipts," I also find the name of Eleazar Payne, on an account, or Pay Roll under the following heading vis. "The United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut, for the pay of sundry persons, who joined the third Regiment as Short Levies in the year 1781," commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb, where the said Payne is entered as having served from July 28 th to December 13 th 1781 - 4 mos. 15 days, as a private.
Edward Prentiss Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford Sept. 16 th 1853
I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Eleazar Payne in the war of the Revolution I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and find the name of Eleazar Payne on a Pay Roll under the following heading viz, "Pay Roll of the Short Levies in "Capt. Betts' Company, 2 nd Connecticut Regiment "commanded by Zebulon Butler Colonel 1780" where the said Eleazar Payne is credited with service as a private from July 5 th to December 7 th 1780 = 5 months 4 days. Said Payne is entered on the Roll, as belonging to the town of Windsor. In Harkness Receipts, under heading, "The United States D r to the State of Connecticut, for the pay "of sundry persons who joined the 3 rd Regiment as "Short Levies in the year 1781," I also find the name of Eleazar Payne, when he is credited with service as a private from July 28 th to December 13 th 1781 = 4 mos, 15 days. Amt. of Pay £9.
R. G. Pease, Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk

Franklin Payne Painesville

East Windsor - Oct 25 th 1853
Dear Sir
Your favor of Oct 11 th was duly received in which you requested evidence of the marriage of Eleanor Payne and Wife. I have examined the town records with the town clerk, and do not find their marriage recorded. I should think by tracing the records that for some ten years after the revolutionary war there was not much attention paid to records of this kind, as but very few marriages were recorded during that period. The enclosed account of the Births of members of this Family is all the recorded evidence I can find.
I have understood the Post Master gave your instructions directed to him to Mr. Charlton a Pension agent near this place he will do the business for you as well as any other person but his price is generally one half the Pension. Uncle Ammi Ellsworth yet lives in Sodus N.Y. he may recollect the witnessing the marriage of his Sister and that may be all you need.
I will write write to him and any information I receive will transmit to you.
In your letter your directions were to Benjamin Ellsworth he lives in Pittsfield New York. Please direct to Chauncey Ellsworth East Windsor. Any assistance I can render will be free of expense unless it is more than any I have yet performed yours Respectfully
Franklin Payne Chauncey Ellsworth P.S. It may be well for you also to write to Uncle Ellsworth

Eleazar Payne d? 1803 Aurel Payne d? 27 July 1844.
Hendrick E Payne Franklin Payne?

George E Whiting Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. — Some three years since I sent a declaration to the Pension Office, which could not be admitted as evidence, it having been taken before a Justice of the Peace — having now obtained more evidence, I herewith enclose a declaration taken in open Court, together with such testimony as I have now obtained, which is offered to substantiate our claim to a pension which our Mother was entitled to at the time of her death for services of her husband Eleazar Payne as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, to wit, 9 months and 19 days service in the years 1780 & 1781, being $32. 50 / 100 Dollars per year from March 4 th 1836, to July 27 th 1844. — 8 years 4 months and 23 days making $323. 25 / 100 dollars. — I think however that as my father entered the service for six months at each term of service the overplus time was allowed for going to, and returning from the army — and that the pension should be for 12 month service — which would amount to $403. dollars — And I am strengthened in this belief by the fact that he entered the service July 28 th 1781, and that the army 64 days thereafter, to wit, on the 6 th day of October were erecting batteries at York Town in Virginia and that on the 19 th of said October, Genl. Cornwallis surrendered — all which is Respectfully submitted.
Franklin Payne
January 15 th 1857

I Samuel Duder of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to law do hereby depose & say that I was born in East Windsor in said County in August 15 th 1769. That in the year 1792 I commenced business as a merchant in or near the centre of said town that I did an extensive business there for eight years; that my customers were from every part of said town among them was Colonel Eliezer Payne a respectable man with whom I was well acquainted.
I never knew any other Eliezer Payne in said town or in any other place and I am fully persuaded that there was no other Eliezer Payne in said town or vicinity with the exception of Colonel Eliezer Payne. I understood that he removed also to the State of Ohio many years ago.
Samuel Duder
Sworn to & subscribed before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public for the State of Connecticut, at Hartford in the County of Hartford & State aforesaid on the 31 st day of March A D 1857. And I certify that I have known the deponent for 58 years & he is a credible & respectable man, & was many years a merchant in said East Windsor as he has stated in his deposition above written.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my seal of office. Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

