Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4624, for Elias Norton, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Norton, Elias
S. 4624
carded.
CONTENTS

116 J. C. Palmer Secy. 17. 1/2 to R. Choate May 16, 1841
11.940
Massachusetts Elias Tioran
of Suffolk in the State of Massa who was a sergeant in the Com. B commanded by Captain _____ of the Mass. B commanded by _____ in the Mass. B time for 7 months
Comm. Service. Records of Pension Inscribed on the Roll of Massa at the rate of 140 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of April 1842 to _____ _____
Arrears to the 4th of March 1842 $ 1500.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 4th  70.00 due 6/15/1846 $ 1610.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Addison Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 20 Page 60

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County ss.
On this Eighteenth day
of July in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven. Personally appeared in open court before the Municipal Court now sitting in Boston for the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elias Norton a resident of said Boston in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, who being first duly 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, 1832. That he is in the eighty third year of his age. That he entered the Service of the United States as a private Volunteer of the Militia in April 1775 and afterwards as a Surgeons Mate by two several engagements in the Connecticut Line or State Troops under the following Officers, and served as herein stated. 1 st . First as a private Volunteer on the alarm at Lexington in April 1775 and marched from East Haddam in the State of Connecticut under Capt. or Lieut. Beebe, Col Israel Putnam we marched to Roxbury near Boston in this State, and remained in said Service nearly two months, when the Army was largely filled up, He was dismissed and returned home to East Haddam and resumed his Medical Studies. again on the first of January 1776. He was appointed Surgeons Mate under Doct. Usher who was Regimental Surgeon in Col. Wadsworths Connecticut Reg t . of State Troops or Militia, and marched to Dorchester near Boston, at which Post He remained, as near as He can recollect six months. He

He distinctly Recollects holding the arm of an Artillery Man while Doct. Justice performed the amputation of the arm which had been shattered by the discharge of a cannon on Dorchester Heights while firing on the British Shipping lying in the outer Harbour of Boston. He returned home in June, after the evacuation of Boston by the British, and was immediately appointed Surgeons Mate under Doct. Jewett in Col. Samuel Seldons Reg t . afterwards Commanded by Col. Latimer of the Connecticut Troops, and He immediately Sailed for New York, He distinctly remembers being on his passage on the 4 th July 1776 and on his arrival at New York heard of the Declaration of Independence, He remained in New York and the vicinity taking care of the Sick and wounded Men during the Battles on Long Island and the occupation of New York by the Enemy, And during the many conflicts in the vicinity of New York, previous to the battle of White Plains, He was constantly engaged in taking care of the Sick and wounded of the Army, and was finally ordered to take charge of two wounded Soldiers of the Connecticut Militia and retreat with them to some safe place and attend them until their recovery, one of them by the Name of Josiah Smith, the other He does not Recollect, He took one of them to Waterbury, the other to Cheshire, in Connecticut, Both of the before mentioned Soldiers were wounded while on Picket Guard, by the Enemys Horse, Smith Survived, but the other Man died the following March, the time He served after Sailing to New York until He gave up the charge of the above two Men in February 1777. was eight months, After that He was out several times on alarm at Danbury and New London when the Enemy visited those places, but only a few days at each time. He received two several Commissions or Warrants as a Surgeons Mate signed by John Trumbull, Gov t of the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County ss. }
Boston Aug. 9 th 1837
I William Mitchell of Farmington in the County of Washington and State of Maine aged thirty years being duly sworn do on oath testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Dr Elias Boston for nearly twenty five years. He used when I was a boy to be at my fathers house a great deal. Dr Elias Boston is a worthy and respectable man & has always possessed and borne that character & reputation. He was always respected and believed to have been a surgeon mate in the revolutionary war and from what I have heard from him & others I entertain no doubt of that fact. Said Boston is now infirm and aged, and his faculties are much impaired by age =
William Mitchell
Subscribed & sworn to, on this ninth day of August, A.D. 1837, before me: and thereby certify that William Mitchell the Deponent is a person of good moral character & his statement is worthy of credit.
J. Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston

