Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,937, Eliphalet Connor, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Connor, Eliphalet or Conner,
W. 18937
Hannah
CONTENTS

17.202 P.  New Hampshire
Eliphalet Connor
of Pembroke in the state of N. Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dearborn of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818, —
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of May 1820 and sent to Hall Burgess Esq. Pembroke, N. Hampshire,
Arrears to 4th of March 1820, 181.56 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep r 1820, 48. —
22 17 / 31 + 4 / 31 Months $229.56
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application submitted herewith 20 th 1820 to Peter Chadwick, Secy, New Hampshire

1623 Concord, N. Hampshire
Hannah Conner widow of Eliphalit Conner N. H.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March 1818 and who died on the 6 th Dec. 1832 of Merrimack Co. in the State of N. Hampshire who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Dearborn in the N. Hampshire line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Jan. 1839 and sent to James Nelson Pembroke, N. H.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. '38 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 6 th Mar '39. 40.00
$ 240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book A. Vol. 1
Clerk, Page 37

Eliphalet Cannon Claim for a pension
1818
Dearborn Private. Starts New Hamp te Reg t March 1781 to Dec 21. 1781 (nine months)
April 14. 1818
As it is represented that Col o Dearborn commanded the reg t . only one of the depositions shows the applicant served Gen l . Application may be made to Lieut Dearborn who resides in Boston for proof of service, viz "9 months service." Pension Office
Service must be proved by two disinterested and credible witnesses. Pension Office
The charge is presented to satisfy the credibility of the witness with respect to the service of the claimant to be heard by the said officers of the army who are authorized to take the evidence of the witness in the case of the pension.

Eliphalet Connor Priv.
Col. (Dearborn's N. Hampshire Reg t )
1781 - 9 mo s .
14 April 1810.
Hall Burgess Esq r . Pembroke N. Hampshire.
Admitted.
Pembroke Rockingham Co.

I Eliphalet Connor of Pembroke in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hamp- shire testify & declare that in the year 1775 in forepart of Summer I enlisted in the United States Army in the revolutionary war: in a company commanded by Captain Daniel Moore in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Stark & served six months faithfully in the continen- tal service against the Common Enemy & was dismissed at the end of six months & enlisted the next day for two months which time I served fa- ithfully & was discharged in March 1776. Then In the same month of March 1776 I enlisted again into the same service in a company commanded by Captain Timothy Clement of Hopkington in said State in the Regiment commanded by Col d Wingate for six months. which time I served principally at Great Isleland Portsmouth & in July 1777 I enlisted for six more in the same service in the company commanded by Captain Masten of Deerfield in said County in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Cornell in the Rhode Island line I served said six months faithfully & was honorably dis- charged - Then in Sept r 1778 I enlisted again in the company commanded by Captain in the Regiment commanded by Col d Wingate in New Hampshire line      months I served said      months faithfully & was honorably dis- + charged at Portsmouth - Then in 1779 I enlisted into the same service in the company in which Ezra Garter was Lieutenant. (I cannot recollect the Captains name). in the Regiment commanded by

By Colonel Beattle in New Hampshire line three months & served said term out faithfully & was honorably discharged. Then in 1781 in the month of March I enlisted into the same service for nine months & served said nine months faithfully under Capt. Samuel Gilman of Newmarket. in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Stark* & went to White Plain. from there up to Gallowshill so called where we hung a British Officer. From thence to Albany thence to Saratoga where I served the remainder of my time of nine months out at the expiration of which I was honorably discharged in December 21 st 1781 under signature of Wm Scott. Maj r Commd t . I served my country faithfully the full time aforementioned in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy. I am now in reduced circumstances in life, I am 75 years of age & need Assistance from my country for support
Allenstown. April 14 th 1818
Eliphalet Connor
Rockingham ss. State of New Hampshire
On the day & year above mentioned the above Declaration was made & sworn to before me
Hall Burgin
{ one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said Rockingham
* in calling on the above Applicant for further evidence he says he is persuaded that I must have made the mistake in saying (in his last indictment) John Stark, when I should have said Col. Dearborn. I find he is correct as to that part it should have been so written but whether he or myself made the mistake is uncertain
Hall Burgin as above

Rockingham ss.
I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Eliphalet Cannon served in the Revolutionary War as he has declared in the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed. & I transmit the testimony in the case to the Secy of the Department of War -
Hal Burgin
one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said Rockingham
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.
I hereby certify that the said Eliphalet Cannon is in very reduced circumstances in life & needs the assistance of his Country for support
Hal Burgin
one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said Rockingham
By order of the Judge
Attest L. G. Cluett Clerk of said Court

