Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15772, Samuel Canfield, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Continental
Canfield, Samuel
S 15772
CONTENTS
Carded

Connecticut 27,956
Samuel Canfield, deceased
at Hartford in the State of Conn.
was a Pr. V. Asst. of Issuer Cong. in the company commanded
Captain Taylor of the regt. commanded
by Swift in the Conn. Cont.
2 years & continental and
listed on the Roll of Connecticut
rate of 586 Dollars 26 Cents per annum,
commencing on the 4th day of March, 1831. to Oct. 1. 7 when he died. Increased from $313.66
to $400. of Pension issued the 18. day of October 1841 and sent to A. Ray, Present
Arrears to the 14th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Cornelia Camp & Jay S. Canfield, children of said def.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk.
Book E. 2 Vol. 3. Page 8

Samuel Leanfield.
March 12. 1824

State of Connecticut ss. At a Court of Common Pleas County of Litchfield } held at Litchfield within and for the County aforesaid on the fourth Tuesday of September eighteen hundred twenty one.
On this twenty eighth day of September eighteen hundred twenty one personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Records for said County in said district. Samuel Canfield aged sixty four years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows (viz, - That in the year Seventeen hundred seventy five he entered into the service of the United States on or about the first day of May in said Year into a Company commanded by Captain Josiah Starr in Colonel Benjamin Hinmans Regiment, in June the Captain was ordered to march to the northward, with his Company to Albany and from thence to Lake George where the regiment formed, and from thence we crossed Lake George to Ticonderoga where we continued till the latter part of September then the army went down Lake Champlain to Ile-Aux-Noeuds where the preparations were made to lay siege to St Johns. then the army moved on toward said fort, and in the evening after we left Ile Aux-Noeuds, and arrived near St Johns, there was a

detachment made from Col. Simonds Regiment to destroy the enemys advance. Picquet of which detachment I was one, and the Picquet was posted in the woods about three quarters of a mile from the fort near the lake. The guard house was made of logs, and there was a breastwork of considerable length which nearly encircled it, made of logs. The Picquet consisted of some regular troops, Canadians and Indians, the detachment succeeded in getting to the breastwork before a gun was fired, but the works were manned, the detachment was soon over the breastwork, and the Picquet dislodged, some killed and some escaped in the woods. And in getting over the breastwork. I received a wound in my right hand on the ball of it, which cut off the cords of my thumb, which I supposed it very probable and just, that I might have recieved a pension for it, if I had applied for it, but their being under good circumstances I never applied for it, then after the surrender of St Johns, we marched to Montreal then after the surrender of montreal, what remains of the Regiment was ordered Lafareire, nine miles South of montreal, we then were commanded by Major Samuel Elmsour the Major of the said Regiment, the Regiment had been very sickly through the summer at Ticonderoga, and when

at the siege of St Johns, the season was very rainy and uncomfortable, had got to be very small, we continued at LaPrairie, and a little farther up the river St Lawrence near the caughnewaga. Indians till the last of March then we were dismissed. Major Elmore received a Lieut. Col. Commission from Congress.
I then returned to New Milford, and then in May seventeen hundred seventy six. I enlisted into Captain Isaac Bostwick's Company, Col. Silliman's Regiment, then we marched in June to the City of New York, where I was in the action at Flat-bush, on Long Island, and in the retreat out of New York, and in the action at Frog's neck, and in the action at the White Plains, and continued in the service until after the British troops were taken at Trenton in New Jersey and then discharged.
In seventeen hundred seventy five, I did the duty of a Sergeant part of the year & also a Sergeant's Warrant; 1776 I did duty of Sergeant and Sergeant Major, and received a Warrant and then discharged. I then returned to New Milford, and in the month of March seventeen hundred seventy seven, I then entered into the service, when the army was raised for three years, or during the war with Lieut. Augustus Taylor, and in Col. Heman Swift's Regiment, then in April, when Danbury was burnt, a part of the Regiment, rendezvoused