The State of Connecticut } On this second day of January Hartford County ss } A.D. 1857. Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Abbey a resident of South Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged eighty seven years and over who being sworn duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say. — I was acquainted with Elazar Payne and Asuel Ellsworth — afterwards Asuel Payne wife of said Elazar Payne and that I was knowing to their Marriage. I living near where they resided. They were Married by the Rev. Thomas Petwine then Pastor of the north Church in in East Windsor, and that the said Elazar Payne is the Identical Elazar Payne who entered the Regular army in 1780, as a Short Levy man, under the Command of Col: Titulus Butler, as a Soldier — as I verily believe and signs in presence of } further this deponent saith not. —
Seigneur
in presence of }
H. D. Allen }
depos of case }
written }
Jeremiah Abbey Abbey
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year as above
Before me Homer D. Allen Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Jeremiah Abbey is considered a man of truth & veracity, & whose statements are honest & reliable
Superior Court Clerk's Office, }
ss.
I, WAIT N. HAWLEY, Clerk of the County of Hartford and of the Superior Court within and for said County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, hereby certify that
Homer D. Allen Esquire!
was on the 2nd day of January A. D. 1857, ever since has been, and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County, duly elected and sworn, with authority by the laws of this State, to administer Oaths, and take the acknowl- edgment of Deeds and other instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand-writing, that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine, offi- cial signature; and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of Connecticut.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Superior Court, at Hartford, in said County and State, on this Seventh day of January A. D. 1857.
Wait N. Hawley Clerk.

The State of Connecticut } On this second day of January Hartford County ss } AD 1857. Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Abbey a resident of South Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged eighty seven years and over who being sworn duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say. — I was acquainted with Elazar Payne and Asa Ellsworth — afterwards Asa Payne wife of said Elazar Payne and that I was knowing to their Marriage. I living near where they resided. They were Married by the Rev d Thomas Petwine then Pastor of the north Church in in East Windsor, and that the said Elazar Payne is the Identical Elazar Payne who entered the Regular army in 1780, as a Short Levy man, under the Command of Col d Zebulon Butler, as a Soldier — as I verily believe and signs in presence of } further this deponent saith not. —
Sequitur
in presence of }
H. D. Allen }
Jeremiah Abbey Abbey
Subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Homer D. Allen Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Jeremiah Abbey is considered a man of truth & veracity, & whose statements are perfectly reliable.
Homer D. Allen Justice of the Peace
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of... said County and State, on this Seventh day of January
Wart N. Hawley Clerk.

The State of Connecticut } On this second day of January Hartford County } AD 1857 Personally appeared before me Elizabeth Strong a resident of South Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged ninety one years and over, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say. — I was acquainted with Eleazar Payne formerly of East Windsor, and that said Eleazar Payne married for his wife Aunt Ellsworth of said East Windsor — and that the said Eleazar Payne was the Identical Eleazar Payne who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war as a Short levy man under the from Windsor under the command of Col. Lebulon Bitter in the year 1780, as a Soldier, as I verily believe. — and further this deponent saith not. signed in presence of } H. D. Allen } Hiram Strong } Elizabeth her X Strong mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written. — Before me —
H. D. Allen — Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Elizabeth Strong is a reliable person, whose word, or oath, could not be questioned by any Court in this State.
Homer D. Allen Justice of Peace

I James Pasco a resident of East Windsor in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to law do hereby depose & say that I was born in East Windsor in Conn on the 21 st day of August 1867. that I have lived in said town from my birth & I am now in my ninetieth year. That I was acquainted with Col Elazer Payne formerly of said East Windsor. I was acquainted with him in my youth. And he removed from this place according to my best recollection more than fifty years ago. I never knew any other Elazer Payne in this or any other town but the said Colonel Elazer Payne. I remember his being Lieut of the Lt Infantry Company, when my brother Jonathan was Captain of the same.
James Pasco
Sworn to and subscribed, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public, for the State of Connecticut at East Windsor in said State, on the 4 th day of April A 1857: and I certify, that the deponent is a credible witness, & respectable man.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office, at said East Windsor, on said 4 th day of April A 1857.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.
Barnes & Pasco

I John Burrough a resident of East Windsor in the County of Hartford (State of Connecticut aged Ninety next October being duly sworn according to law do hereby depose & say that I was born in East Windsor in 1767 & have lived there all my days. That I was acquainted in early life with Colonel Elazer Payne formerly of East Windsor & I have been well acquainted throughout the town but never met any other Elazer Payne in this town or in any other town except the said Col o Elazer Payne who removed from this town I should think as much as fifty years ago.
John Burrough
Sworn to & subscribed, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public for the State of Connecticut at East Windsor, in said State, on the fourth day of April A D 1857, and I certify that I have been well acquainted with the Deponent for many years, & he is a credible witness & respectable man! In testimony whereof, I do hereby subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office, on the day & year last named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