State of Connecticut, both of said Commissions have long since been lost or destroyed, and He has now no Documentary evidence whatever; And He knows of no person living whose testimony He can procure as proof of said Service. Soon after the termination of the Revolutionary War He removed from Connecticut to Massachusetts, thence to that part of said State to the now State of Maine and settled at Addison in the County of Washington in said State of Maine where He subsequently married Elizabeth McCoy who is still living, He there at said Addison held the Office of Justice of the peace, and He has resided in said Addison for more than Forty Years, until within ten days past, when He and his Wife came to Boston where they now reside with their Connections. The reason why He has not made an earlier application for a pension is, his being far removed from the place of his Nativity and unable to produce any personal testimony of his Service, He has delayed until his arrival in Boston to seek for information and is now constrained to rely on his feeble memory at this advanced age, Corroborated as He hopes it may be by the Records of the Connecticut Troops on file in the War Department.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency of any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed the Elias Norton day and year aforesaid, in open Court, before me Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories propounded by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolution- ary soldier, and served in the State. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Thomas Lawson who has signed the annexed certificate is a merchant residing in the city of Boston, is personally known to them  for the County as a person of great respectability, that he a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit. Boston July 18. 1837. — Peter O. Thacher — Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss; I, Thomas D. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, do hereby certify that the forego- ing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of Elias Norlow for a pen- sion.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of office this twelfth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty seven.
Thomas D. Phillips, Clerk of said Court.

and 1812 Section
MCS/HMI
July 23, 1929.
Mrs. Maudie N. Woolfolk Troy Missouri.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4624, it appears that Elias Norton was born in Chatham, Connecticut, date not given, and was the son of Reverend John Norton.
While living in East Haddam, Connecticut, Elias Norton enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows:
From April 1775, he served two months as a private under Captain or Lieutenant Beebe in Colonel Israel Putnam's Regiment.
January 1, 1776 he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Robert Usher who was regimental surgeon in Colonel James Wadsworth's Regiment, and served six months.
In June 1776 he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Gibbons Jewett; he was in Colonels Samuel Selden's and Lattimer's Regiments and served until sometime in February, 1777.
He also served during the alarms at Danbury and New London.
Soon after the Revolution he moved to Addison, Washington

County, Maine, and there he married Elizabeth McCoy, but the date of marriage was not stated. He lived in Addison, Maine, until 1837.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 18, 1837, at which time he was living in Boston, Massachusetts and was eighty-two years of age.
He died June 15, 1846.
There are no further data on file relative to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and the name of the person paid and address, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
"Elias Norton - Certificate No. 31940
Issued April 12, 1842 - $140 per annum
Act of June 7, 1832."
Massachusetts Agency
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Rev. Warf
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
W.C.S.
April 20, 1928.
Honorable Richard P. Freeman, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Freeman:
In response to your request by telephone on April 13, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4624, it appears that Elias Norton was born in Chatham, Connecticut, date not given, and was the son of Reverend John Norton.
While living in East Haddam, Connecticut, Elias Norton enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows:
From April, 1775, he served two months as a private under Captain or Lieutenant Beebe in Colonel Israel Putnam's Regiment.
January 1, 1776 he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Robert Usher who was regimental surgeon in Colonel James Wadsworth's Regiment, and served six months.
In June, 1776, he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Gibbons Jewett; he was in Colonels Samuel Selden's and Lattimer's Regiments and served until sometime in February, 1777.
He also served during the alarm at Danbury and at New London, no details given.