Celestial Canner blanks not filled up. (Rockingham County, New Hampshire.)
17. 202.
Con
Sept. 1820.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ROCKINGHAM.....SS.
ON this 26 th day of June AD, 1820, personally appeared in open court, before Heall Burgein a Judge , Esqrs. Justices of the Court of Common
Pleas for the said County of Rockingham, being a Court of Record for the said County of Rockingham, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
aged years, resident in , 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
Enlisted the first day of March 1781 in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Gilman in Col. Dearborns Regiment New Hampshire Line in the Revolution ary war against the Common Enemy and served nine months in said service and was discharged honorably at Hill water - about the last of December in the same year - The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 14 th day of April 1818 The number of my pension certificate is 17,202
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 8th 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 provision 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is was a farmer but am not of sufficient ability to pursue it and am in a situation which requires Publick charity I have been supported in part by the Town of Pembroke for many years past - in family residing with me a wife only who has been deranged for many years and in no capacity to render any assistance toward her support.
Their capacity to contribute to their support
Elizabeth Conner
Sworn to and declared at Allenstown  in said County on the 26 th day of June AD 1820 before one Heall Burgein a Judge of said Court
I, Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely copied from the record 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 nothing dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 14 th day of July, 1820.
P Chadwick
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham.

SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Elephatet Coomer (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, as the Statute of Westminster on the 11 th day of July , 1827, and annexed to his oath, viz.
Not any property whatever
Elephatet Coomer

I Edmund Rand of Deerfield in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I have examined the books of Records of said town of Deerfield and find recorded in said books of record the following, to wit:
"A Record of Marriages by the Rev Timothy Upham of Deerfield. Elphelett Conner to Hannah Plummer Both of Stratham."
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: "July 6: 1784."
Edmund Rand.
I Edmund Rand, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Deerfield in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire and that the above is a true extract from the records of the town of Deerfield with the exception above named as certified by me.
Edmund Rand, Clerk of the town of Deerfield
Deerfield Aug. 9, 1838.
Sworn before me.
Moses Page Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire Merrimack S.S.
On this the twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Horace Chase Judge of Probate within and for the said county of Merrimack James Wilson a resident of Pembroke in said County and State aforesaid Guardian of Hannah Conner a resident of said Pembroke aged about eighty years the said Hannah being decreed by the Judge of Probate for said County a lunatic or distracted person the said James Wilson being first duly sworn according to law, as guardian for and in behalf of the said Hannah Conner doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain for the said Hannah Conner the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an Act granting they had pensions to certain widows. That the said Hannah Conner is the widow of Eliphalet Conner late of Pembroke in said county deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolutionary War in the New Hampshire Continental Line and was placed on the pension roll May 29 th 1820 at the rate of ninety six dollars a year according to his last knowledge and belief the said Eliphalet Conner served more than one year and service may be had at the War Department to the evidence upon which he was pensioned and he further declares that in his belief the said Hannah Conner was married to the said Eliphalet Conner at Deerfield in the county of Rocke

inghams and State of Massachusetts by the Rev d Timothy D. Upham then minister of said Deerfield on the sixth day of July seventeen hundred and eighty four that her husband the aforesaid Eliphaleth Conner died at Pembroke in said county of Plymouth on the sixth day of December eight teen hundred and thirty two. And she the said Hannah Conner was not married to him the said Eliphaleth Conner prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated and that the said Hannah Conner has not intermarried but still remains his widow - And the said James Wilson further declares that on the 28 th day of August 1838 the said Hannah Conner was declared by the Judge of Probate for said county of Plymouth to be a lunatic or distracted person and for that cause was placed under the Guardian- ship of him the said James Wilson; that the said Hannah Conner has for the five years or more last past, been a public charge to the said town of Pembroke for her support and maintenance and that by reason of her being a lunatic or distracted person she has for been for a long time past and now is altogether incapable of making a declaration or understanding or executing any legal or valid instrument
Sworn to and subscribed this _____ day and year before written Before me James Wilson } Guardian of Hannah Conner Horace Chase Judge of Probate

CONNOR, ELIPHALET (N.H.) W-18937
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(The Bear Elephant Canner New lives in the First Hampshire Regt is heartily discharged — Noratoga Dec 21 1861 — Wm Scott May Command)

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18937
Hannah Conner Widow of Eliphalk Conner Prv. Rev war
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. 84 Page 151
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Jennys, testimony in the case of Eliphalet Connors claim for a pension