then after the British troops was drove aboard their Shipping. We marched to Peekskill under the command of Lieut Col. Josiah Starr, who then commanded the Continental troops there and who was Lieut Col of said Regiment. then in month of June, there was a Guard detached from, Col Swift's and Colonel Bradley's Regiments, commanded by, Colonel Lieut David Smith, to go to Sharon to guard the continen- tal Stores at that place, in Litchfield County, and State of Connecticut. I was one of the guard and commanded it as Sargeant. We continued there till about the first of March, seventeen hundred seventy eight, when the guard was ordered to join the Regiment, we accordingly joined the Regiment then I received about the first of May 1778- an appointment, as Assistant Commissary of Quarters, for the Continental Army, as my appointment will shew I was then dismissed from the Regiment by General Putnam. I then continued in the service until May 1 st 1780, and then regular discharged as will appear. It was my request that I might be discharged, rather than go to any other place, And at the close of the War I settled all my Accounts, at the proper board where I received my Pay in commutation, which then was

worth only two Shillings and Six pence on the pound And I do solemnly swear that I was A resident citizen of the United States. On the eighteenth 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 so as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service  suffion of the United States, in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities,  several contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained, in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, Inventory viz.
   four acres of Woodlands. —————  twenty dollars.    One Cow. —————  twelve dollars    twelve Sheep. —————  twelve dollars    One horse. —————  four dollars   
$48. Samuel Canfield

Is on to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof en- -hibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is forty eight Dollars, & doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.
District of Connecticut fr County of Litchfield.
I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify that it is the opinion of said
Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Forty eight Dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court on this twenty eighth day of September A.D. 1821.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.

I. Camp Dyer's Creek
Day I. Camp D.
Application -
City of Washington
May
June 12
140 1/4
City

State of Connecticut County of Litchfield ss.
On this 8 th day of June A 1841, Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. Israel Camp. Esq. and Cornelia Camp, the wife of the said Israel, and Jerry S. Campfield, all residents of the town of Shepaug in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, do on their oaths state and declare, that the said Cornelia Camp and the said Jerry S. Campfield, are the sole surviving children of the late Samuel Campfield, deceased, who was an Assistant Commissary of Stores in the War of the Rebellion and late a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, -- That he, the said Samuel Campfield died on the first day of October A.D. 1837, and left no widow, and left two surviving children to wit, the said Cornelia Camp and Jerry S. Campfield, And that he the said Samuel Campfield continued to receive his Pension up to the time of his death..
For the object of this declaration is, to ascertain the difference of the amount of pension between the sum he received and six hundred dollars per annum from the 4 th of March 1831, up to the period of his death, and do hereby reli- quish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, which the deceased, Samuel Campfield would have

been entitled during his natural life -
Israel Camp
Connelia Camp
: Jay S. Banfield
Seam before me this 8 th day of June 1841 -
Chas F. Sedgwick Justice of the Peace
I Richard Smith Clerk of the Court of Probate In the District of Plain in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that Charles F. Sedgwick Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, and that the above official signature by him purporting the same made, is genuine -
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 11 th day of June
A 1841 - Richard Smith, Clerk

I Richard Smith, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary the District of Chatham in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that the following facts have been proved to the satisfaction of said Court - vizt.
1. That Colonel Samuel Campfield late of Chatham in the said district of Chatham, died on the first day of October A D 1837.- 2. That the said Samuel Campfield left no widow, surviving him, at his decease - 3. That the said Samuel Campfield was a Pensioner up to the time of his decease, of the United States, under the act of June 7. 1812, at the rate of three hundred and twenty dollars per annum - or thereabouts 4. That the said Samuel Campfield left two surviving children, and no more to wit, Cornelia Camp the wife of General Camp Esq. and Mary S. Campfield, who both now reside in said Chatham -
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Chatham aforesaid this 11 th day of June A D 1841 - Richard Smith - Clerk,

Sir we accede to your allowance for supporting the church and effecting the allowance thereof, and herewith forward the evidence you wrote for and hope you will be successful in obtaining it yours truly J. Camp.
Stamps Jan 12 1872

