Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22933, for Alexander Phelps, Connecticut

SERVICE
SERVICE bound. W. H.
Phelps, Alexander
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 22933
CONTENTS

nyo bany) 5389. eng New Hampshire
Alexander Phelps of Grafton in the State of N H who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Col. Hosford in the _____ line for 10 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Feby 1833 and sent to H. Hubbard St. of Reps Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $49.99 Semi-ant. allowances ending 4 Mar 33 16.66 $66.65
{ Revolutionary Claim } Not June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk, Book D - Vol. 1 st Page 177
Lett. Timothy Kenwick Oct 28 35 Tra - Cir - Nov 10 36 - Transfer to Penn. from Concord, fr 4 Sept 36 - Nov 22 36
let: 18 June 1838 from Samuel W. Morris Letter to B. B. Smith 16 Nov. 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 4 March 1838 Agt notified 4 Dec 1838
Transfer Circular to Philad a agt Aug. 22 1839. Transf. to Albany from 4 March 1839, Aug 28 1839. & notice sent to Pen. case of J. R. Colman, Ellicott- ville, N.York.

Alex d Phelps
March
10 M rs
$33,03
2 Gen
H. Hubbard
H. R.

BRIEF in the case of  Alexander Phelps of Wood  County of Grafton  in the State of N. Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 3. How old is he? 72 4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     was drafted in June In 1776 — 2 — Private Gen. Hosford  Col. Dain & Tabor  Court   Enlisted March 1778 — 8 — — Col. Rodel  Capt. Nelson  N. Hampshire   19  
5. In what battles was he engaged? 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  New Rochelle, near New York, Wood, N. Hampshire 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses & by traditionary evidence 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Not properly attached
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. F. Wilcox Examining Clerk.  31. Jan'y 1832

State of New York County of Cattaraugus } ss
On this 14 th day of August 1839
before Me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Cattaraugus personally appeared Alexander Phelps (Who on his oath declares that he is the same person Who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Charles Charles Nelson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Beadell that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of New York where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Tioga County Pennsylvania to the County of Cattaraugus State of New York viz for the purpose of Residing with his Brother Ralph R Phelps who resides in the said County of Cattaraugus Sworn & Subscribed before } Alexander Phelps Me the day & Year aforesaid Israel Day J P

State of New York Callecrangon County } ss
Ralph R Phelps being duly sworn deposes & saith that he is well acquainted with Alexander Phelps whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit; and that he is the identical person who is described in and who executed the within affidavit Subscribed and sworn this 14 th day of August 1839 before me Israel Day J.P. R R Phelps —
State of New York Callecrangon County } ss
I Israel say a true to the peace in and for said County do Certify that I am well acquainted with Ralph R Phelps who executed the above affidavit and that he is a person of Veracity - Witness my hand this 14 th day of August 1839. Israel Day J.P.

State of New York Cattaraugus County } ss
I Francis E. Baillet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County State aforesaid do hereby certify that Israel Day Esq whose signature is sub- scribed to the affidavits of Alexander Phelps & Ralph R. Phelps, and also to the Certificate as to the veracity of Ralph R. Phelps, herein before men- tioned is a Magistrate in and for the County & State aforesaid duly elected and qualified & that the signatures purporting to be his to both of the aforesaid affidavits and Certificate is genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court and County this 14 th day of August 1839
Francis E. Baillet clk

Alex d Phelps -
10 months
1st Newbern
7 th of May

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } ss. County of Grafton
On this 24th day of August personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Probate Alexander Phelps a resident of Orford in the County of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year _____ with _____ and served in the _____ regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
In the month of June 1776 as he thinks was drafted for a service for the term of two months in Captain David Farber's company of Col. Hosfords Connecticut Regiment at a place called New Rochelle near New York — That at Orford in the State of New Hampshire in the month of March 1778 he enlisted in Captain Adron's company of Col. Beardsley's Regt for the term of one year and marched to Albany NY and there joined the forces under Genl. Stark. That the said Regt was raised for the term of one year but was discharged the 27th of Nov r 1778 at the expiration of eight months — and that he consequently served eight months in said company and Regiment —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Alexander Phelps
Before me Edward Webber Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
Edward Webber Judge of Probate
I Moses Dow Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Alexander Phelps — for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty fourth day of Augt A.D. 1832 —
Moses Dow

Revolution
22933
INVALID.
File No. 22,933
Alexander Phelps
Revolution
Act: June 7 th 1892
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 221
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Albany rolls,

Nov 9
Mr. President Is this for you? JDR
ONE
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

