Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,129, Elisha Bradley, Conn

SERVICE
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Conn.
Bradley, Elisha Ann B.
R. 1,129
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State of Connecticut } New Haven County }
Southbury 5 February 1853
On this 5 day of Feb personally appeared before me
A Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury
Ann B. Bradley, a resident of Southbury in the County of New Haven, being of advanced age, viz. eighty nine years, unable to appear in person , who being 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 following Acts of Congress, viz.,
The Act passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay + pensions to certain widows," - and the Act passed March 3 rd 1843, entitled, "An Act granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers"; and the Act passed June 17 th 1844, entitled, "An Act to continue the pensions of certain widows" - and, the Act passed February 2 nd 1848, entitled, "An Act making further provisions for surviving widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution".
That she is the widow of Elisha Bradley who was a private in the D th Company of the 1 st Regiment of Connecticut Militia. That Jabez Thompson was Col. of said Regt, that Bradford Steel was Captain of D th Company & Nathan Pierson was Ensign of D th Comp. That the aforesaid Elisha Bradley was drafted into D th Company about the close of 1776. That at the time of his enlistment he was residing in the town of Derby in Connecticut, & was an Apprentice to the aforesaid Bradford Steel. That she has been informed by her husband, the aforesaid Elisha, that he performed divers services during the War of the Revolution, both in D th Company, & also in other Companies, & bodies of soldiers drafted from the different Companies of which D th Regt. was composed. That she has been informed by the aforesaid Elisha, & by others in the service, that in the Spring of the year 1777, he went on a tour to Danbury. That D th Elisha & the other troops marched through Redding to Bethel, which is near Danbury; that they arrived at Bethel in the night, & learning that the enemy had burned Danbury & worn on their return to the coast, they marched on the following morning in pursuit, & overtook the enemy near Ridgefield & had an engagement with them, in

which General Wooster was mortally wounded. That D r Elisha Bradley saw the Gen l after he received the wound. That afterwards they joined other troops & routed the enemy at Ridgefield, & followed them in close pursuit, until they embarked on board their shipping at a place called Compo. That Enos Bradley Jun. the brother of D r Elisha, went also on D r tour to Danbury, and that she has heard D r Elisha relate many accounts of + incidents to D r tour, of the engagements & the march to the coast.
Further deponent declares that she has been informed by D r Elisha, & by others, that, in the summer of 1779, when General Tryon landed troops at East & West Haven, D r Elisha & his brother Enos Bradley Jun. aforesaid, went on a tour to New Haven to repel the invasion. That D r Elisha & D r Enos were engaged in a skirmish with the enemy at the West Bridge, near New Haven, & that D r Enos Jun. was killed there by the enemy, & that about twenty five others were killed at the same time. That on the return of Elisha it was discovered that his brother Enos was missing, & that on the following day, D r Elisha & his father Enos Bradley Senior went to New Haven in search, & found D r Enos Jun. dead on the field. That they carried him into New Haven & buried him.
Further deponent declares that she has been informed by the aforesaid D r Elisha Bradley, & by others, that D r Elisha went on a three months tour to Fairfield in Connecticut, & was on duty there on a station to guard the coast and protect the inhabitants of D r town, after the enemy had ravaged it in 1779. That his time was mostly spent in scouting along the coast - that the troops went out frequently to Black Rock, Bridgeport, or Newfield, as it was then called, & other places on the coast line. That D r Elisha has frequently related to her the hardships suffered by him while on D r three months service, & divers accounts of D r service, & that D r Elisha has pointed out to her, when in Bridgeport, a place where he was stationed, & where the troops