October 14, 1938
Mrs. R. M. Fessenden 1383 Edgecliffe Drive Los Angeles, California
BA-J/AWF Samuel Canfield S. 15772
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request information in regard to Samuel Canfield, born 1734, Lieutenant Colonel in the Connecticut Militia, War of the Revolution, and also, Samuel Canfield, whose pension claim was S. 15772.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.15772, based upon the military service of Samuel Canfield in the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the only Samuel Canfield found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Samuel Canfield was born January 31, 1755 or 1756 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not stated; he was living in New Milford, with his father during the Revolution.
Samuel Canfield enlisted May 1, 1775, served as private and sergeant in Captain Josiah Starr's company in Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Connecticut regiment, marched to Canada, was in the Siege of St. Johns, where he was wounded in the right hand, after the surrender of St. Johns, went on the Montreal, was at the surrender there, and was discharged in the month of March, 1776, and returned to New Milford. He enlisted sometime in May, 1776, served

as sergeant major in Captain Reuben Bostwick's company in Colonel Gold Sellick Silliman's Connecticut regiment, was in the battle of "Flat Bush", in the retreat "out of New York," in the battle of Throg's Neck and battle of White Plains, and was discharged after the British were taken at Trenton. He enlisted sometime in March, 1777, served as sergeant under Lieutenant Augustine Taylor in Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regiment, was on the alarm at the time Danbury was burnt, after which was a guard to the Continental Stores in Sharon, and May 1, 1778, he was appointed Assistant Commissary of Issues, by Samuel Gray, Deputy Commissary General of Issues, served in this capacity until discharged April 11, 1780.
This soldier was referred to during the Revolution as Samuel Canfield, Junior.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1821, at which time he was living in Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
He died October 1, 1837, leaving no widow. The name of his wife was not given, nor are there any data in this claim relative to her.
The following were the surviving children of Samuel Canfield, in 1841- Jay S. Canfield, and Cornelia Camp, wife of Israel Camp; they were all residents then of Sharon, Connecticut.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

P 15772
1938-Oct 14. list to Mrs. B. M. Fessenden and
INVALID.
File No. 15772
Samuel Comfield
Abt 6m Rev Mr
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Samuel Canfield, dec d . who was Dep ty Company Genl. of Issues.
Increase from $313:66 to $586:26 per annum, payable to his children Cornelia Camp, wife of Israel Camp, and Jay S. Canfield. from 4 March 1831 to Oct. 1. 1837, when Sam t . Can- field died.
Send Cert: to A. Ray Present

19. 228 R
Connecticut
Samuel Canfield
of Litchfield Co in the state of Conn who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Sayre of the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Swift in the Conn line, for the term of one year 1777. & Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12th of March 1824
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Apr 1824 and Tratto Bentley, A. Sterling House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Jan 1825 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Sep 1824 $46. 23
$ 46. 22
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
March 1. 1823

Connecticut. 27956
Samuel Canfield of Litchfield in the State of Conn. who was a Vet. Dist. Comr. in the Conn. Assns commanded by Captain Taylor of the Reg't commanded by A. T. Smith in the Conn. Assn. line for 23 m. 19 days asst. Cont. Issued 19 " per 24 months — comm. and Continental and
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of $13 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Sept. 34 and sent Mrs. M. Burroughs South Canaan — Conn.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 34 1098.81 Semi-ann. allowance ending Decr 35 156.83 $1254.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Litchfield - Clerk, Book E2 — Vol. 3 Page 8

To what time was Samuel Canfield, of Connecticut, Act 7 June 1832, last paid?
J. L. Edwards
Bills 1 st Oct 1837 paid to that period Oct. 7. 1841 JH

State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield ss: Newmilford On the 31. st day of Decem r . 1825 Before me the Subscriber a Justice of Peace for the s d County of Litchfield Personally came Elisha Bostwick to me well known & by me deemed to be a credible witness; and being duly sworn saith that he well knows Col o Samuel Mansfield of Sharon & remembers that he was in service in the revolutionary Army a considerable part of the time; but the particulars of the service he cannot at this distance of time take upon himself to specify. —
Elisha Bostwick.
Sworn before me this 31 st day of Decem r 1825

Sur. File 15772 Samuel Banfield
6 orders 1 abstract of provisions 4 receipts have been removed from this case for the purpose of being for- warded to the War Department
AW.
Feby 2. 09
Sent to War Dept. Jany 16, 1913.

