Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9220, for Isaac Peck, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Peck, Isaac Elizabeth
W 9220 B. L. Mt. 26, 312-160-55
CONTENTS
d. Dec. 11, 1834 at Berlin

785 Vermont Elizabeth Peck widow of Isaac Peck Con n who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1818.
3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of June 1853 and sent to
Philip Norton Berlin Vt.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1818, Page 64 Vol. A
"1828" 8058

52794 Acronyms Apr 20 1855
air H. Fowler Nov 12/55
Elizabeth Peck wid. Isaac Peck Priv.
Epist. Apoc.
Rev d Isaac
Rev d Pensromo
cunn Feb 53-785
W. 160 Allis Wis. 20th Blyden
(Signature)
Vol P. page 55.
Henry Fowler Hartford. Conn.

Claim of Elizabeth Peck W fe of Isaac Peck dec d for a pension under the 2 d Section act Feb 3. 1853
returns to be made to Mr Philip Norton Berlin Conn

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss New Britain
Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Peck of Berlin in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut Widow of Isaac Peck deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Philip Norton of Berlin my true and lawful attorney to prosecute my claim for a pension under any act of Congress authorizing the same and I hereby give my said Attorney full authority and power to examine all papers in relation to my said Claim in Washington City Departments or elsewhere, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim which Certificate I wish made payable to myself at the United States Pension Agency in Hartford Connecticut to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present hereby declaring this power irrevocable for One Year from its date and ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal at New Britain this 24 day of February 1853
Elizabeth X Peck mark
Signed and sealed in presence of Henry Fowler Leah E Louse
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss
On this 24 day of February 1853 before me Judge of Probate for the District of Berlin personally appeared Elizabeth Peck above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and I certify that I am not directly or indirectly interested therein
Leah E Louse Judge of Probate for Berlin District

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. New Britain, Berlin Probate District
On this 24 day of February AD 1853 personally appeared before the subscribers Judge of Probate for the District of the Berlin Elizabeth Peck a resident of Berlin in the County of Hartford aged Sixty Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed February 3 1853: under the 2 d Section of said Act - That she is the Widow of Isaac Peck who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Connecticut Agency under the Act of 18 March 1818 at Ninety six dollars per annum.
She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Peck on the tenth day of September in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, by the Rev. John Bisbee Jr. then a resident Clergyman in the City of Hartford - That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Peck died in the town of Berlin on the 11 day of December in the Year 1831. That His pension certificate was surrendered by her to Enoch Parsons Esqr then Pension Agent in Hartford and the arrears of Pension then the time of his death were paid to her as his Widow. She further swears that she is now a Widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension
Sworn to and subscribed as her the day & Year above mentioned Elizabeth X Peck Before me
Leah E. Gann Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Berlin

I John Stanley of New Britain in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, being duly cautioned and sworn according to law do depose and say that I well knew in his life time Isaac Peck late of Berlin and County deceased a Revolutionary Soldier
He was married to Mrs Elizabeth Hulbard of Berlin aforesaid about the year 1825 - I distinctly recollect the occurrence as he was at that time in the employment of my father and it was a matter of unusual notoriety in consequence of a great disparity of age between the parties -
They lived together in the marriage relation from that time until his death which happened at said Berlin about sixteen years ago as far as I can remember
During this entire period while they so lived together they were reputed to be man and wife and had three children born to them now living, two of whom now reside in New Britain -
I lived a near neighbor to said Isaac & Elizabeth, being about one half mile from them, and saw them almost daily during the whole time - He worked some or less for my father, with whom I lived, every year and had entire charge of a part of his farm - After his decease his widow lived several years in a tenement of my own in said New Britain
The towns of New Britain and Berlin until
Notary Public

within a few years formed one town under the name of Berlin - the present line runs near the building where said parties lived. —
I am forty two years of age Said Isaac Peck was a Revolutionary Pensioner —
John Stanley
State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss New Britain
On this 5th day of March A D 1853 personally appeared before me Seth E. Clark Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Berlin within said County John Stanley signer of the foregoing deposition and having been duly examined & sworn subscribed and made oath to the same that the contents therein contained are true - And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent and that he is of unimpeachable integrity of character
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed the seal of said Office at New Britain aforesaid this day and year above written
Seth E. Clark Judge of the Court of Probate for Berlin District

I Jeremiah Fowler of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut being duly cautioned and sworn according to law do depose and say. That I am Clerk and Librarian of the 1 st Independent Universalist Society in the City of Hartford, that having been applied to for evidence of the Marriage of Isaac Peck and Elizabeth Hubbard I have searched the records of said Society, and find that they do not contain any records of Marriages prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. I further depose that John Risbee Jr. was the Pastor of said Universalist Society for the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, that he removed from this City to Portland in the State of Maine in the Year 1827. and soon after died there and that no records of his are known to exist. I further depose that in my search for proof of said marriage, I find in the Library of said Society, a bound volume of the Religious Inquirer a Weekly paper published in said Hartford of which the above named Rev d John Risbee Jr. was Editor, being Volume four of said paper, Number twenty three, bearing date as issued Saturday Sept. 24 1825 under the head of Marriages the following viz Married
In this City, on the 10 th inst by the Rev J. Risbee Jr. Mr Isaac Peck to Mrs Elizabeth Hubbard, both of Berlin
Jeremiah Fowler
Witness my hand at Hartford this 10 th day of March 1853.
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. N. Hartford. On this 11 th day of March 1853, before me a Notary Public in the said State personally appeared
Jeremiah Fowler above named and signed the foregoing deposition in my presence and made oath under Form of Law that the Contents contained therein are true and I certify that the Deponent is a respectable Credible Witness. Witness my hand official and seal at Hartford the day & Year above written
B. G. Poyles Notary Public

