Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17020, for Lemuel Pinney, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Pinney, Lemuel
S. 17020
CONTENTS
carded

50 28050 Connecticut
Samuel Pinner of Ellington in the State of Conn who was a private in the Com commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col Ellington in the Conn Troops line for 7 mo 18 days —
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 25 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Feb. 7. 1834 and per L. J. Peace Enfield Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $63.33 Pension allowance ending Mar. 4 34 - 12 66 $75.99
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ed Duley Clerk book E 2 Vol. 3 Page 34

Declaration in order to attain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Connecticut } District of Ellington County of Tolland } ss Probate Court August 22 d 1832
On this 22 d day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before said Probate Court now sitting Lemuel Pinneg a resident of said Town of Ellington which was formerly a part of East Windsor in Hartford County in said State aged 78 years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Decla- -ration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That some time in April 1775 the day of the month I do not recollect I volunteered as a fifer in company with about 40 others from said Town of East Windsor in a company commanded by Charles Ellsworth then belonging to said East Windsor we marched from said East Windsor to Milford then from thence to Wooster from Wooster to Cambridge near Boston in Massachusetts the British at that time were in Boston we arrived at Cambridge a few days after the Battle at Lexington the troops were employed there in keeping up Encamps I remained there about one month until the Troops came in General Putnam was there at that time and then we returned I know of no person living who can testify to this term of service - That in the first part of June 1775 according to my best recollection I enlisted and entered into the service of the United States in a company of State Troops for the term of 6 months commanded by Capt Charles Ellsworth then of East Windsor said Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col Huntington of Norwich in said State said company marched through Simsbury Milford and Wooster to Roxbury near Boston I was a fifer and did a fifer's duty the company were employed the most of the time in making fortifications we were enlisted for 6 months but was kept in service between y rs I was discharged 3 or 4 days before the 6 months had expired by reason of my being taken sick - I was then honorably discharged I received a written discharge from my Col but have lost it - I further declare that in the month of August 1776 all the Militia in this part of the State were ordered into the service of the United States I then belonged to the Militia of said State of Connecticut and on or about the 17 th day of said month of August we marched through

Heartford to New Haven and from thence by Water to New York I was a private soldier and marched with the rest of said Troops & Infantry to a company commanded by Capt James Fitch then of said East Windsor now called Ellington in said State Elisha Phillips was our Lieut. and Daniel Ellsworth was our Ensign we were under Major Terry of Enfield our Col being William Pitkin being absent I was in the City of New York when the Battle was fought on Long Island we were ordered from Place to Place till we marched out of the City we were marched to Wallingford about 2 Miles from Kings Bridge there we were dismissed it was in the Month of October 1776 I do not recollect the day of the Month my term of service was 2 Months I had no written discharge - I further declare that in the latter part of August or 1st of September 1778 I was drafted for the term of 2 Months I joined the Company at East Windsor now called Ellington commanded by Capt Deborah Woodworth then of said East Windsor in said State now called Ellington our Lieut was Scott P. Murchison our Ensign was Daniel Colchester the company was raised from 4 Towns we marched to New London from thence to Groton and were station- ed there we were under the command of Major Ledyard who was afterwards killed at Groton Fort by the British we served the said 2 Months at Groton and were there verbally discharged my Officer I believe are all dead, and I know of no person who served with me in said Company except Samuel Chapman who is now living & whose deposition accompanies this declaration - I have no written discharge -
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 the agency of any State Answers to the Questions Propounded by the Court
I was Born in East Windsor that part now called Ellington in the 1754
I do not know that I have any Record of my age
I lived in said East Windsor now called Ellington at the time I entered the service I have always lived there excepting 2 years in Massachusetts and I now live in said Ellington
I once was drafted and 3 times I volunteered
I do not remember the names of Officers other than those I have named in my declaration
I never received a written discharge from the service but once and that

I have lost as stated in my declaration
I can vouch to the following persons in my neighborhood Reverend Dioclete Brothman and Alexander Buckland
Samuel Piny Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Asa Willey Judge
We Dioclete Brothman a clergyman residing in the Town of Ellington County of Tolland & State of Connecticut and Alexander Buckland residing in said Ellington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Piny who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 78 years of age that he is reported in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Dioclete Brothman
Alex. Buckland
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Asa Willey Judge
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Dioclete Brothman who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said Town of Ellington and that Alexander Buckland who has also signed the same is a resident in said Town of Ellington and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Chapman, William Wallace and John Wood who have subscribed the Deposition enclosed herewith and accompanying this declaration sustain fair character for truth and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Asa Willey Judge