India April 11. 1880
Dear Sir,
I have received orders from the Commissary General to break up the Grain Store in Sharon - you are therefore on the receipt of this note, you are to consider yourself discharged from the Department - The stores you have on hand are to be delivered at your next Accounts since the for- instant - Also send in with Estimate Your Res. Servants
John North D.D.
Samuel Canfield Esq. Abd

in Gray's Bay I do not like the Mississippi -
Samuel Schofield 8 Mile 15, 7th, Conn.
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

Windham May 1. 1778
Relying on your Honesty, Fidelity & Attachment to the Cause we are engaged in, you are appointed an Assistant Commissary of Issues, Ordered and Directed to take under your care & direction the Magazine, & Issue store at Sharon in the State of Connecticut, & Issue to the Troops in the Continental service from time to time as will be necessary, taking for your general rule & guide the regulations of Congress regulating the Commissary Department And this shall be your sufficient Warrant
From your Obedient Servt
Sam Gray Comd Genl Issues
to Mr Sam Canfield Esq

I Elijah Wood of Sharon depose and say that some time during the revolutionary war, and according to my best recollection in the year 1777, I was employed by the Agents of the United States as a Carpenter, to build an addition to the building in the town of Sharon  which  an which was deposited the stores of provisions &c. for the use of the United States and while I was employed at said building I well remember that Samuel Banfield commanded the guard for said stores which guard was a detachment from Col. Heman Swift's Regiment and I also well remember seeing said Banfield with said guard at different times through that season and for nearly one year.
I further say that one Watkin Yale was then a Continental Soldier and served in said Sharon as one of the guard aforesaid under said Banfield and has since obtained a pension under the act of Congress.
Elijah Wood
Litchfield County ss Sharon March 9 th 1824
Personally appeared Elijah Wood subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same - and I further certify that said Wood is personally known to me and that he is a very credible man.
Samuel Rootswell Justice of Peace -

Oliver Yale of Sharon of the age of seventy five years deposes and says that in the year 1777. her late husband Wait Still Yale was then a soldier in the army of the revolution of the United States and was stationed at Sharon for nearly a year and before his death he obtained his pension under the act of congress for revolutionary services and the said Deposition further states that while her said husband was stationed in Sharon as a for- to guard United States Stores. the guard was under the command or direction of Samuel Confield now of said Sharon. And my opinion is that my said husband's said confided letter belonged to the fragment commanded by Lieut. Heman Swift
Oliver his X Yale member
Seth Field County Sp. Sharon Nov 23 d 1821. Personally appeared Oliver Yale & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition. & I further certify that said Oliver is personally known to me & that she is a woman of credibility Israel Sterling Just of Peace

Sylvanus Gibbs of Sharon depose and says that in the time of the revolutionary war and as he believes in the year 1777 there was a considera- ble alarm from an apprehension that the Stores belonging to the United States in the town of Sharon would be destroyed by the enemy The Tories in the State of New York had it was said threatened their destruction and had in fact collected in considerable numbers say one hundred and fifty or more at the distance of about 16 miles from said Stores and erected a temporary breast work of rails and the deponent further states that he was one of a detachment of Militia that went and dispersed them and it is his impres- sion that this was about the time that the Enemy went up the North River and burnt Esopus - In consequence of this alarm Application was made to the commanding officers of the Militia in the town of Sharon for a patrol guard in addition to the conti- nental guard that was then stationed here to protect said Stores and further that he the deponent was one that performed the duty of a patrol guard for several weeks and while performing said duty he well remembers that Samuel Canfield of Sharon was one of the Continental guard at said Stores - Sylvanus Gibbs

Litchfield County Ct. Sharon March 12 th 1824 Sylvanus Gibbs Personally appeared subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that the said Gibbs is personally known to me and is a credible man.
Samuel Rockwell Justice of Peace
Sylvanus Gibbs Deposition

