Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1659, Philo Canfield, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Banfield, Philo Mary T.
NUMBER
TR 1659
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SERVICE
Conn.
Canfield, Philo Mary T.
NUMBER
TR 1659
CONTENTS
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New York  Transferred to  Connecticut.
Philo Canfield,  Colo Canfield  Con te Troops  Sergeant  Revolutionary War  In the army of the Revolution.
Inscribed on the roll of New York at $2 increased to $3.75 per mo. by the act of the 21 st of April 1816. - Transferred on the 30 th Sep r 1820, to the roll of Connecticut to take effect from the 1 st of Sep r 1820, - Increased by the Rec d of War on the 30 th Sep r 1820 under the law of the 10 th April 1806 and the Act of supplementary thereto, to $6 per mo: to commence on the 1 st of August, 1820. - -
Certificate issued 30 th Sep r 1820 Issued to the care of Ephraim W. Sherman, Esq r Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Difference between original & increased allowance from 1 st Aug t 1820 to 4 th Sep r 1820. . . . . $1.99 Am t at increased all o for 6 mo s ending 4 March, 1820. . . . . $36.-  $37.99
31 13 18 280 1440 36 31 | 5040 | 162 31 194 186 80
6 320 2.80

Philo Canfield came before me one of the Justices of the Court of Ritzfield in the State of Connecticut & made oath that he is the same Philo Canfield to whom the original certif- -icate in his possession was given of which the following is a copy viz. By Richard Varick & Richard Platt of the City of New York Esquires
This is to certify that in pursuance of the Law of the State of New York entitled An Act making Provision for Officers Soldiers & Seamen, Who have been disabled in the service of the United States, passed the 22 of April 1786. We have examined Philo Canfield of Hents Parish in Southeast Precinct in the County of Dutchess, Farmer & find that during the late War he was a Serjeant of Capt James Stockdam Company in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops in the service of the United States commanded by Lieut Col Samuel Canfield, That on the twenty fourth day of May in the year One Thousand seven hundred & eighty two he was ordered out under the Command of Lieut Josiah Smith of the same Regt with a party from Stamford to East Chester in the County of West Chester to discover the Movement of the Enemy & to intercept supplies of Cattle which might be sent into them; That on the twenty seventh day of May in the same year the party under the Command of Lieut Smith was attacked by a detachment of Col McHenry's Reg- -iment of the Enemy & the whole party except one man killed, wounded or taken Prisoners, That he received a Musket shot wound through the right side of his right knee by means whereof he is in some measure disabled

from obtaining his livelihood by labor, That on the thirteen day of June last he was twenty six years of age; Wherefore in pursuance of the Law aforesaid We do further certify that upon the Principles of the Act of Congress of the seventh day of June 1785 the said Philo Canfield is enti- -tled to receive from the Treasure of this State a yearly Pension of twenty four dollars from the first day of March in the Year one thousand seven hundred & eighty three if not before paid
Given under our hands this thirtieth day of May 1788
Richard Varick _____ Richard Platt _____
And that he served as a Serjeant in the Company of Capt James Stoddard in Col Samuel Canfield's Regiment of Connecticut State Troops in the service of the United States at the time he was disabled & that he now resides in the Town of New Milford & County of Litchfield & has resided there for the last Nine Years previous to which he resided in said South East Forecinct Sworn before me
April the 12 th 1803
Danl Everit Just Peace

I Philo Canfield of New Milford in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby constitute & appoint Asahel Canfield of said New Mil- ford my Lawful Attorney to receive in my behalf of the Commissioners of Loans for the State of New York my Pension for twelve months as an Invalid of the United States from the fourth day of March 1802 & ending the fourth day of March 1803 signed & sealed the
Presence of Hew Mahon Irancia Everit
Philo Canfield
Litchfield County, ss. New Milford April 12 th 1803 Personally appeared Philo Canfield signer & Sealer of the above power of Attorney & ack- nowledge the same to be his act & deed before me
Danl Everit Just Peace