Soon after the Revolution he moved to Addison, Washington County, Maine, and there he married Elizabeth McCoy, but the date of marriage was not stated. He lived in Addison, Maine until 1837.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 18, 1837, at which time he was living in Boston, Massachusetts and was eighty-two years of age.
He died June 15, 1846.
There are no further data on file relative to his family.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
WCS
April 19, 1928.
Honorable Clarence Cannon, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Cannon:
In response to your letter of April 12, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4624, it appears that Elias Norton was born in Chatham, Connecticut, date not given, and was the son of Reverend John Norton.
While living in East Haddam, Connecticut, Elias Norton enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows:
From April, 1775, he served two months as a private under Captain or Lieutenant Beebe in Colonel Israel Putnam's Regiment.
January 1, 1776 he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Robert Usher who was regimental surgeon in Colonel James Wadsworth's Regiment, and served six months.
In June, 1776, he was appointed surgeon's mate under Doctor Gibbons Jewett; he was in Colonels Samuel Selden's and Lattimer's Regiments and served until sometime in February, 1777.

He also served during the alarms at Danbury and New London.
Soon after the Revolution he moved to Addison, Washington County, Maine, and there he married Elizabeth McCoy, but the date of marriage was not stated. He lived in Addison, Maine, until 1837.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 18, 1837, at which time he was living in Boston, Massachusetts and was eighty-two years of age.
There are no further data on file relative to his family.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Comptroller's Office
Harford May 20 1841
I certify that on Application for evidence of the services of Doct Elias Norton who claims service in the Revolutionary War in Col. James Wadsworth's Regiment in 1776 went to Cambridge from thence to New York - that I have examined the Books & papers remaining in this Office and find on the records of the Govt & Council of Safety under date of Jan'y 29 1776 -
On Application &c - Doct Robert Wetber of Chatham is appointed Surgeon & Physician for Col. Wadsworth's Regiment in the Units raising for Cambridge &c and that Doct Elias Norton is appointed Surgeon Mate for the same Regiment - I also find on Mable Govt Book or Pay Table under the following Head - Col. James Wadsworth's Regiment raised for 2 Months to serve in the Army in Cambridge
Col. Wadsworth's Pay Bill as per for expenses at New York June 23 1776 £892.14.5 also Doct Wetber Bill July 3 1776 Hospital Bill 2.2.0
Again, in the Council of Safety under date of July 13 1776 - On Representation of Doct Wetber of the New London Regiment - Letter from Col. Mott for that purpose - Voted that he have Liberty to purchase and take up Medicine for the use of said Regiment of Doct Lathrop or Doct Dyer to the Amount of Ten Pounds for which the Colony will be accountable & substance of the Vote given to Doct Wetber - Henry Kilborne Compt

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
May
I ask the fate on prospects of the case of Dr. Norton for increase of Pension which I had the honor to transcribe & you —
Yours sincerely
R. Church 14 May 1841

To Hon. Mr. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
W. W. W.
Will you
please examine papers of the late Daniel-
not truly mine,
B. Black
1904

Sir
Boston Massachusetts August 12th 1837
I enclose herewith the Documents in support of the claim of Doct. Elias Norton to a pension for services as a Surgeons Mate in the War of the Revolution, under the Act of June 7th, 1832.
Should this claim be considered admissible be please to issue a certificate in satisfaction thereof and forward the same directed to my care at this place
I am Sir Respectfully
Your Obs.
Reuben Baldwin
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington

Oct. 16. '39
Mass.
add. Spring
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commrs of Pensions
Washington

Boston, Massachusetts.
October 1 st 1839.
Sir
I transmit herewith two affidavits as proof in support of the claim to a pension by Dr Elias Weston under the act 7 th June 1832. also a letter from the Hon. W m Field, Comptroller of Connecticut.
This case was referred to in your letter dated August 27 th 1839. Be pleased to give this case a further investigation & forward the result to me at this place.
Very Respectfully Sir I am your O bt servant
Reuben Baldwin
James L. Edwards Esq.
Comm te of Pensions
Washington