State of Connecticut County of Litchfield ss Court of Probate District of Sharon
At a Court of Probate held at Canaan within and for the District of Sharon on the 11 th day of September A.D. 1834. Resent Wm M Burrall Esq Judge
Personally appeared in open Court Samuel Canfield of Sharon in said District, County & State, known to this Court to be the same Samuel Canfield who made a declaration for a pension before this Court on the 25 th day of June 1834. which declaration is hereto annexed, who being first duly sworn according to Law, deposes & says. I am the same Samuel Canfield named in an original pension certificate, now exhibited to this Court and hereto annexed, which said pension I received for my services in the Revolutionary army, under the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818, May 7 th 1820 and March 3 rd 1822 And I do now hereby relinquish and discharge all claims to the said pension granted to me by said certificate, and to any and all other pensions or annuities from the United States, except the one which I claim for services stated in the annexed declaration as an assistant commissary of issues. For which said services I desire to be placed on the pension list of the United States
Samuel Canfield
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
William M. Burrall Judge of Probate
I William P Burrall Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Sharon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Original and Supplementary application and declaration of Samuel Canfield for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11 th day of September A.D. 1834
Wm P Burrall Clerk

Samuel Canfield
Return to be directed to Wm P Burrall Clerk of Probate South Canaan
65

Payable on the 4th March and 4th September, every Year, by the President of the United States Branch Bank, at Middletown, Conn.
The first Payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept.
1824.
Recorded by J. N. Henshaw Clerk in Book B, Vol. 3 page 63.
Examined and Countersigned by
J. L. Edwards

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, May 1 st 1820, & March 1 st 1823, Samuel Canfield late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States,
this Second day of
April one thousand eight
hundred and twenty four.
J. C. Calhoun
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Capt.

Lieut David Smiths Comp. of Infantry -
Colo Herman Swifts Regiment -
Resided in Sharon since 1780.
Previous, resided in New Milford -

State of Connecticut } p Court of Probate district of County of Litchfield } Sharon
On this 25 th day of June A D 1834, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, holding at Canaan within and for the district of Sharon, the same being a Court of records, and now sitting. Samuel Canfield, a resident of Sharon in said district County and State, aged seventy eight years, on the thirty first day of January 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 of the 7 th of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein sta- ted. to wit
I was born in the Town of New Milford, in Litchfield County on the thirty first day of January A D 1755, where I continued to reside with my father till I was about twenty years old, when I removed to said Sharon, where I have continued to reside till the present time.
On or about the first day of May 1775 I enlisted into a Company of State Troops commanded by Cap t Josiah Starr in Col l Benjamin Hinmans Regiment, and for some afterwards, we were marched to the Northward and went to Scanderoga, and from thence to St Johns, which was taken from thence I was at the taking of Montreal. From thence

We were marched to La Prairie, where we remained untill we were regularly discharged, and returned to new Milford. In May 1776. I enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt Reuben Bostwick, in Col Gold S. Silliman Regiment, while in this Company I was at Long Island at the battle at Flatbush, and White Plains, and continued in the service till after the Battle of Trenton, when I was discharged. In the month of March 1777. I entered the service, in a Regiment commanded by Col Heman Swift, under Lieut. Augustus Taylor. We marched to Danbury, where that place was burnt. From thence we marched to Pockskill & from that place a guard was detached from Col Swifts, and Col Bradlys Regiments, of which I was one to Guard the United States Stores at Sharon aforesaid I continued here till about the 1 st of March 1778. when we again joined our regiments and I continued with the Regiment till I was discharged on being appointed an assistant Commissary as herein after mentioned. For this last service I now draw a pension from the United States of Eight dollars per month, under the Law of 1818.
On the first day of May 1778 I was appointed an Assistant Commissary of in the middle department Issues, by Samuel Gray, Esq then Deputy Commissary General of Issues, and was then ordered to take charge of the Continental magazine, there at Sharon aforesaid, and to issue provisions, and perform the other duties of that office at that place. I remained at said Sharon and continued to execute the duties and retain the appointment of Assistant Commissary of Issues, till sometime

in the months of June or July in the year 1880. when the Continental Stores were removed from that place. I am not able to state positively as to the precise time but of when the stores were removed, but am positive that it was after the month of May 1880
I received a commission as Assistant Commissary of Quarters for the middle department, from the said Samuel Gray and retained the same in my possession till the time that I made application for a pension which I now draw, and I had also a discharge from said Office at the same time. At that time I sent said Commission and discharge to Mr -el Sterling Esq then a member of congress from this County to be presented to the War Department, with my application for a pension. I called on Mr Sterling for them and he thinks he presented them to the Department. I have never seen them since that time, and they are either among the papers in the Department or are lost. I have several receipts and letters from the said Gray and other persons, which are evidence in support of my said services which are hereto annexed
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present which I claim for my services as assistant Commissary of Quarters, and I declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any State only on that of the agency of the State of Connecticut.
Samuel Garfield
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William M. Burrall. Judge of Probate