I Philo Canfield of New Milford in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby constitute & appoint Asker Canfield of said New Milford my Lawful Attorney to receive in my behalf of the Commissioners of Loans for the State of New York my Pension for twelve months as an Invalid of the United States from the fourth day of March 1802 & ending the fourth day of March 1803 signed & sealed the
Presence of Hew Mahon Ivania Everit
Philo Canfield
Litchfield County, ss. New Milford April 12 th 1803 Personally appeared Philo Canfield signer & Sealer of the above Power of Attorney & ac- knowledge the same to be his act & deed before me
Danl Everit Just Peace

State of New York
City and County of New York Sp: On this ninth day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before us the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York, Mary P. Canfield of said City who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed the seventh day of July in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight entitled 'an act granting halfpay, and pensions to certain widows' - That she is the widow of Philo Canfield, late of New Milford Litchfield County, Connecticut deceased & that as this deponent always understood from the said Philo Canfield, that during the war of the Revolution the said Philo Canfield was a Private Soldier, holding no rank, but in addition to his usual duties he was sent upon express, and aided in obtaining provisions. That deponent does not know the time when he entered the service, nor the time when he left it. That he was under one engagement only, and it was in this one that he received the wound which led to his leaving the service. That in a skirmish near Horseneck, he was wounded in the knee, by a musket ball, and taken prisoner by the British, who took him to the house

of Doctor Bailey, when Doctor Bailey's son cut out the Ball - That the rest of the persons taken prisoners at the same time were carried into the City of New York. That Doctor Bailey being well acquainted with said Philo Canfield's Father, procured him to be paroled, and after staying at the Doctor's house for three or four weeks he returned home. That the said Philo Can- field was under his Father Colonel Samuel Canfield, and deponent has heard him mention Lieutenant Smith as having been with him; but deponent does not know the names of any other persons he was under, or the regiment, Company or Corps he was in. That when he entered the service he resided at New Milford Litchfield County Connecticut, and he entered the Militia as a volunteer not having been drafted and not as a substitute. That the only battle she knows him to have been engaged in was the skirmish in which he was wounded. That he served on the lines towards the City of New York, through West Chester, East Chester, Horseneck, Greenwich, Rye, and White Plains. That for his wound in his knee he received a pension which at first was twenty five Dollars a year, and was afterwards raised and at his death was seventy Dollars a year. She was further declares that she was married to the said Philo Canfield on the night before the New Years of the year One thousand seven

hundred and eighty three - That in those times some people commenced the day at the sunset of the preceding day, and by that means her marriage was entered in the town Records, as having taken place on the first day of January in the said year, and that her husband died on the tenth day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven - That deponent is certain this was the day as it was her birth day - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January One thousand seven hundred and ninety four - namely at the time above stated, and deponent has no documentary evidence of her claim except what is herewith furnished -
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written } Mary P. Canfield before us. in open Court.
M c Alshorst
W. Judge D. P. Ingraham A private Judge

"Philo Canfield & Mary P. Clark were married on the first day of January seven- -teen hundred Eighty three"
"Mr. Philo Canfield deceased on the 11 th day of March 1827- aged"——
I Joel W. Northrop Clerk of the town of New Milford in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "On 3 rd 1 st day of Jany 1783"
Joel W. Northrop
I Joel W. Northrop above named do hereby certify that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the County, town and State aforesaid and that the above are true extracts from the records of said town of New Milford with the exception above named as cer- tified by me
Joel W. Northrop Clerk of said Town of New Milford
State of Connecticut
Probate District of New Milford ss.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court before the Court of Probate for said District this 1 st day of December 1838
Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court

I Noble S. Bennett Clerk of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in taking the affidavits of Nathan Confield and Joel M. Northrop - In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 1 st day of December A.D. 1838
Noble S. Bennett Clerk