State of Connecticut.
By his Excellency THOMAS H. SEYMOUR, Governor of said State.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, That B. H. Borles, was at the time of subscribing the within attestation and now is a Notary Public in the said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within attestation is in due form and by the proper officer; and that I believe the signature of said
Thomas H. Seymour B. H. Borles thereto, to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed, this 11th day of March A. D. 1853, and in the seventy seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By his Excellency the Governor
Mr. P. B. Master, Secretary of State.
On this day of February 1853 before me Judge of Probate for the District of Berlin personally appeared Elizabeth Beck above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and I certify that I am not directly or indirectly interested therein. Letitia E. Clegg Judge of Probate for Berlin District

82794
Bounty land claim of Elizabeth Peck Widow of Isaac Peck in (Revolutionary Service) under act 3 rd March 1850

State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss. Berlin
On this twentieth day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid Elizabeth Peck aged sixty two years, a resident of Berlin in the County and State aforesaid. who being first duly sworn according to law Declares, that she is the Widow of Isaac Peck who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the Act 18 March 1818 at eight dollars per Month,
She further states that she is now a pensioner as his Widow on the roll of the Connecticut Agency under the 2 d Section of the Act 3 February 1853 at the rate of Ninety six dollars per Annum. that her pension Certificate under said act is dated at the Department of the Interior the 27 th day of June 1853. and she refers to her application for a pension now on file in the Pension Office in Washington for proof of her husbands service, and death and of their marriage
She further declares that her said husband died in the Town of Berlin aforesaid on the 11 th day of December 1834 and that she has ever since remained and now is his Widow,
She makes this declaration for the purpose

of obtaining the County Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3/1833.
Elizabeth her X Peck mark
We Linsley Austin and Philip North residents of Berlin in the County of Hartford in said State upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Peck in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the Applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Linsley Austin Philip North
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the Affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
Alfred North Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut.
I, — Oliver H. Perry — Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That — Alfred North — was, from the fourth day of July, A. D. 1854, to the fourth day of July, A. D. 1858, a Justice of the Peace , within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I Further Certify , That I believe the foregoing signature of the said — Alfred North — to be genuine.
In testimony whereof , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 18 th day of — April — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five .
O. H. Perry Secretary of State.

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Heane Peck act 1818 of Conn He was allowed a Pension under act 1818 - then suspended & the admitted papers are lost - see widow Elizabeth Adm t 9. 220 & an endorsement on her papers of above fact of papers mislaid
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Peck Wadsworth County and State of Connecticut act 3 W. G. (N.B.)
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a prisoner at Philadelphia Record proof of marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Philip Phelps Brooklyn CT
H. C. C. Examining Clerk.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
9220
Elizabeth Peck
Wid
Isaac Peck
Print Rev. War
Act: _____
July 29 th
1848.
Index:—Vol. _____
MS
Page _____
120
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Bonn: Berlin, June 14. 1853
Sir
On the 11 th March last at my request Mr. H Fowler of Hartford forwarded to your Office in separate envelopes the Declarations of Mrs Elizabeth Peck and Lydia Cole claiming Rev d Pensions under act 7 Feb. 1853 - The pension Certificate of Mrs Cole was issued on the 20 th of May and has been received by me - I have heard nothing relative to the other case and as their papers were both sent by the same mail leads me to infer that Mrs Pecks papers have been overlooked or mislaid and I trust will be sufficient apology for calling your attention to the subject
Respectfully
Your obed Serv
Philip D. Norton
L P Waldo Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Hartford
March. 10 th 1888.
Sir
By request of Mr. Philip Norton I transmit the enclosed papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Peck widow of Isaac Peck due for a Revolutionary Pension per act 1818 claiming a pension under the 2 d Section of the Act of February 3 d 1887.
Please make returns to Mr. Norton directed to him at Berlin Connecticut
I am Very Respectfully Your Ob t . Servant Henry Fowler
J. C. Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Conn. Agency Book Revolutionary War shows Cef 11.090, Isaac Peck, Private $8 per month, Cy issued May 24. 1819, pension Commenced Apr. 28. 1818
Copy.
War Dept. Feb. 9. 1821.
Please to suspend payment of any sum whatever that may remain due to Isaac Peck whose name is placed on the list of Rev. pensioners of your agency - a report having been made to this Dept. that his statement both as to his service and circumstances are not true.
J. L. E.
(see a letter in the claims of Lodwicks Holchicks Conn. 836183 which refers to this Isaac Peck as not entitled, etc. it is from Wm Hooker of Berlin, Jan 29, 1821. it refers to Doits claims.
Pres. U. S. B o Bank.
Middletown. Conn.
War Dept. Pension Of. Aug. 17. 1821
Sir:
In answer to your letter of the 13 inst I have to state that the case of Isaac Peck has been suspended for six months past and will remain so until he shall have exhibited unquestionable proof of his service and needy circumstances.
I am &
J. L. E.
Mr. William Hooker Berlin, Conn.