encamped on one occasion during S r . service..
Further - that S r . Elisha Bradley went on another three months tour, to Horse Neck - that he performed guard service at that station - that it was in the winter season & the soldiers were kept out constantly in scouting parties to guard against invasion - that the soldiers had difficulty in procuring food & were obliged to enter dwellings & take whatever they could find - that the soldiers used to seize goods purchased of the enemy in New York. That she has heard S r . Elisha Bradley relate many incidents to each & all the above named services, & that she verily believes the services were performed by him as stated. Further she declares that the above mentioned services are all the services of which she has been particularly informed, but that she has been informed that he was out on duty at divers times, either in the regular service or as a volunteer, from the close of 1776 until the termination of the War, & that she believes the time of his service amounted in all to one year. She also declares that there is no one, to her knowledge, now living, who was in service with the afores d . Elisha Bradley; & that he never received any written discharge, or if he did that it is lost; but that she believes he was honorably discharged. She further declares that she was married to the afores d . Elisha Bradley in Huntington, Connecticut, on the fifth day of May in the year seventeen hundred & eighty five, as will appear from the copy of the Marriage Record herunto annexed. That her husband, the afores d . Elisha Bradley died on the 19 th day of December in the year eighteen hundred & thirty two; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the year seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz. at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow, & that she has never before made any application for a pension.
W. G. H. Bradley

State of Connecticut
New Haven County } ss.
Southbury 5 February 1853
Be it known that before me the Court of Probate and ordinary  Notary Public for the District of Woodbury State aforesaid, personally appeared Ann B. Bradley & made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical Ann Bennet Hackman named in the copy of the Record hereto annexed
Chas B Phelps Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury including the Town of Southbury
State of Connecticut
New Haven County } ss.
Southbury 5 Feb 1853
I, an ordinary  Notary Public for the probate of said Court in State aforesaid, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz. personal acquaintance with the family; that Ann B. Bradley, who this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity, is the identical party of the Record she declares herself to be in the prefixed affidavit
Chas B Phelps Judge of Probate Woodbury District

Huntington January 29 th 1853
I hereby certify that I have examined the Records of the Congregational Church of the Town of Huntington (formerly the Parish of Ripton belonging to the Town of Stratford) to find the Marriage of Elisha Bradley to Ann B Blackman and do find there Recorded in the hand writing of the Rev David Ely the following words and figures viz
1785 May 5 th
Married Elisha Bradley of Derby to Ann Bennet Blackman of Ripton
Samuel Beardslee Town Clerk of town of Huntington.

State of Connecticut
New Haven County
ss Southbury
Be it remembered that on the 12 day of February 1853 before me a Notary Public within said County State personally appeared Stephen the Mearley of said Southbury who being duly centered arrived from on with the deponent and says that he was Eighty Three years old in March last (1852) and was born in Dorby in said County and am the Mother of Eliza Mearley late of Southbury now deceased
Remember that
my Brother was drafted or volunteered to go to Newbury as a private soldier when the British attacked said Barnes said Newbury, Eliza went on duty in the Daily Company, when my Brother went to Newbury he was living on an appointment to Capt Masefield State of Dorby here long he was absent. & returning
afterwards when the British landed

at Murrells my Mother Eliza and my Mother Enos Mary Jane went from Duley to Murrells to spit the spit. after the battle then Eliza. The next day after my father having heard Enos was dying he went to Murrells and he & Eliza received for Enos & found his body. among the arms & hands less after the affair was over Eliza started to cast their again.
After this I remember my Brother in after this the Duley company went to Tuckerville County in the Coast George Francis Eliza went went also in the company - who commenced the company a company Eliza Francis in the next year title of I see him.
After this Francis murdered by Eliza. There have it spoken of in the family and it was and unintended by them that Eliza Francis at all three times & Mary arrived from him there is understood there no doubt he will so far and have always considered as true.

has only further believe he alive, and  and but am not able to set forth the time he was  was
Inasmuch as he went to Hornick. have long for him I am unable to say of my own knowledge but believe it was three months & since he was informed & believe soon after the prison  prison was prison  prison
Elijah Bradley
Woburn Mass before
Thos B Phelps Notary Public