I Nathan, Confied of New Milford County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut aged Twenty four years, being first duly sworn according to Law, dispose and say that I am the Son of Col. Samuel Confied late of New Milford dec'd & brother of Philo Confied late of said New Milford dec'd. That about the first of March in the year 1782 my brother the said Philo Confied entered the service of the United States in a Company of Connecticut State Troops commanded by my said father Col. Samuel Confied Capt James Stoddard in the Regiment Com- -manded by my said father Col. Samuel Confied and continued in the same till some time in the month of April of the next year 1783, he was stationed at the Fort in Green- -wich & continued there & in that vicinity during the whole of this service being at least a year & one month - I will recollect that my said brother came home in July 1782 in haying time and staid a short time and returned again to the service. He was wound- -ed in the knee by a musket ball in a skirmish with the enemy in May 1782. He returned home again & staid a short time in

the fall of the year 1862 at Thanksgiving & after a visit of a few days returned again into the service. I was not with him in the service but was living at home at that time in my father's family and understood at the time the facts about his service about as well as I should if I had been with him - My brother came home at different times after provisions for the troops - and I recall at one time in particular he came home & purchased 12 or 15 cows & drove them down for provisions for the troops at the request of the Commander of the Regiment. Thomas Campfield
State of Connecticut County of Litchfield
County of Hampshire, Parish of New Milford.
Probate Petition of John Brown to and as described in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District this 1st day of December 1838 and I certify that the said Stephen Conquistador a Cred- -ible witness Nathaniel Perry Judge of Court

State of New York City and County of New York } On this ninth day of February in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before us the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York, James A. Platt of said City, Attorney at Law, aged twenty two years and upwards, Who being first duly sworn according to Law deposes, and says that he is the Grandson of Philo Canfield referred to in the foregoing deposition, that he well remembers the time of the death of the said Philo Canfield, that at the time of his death he left his Widow the said Mary P. Canfield - who has ever since remained, and now is a widow, never having been married since his death, and we certify that the said
James A. Platt is a creditable witness - Sworn to and subscribed on } James A. Platt the day and year above written }
before us, in open Court W. W. Woodhull W. Judson D. P. Ingraham Associate Justices

1659
REJECTED
P.O. Mary Garfield widow of Philo
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: No letters , 18 .
Notes: List of suspended claims printed in 1852 shows cause
Reason listed: of suspension as follows: "Not six months' service."
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

To Hon S d Edwards Com d of Pensions Sir as one of the children of Philo Canfield late an invalid pensioner of the United States of the State of Connecticut, & his late wid- -ow Polly Canfield an applicant for a pension from the State of New York, have appointed Arad Joy of Ovid the agent for the surviving children of the said parties - Dated Buffalo June 9. 1847 Davis Northrop

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
Subscribed County of Litchfield
ss.
On this 7 th day of August 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Litchfield personally appeared Philo Canfield who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain James Stoddard in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sam. Canfield in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has since  lately removed; that he now resides in the state ( district, or territory ) of Connecticut where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Philo Canfield
Sworn and subscribed to, before } me, the day and year aforesaid. }
David S. Brainerd J. H. Hovey
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that
David S. Boardman, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within said County legally commissioned & qualified, that his name sub- scribed to the preceding Certificate and also to the Certificate on the sheet to which this is attached are his hand writing - & that the Seal hereto affixed is the Seal of said Court.
August 10 th A. D. 1820.
Frederick Wolcott

State of Connecticut Fairfield County -
ss; I David Burr of Fairfield, in the county of Fairfield, clerk of the county court or court of Common Pleas, within & for said county, do certify & make known that Ephraim W. Sherman Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county, duly commissioned with full power and Authority to administer Oaths, take Affidavits & do all other matters and things appertaining to the Office of a Justice of Peace within & for said county, and that full faith & credit, is, and ought to be given to his Official Acts and proceedings -
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said court, in said Fairfield this fourteenth day of August A. 1820. David Burr
Philo Canfield Aug. 23. 20 -