Boston April 16. 1844
Hon R. Choate
My Dear Sir
Enclosed I send an affidavit of Elias Boston a revolutionary pensioner who was a Surgeons mate in the army of the Revolution - and was on April 12. 1842 pensioned at the rate of $140. per annum: but who under the acts then or now in force should have been placed on the roll at the rate of pay actually received by him when in service. As he is old and in poverty I pray you use your care and diligence to have his rights promptly accorded to him - and advise me as soon as may be of the results.
Since the foregoing affidavit he has been placed under guardianship as I understand. If any act of his guardian is necessary please advise me.
Very truly yours.
J. Bartlett
over

I Gamaliel R Tracy of Colchester, County of New London and State of Connecticut aged eighty three years do depose and say that on the 24 th day of June A D 1776 I enlisted in Capt Eliphalet Holmes Company Col Seldens Regiment (Col Selden being taken prisoner died in New York, and the Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col Latimer) went to New York was in an engagement there with the Hessians on the 15 th day of Sept A D 1776 and was there and at Harlem Heights and at different places in that vicinity according as the movements of the enemy made it necessary. I was discharged at New Castle State of New York on the 25 th day of December following A D 1776 — I knew Dr Elias Norton when I was in the aforesaid service, he was Surgeons Mate in the Regiment to which I belonged — Dr Gideon Jewett was then Surgeon of said Regiment but Dr Jewett being taken sick soon after our arrival in New York Dr Norton performed the duties of Surgeon I was myself sick and Dr Norton attended upon me. I know that he also attended upon Jeremiah Smith a mess mate of mine who was very sick, and many others. When I was discharged Dr Norton was in the service. He was not absent from the Regiment at any time when I was in the service to my knowledge and further the Deponent saith not
Gamaliel R. Tracy

State of Connecticut New London County ss Colchester March 26 th AD 1842 -
Personally appeared Gamaliel R Tracy subscriber of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me
Alfred J Loomis Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Gamaliel R Tracy the subscriber of the foregoing deposition, and that I know said Tracy to be a man of truth and veracity
Alfred J Loomis Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut New London County } ss I John D e Witt Clerk of the County Court in & for said New London County do hereby certify that Alfred J Loomis Esq whose name is above written was on said 26 day of March 1842 a Justice of the peace in and for said New London County & that his signature above I believe to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 31 st day of March AD 1842
John D e Witt Clerk
H

CLARENCE CANNON REPRESENTATIVE FROM MISSOURI 9TH DISTRICT
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
April 12, 1928.
Honorable Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Commissioner:
Shall much appreciate it if you can give me all family and military data available on the record of Doctor Elias Norton, of East Haddam, Connecticut, who was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War.
With best wishes,
Your friend,
CC:GYH
Clarence Cannon

MRS. MAUDE N. WOOLFOLK TROY, MISSOURI
March 27-1929-
Mr. Winfield Scott - Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: From Revolutionary War Pension claim, S. 4624 can you tell me when and where the last pension was paid to Elias Norton in Boston in July 1837?
Is there any thing that would lead to the discovery of his wife's name or the names of any of his children or residence of either wife or children?
Thanking you for investigation or information I am
Yours truly
Maude Norton Woolfolk

1928, Apr. 19. hist. to Hon. Richard P. Freeman. See case of Jonathan Barrett S. Is 49. M.C.S.
1928, Apr. 19. hist. to Hon. Clarence Cannon M.C.S.
Perkins
4624
INVALID.
File No. 4624
Elias Norton
Surg. M. Meats Meade, line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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H. R. G. Winthrop H. R. G.

