Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15752, Abisha Blodgett, Conn. U.S.Army(1785)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. U.S. Army (1785)
Blodgett, Abisha
S. 15752.
CONTENTS
carded

Virginia 23.511
Christian Blockett of Ohio — in the State of Va
who was a Private in the Regt commanded by Captain — of the Regt commanded by Col Shuman in the Cont line for 1 months — and W.S.W. 1785-88 aw
Set. Agt: July 14 31. pay annuall a Colk  et  a —
Set to C.S. Morgan Esq: May 5. 1836 do to Agent at Richmond May 5. 1836 do to Agents Wheeling 21. April 1837.
Dr. to Wm Thompson March 31 49
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 60 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Feb and Sub  Spring & Jacob Winning — 15  11
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 150 Semi-ant. allowance ending Feb 30
$150-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Chath  Recd — Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 6 1/2 Page 3 —

Charles Blodgett 29.379
on the last rolls..
Admit a partial 18 mo. photo-

State of Virginia } S.S.
County of Ohio }
On this 2 nd day of December 1833, personally appeared in Open Court before the County Court for Ohio County now sitting, Abisha Bradgett, a resident of the County of Ohio, aged seventy years on the 24 th day of November 1833; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of July in the year 1781 at the town of Stafford, County of Tolland and State of Connecticut as a private soldier, for the term of one year, and served for the said term of one year in the 8 th Company of the 5 th Regiment of the Connecticut line under the following named Officers, viz. Colonel Isaac Shearman, Majors Troop and Smith, Captain Sill, Lieutenant Eben Sanderson, and Ensign Hoag; that he marched to the White Plains in the State of New York, and then to the Highlands of York where he was discharged in July 1782. By Colonel Isaac Shearman; at which time he enlisted again as a private soldier for the term of six months, and served the said term of six months in the same Company and Regiment, under the same Officers as above stated; that he was in one small skirmish at Bedford meadows, and in three small skirmishes on Crotons River, but was in no large battles and was discharged at the expiration of said six months enlistment at Westpoint. And that he also enlisted in the City of New York on the 4 th day of July 1785 as a private soldier in the Artillery in Colonel Harmers Regiment for the term of three years two years of which time he served as a private soldier, and one year as a sergeant, under the following named officers viz. Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer, Captain John Daughty, Lieutenants James Bradford and John Smith; that he sailed from New York to New Windsor, then marched through New Jersey to Lancaster in Pennsylvania, then to Pittsburgh then to the mouth of the Muskingum River, that he assisted in building Fort Harmer (now Marietta) that while stationed at Fort Harmer he served occasionally on several commands on the Ohio River, and served at one time on a command to the Falls of Ohio, and was discharged at Fort Harmer on the 5 th day of July 1788 by Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer. He states that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can produce, who can testify to his services; and that after he was discharged that he resided for some time in the State of New York and for some years in the State of Pennsylvania.

from thence he removed to Ohio County in Virginia where he has resided for more than thirty years and where he now resides. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nishe Blodgett
To the interrogatories put to him by the Court according to the rules and regulations of the War department he answers as follows.
To the first interrogatory he answers, He was born in the Town of Stafford County of Tolland and State of Connecticut on the 24 th day of November 1763.
To the 2 nd question he answers. That he has no written record or registry of his age.
To the 3 rd question he answers. He was living at said town of Stafford in said State of Connecticut when he was called into service, as he has above stated in his declaration, and that since that time he has lived and now lives as he has above stated in his declaration.
To the 4 th question he answers, He was called into service as he has above in his declaration stated and set forth.
To the 5 th question he answers. That he recollects the names of the officers and circumstances incident to and attending his said services as he has above detailed and set forth in his said declaration.
To the 6 th question he answers, That at the expiration of his first term of Enlistment he received a written discharge at the Highlands of York signed by Colonel Isaac Shearman, and at the expiration of his 2 nd term of service he received a written discharge at West-point but by whom it was signed he cannot recollect. And at the expiration of his 3 rd term of enlistment, he received a written discharge at Fort Harmer.