Annel Payne dec. Widow of Eleazer Ohio
Adt July 7/1838

State of Ohio County of Lake) ss On this 10 th day of January A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs Lydia Phelps and Mrs Wealthy Drake who being duly sworn according to law declared that they were acquainted with Ebenezer Payne who was a private in the Revolutionary war, in company commanded by Captain Bell. Second Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Zebulon Butler in 1780. That said Ebenezer Payne and his wife Ariel Payne, with their family, moved into Painesville (now Lake County) Ohio in the summer of A. D. 1803. That the said Ebenezer Payne died in the summer of A. D. 1804. That the said Ariel was a widow on the 4 th day of July A. D. 1838. and remained a widow until the time of her decease, on the 27 th day of July A. D. 1844.
That the only heirs of the said Ebenezer and Ariel Payne, now living, are Hinariick R. Payne and Franklin Payne both of Painesville aforesaid.
Lydia Phelps
Wealthy Drake
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written J. T. Doolittle Justice of peace

State of Ohio
Lake County ss
On this 11 th day of January D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid. Hendrick R. Payne and Franklin Payne, who being duly sworn according to law, declare that they believe themselves to be the only surviving children of Eleazar Payne, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, in company, commanded by Captain Bitz, Second Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Gihulon Butler in 1780. That their Father Eleazar Payne, resided in East Windsor, Hartford County, State of Connecticut, as we have always understood, from the time of his marriage, until the year 1805. That in the summer of 1805. our Father Eleazar Payne, with his family, removed from Connecticut, to Painesville, Ohio. That they have often seen upon the family record, in the family Bible of their Father the record of the names and ages of the children of their said Father, according to said record. Hendrick R. Payne was born February 14 th 1785. Franklin Payne was born January 15 th 1791. There were two brothers and two sisters, after the above. They are all dead. The family Bible containing the record aforesaid, is lost or destroyed. That our Father Eleazar Payne died D. 1804. leaving his widow, Abigail Payne. That the said Abigail was a widow on the 4 th day of July D. 1858. and remained a widow until her death, which took place on the 27 th of July D. 1844.

They make this declaration, for the purpose of obtaining the pension money, to which their Mother was entitled, at the time of her decease.
H. E. Payne Franklin Payne
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
J. S. Doolittle Justice Peace.
I hereby certify, that I am acquainted with all of the above named affiants, and believe that full credit should be given to their statements.
J. S. Doolittle Justice Peace
THE STATE OF OHIO, } LAKE COUNTY, SS. }
I, CHARLES D. ADAMS, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Lake, and State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that J. S. Doolittle Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing Affidavits of Sylvia Phelps  Wratley  Drake , H. E. Payne & Franklin Payne
was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking the same, and now is a justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Painesville, in said County, this 1 day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- four C. D. Adams Clerk.

June Abbey

I Jeremiah Abbe, of South Windsor in Hartford county, & State of Connecticut, aged Eighty seven years, being duly sworn according to law, do hereby depose and say, that I have lived in East Windsor & South Windsor, thro' my whole life, excepting five years.
That I lived but a short distance from Eleazer Payne and was well acquainted with him, (he was quite a military man, became a Colonel of the 19 Regt of the Connecticut Militia; & about fifty, or more years ago, he removed with his family to the State of Ohio. Tho' I was too young to go into the Army, & never saw said Eleazer Payne there; not having removed into his immediate neighborhood, until after the peace took place: Yet I am able to state confidently, & do depose, that I have been well acquainted in all parts of the Towns of East Windsor, & of South Windsor, (which is a town taken off from East Windsor in 1845.) And I have never known any other Eleazer Payne, in either Town, except, the said Eleazer Payne, who removed to the State of Ohio & I also knew, that his wife was Aurelia Ellsworth, formerly of East Windsor aforesaid.
State of Connecticut } Jeremiah Abbe Hartford County ss South Windsor, March 28 1857 On this day, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of for the County aforesaid; Jeremiah Abbe, of said town, who then & there made oath according to law to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed. I certify, that he is a credible witness, & one who retains { his faculties remarkably, for a man of his years! { Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