And this Court doth hereby declare its opinion that the within mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And this Court having examined the several written instruments herewith annexed and heard the evidence offered in support of the same, doth find that the several receipts and letters annexed to this declaration are genuine and original documents, and were written and executed at the time they purport to bear date and that they were signed by the several persons whose names are subscribed to the same. This Court doth therefore receive said several writings as evidence in support of this declaration of the applicant, and doth order the same to be annexed thereto. And this Court doth further certify that said Samuel Canfield is well known to this Court and is a man of highly respectable character and is a credible witness.
William M. Burrall. Judge of Probate
I, William P. Burrall, Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Sharon and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Canfield for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25 th day of June 1834.
William P. Burrall Clerk

John Camp formerly of New Milford but now of Sharon in the County of Litchfield deposeth and saith that he is now and has been for fifty seven years last past well ac- quainted with Samuel Lanfield formerly of said New- Milford but now of said Sharon and that he is well knowing and fully acquainted with the fact that said Lanfield in the year 1777 enlisted and served in the Continental Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift and that he well remembers seeing him march from said New Milford in the Spring of 1777 with part of said Regiment. The deponent further says that he was knowing to the said Lanfield serving in said Regiment till the first of May 1778 — and a part of said time was with the Continental guard at Sharon John Camp
Litchfield County ss Sharon March 12 th 1824
Personally appeared John Camp and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Samuel Root well Justice of Peace

Mr Hon J. C.
recd April 1824
32 009 Samuel Canfield Pm 31.515
lymate 19 deep assistant at Com 9 d yres 23 m 11 d y
$313.66 the dropped from act of 1818
H. M. Burrall South Canaan Cl
S.

It of the March 30 th 1824,
Sir
I herewith transmit the paper & application of Col. Sam d Langfield for a pension. He is a person with whom I have long been acquainted & a man of unpeachable integrity & extremely poor. His services in the revolutionary war unquestionably he has complied as far as possible with the requisitions of the several directions of the Department the notices that support his services. I am personally acquainted with & know them to be credible. I indulge the hope that his application may be successful because I know his poverty & worth & doubt not that he has performed all the requisites since given very respectfully
A. Shelburne
W th S r P. Calhoun
W th L. say they are credible

Washington Sep. 26. 1841.
Sir
I enclose you a declaration made by the representatives of the late Sam l Canfield of Connecticut, who during his life time was a pensioner under the act June 7. 1832. at the rate of $320 per annim. as an assistant commissary of stores. The heirs now claim an increase of pension from the 4th March 1831 to the 1 st Oct 1837.
I am very respectfully Your Most-Ob d Serv t . Alex. Ray.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Pensions.

MRS. R. M. FESSENDEN
1383 EDGECLIFFE DR.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Pension Office Revolutionary Records Washington D.C.
Will you kindly send me the Rev. record of Samuel Canfield which is "application no. S 15772 "
Also, have you any information regarding his family--name of wife--parents &c which you could give me ?
Thanking you
Oct 5/38
Evelyn C. Fessenden Evelyn Canfield Fessenden

Pension Bureau Revolutionary Records
Could you send me the record of a pension applied for by either
Samuel Canfield born 1734 or his wife
Mehitabel Stilson Canfield married Sept. 9-1760
Samuel served as a Lieu Col. of Connecticut Militia A battalion of which he was Lieu. Colonel was ordered raised by the General Assembly in Nov. 1776 to serve near New York until Mar. 15-1777 1777
Thanking you
Evelyn Canfield Fessenden
Sept 9/38
Evelyn Canfield Fessenden

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Canfield, Timothy GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 6953 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 16, 1792 to Ebenezer Purdy, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.