Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36232, for Isaac Platt, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Platt, Isaac
S. 36232
Comm. residence in 1818.
CONTENTS

4,322
Connecticut Roll
Isaac Platt, Capt Painter
Private Connecticut line 5 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq r Lodge Bridgeport -
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818: L s 28/30 — 39:46 Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th March 1819 — 48: —
$ 87:46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
✓ Redding

36232
Rev. INVALID.
Apr. 13, 1904 - King to Mrs. Geo. A. Platt - Norwalk R.
File No. 36232
Isaac Platt
Dei Per fid
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 9 , Page 32 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Frank Mott
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District of Connecticut ss On the 7 th day of April I Will Isaac State of Redding in said District under oath before Pierpont Howards District judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the Declarant now resides and even since the end of the war of the Revolution both resided that on the twenty fifth day of De- cember in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he enlisted into the service of the United States as a private for the term of the continuance of said war in Captain Elijah Painters company Colonel Jonathan Dobbins Regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment of the armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution against their enemies and that the Declarant faithfully served the United States as a private in their armies from the said time of his said enlistment in said line on said establishment in said war un- til the end of the same war of the Revolution and was then from said service honorably discharged by a discharge dated the 9 th day of June 1783 signed by his Excellen- cy General George Washington which discharge the Declarant hath by time & accident lost
And the Declarant further maketh oath that he now is and ever since the declaration of his independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in

life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support
his Isaac X Platt mark
District of Connecticut April 7 th A.D. 1818 the aforesaid Isaac Platt came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration by his mark & made oath that the same is true - Richard D. -
District Judge of said District -

District of Connecticut ss
On this 7 th day of April A.D. 1880 before me Prior part Dwight D. D. is true judge of the United States for the dis- trict of Connecticut came Colonel Asahel Salmon of Redding in said District who being duly sworn depose & saith that he well knows that the aforementioned declarant Isaac Watts was a private in the armies of the United States on the Continental establishment for several years during the war of the Revolution the Deponent himself then serving in said armies fre- quently saw the said Watts as a soldier in said armies And the Deponent further saith that by reason of the reduced circumstances of life of the said Isaac Watts he is in need of assistance from his country for his support and that he now is and ever since the declara- tion of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States
Asahel Dabson
April 9 th AD sworn before me
Thomas E. Lawrence —
District Judge of the District of Connecticut.

Isaac Platt
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March 1819
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 19 th day of July 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Isaac Platt a resident in the town of Redding in the County of Fairfield in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Solemn Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz.
1 Tobacco Box 6 cts. Jack knife 12 cts. — 0 18
his Isaac Platt mark

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 19 day of July 182 0 the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Isaac Platt aged Sixty years, resident in the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: as a private in the regiment of the Massachusetts line of Artillery. Commanded by Col. John Crane & in Capt. Thomas Putnam's company. from December 1777 to January 1783 & under different Captains —
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the Seventh day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 4,322 . And I do further solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation was a day-labourer but for a number of years past and at this time am unable to labour —
and that I have no family residing with me
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
his Isaac X Platt mark
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is eighteen cents — Dollars and Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk

State of Connecticut, ss.
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
eighteen cents — Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 19 th day of July 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield July 19. 1820
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court the County of Fairfield.