I Walter Booth of New Milford in Litchfield county & State of Connecticut aged fifty three years being first duly sworn accor- -ding to Law depose and say that I have been acquainted with Philo Can- -field late of said New Milford dec d from my youth to the time of his death that the said Philo Canfield died on the 11 th day of March 1827. I made a memorandum of his death at the time it happened - At the time of his death he left Mary P. Canfield his widow here surviving & she has re- -mained a widow ever since that period and still remains to the best of my knowledge & belief
Walter Booth
State of Connecticut,
County of Litchfield
Probate District of New Milford p
Sworn to and subscribed in open court before the Court of Probate for said District this 3 rd day of December 1838 and I certify that the said Walter Booth is a credible witness
Nathaniel Perry Judge of said Court

I Noble S. Bennitt Clerk of the said Court of Probate for said District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in taking the affidavit of Walter Booth
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 3 rd day of December 1838 / Noble S. Bennitt Clerk

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Joseph Morie, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York - do certify that the above revised Michael Wetmore and Sidney P. Jones have on the records of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York, that the said Court is a Court of Record, and that the above signatures are their hand writing, and that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Court in taking the declaration of the said Mary P. Cantrell and the deposition of the said James A. Platt.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal of the said Court, and County this Ninth day of February in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine -
Joseph Morie Clerk

Philo Canfield Inv.
Recd. 24 Aug. 1820
13 5/18 31 4/30
Pension to be increased & transferred after the 5 th Sept. 1820
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
  4.64   5.70    1.06   2    5.70  5  11.40    1.70   2.28    4.27      2.98    
$1.99 difference in the 4 th year

2/5 4/2 320/880 20/6 320/6
Have the goodness to enclose the returns, to your humble servant.
John N. Sherman
Bridgeport, 28 th Aug. 1820.
In conformity to the Act of the 10 th of April, 1805 & the act supplemental thereto, the allowance of the within named Pensioner is hereby authorized to be increased from $3. 20 / 100 to which his pension was raised by the Act of the 24 th of April 1816, to the rate of six dollars per month, to commence from the fourteenth day of August, 1820.
The name of this Pensioner has been this day transferred from the roll of New York to that of Penn ty to take effect from the 4 th of Sept r . 1820.

(June 21) 47 Relat o case of Polly Banfield dec d
Rev. J. L. Edwards Bapt ist Union Washington D.C.
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Ovid June 14th 1847
Sir
I enclose my agency in a pension case, & if I may be allowed, I would beg leave to ask a history of the state of the case — The case is Polly Canfield late of New York, & who died Oct '46 widow of Philo Canfield — If I may, I beg leave respectfully to ask how much service of the late husband is admitted, & whether the proof of the marriage is satisfactory, & finally what the objection is, to granting the pension
Respectfully Your Ob. d Servt Isaac Loys
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. d of Pensions Washington DC

Saturday Feby. 9. 1839.
To the commissioners of Pensions -
Sir
Enclose the within papers - If any return is made to them, please address
James A. Platt Att'y at Law 58. Broadway N. York.

(617) Philo Canfield Sergeant In the Rev. War
The Official character and signatures of the Magistrates before whom the affidavits of the examining surgeons or Physicians were made must be, properly authenticated, by the certificate of Clerk of the County Court with his seal of Office. —
It will be necessary for the party to send his origin- al certificate of pension to the War Dept. and if he intends to reside perma- nently in Connecticut to make an affidavit agree- ably to the enclosed form. as his name is not on the roll of that State. —
War Dept Pension Office July 29. 1820
Ephraim W. Sherman Esq. Bridgeport Conn.
410 0 0 a Rev. War Pension

To General Graves of New Bedford in the county of Dukesfield in the State of Comm- wealth and Nathan Tisdale of Stratford in the county of Fairfield in said State two respectable persons & Physicians
Greeting
I Richard Leonard do hereby certify that the district of Connecticut, being the same district in which Philo Banfield of said New Bedford, a person now already stands on the pension list of the United States, does hereby certify that strictly said Banfield is desirous that his pension should be increased, do hereby recommend and authorize you the said Graves & Tisdale to examine the said Banfield and to report your opinion in writing and on oath of the nature of the said Banfield's disability, and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor, which report you are to transmit to the Secretary for the Department of War