I David Shattuck of Colchester, County of New London and State of Connecticut aged eighty three years do depose and say that on the 24 th day of June A D 1776 I enlisted in Capt Eliphalet Holmes Company, Col Selden Regiment (Col Selden being taken prisoner died in New York and the Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col Satin) I went to New York was in an engagement there with the Hessians on the 15 th day of September A D 1776, was at the battle of White Plains, was on Harlem Heights and at different places in that vicinity as the movements of the movements of the enemy made it necessary - I was discharged at New Castle State of New York on the 25 th day of December following A D 1776 - I knew Elias Norton when he was a boy, he was born in Chatham, was the son of Rev John Norton of said Chatham, I attended school with him - He was in the service aforesaid, he was Surgeons mate in the Regiment to which I belonged. Dr Gibson Jewett was surgeon of said Regiment but being taken sick soon after our arrival in New York Dr Norton performed the duties of surgeon. When I was discharged as above stated Dr Norton was still in the service, and was not absent during the time I was in said service to my knowledge and further Deponent saith not -
David Shattuck

State of Connecticut New London County ss Colchester March 26 th AD 1842.
Personally appeared David Shattuck subscriber of the foregoing Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me.
Alfred J Loaring Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with David Shattuck the subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and that I know said Shattuck to be a man of truth and veracity.
Alfred J Loaring Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut New London County } /s I John D e Witt Clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby Certify that Alfred J Loomis Esq before whom the annexed deposition of David Shattuck was taken and sworn, and whose Certificate is also annexed, was on the 26 th day of March 1842 a Justice of the peace in and for said New London County — and that his Signatures thereto subscribed I believe to be genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the Seal of said County this 31 st day of March A D 1842 John D e Witt Clerk (W)

Doct. Elias Norton 34.160 Mass'ts.
Act d June, 1832
75- no definite term as a volunteer pri: to (Cambridge) Wadsworth 76- 2 mo. Surgeon's mate " 5- " in Selden.
admd 1 mo Surgeon's Mate
Hon. R. C. Winthrop D.R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County Jr. }
Boston July 18 th 1837
I Thomas Lamson of Boston in said County and Commonwealth Aged Sixty three years being duly sworn do on Oath testify and say That I am Sixty three years of Age That I formerly resided ten years in the Town of Addison in the State of Maine and came to live in this City in the year 1823 and have resided here ever since That I was intimately acquainted with Doct Elias Norton and knows him well at the present time and have always known him as a worthy and Respectable Man, He was always reputed and believed to have been a Surgeons Mate in the Revolutionary War: and from frequent conversations had with him said Elias Norton and other persons of the first Respectability I have no doubt of the fact; said Elias Norton was formerly a respectable inhabitant of the Town of Addison and held a commission of Justice of the peace as a Cotemporary Magistrate with me for Seven years, but is at the present time very infirm and Aged, and his memory consequently defective and has been failing especially for the four years last past, I know that said Elias Norton has been desirous of making application for a pension ever since the passage of the Act of June 7. 1832. but has hitherto been deterred for want of testimony of his Service
Thos Lamson
Sworn & subscribed to, on the 18 th day of July 1837 in open Court
before me Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.
Further certify that Thomas Lamson is a Merchant of respectability in the City of Boston, & that his affirmed deposition & statement are worthy of credit. Peter O. Thacher, Judge

Hon. Wm Field 19 th Sept 20 th 1839
W
Mr Reuben Baldwin Boston Ms

Comptrollers Office Hartford Connecticut Sept 19th 1837
On application of Dr Elias Norton I have examined the Books and papers in this office relating to revolutionary services, and find and certify, that it appears by said books that Gen Israel Putnam's Regiment was raised in May 1775 for seven months, & was called the 3 d Regiment, It also appears by the books that Col James Wadsworth's Regt was raised in 1776 for two months, "to serve in the Army in Cambridge &c" It further appears by said books that Col Samuel Selden's Regiment was "raised in June 1776 to serve till 25 th December" & that it rendered service in New York.
I further certify that the name of Elias Norton has not been found.
Wm Field Comptroller

Hartford Sept 19th 1837
Sir
I have examined the books & papers in this office for evidence of the revolutionary services of Dr Norton. It appears that that he might have served in Putnam's Regt as he alleges, but Capt Beebe's name does not appear on the books for service at that time, & no roll of his company has been found, therefore Dr Norton's name has not appeared. I think his service cannot be proved in Col Wadsworths or Col Seldams regiments, by any documents in this office, in as much as his account was probably included with the staff account of the staff of the colonels under which he served.
I Am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wm Field
Mr Reuben Baldwin Boston Mrs.