I Moses B Bull Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Ellington in the County of Tolland & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Linnery for a General Tax Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 22 nd day of August 1832
Attest Moses B Bull Clerk

February 4, 1937
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BA-J/MCS Lemuel Pinney S.17020
Mr. Charles R. Hale 30 Oak Street Hartford Connecticut
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Lemuel Pinney who was pensioned from Tolland County, Connecticut.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 17020, based upon the military service of Lemuel Pinney.
He was born in 1754 at East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of East Windsor, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows: from April, 1775, one month as fifer in Captain Charles Ellsworth's company; from July 6, 1775, until October 24, 1775, as fifer in Captain Charles Ellsworth's company in Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment; from August, 1776, two months as private in Captain James Fitch's company in Colonel William Pitkin's regiment; from late in August or early in September, 1776, two months as private in Captain Ichabod Wadsworth's company under Major Ledyard.
Lemuel Pinney was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832, at which time he was living in Ellington, Tolland County, Connecticut, which was formerly a part of East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, and he stated he had always lived there with the exception of two years when he lived in Massachusetts.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the family of Lemuel Pinney.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Lemuel Pinney, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:
Lemuel Pinney, Certificate 28050, issued February 1, 1834, rate $25.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Summed Primary
m d Errors as a musician 6 26 " " Priests 4 00 10 26
Also Rackland 2 3 4 9

HEADQUARTERS COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR CHARLES R. HALE, CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON MARKING GRAVES 30 OAK STREET HARTFORD, CONN.
January 26, 1937
Chief Clerk Pension Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War record of Lemuel Pinney . He was on the 1832 and 1840 Pension Roll as living in Tolland, Connecticut, also his date of death. We would like to get a Connecticut headstone for him.
Yours very truly,
Chas. R. Hale
CRH:MB

17.020 INVALID.
1921 Feb 4 first to Mr. Chas R. Hale MCS
No. 17.525
Lemuel Pinnock Dr. Rev War
Act: June 7 '32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 297
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Comptroller's Office January 20 January 20 th 1834
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify that it appears by an authenticated copy of a pay roll of the 5 th Co. 8 th Reg t , raised by order of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut, July 1775, that Samuel Tenney served therein, as a private, from the 8 th day of July, to the 24 th day of October 1775; being three months & eighteen days. The company was commanded by Charles Elnsworth, & the Reg t by Col. Jas. Huntington. E. Phelps

4564
1.99 23.33 25.33
Return this
7m 18 day Firral $25.33
5.14.16
paid
Walter B. Bratt, Jr.
Elkington
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L. D. Pease Present

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Samuel Pinney ————— which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
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?
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? No — The nature & extent of each tour
should be particularly set forth
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
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? No —

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?
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 has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No — One of them
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? not certified
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?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No — Official Seal wanting
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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 the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†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 authenticated 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 end 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.
Actuals are available  A claimant belonged to troops raised for 5 months in 1775 his service would not probably be so long as he has stated. The rolls in the office of the Comptroller Public accounts are the best evidence of service in 1775 —

Samuel Chapman Dep for Saml Penney A. Willey Lester C

I Samuel Chapman of Ellington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged 74 years (Depon and say That in the later part of August or 1 st of September 1778 I was enlisted for a term of duty of 2 months to be performed at New London and Groton in the State of Connecticut I joined the company at New London under Capt Ichabod Wadsworth of the Conn now called Ellington Lieuts Alcott & Moseham and Ensign Daniel Edgerton I was then and ever since have been well acquainted with Lemuel Pinney of Ellington in the State of Connecticut said Pinney joined the same company commanded by Captain Ichabod Wadsworth Lieuts Alcott & Moseham & Ensign Edgerton for the term of 2 months we marched from New London to Groton and were sta- tioned there a period of 2 months and said Pinney and myself & others were under the command of Major Lockwood we both served the said 2 months said Lemuel Pinney and myself were messmates, at the expiration of said 2 months we were verbally discharged, I believe that all the Officers who then commanded said company are dead & I know of no person who then belonged to said Company except the said Lemuel Pinney who is now living - And further the Deponent saith not (Sited at Ellington this 14 th day of August 1832
Samuel Chapman
State of Connecticut Tolland County ss. Ellington August 14 th 1832 Personally appeared Samuel Chapman on the above named Deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated in the above Deponent by him subscribed before me
Asa Willey Justice of Peace
I also certify that I am well acquainted with the said Samuel Chapman & that he sustains a fair character for truth and is entitled to full credit
Asa Willey Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut County of Tolland
s. s. Clerk's office —
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County Court do certify that Asa Willey Esq. whose certificate is appended to the foregoing Deposition of Samuel Chapman was at the 14th day of August 1832 a Justice of Peace for Tolland County legally appointed and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions — and that the signature to sd certificate purporting to be the signature of said Justice is genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22nd day of August 1832
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

