Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8214, for Zebedee Phillips, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
R. J.
Phillips, Jebedee
R. 8214
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
82/4 one
P. O.
Rebecca Philips
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

New York
Rev. J.
Zebedee Philips
Wasp & Set to
N. G. Angel June
28. 18 32 . —
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14
Act 7 June '32

New York Original 27/1839 Pension Office
J. J. Canvass Esq. Sir Comm. of Pensions Washington
[Faint mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

Urbana Steuben County N.Y.
June 21. 1834.
J. L.>J. L. Edwards Esq
As in Enclosed you The application of Zebidee Phillips of this Town for a pension under the act 7th June 1832 Will you do me the favor to examine the application & report to me soon as convenient
Respy Yrs obt servt.
W. G. Angel

In the matter of Isaac Phillips a Revog. Solain
g. mst
31.373
N. G. Angeb atty. Urbana Steuben Co N.Y.

Staten Common Pleas of June Term 1834
In the Matter of Zebedee Phillips a Revolutionary Soldier
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of New York Staten County
on this 18th day of June 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Staten now sitting Zebedee Phillips a resident of the Town of Warana in said County State of New York age 76 years on the tenth day of April last 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 7th 1832
That in the year 1778 at this deponent's believe he then being a resident of the Town of Gloucester County of Providence State of Rhode Island was hired by one Samuel Pettipace of the same town who was drafted to serve in Sullivan's Expedition for the term of one month as a substitute that some time about the 15th day of August of that year this deponent took the place of the said Samuel Pettipace in the Rhode Island State Troops as a private in Captain Abraham Winslow's Company in Colonel Brown's Regiment. His first officer was Nathan Payne, Sergeant Elijah Armstrong He joined his company in the Town of Gloucester afterwards when they were called together and were marched to Providence from thence down the River to Bristol Ferry from thence in Boats over on to the Island of New York or the

upper end thereof where he remained in Service as of service during his said term of one month when he was discharged but again enlisted as a substitute without leaving the army by hiring for another term of one month to Humphrey Wood served in the same company under the same officers as above stated. It was during this term as as this deponent recollects in the former part of it that they had a skirmish with the enemy from which this deponent received three wounds from the enemy with a bayonet the scars of which are now plainly visible some of which has in some manner affected him ever since. At the time of the said skirmish they left the Island but went back again the next morning when they remained until his said term of one month had expired. At the expiration of the second month of term of Service this deponent without leaving the Army immediately enlisted as a private in the same Troops for the term of seven months longer in the same company & under the same officers. The first six months of this enlistment this deponent re- mained on the Island performing the ordin- ary labor services at that time of keeping guard standing sentry digging trenches & upraising the fort called at that time Leakey Hill fort. The last month of this term was spent at a point on the Main land now called Little Compton, then called a communication point at the expiration of this term this deponent was discharged & returned home having served in all

Nine months as above stated He was in no engagement except the one above stated in which he received his reward. While he was in the Army he saw Genl. Spencer, Sullivan, & Genl. Washington. He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his services. Never had a written discharge. He was born in the State of Rhode Island in the month of April 1758. Has no record of his age & never had his information about his age from his father - When called into the Army lived in Gloucester R.I. & afterwards has lived since the Revolution. Not in Adams Massachusetts. Stamford in Vermont 18 years Williamstown Mass. Lanesburgh New York Otsego County N.Y. Homer N.Y. Tompkins Co. N.Y. then to Steubenville about 8 years here where he has ever since resided.
Has answered the 4 th 5 th & 6 th  questions as he can in a previous part of his declaration. Under the 7 th question he refers to the following persons Wm. McStay. John M. Fowler Henry W. Rogers Esq. Moses Lyon all of Bath Benjamin W. Franklin Esq. G. Holliday Esq. Branday & Mrs. Hastings of Utica also to Mrs. S. Angel formerly of Otsego Co.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency of any State.
This deponent further states that the reason why he has not made earlier application for a pension was on account of his being unable to read or write & having but little communication with persons who could inform him of his rights he living some

from thirty in what we might call Subscribed & sworn in open court this 18 day of June 1834. Campbell acting Clerk  Subscribed & sworn in open court { June 1834
In open court William J. Angle of Norborne & Edmund O'Flynn of Bath both of the said County being duly sworn in open court say that they are well acquainted with Frederick Phillips who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that they believe him to be 76 years of age or thereabouts that he is a man of good moral character for truth & veracity that he is generally respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a friend of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. But the said Edmund O'Flynn further saith that he is a minister of the Gospel & a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church  congregational residing in the village of Bath. Open court sworn in open court & Edmund O'Flynn subscribed in this presence this 18 day of June 1834. W. J. Angle
Campbell acting Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter of the putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Officer is not a Revolutionary War in service or has therein stated
And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Edmund O'Flynn who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church residing in the village of Bath & that W. J. Angle Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Norborne & is a credible person & their statement is entitled to credit
Judges { Geo. C. Seward Muz. Williams Ezra Chapin

I Robert Campbell Jr acting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Tuscarawas now sitting do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the Application of Deborah Phillips for a pension
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office being the seal of the said Court this twentieth day of June 1834.
Robert Campbell Jr acting Clerk