Lebanon November 3, 1836 J L Edwards Esq Com of Pensions Sir
Yours of October 28 th was duly received in answer would inform you that Alexander Phelps intends to reside in the town of Lawrence- ville, Tioga County, State of Pennsylvania Very Respectfully Yours &c Timothy Herrick

Woyamensing Pa Phila. Augt 24 th 1839.
Sir Your letter of the 23 rd inst t , is received. — In reply — Alexander Phelps @ Pensioned, under Act of 7 th June 1832, at $33.33 1 / 3 per annum, was last paid to 4 th March 1839; from and after which date, no further payment will be made him at this Agency. (His name will be noted on the rolls, as transferred to the Albany Agency, agreeably to your request.
I am, Sir, resp y .
Your Ob t . Serv t
D. Stone P.A.
J. P. Edwards Esq. Comm r . of Pensions Washington.

Phoebe, Port Huron, etc.
Aug 5
Alma Pheasant
Aug 5

I Phinehas Parkhurst of Lebanon, in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy two years, depose and say that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy eight Timothy Pedell of New Hampshire was appointed by the Congress of the then United Colonies a Colonel, as I then understood and raised a Regiment which was put upon the Continental establishment, and I then understood that said Regiment was to receive, and did receive the same pay and rations as other Continental Regiments. Solomon Cushman of Norwich Vermont and Charles Nelson of Lyne New Hampshire were Captains in said Regiment - I enlisted into said Captain Solomon Cushman's company A.D. 1778 - in the summer of A.D. 1778 said Nelsons Company and Cushman's company were ordered and did March to Albany in the State of New York, and were there mustered by General Stark a Continental Officer - said Colonel Pedell's Regiment was raised for one year as I then understood but was discharged, according to the best of my recollection in the Autumn of A.D. 1778 - I well knew Alexander Phelps who was a soldier in said Captain Nelsons company, and I know him now, he marched to Albany with said Nelsons company in 1778 and I marched to Albany at the same time, and both of us continued in said Regiment till it was discharged - Lebanon March 20 th 1832
Phinehas Parkhurst
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. Lebanon March 20 th 1832 -
Then Phinehas Parkhurst came before me the subscriber and made solemn oath that the above statement by him subscribed is in his belief true
Stephen Kendrick Justice of the Peace
Aug 28 1832 I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Jas. H. Phinehas Parkhurst & that he is a man of truth & veracity Elisha Wheeler Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire.
Grafton ss
I George Woodworth Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Grafton do certify that Stephen Kimbley & Elijah Blasee Esgine are justices of the peace within & for said county of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits & that I believe the within to be their genuine signatures.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court This 5 th day of September 1832
George Woodworth Clerk

I Lebedu Cutting of Lynn in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I am acquainted with Alexander Phelps of Anford in said County of Grafton he is the same Alexander Phelps that lived in Hebron Connecticut in the year 1776. I further say that in the year 1776 the said Alexander Phelps and myself with others were drafted for a term of two months to go to New York in defense of our country the British being expected to land at New York about that time, said Phelps and myself served as privates in the company commanded by Capt David Farber said company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col Obediah Hosford we went to New York at the time above stated and served the term of two months and I returned home to Hebron
B. Cutting
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. Lynn March 27 th 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Lebedu Cutting and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me D. C. Churchill Jus: Peace
I certify that the above named Lebedu Cutting is a credible witness D. C. Churchill Jus: Peace
I know D. C. Churchill to be a Justice of the Peace for the County of Grafton in N.H. and that the above is his signature H. Wood N.H.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton p.
I George Woodward Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton do certify that D C Churchill Esq is a justice of the peace within & for said County of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits & that I believe the within to be his signatures
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 5 th day of September 1832
Geo Woodward Clerk
Isaac Cutting Esq Alexander D. Phelps Esq

Oct 1.
Wellboro, Pa Sep 26
X 3 / 4
Mr Evans
J. F. Edwards Esq. Com te Pensions Washington D.C.

Wellboro' Tioga County Pa. Sept. 24. 1838
Mr Sir
Having been applied to by Alexander Phelps a Revolutionary pension recently come into this neighborhood to reside to assist him to obtain his Pension which I learn is in arrear eighteen months - and on looking over my papers I do  and not finding the forms for the proof of identity as required in your circular to Agents of 29 th Sept 1836 - I have therefore that proper to before making out the papers (lest they should be informal) to ask of You the favor to send me the forms as contained in Your instructions of the 10 th June 1833 - and any others that may have been issued by the Department since and which may be necessary in cases when the pension is not applied for regularly each six mo. -
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt
J. L. Edwards Esq Com d Pension
B. B. Smith

Must I must After you take up.
Rev. J.
Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Hon. S. M. Morris P.R.

