Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,805, Gilbert Denison, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Denison, Gilbert
S 15,805
Carded.
CONTENTS

Connecticut 27.959  Vermont
Gilbert Denison of Windsor in the State of Vt. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Latham of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Col. State Troops time for 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 37 Dollars 50 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Sept. 1834 and sum Carried Carriage - Windsor - 22
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834 124.25 Semi-annual allowance ending Dec. 1835 18.75 $143.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 61
On to Pkt 11 Augst 1837 To Count for fillmore 1831, not sent to G.W. Wood Ledyard, Ct. 27 August 1837

State of Connecticut
County of New London & ss Probate District of Stonington
On this 26th day of August 1834, personally appeared before the Court of Probate, for the District of Stonington in the County and State aforesaid, now sitting Samuel Stanton, a resident of Stonington in the District, County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy three years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, depose, declare, certify & say, That from my youth, upward to this time I have been well acquainted with Mr. Gilbert Denison, formerly of said Stonington, and now of Winthrop the State of Vermont that said Gilbert Denison, was born and brought up in the same town and neighborhood, with myself to wit in said Stonington, that said Gilbert removed from said Stonington several years since the Revolution - any War, that since his removal aforesaid I have seen him, when visiting his relatives in said Stonington -
That I the said Samuel Stanton, on or about the 1 st day of November 1779, enlisted as a private, for six months Service, in the matross or Artillery Company of Connecticut Stationed at Fort Griswold in the Town of Groton in said New London County, commanded by Capt William Latham, 1 st Lieut Youngs Ledyard, 2 nd Lieut Henry Denison in the Regiment or Command of Colonel Wm Ledyard - & there in said Company. I served as a private, in actual service, from the 1 st November 1779, six months, to the 1 st May 1780, That I well know and remember that said Gilbert Denison was also a member of said Wm Latham's Matross Company, he was quartered in the South Barrack with the officers. said Denison was in service when I commenced my service in 1779 as aforesaid and I left him in the Fort serving, when my term of service expired in May 1780 - But the time of said Gilbert Denison's service I cannot know or recollect - but It was more than six months, as I found him in service in said Fort Griswold, when I commenced my service there and left him in service in said Fort when I left said Fort as aforesaid. I believe said Gilbert Denison to be now

upwards of seventy one years of age Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before the Court.
Saml. Stanton
Asa Fish Judge
I Nhemiah Gallup. of Groton, in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged Eighty three years and upwards, being duly sworn according to Law, do on my oath certify declare and say, that I was well acquaint- ed with Mr. Gilbert Denison, in the years 1779 & 1780 then of Stonington in s d New London County, now of the State of Vermont, where I understood, he removed to reside, that I was well acquainted with his father George Denison, and his brothers George, Dudley & Oliver That I was a serjeant, of Capt William Latham's Compa- ny of Artillery or Artillery, stationed in Fort Griswold in the s d Town of Groton, in the Regiment or command of Col d William Ledyard & served as a serjeant in said Company in said Fort, the whole of said years 1779 & 1780. That I well remember said Gilbert Den- ison was in service in said Fort during the time I there served, but how long his engagement contin- ued, and how long he there served, I cannot recollect. I believe him to be Seventy one years old or upwards
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid to wit the 26 day of August 1834 before the Court.
Nhemiah Gallup
Asa Fish Judge
I Andrew Gallup of Groton, in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged Seventy three years and upwards being duly sworn according to Law, do on my oath, certify declare and say, that I am well acquainted with Gilbert Denison formerly of Stonington in the County and State aforesaid, & that from childhood I have

been well acquainted with said Gilbert Denison and his father's family. That some years after the Revolutionary War the said Gilbert removed from Stonington aforesaid and as deponent understood and believed, went to the State of Vermont to reside, where deponent believes he now resides. — That in the years 1779 and 1780 I the s. Andrew, was a private in the matross or Artillery Company of Connecticut Troops, stationed at Fort Griswold in said Groton, and served during 6 years in said Company at said Fort. Wm Latham Capt in the Regiment or Command of Col Wm Sledyard. That I well remember the said Gilbert Denison, while I served in said Company at said Fort Griswold, was a member of said Company & served an engagement in said Company, but I do not recollect the commencement or termination of his said service, or the duration of his said service but my impression is that it was not less than nine months. I believe the said Gilbert to be now upwards of seventy one years of age.
Sworn to and subscribed Andrew Gally the day and year aforesaid to wit, 26 August 1834 before me
A. M. H. Ledyard By
I George Denison of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty years, and upward being duly sworn according to law do on my oath certify, declare and say, That I have from my early childhood, been intimately and well acquainted with Gilbert Denison of Windsor in the State of Vermont, the said Gilbert being my Brother. That in the year 1779, in the month of August of said year according to the best of my recollection, I enlisted for 8 months or longer term and served as Corporal in the Company of Artillery or matross, commanded by Capt Wm Latham, Sps Sledyard, Denison & Way

That I served as Corporal in said Company, from 9 August 1779 till May 1780 — That I well remem- ber, the said Gilbert my said Brother served du- ring said period, in said Company, that I can not recollect, at what time he commenced ser- vice in said Company, (which company was station at Fort Griswold in Groton in New London County) nor at what time he left the service at said fort but my impression and belief is, that when I was discharged in 1780, and left the Fort the said Gilbert remained serving in said Fort, in order to fulfil the term for which he engaged or enlisted. I believe him to be about Seventy one years of age, and know him to be the identical person who served in said Fort as aforesaid — Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid to wit, 26 August 1834 before the Court
Asa Fish Judge
In the said Court, certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Stanton and George Denison, who have each signed a certificate, proceeding , are resident in the Town of Stonington and that Nehemiah Gallup and Andrew Gallup, who have also signed each a certificate proceeding , are resident in the Town of Groton, all in the County of New London & State of Connecticut, that they are all credible persons, and that their statements are en- titled to credit.
Asa Fish Judge
I Nathan Daboll Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Ston- ington, C.C. hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the Depositions of Sam l Stanton, Nehemiah Gallup, Andrew Gallup and George Denison. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 28 th Day of August A.D. 1834. Nathan Daboll Clerk