Given under my hand and seal at Shattord in D ist this 15 th day of December AD 1819 Isaac Rowland
I do hereby certify that in pursuance to the directions of the Honorable Gervasoni Coltswood District Judge of the State of Connecticut hereunto annexed, that I have examined into the case of Phoebe Confield now already placed on the pension list of the United States as in said directions set forth, and find him laboring under that State of debility occasioned by a hit ball passing through the right side of the right knee during the revolutionary war that he is unable to attend to his common avocations of life without much difficulty. and from the acquaintance that I have had with him the last seven years of his life I think that the debility occasioned has by the above mentioned wound has increased to a very great degree; and should give it as my opinion that he is able to do but a very little towards obtaining a subsistence by manual labor in consequence of said wound to wit not more than one quarter in Milford the 1 st of Dec 1820 Israel Graves

State of Connecticut County of Litchfield ss I David L. Boardman a Justice of Peace for said County do hereby certify that on this 27 th day of Jan y 1820, Personally appeared Israel Green whose name is subscribed to the preceding Certificate & made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me David L. Boardman
I do hereby certify that in pursuance of the direction of the Honorable Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the State of Connecticut, hereunto annexed, I have examined into the case of Philo Canfield, now placed on the pension list of the United States, as in said direction is set forth; and find him laboring under the a state of debility occasioned by a musket ball, passing through the right side of the right knee, during the revolutionary war; that he is unable to attend to his common avocations of life, without much difficulty: - and from the acquaintance I have had with him for some years past, I think that the disability occasioned by the aforesaid wound has increased in a very great degree: - and as I give it as my opinion, that he is able to do but a very little towards obtaining a subsistence by manual labor, in consequence of his disabili- -ty arising from said wound - it will not more than one quarter. —
Nathan Fisdale
Bridgewater 28 th January, 1820.

State of Connecticut, County of Fairfield, ss. I Ephraim W. Sherman, a Justice of the Peace for said County, do hereby certify, that on this 28 th day of January 1820, personally appeared Nathan Fisdale, a respectable Surgeon & Physician of said County, whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificate, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. — before me. —
Ephraim W. Sherman, Justice of Peace,

By Richard Harick & Richard Platt of the City of New York Esquires.
This is to certify that in Pursuance of the Law of the State of New York entitled "An Act making Provision for Officers Soldiers & Seamen who have been disabled in the Service of the United" Passed the 22 nd of April 1786 We have examined Philo Canfield of Kent's Parish in Southeast Precinct in the County of Dutchess Province & find that during the late War he was a Serjeant of Capt. James Stoddards Company in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops in the Service of the United States commanded by Lieut: Col: Sam l . Canfield; That on the twenty fourth Day of May in the Year one Thousand seven hundred and eighty two he was ordered out under the Com- =mand of Lieut: Josiah Smith of the same Regt. with a Party from Stamford to East Chester in the County of Westchester to discover the Movements of the Enemy & to intercept Supplies of Cattle which might be sent in to them; That on the twenty seventh Day of May in the same Year the Party under the Command of Lieut: Smith was attacked by a detachment of Col: DeLancey's Regi- =ment of the Enemy & the whole Party except one Man, killed, wounded or taken Prisoners; That he received a Musket Shot Wound thro' the right Side

of his right Knee by Means whereof he is in some Measure disabled from obtaining his Livelihood by Labor; That on the Thirteenth Day of June last he was twenty six Years of Age: Wherefore in Pursuance of the Law aforesaid We do further certify that upon the Principles of the Act of Congress of the seventh Day of June 1705 the said Philo Campfield is entitled to receive from the Treasurers of this State a yearly Pension of twenty four Dollars from the the first Day of March in the Year one thou- sand seven hundred and eighty three" if not before paid.
Given under our Hands this Thirtieth Day of May 1705.
Rich: Sarrick Rich: Platt