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss. Southbury,
Be it remembered that on the twelfth day of Feb 1853 personally appeared David Merrill of South- bury, who before the Subpoena Adtest- Prohibi error being returned to enormous letter and being duly from defendant's case as follows Since fifty years ago last Feb. (1852) error and the son of Eliza Merrill & his wife Ann B Merrill I have intercourse with my father thereby after him nine years of age to his error, Jonathan Merrill in the same neighborhood near by him I have often heard him state in circumstances occurring in the prison. That course not have been known to him without he have been present. Remember his telling he was at Danbury in the course of the American war error when the British attacked Danbury and from the great part run down the road when the Tories were before them, and how he was with the army when

went to Ripleyville and attached and there to camp.
He used to state that he went to Harrisburg on the coast and found three months and that he was employed as a part in various places about the coast and that he used to cut some ribs
He also stated a town of duty at Olive Furnace but have long since very.
There is no doubt he served in the Revolutionary army and died The facts are pretty accurately stated in my mother's obituary annexed
That he served in the army is a fact always conceded by all the family as true & indicated
David Bradley
humble and poor before
Thos M'Pherson Not Public

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1129 Am
P. O. Wm B. Bradley
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No. 14911 Ann B. Bradley Widow of Elisha C. B.
Hon. O. S. Seymour July 16/53 Hon. O. S. Seymour 5 th Apr. 1854. " Same 5. May '54.
1129
Ad July 7 1838
To be recorded & reported for the purpose of settling in the court of probate, L. 1838. Jan 30 1838.

Washington March 28. 1854
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of pensions
Sir
The pension case to which I referred last evening and concerning which I made enquiry is that of Mrs B. Bradley Widow of Elisha Bradley please inform me what the state of the matter is.
Yours very respectfully
O. S. Seymour
Per E. M. S.

Ann Dudley widow of Ebenezer Dudley Conway

Comptroller's Office Hartford Oct. 21 st 1853
Sir,
Your letter of the 21 st inst. with one dollar enclosed has been received. I have searched thoroughly through our Rolls, and am sorry to have to say, that I do not find the name of Elisha Bradley on any Roll or document in this office. Many of our Rolls of Militia service are missing, and the fact that a name is not found on the rolls here, should be no bar to a claim if it is supported by other evidence. We have many Rolls showing service of troops stationed as guards on the sea coast, but, the evidence of a very considerable portion of this service is missing.
I am very sorry that I cannot find the evidence of Mr. Bradley's service.
I am very respectfully your obedt servt. Geo Robinson For Compt.

Here
O. S. Seymour the R.

Pension Office, W th April 5 th 1854.
Sir:
The claim of Ann B. Bradley, widow of Elisha, of Connecticut, has been examined.
The evidence as to Elisha's services as a Revolutionary soldier is insufficient. The duration of none of his tours is established by competent proof. None of the witnesses served with him, and no record has been adduced, showing when he was out, or what particular duty he performed. We have no rolls of the militia service of Connecticut in this Office. Perhaps, by applying to the Secretary of State of Connecticut, he may furnish you with satisfactory proof as to this point. The date of Elisha's death has not been established; the witnesses who would testify to the date must show how they are able to fix it with certainty.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Obs. Servt,
L. M c Rae Commissioner.
Hon. A. S. Seymour, House of Reps.

Litchfield Apr. 15 th 1855
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of pensions Sir
I enclose herewith the application of Ann B Bradly for a pension. The papers have been prepared by a young friend of mine Mr. Hinman who was with me at Washington during the first session of the late Congress
I have great confidence in the truth of the matters set forth by the applicant and witnesses and commend the case to your early and favorable consideration. The parties & witnesses are of the highest standing for integrity
Yours very respectfully O. S. Seymour per E.H.S.

I certify that I have been acquainted with Abijah Pradley the above deposit something like a year his character is great
With David Pradley I have been acquainted with David Pradley more than twenty years he is a highly respected respectable man
W. P. Phillips

State of Connecticut ss Probate Court District of Woodbury held at Southington in said District No 5 1853
Testify the foregoing proceedings & determinations testimony where have in said Court testimony whereof I have the seal of said Court
Thos M c Pherson Judge