Declaration
of Gilbert Denison
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th . 1832
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.
District of Windsor ss.
On this Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open court, before the Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor, now sitting, Gilbert Denison, a resident of Windsor in said District (and County) of Windsor, aged Seventy two years, 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 passed June 7 th 1832. — That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; —
At Stonington in the State of Connecticut, near the first day of August, but the precise day he is unable to recollect, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, the declarant enlisted, for a term of Nine months, into the "State troops" in a company commanded by Capt. Latham, whose "christian name" was, as he believes, William. Of said

Company, — Ledyard was the 1 st . Lieut. and Henry Denison the 2 d Lieut.
Immediately upon his enlistment the declarant joined his company in Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut. Of this Fort, as also of Fort Trumbull, Ledyard (then called Major) had the command, and was the same officer who was afterwards killed in the assault on the Fort in 1781 — The declarant was stationed in the Fort and performed "artillery duty" until some one of the first days of May 1780, when he received a written discharge, signed by his Captain, as he thinks — That discharge he kept for some time, but has no recollection of having seen it for forty years and supposes it to have been long since lost. While in the said service there were no continental troops at or near the Fort —
To the Interrogatories propounded by the Court, the declarant answers, That he was born in Stonington in the State of Connecticut, on the 16 th day of September A. D. 1762 ;
That there is, at Stonington aforesaid, a record of his birth ;
That when he enlisted, he lived in said Stonington and lived there 3 or 4 years next after the war ended — then removed to Colchester, Conn. and there lived 4 years — thence removed to Guilford, Vermont, where he lived about 24 years — thence to Brattleborough Vt. where he lived about 9 years — thence to Windsor Vt. where he has lived for nearly 9 years past ;

That, as before stated, he enlisted into service;
That as to the subject matter of the 5 th interrogatory, he has already stated all that he is able to;
That, as before mentioned, he received a written discharge which is lost;
The declarant has no documentary evidence of his service;
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State —
The declarant, being unable to state the names of persons living in his present neighborhood who can testify to their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, refers to the testimony contained in the affidavits hereto annexed —
Gilbert L. Smith
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Jabez Proctor Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
Jabez Proctor Judge

I Reuben Washburn, Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gilbert Denison for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this Sixteenth day of September in the year of our LORD one thousand eight Hundred and thirty four.
Reuben Washburn. —

State of Connecticut } County of Litchfield }
On this 30th day of June 1831, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public for the county aforesaid, personally ap- peared Mr. Gilbert Denison, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company command- ed by Capt. William Latham in the or Corps regiment commanded by Colonel Sedgwick stationed at Fort Grimaldi in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Ver- mont, from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there paya- ble in future. — The following are his reasons for remov- ing from Brattleboro' in Windham County, Vermont, to Stoning- ton in Litchfield County, Connecticut, viz. that he has purchased a residence in said Stonington and now resides there with his son, Mr. Gilbert Denison Jr., with whom he expects to con- tinue to reside.
Stonington June 30th 1831.
Gilbert Denison
In presence of
Gilbert Denison Jr.
State of Connecticut } Litchfield County Personally appeared Gilbert Denison Jr.
Sworn to and subscribed by Gilbert Denison above named, before me, on the day and year above named
Samuel W. Wood Notary Public

I Gilbert Denison Jr of Stonington in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, aged sixty five years do depose and say that I am acquainted with Morris Gilbert Denison late of Brattleboro' in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, but now of Stonington in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, that he is my Father, and that I know him to be the person described in the annexed affidavit, which he has, this 30th day of June 1857, sworn to, and that he is a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Thirty Seven 50 Dollars per annum. That he now resides with me in Stonington aforesaid, and I expect that he will continue to reside with me, and further I depose and say not. Stonington June 30th 1857. Gilbert Denison Jr
State of Connecticut ss. New London County Personally appeared Gilbert Denison Jr Esq. above named and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - and I certify that he is a credible person. Stonington June 30th 1857. Samuel W. Wood Notary Public.

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15805
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File No. 15805-
Gilbert Denison
Re Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 93
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon J. B. Heath
Sedgwick July 7th 1837
Comm. of Pensions
Sir,
Herewith you have the application of Mr. Gilbert Simson for a transfer from the Vermont to Connecticut Agency. Please make returns to the undersigned.
Sam. W. Wood Sedgwick P.O., Co.

Robin Agency Montpelier Vt Augt 14. 1851 J. Heath Esq Comm r of Pensions
Sir In favor of 11 th & 6 th we
Gilbert Denison a Pension on an old act of 7 June 1832 at 37 50 per annum has been paid to 4 March 1851
Very ready
Mr L. D. the Recd Agt
for J. H. Sage

Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. n of Pensions Washington D. C.

Windsor Vt. Sept. 20. 1834.
To the Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions
Sir - I transmit herewith, as Agent of the claimant, documents in the case of Gilbert Denison, and trust they will be deemed satisfactory. I am, with much respect
Yr. Obedt. Servt.
Carlos Coolidge