signed by Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer and that said discharges are now all lost and he knows not where they are
To the 7 th question he answers he is known to the Reverend James Foster Rev. Edward Dowler Captain James Ewing Lewis Bonnett Esq. Samuel Howard Esq. and Jacob Keller who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his Revolutionary services
We Edward Dowler a Clergyman residing in Ohio County aforesaid and Samuel Howard a Justice of the Peace for said County of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nlisha Blodgett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is a man of truth and veracity and worthy of full credit and belief and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed The day and year aforesaid in Ohio Court List
Edward Dowler S. Howard
John McCulloche Clerk
State of Virginia Ohio County to At a Court held for Ohio County on the 2 nd day of December 1833 Nlisha Blodgett for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution came into Court and made his declaration in the words following as aforesaid together with the certificate of Edward Dowler and Samuel Howard which the Court ordains to be certified according to the instructions from the War Department and the Court does hereby declare its opinion after hearing the interrogations presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and serves as he states and the Court further certifies that Edward Dowler and Samuel Howard who have also signed the same are residents of the said County and are credible persons and their said statements are entitled to credit and everything of belief in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 2 nd day of December A.D. 1833
John McCulloche Clerk

December 14, 1932
Mrs. Julia D. McCracken Box 52 Cameron West Virginia
Abisha Blodgett S. 15752 BA-J/MCS
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of December 5, 1932, requesting information in regard to Abisha Blodgett, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 15752, based upon the military service of Abisha Blodgett, the only soldier by that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He was born November 24, 1763, in Stafford, Tolland County, Connecticut.
While living there he enlisted in July, 1781, and served one year as private in Captain Sill's Company in Colonel Isaac Sherman's Connecticut Regiment. He enlisted in July, 1782, and served six months as private in the same company and regiment as the first enlistment. He was in a skirmish at Bedford Meadows and in three skirmishes on Croton River. He enlisted in New York City July 4, 1785, and served two years as private and one year as sergeant in the Artillery of the United States Army in Captain John Doughty's Company in Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmar's Regiment; he marched to the mouth of the Muskingum River and aided in building Fort Harmar (which was later called Marietta) and was discharged July 5, 1788, at Fort Harmar.
After this service he lived in New York State, from there he moved to Pennsylvania and from there to Ohio County, Virginia.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December 2, 1833, at which time he was living in Ohio County, Virginia.
In 1837 he was living in Marshall County, Virginia.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.
This soldier's pension certificate number is 23511 and his file number is 15752 and all the information contained in your letter of December 5, 1932, pertains to this Abisha Blodgett.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
Soldier's death not in Agency Book

North Western Bank of Co March 2 nd 1837
J. S. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions
Dear Sir
Yours of the 22 nd inst has been received and shall have attention. Agreeably to the instructions contained in that letter respecting Pensions claimed for a period longer than 6 months I herewith transmit you the Vouchers of David Bailey of Guernsey county Ohio, a pensioner under the Act of June 7 th 1832. Claiming his pension for one year, up to 4 March 1837.
Also that of Abisha Blodgett of Marshall county Virginia, act of June 1832. Claiming his pension for one year up to 4 th March 1837. - Shall I pay these pensions for the time claimed on the Vouchers which have been produced.
I am yours respectfully
Arch d Hovey
John J. Brown Pension Agt
John Brown 4 th - has requested me to call your attention to his request to be transferred to the Roll of this agency.
H. Alwoods pr. J. S. Brown

House Reps. Feb. 26 th 1849.
Sir:
I have the honor to forward you the inclosed letter, and desire you to favor me with such information responsive to it as may be in your power
Respectfully Yours
Wm Thompson
Jas L Edwards Com Pensions

Wm A Rudy Abner Blodgett various
John J. Rogers Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City.
Ans. 5. May 1836

J. L. Edwards
Sir,
Will you please order the payment of the within pension, the having stood over two years. Yours at servt.
C. S. Morgan
Richmond Va. April 23 d 1835.