I Daniel Allen a resident of East Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut being duly sworn as credible to said do hereby depose & say that I was born in said East Windsor Jan'y 31 st A 1770 & am Eighty seven years that I have always lived there. That I was acquainted with Colonel Eleazer Payne of said town I knew him well & I never knew any other Eleazer Payne in this town or in any other town. I am also know- ing to the fact that he removed with his family to the State of Ohio many years ago I have heard him tell, that he was in the Army in the Revolutionary War. Daniel Allen
Sworn to & subscribed before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public for said County & State on the 9 th day of April A 1857. I also certify that the deponent is a credible witness & respectable man; with whom I have been well acquainted for many years.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my seal of office on the day & year first named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

I David Bancroft a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County, & State of Connecticut Being duly sworn according to Law, do hereby depose & say, that my age is Eighty two years last November. That I was born in said Town & have lived there from my birth That I was formerly well acquainted with Colonel Eleazer Payne of said town.
I never knew any other Eleazer Payne in this town, nor in any other place, but the said Colonel Eleazer Payne, & I remember his removal to the State of Ohio, many years ago. I remember the first time I did military duty, he acted as our drummer.
David Bancroft
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jesse Charlton a Notary public for said State & I certify that I have been well acquainted with the deponent, near sixty years, & I certify that he is a credible witness, & of good mind & memory.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my Seal of Office at South Windsor in said County & State, on this 9 th day of April A D 1857
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

Greenville Lake County, Ohio, Jan y 1834
L d J. Waldo Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Sir This covers boundary papers which I send you for the purpose of obtaining a Pension for my Father Service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War — You will see by the docu- -ment from the Controller's office Connecticut that my Father Elazar Payne served in the 2 d Connecticut Regiment in the year 1780 — Five Months and four days — and in the 3 d Conn- -ecticut Regiment in the year 1781 — Four Months and fifteen days making in all 9 Months and 19 days — and allowing two years service to entitle a soldier to a Pension of 96 Dollars per year in the same proportion 9 Months and 19 days would amount to 38 Dollars and fifty three cents per year and that sum per year for Eight Years Four months and Twenty three days (That being the time from the 4 th day of March 1836 — to the twenty seventh day of July 1844) — it would amount by my calculation to the sum of Three Hundred and twenty three dollars and forty nine cents (323.49) which I claim was due to my Mother at the time of her decease — and which we H. C. Payne and Franklin Payne now claim we being her only children now living
Very Respectfully Yours &
Franklin Payne
I understand the Law to be — that all Widows of Revolutionary Soldiers who were living on the 4 th day of July 1835 were entitled to a Pension from the 4 th day of March 1836 during their lives —
I have sent you a letter from my Cousin Chauncy Ellsworth and also a Certificate of the Rev d Shubael

Bartlette Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in East Windsor and successor of the Rev d Thomas Potwine Those papers are to show that no Record of the Marriage can be found either on the Township Records or among the papers of the Rev d M c Potwine who solemnized the Marriage of My Parents, Eleazar Payne and Asa Elsworth — I also send the Statement of D r Gasporn Town Clerk of East Windsor
J Payne

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P. O. Orrel Payne
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

No 15, 112, Asyrel Payne dec. Widow of Eleazer, Ohio
Franklin Payne Feb'y 17, 854 - Same Feb'y 10, 1857 - Same May 11. 1857 -
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July 7/1838 -

Painesville April 14 th 1857. —
Geo. C Whiting Esq r Com r I send you the testimony of four of my Father's old neighbours. stating that there was no other Eleazar Payne in that town or adjoining towns. that they ever heard of — and there are many others aged persons who would testify to the same facts if required to do so. — The old soldiers who were with him from that town are all dead.
Truly Yours &c
Franklin Payne,
Lake County Ohio —

East Windsor 24 th Dec r A 1853.
This certifies that I the subscriber have been Pastor of the Church in East Windsor where I now reside, ever since the 15 th day of Feby. A 1804, and that when I came to reside here as the Pastor of this Church there was no record of Marriages, Cest. that I could ever find which were kept by my predecessor the Rev d Thomas P t aine, and that no records of this kind have ever been found since his death, though such records have often been earnestly sought for & very much needed —
Shubael Brethett Pastor of the immediate now first Church in East Windsor and Successor of Rev d Thomas P t aine in the Pastor- al office who died Nov 15 th A 1802 —

Painesville April 15 th 1857. Lake Co. Ohio G. H. Whiting Esqr. Commissioner. I send you the affidavits of Daniel Allen and David Bancraft in addition to those I sent yesterday, all which is respectfully submitted.
Franklin Payne
To prove our claim to a pension for the services of Eleazar Payne in the war of the Revolution.