State of Connecticut, Probate District of East Haddam I Eliphaleer A Bulkeley Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of East Haddam hereby certify that John C Palmer now is and since the 20 th day of June last has been a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut and that the signatures to the depositions of Joshua Coo and Daniel S Emmons hereto annexed purporting to be his are his own genuine and proper signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and seal of said Court this 28 th day of September A.D. 1839.
Eliphaleer A Bulkeley Judge of Probate

State of Connecticut. Mendenhall County of East Haddam September 24 th 1839. I Joshua Povey of East Haddam - aged Eighty one years being duly confirmed and sworn depose and say, that from my birth my residence has been within a mile and a quarter of the residence of Thomas Moseley Doctor of said East Haddam long since deceased, and that in the year 1776, I well knew Elias Norton who studied medicine before that time with said Moseley, and that I saw said Norton in the Army in the month of Sept 1776. at East Chester in the State of New York where he acted as a surgeon in some Regt the Col's name I do not know, but said Norton had the care of Stephen Chapman and an Osgood both of East Haddam in Capt Eliphalet Wetmore's Co who were shot, one in the body, the other in the thigh and both died. the length of his service I don't know and I never have seen or heard of him from that time until called upon for this deposition as I recollect - He the said Norton was son of the Revd Mr Norton at that time a clergyman in Chatham East Hampton Society, and further the deponent saith not.
Joshua Povey
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the Deponent is known to me and is a credible person and his statements may be relied on. John C. Palmer Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut Middlesex County ss East Haddam 25 th September A.D. 1839.
I Daniel Sherman of said East Haddam aged Eighty One years being duly Cautioned and sworn before me and say, that prior to the War of the Revolution I was acquainted with Elias Norton formerly of said East Haddam who studied medicine with Doct Thomas Morely of said East Haddam, deceased, and was the son of Rev Mr Norton of Chatham in the time of the War I always understood and believed he was in the service and acted as Surgeon, and I heard one John Palmer who is now dead and who was in Capt Hookers B de as a private tell of said Norton being in the service with him as a surgeon and that said Norton had the Camp Distemper and was not expected to live, but since he did not mind dying, but he did not want to die like a goose - I have known nothing of him since the war except by report, and further I know not -
Signed in presence of
Daniel S. Sherman Mark
J. C. Palmer
A. B. Warner
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that the Deponent is well known to me and is a credible person and that his statements may be relied on -
John C. Palmer Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Maine } County of Washington } ss Addison.
On this fourth day of March A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me Clement Hopkins a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Washington, Elias Norton, a resident of said Addison, aged Eighty Nine - years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath testify and declare, that he was a resident of East Haddam in the State of Connecticut, in the Revolutionary War, and that while the place of his residence was at said East Haddam, he served in the Revolutionary War as a Surgeon, Note for the particulars of which as far as his memory then served him, he begs to refer to the original declaration upon which he was pensioned.
He further declares that he was pensioned on the 12th day of April, 1842, under the law of June 7th 1832, at the rate of one hundred and forty dollars per annum, while he understands, that if his pension had been rated and granted according to the sum per month, which he actually received for his service in the original settlement of his pay, he should have received a much larger allowance; that he desires nothing from the Government that is not clearly right, but makes this supplemental declaration with the view of claiming such an increase of his said Pension as law and justice may afford.
Witnessed by Jane D. Wass } Clement Hopkins } Elias Norton
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written. Before me Clement Hopkins Justice of the Peace.