Wheeling Dec. 18-1887
Sir,
Enclosed is the declaration of Abner Bludgett to make to obtain a pension de. It will be seen that his whole services were not during the Revolutionary war. But that he served 18 months during that war de
We know Bludgett to be an honest & worthy old man
Thos G. Lavelle Attorneys

Abishai Bridgett. Paulina. Ohio etc -

Abisha Blodgett. Second trip down.
I the undersigned Abisha Blodgett, in pursuance of the requisition of the Secretary, give the following narrative of my services as a Private in the war of the Rebel. and statement of my age - to wit, I shall be seventy two years old the 24 th inst. next - I am a native of Holland City Connecticut. Resided there during the war of the Rebel. I came to this region of country about 39 years ago. - In my sixteenth year of age, and in the same year in which Cornwallis and his army were captured at Yorktown Virginia, I enlisted in Stafford Township Connecticut. under Lieutenant and Cornet for one year, was marched to White Plains and attached to Capt. Dill's company, Col. Isaac Sherman's Regt. of Infantry, Major Troop's Battalion. My Lieutenant's name was Reuben Sanders. my Fusilier's name was Hoyt - there were several Regts. at White Plains. cant say who commanded the Station - I was attached to Genl. Paton's Brigade - I enlisted in July. remained at White Plains until fall, when my Regt. with few others, went to the highlands of York and there wintered - in the Spring a detachment of men including my Regt. were sent up to the Fish Kill & Newburgh quarters, remained there awhile and returned to the Highlands of York, when my time expired I was discharged and returned home. I got hired in July, and in same month enlisted again for six months, returned to the Highlands of York and was attached to the same company and Regiment, in which I had before served, remained there about one month, when the Continental Line (the 5 th Regt., and some other Regts.) were marched to New Paltz Point where Genl. Washington's Head Quarters was - in October myself with others, were put on a fatigue party, to cut Timber to repair Boston Hospital. whilst in the Service (about one month) I was under the command of Capt. Kimbley. - we then returned to New Windsor Hospital to repair it, and chop wood for the army at that Point. the work thus cut was burnt down the River.

W. G. Livingston July 4. 1835.

Cameron, W. Va. Dec., 5, 1932
Pension Bureau, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
From the Records Division, General Accounting Office I have the following information concerning Abisha Blodgett, a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, Certificate #23511, Virginia Agency. That he died April 15, 1840, in the County of Marshall, in the State of West Virginia, and left surviving Hannah Blodgett, widow. The arrears of pension due the deceased pensioner at date of death were paid to Benjamin Blodgett, at Wheeling, W. Va., on April 22, 1840, as attorney for the widow.
I am informed by the State Librarian at Hartford Conn., from the Supplementary index to Revolutionary Manuscripts: "Blodget, Abisha, soldier, Conn. & U.S.A., pension No. S 15752; application on file in Pension Office, Washington, D.C., under that number,-----Draper's Index of Conn. Pensioners, p. 67"
West Virginia State Archives page 100 (Third Biennial Report) states that the Abisha Blodget referred to in the first paragraph of this letter was a private in the Connecticut Continental line and the information given me by the General Accounting Office and the Connecticut State Librarian were both in answer to an inquiry regarding the Soldier whose record I found in the West Virginia Archives. Can you tell me why there would be two different Pension Numbers for the same man or if these two men are identical? Have you any record of his marriage date or the names of any of his children? The above mentioned Benjamin Blodgett who was attorney for the widow was a son.
I shall appreciate any information you may give me. Very truly yours,
Mrs Julia Drake McCracken Mrs. Julia Drake McCracken
Box 52, Cameron, W. Va.