I John Jennys of Pembroke in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire testify & say that I served as a soldier in the revolutionary war upwards of four years & I well knew Eliphalet Conner an enlisted Sol- dier in the Summer of 1781 in the Com- pany commanded by Captain Samuel Gilman in the Regiment commanded by Col o Dearborn formerly commanded by Col o Gilley. I cannot precisely recollect the time of his enlistment, but I remember that he was discharged the very last of the year (viz the latter part of Dec r 1781. The first I re- collected of seeing him after he enlisted was at White Plains in the forefront of the year. I understood he enlisted for, & served nine months
His mark John X Jennys Allenstown May 8 th 1819
Rockingham ss. The same day as above the above deposition was signed & sworn to before me Hall Burgin } a Judge of the the above John Jennys } Court of Com. is a credible witness. } pleas for said Hall Burgin Judge of as above. } Rockingham

Thomas Haines, testimony in the case of Eliphalet Cannons claim for pension

I Thomas Haynes of Concord in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire testify and say that I was a Soldier in the Revolu- tionary war five years. I well rem- ember Elphatet Cannon (with whom I have ever been acquainted since I was a boy) a Soldier in the same Service at several enlistments. & in the year 1781, in March I knew him to enlist for nine months in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Gilman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dearborn the first New Hampshire Reg t former- ly commanded by Col l Gilley & he served nine months & was discharged in the very last part of the year 1781
Allenstown May 8 th 1819
Thomas Haynes
Rockingham. May 8 th 1819 The above testimo- ny was taken & sworn to before
me Hall Burgin
{ one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said Rockingham
I hereby certify that the above named Thomas Haynes is a credible witness
Hall Burgin Judge &c as above

Thomas Shaw's affidavit in the case of Eliphala Cannon for a pension

I Thomas Shaw (of (Pembroke) of lawful age testify & say that I was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War & served more than five years. I well knew Eliphalet Conner in said service I knew him to enlist in the month of March 1781 for nine months. in the Company commanded by Captain Gilman in the Reg t commanded by Colonel (Dearborn the first New Hampshire Reg t ) in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy I know he served his nine months which was out in the month of December following his enlistment Newtown October 1 st 1819
Thomas his Shaw mark
Rockingham ss. Newtown October 1 st 1819
The above aff d davit was taken & sworn to the day & year above before me Hall Burgin {one of the Judges of the Court of Com. pleas for said Rockingham
I hereby certify that the above named Thomas Shaw is a credible witness
Hall Burgin Judge as above

State of New Hampshire Merrimack County.
I Henry B. Chase, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Mer- rimack, do hereby certify and declare, that at a Court of Probate held at Concord in said Coun- ty on the fourth Tuesday of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, before the Honorable Horace Chase Judge, James Wilson of Pembroke in said County, Esquire, was duly appointed Guardian over Hannah Connor an inhabitant of said town of Pembroke, a Lunatic or distracted person and that said Guardianship is in full force and not annulled or revoked.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written.
H. B. Chase. } Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Merrimack.

I Trueworthy Dudley of Pembroke in the county of Merrimack and state of New Hampshire aged eighty three years depose and say that I was well acquainted with Eliphalet Conner of Pembroke in said county from our youth until the time of his death. And that in some time in the month of July seventeen hundred and eighty four I went with my team from Pembroke to Stratham in the county of Rockingham and state aforesaid and transported the goods and furniture of the said Eliphalet Conner and his wife Hannah from said Stratham to said Pembroke. And I understood at that time the said Eliphalet and Hannah was married when on their way home from Stratham to Pembroke in the town of Deerfield by the Rev d Timothy Upham of said Deerfield; And I furthermore say that the said Eliphalet Conner and Hannah lived together as man and wife from that time until the time of his death. And I furthermore say that the said Hannah Conner is and has been for a number of years a Lunatic or distracted person and still remains the widow of the said Eliphalet Conner and according to my best knowledge and belief the said Eliphalet Conner was a private in the Army of the Revolution from two to three years and was a pensioner
Pembroke August 27 th 1838 Trueworthy Dudley
State of New Hampshire Aug 27 1838
Merrimack S.S. Then Trueworthy Dudley made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed true before me Aaron Whittmore justice of the Peace I hereby certify that the above named Trueworthy Dudley is in -little to full credit Aaron Whittmore justice of the Peace

1553
1065
Hannah Conner moow of Asphaet
N.H.
act 7 July 38
Marrid in '84 Died in '32
Allas 580 per ann
Spne cat. to the man of Jas Nelson, Guardian
James Wilson Pembroke
N.H.

State of New Hampshire Secretary of State's office
I hereby certify that Horace Chase is Judge of Probate for the County of Merrimack, Aaron Whittier is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Merrimack and Andrew Page is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Rockingham duly qualified and their signatures are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have this 28 th day of August anno Domini 1898 caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed
J. M. Whipple Deputy Secy