William Wallace, Dek. for Leon Purney A. Willy Lustin
C

I William Wallace of Ellington in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged 77 years before me say That in the month of August 1776 the whole of the Militia in this section of the State were ordered into the service of the United States and on or about the 17 th day of said month of August we were marched through Hartford to New Haven & from thence by Water to New York I was one of the Militia at that time and marched with the rest I was then and ever since have been well acquainted with Samuel Pinney of said Ellington then of East Windsor in Hartford County & State of Connecticut said Pinney then belonged to the Militia of Connecticut and marched with me and the rest of said Militia in the same company with me commanded by Capt James Fitch, then of said East Windsor now called Ellington said Pinney was in the City of New York when the Battle was fought on Long Island. we were ordered from place to place till we were marched out of the City we were on Wallabout Hill about 2 miles this side of Kings Bridge where we were dismissed which was in October the day of the month I do not recollect the said Pinney served about 2 months the remainder of my knowing to the facts are that I was in the same company with said Pinney under the same Captain Fitch marched with him and was discharged at the same time and further the deponent saith not Dated at Ellington this 21 st day of August 1832 William Wallace
State of Connecticut Tolland County Ellington August 21 st 1832 Personally appeared William Wallace the above named Deponent and made solemn Oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me
Asa Willey Justice of Peace
I further certify that the above named William Wallace sustains a fair character for truth and is entitled to credit
Asa Willey Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut } S. S. Clerk's office Tolland County }
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County Court do hereby certify that Asa Willey Esqr signor of the within certificate was on the 28 th day of August 1832 a Justice of Peace within and for the County of Tolland legally appointed and authorized to administer oaths & take depositions & that the signature to sd certificate purporting to be this I believe to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22 nd day of August A D 1832
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

State of Connecticut ss.
Tolland County Ellington June 7 th 1833
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for Tolland County Lemuel Pinney 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 his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades—
for one month I served as a piffer
for five months & 26 days I served as a piffer
for two months I served as a private soldier & for two months I also served as a private soldier— and for such service I claim a Pension—
Lemuel Pinney
Subscribed & sworn to this 7 th day of June 1833 before me Asa Willey Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that the aforesaid Lemuel Pinney is very poor & needy and wholly dependent on the charity of the People
Asa Willey

State of Connecticut } } East Windsor Hartford County }
On this 13 day of August A D 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate for the District of East Windsor now sitting John Wood is resident of said East Windsor in said county aged about 90 years a person of veracity and made solemn oath that he is well acquainted with General Pinney of Ellington in the county of Tolland an applicant for a pension under the pension act of June 7. A D 1832 That in the year 1775 he entered into the service of the United States that he enlisted into a company of State Troops common- -ded by Capt Charles Ellsworth said company was marched from East Windsor that part of it which now constitutes the town of Ellington and was marched thro Somers Watrous Worcester & to Roxbury near Boston said company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Huntington of Norwich that he J s Wood belonged to the same company and was ordinarily sergeant and did duty as such we were employed a part of the time in working on the fortifications we were enlisted for six months but were kept in service seven months and a half That said Pinney was honorably discharged a few days before the expiration of the six months according to the best of his recollection that J s Pinney was fife and a fifer only
his John X Wood mark ✓
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Edgar Bissell Clerk

State of Connecticut vs. Hartford county June 6 th 1883
I Eli B. Haskell Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor and Justice of the Peace for Hartford county before whom the within Deposition of John Word was taken do hereby certify that the said John Word the Deponent is a man of fair character for truth and is entitled to full credit.
Eli B. Haskell Justice of Peace