Washington June 16/38
Sir
Mr Phelps & his friends have applied to me, to ascertain whether the services proved by him, did not entitle him, to a larger pension than he now receives — Will you be good enough, to cause a reference to be made, to his application & evidences, (which I suppose are on file in your office) & inform me of the state of the case —
Respectfully
I am yr obedt Servt
Saml Morris
J L Edwards Esqr

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John D. [illegible] which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the officer, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 1 st , 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Alexander Phelps a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of thirty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837 to the 1 st March 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Glendon B. Passmore Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Nov 24.
Free
Mr. Wm. D. Me
J. H. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions, City of Washington

Pension Agency, Concord, N.H. Nov. 16, 1836.
J. L. Edwards Esq Sir,
In answer to your letter of the tenth November, I would state that Alexander Phelps, a pensioner under the act of 1832, has been to the fourth of September 1836. I have omitted his name as to be trans- ferred to the Pennsylvania Agency.
I am, respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant,
Sam Hill

Oct 27
app for transfer
FREE
Mr. Edwards
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington D.C.
Dear
to
Colonel J. P.
Alma mater

Application for a Transfer
Grafton / State of New Hampshire
On this Ninth day of September A.D. 1836 before Timothy Kenrick Notary Public in and for said State aforesaid Personally appeared Alexander Phelps who on his Oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Col. Charles Nelson in the Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Beal. in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New Hampshire New Hampshire from whence he intends to remove and that in future he intends to reside in the State of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania and wishes his pension to be payable at the office for paying Pensions in Harrisburg State of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania in future.
Alexander Phelps
Sworn and subscribed to the 9 th day of September 1836
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal at Lebanon in the county and State aforesaid on the day aforesaid Timothy Kenrick Notary Public
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. I Timothy Kenrick Notary Public in and for the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence namely from personal knowledge that Alexander Phelps who has signed the above affidavit is the same person therein described, and that I have been for several years well acquainted with him,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal at Lebanon in the county and State aforesaid on the 9 th day of September A.D. 1836.
Timothy Kenrick Notary Public
Please to direct to Timothy Kenrick Lebanon County of Grafton State of New Hampshire

William Stevens of Royalton County of Windham State of Vermont aged seventy seven years do hereby say that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight Timothy Bedel of New Hampshire was appointed a Colonel as I then understood by the Congress of the United Colonies and raised a regiment which I then understood was put upon the continental establishment and I then understood that said Regiment was to receive and did receive the same pay and rations as other continental regiments - Solomon Cushman of Norwich Vermont and Charles Nelson of Lyne New Hampshire were Captains in said Regiment - I enlisted in said Regiment in March AD 1778 and at that time I received orders from Colonel Bedel to enlist soldiers in said Regiment and did enlist several soldiers in said Regiment In June 1778 said Nelsons Company and Cushman Company were ordered and marched to Albany in the State of New York and were then mustered by a continental officer General Stark being the commanding general - the said Regiment was raised for the term of one year but was discharged according to my recollection November 27 th 1778 In said Nelsons Company there was one Soldier by the name of Alexander Phelps who I then knew and whom I know now he was I understood a Nephew of Colonel Wheelock he marched to Albany at the time I did and continued in the service till said Regiment was discharged - I was a Lieutenant in said Cushman Company - All my papers in relation to said Company were burned when Royalton was burnt by the Indians in 1780 We received three months pay at Albany and the residue some years after in Purvis final settlement notes & I sold mine for three shillings on a pound Shawn March 14. 1832
Edson Stevens

State of Vermont } Sharon March 14 th 1832 Windham County } Then Elias Stevens came personally before me and made solemn oath that the within statement by him subscribed is true. — Before me Samuel Shattuckworth Justice Peace
State of Vermont } (Windham County ss)
Woodstock County Clerk's Office March the 15 th 1832 I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, Do hereby Certify that Samuel Shattuckworth Jud. is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, and that the above is his Signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court, and subscribe my name the day & year last above —
Benj t Swan

Aug 22 14
Alex d Phelps for
J. G. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Alex d Phelps from Philad a to Albany, from March 1839, send note to J. R. Colman, Ellicottville N York.

Cattaraugus Co NY
Elliotville, Aug. 14/1839
J. L. Edward
Enclosed is Alexander Phelps application for a transfer of his name from the Pennsylvania roll to that of New York - as soon as convenient will you please send me a notice of the transfer if allowed
I am Very Respectfully Your Most Obedient
J. R. Coleman