Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 17721, Ozias Dickinson, Conn.

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Dickinson, Grace Mary
W 17721
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Connecticut.
Mary Dickinson.
Widow of Ozias Dickinson Decd. who died on the 2 d October, 1830 - at Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Company - commanded by Captain Charles of the Regt - commanded by Col: Charles in the Ct: M: - for 7 Months, & 12 days.
Enrolled on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 24 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of May 1839 and sent to J. Chaul- ton, East Windsor Hill, Ct.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1839 $197.28 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Sept. - 12.33
$209.61
{ Revolutionary Claim, Not July 4, 1836, Section the 2 d }
Recorded by M c Stewart - Clerk, Book A - Vol. 2 Page 67

Ozias Dickerson

State of Connecticut Hartford County } Hartford
On this twentieth day of November A.D. 1838 personal- ly appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the County of Hart- ford aforesaid; Mary Dickinson, a resident of Wethersfield, in Hartford County & District aforsaid; aged Eighty Six years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4 th A.D. 1836 the 3 rd section.
That she is the widow of Obadiah Dickinson formerly, & lately of said Wethersfield aforesaid, who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution: That he enlisted into Captain Chester Wells company, attached to Col o John Chesters Regiment, that they marched to New York & from there to Long Island, that he was, she is informed engaged in the battles on Long Island, & retreated to New York where he remained with his company until the enemy took the city, & then went with his company where they went; & that he staid till winter time, she has the impression that from the time he enlisted to the time of his return was eight months.
And she furthermore declares That he was drafted the forepart of the Month of July 1779, & went in Capt t Howfords Company to New Haven, & served with the coast guards, for a period of not less than six weeks. And he was drafted two or three other times & went and served

but the witnesses are all dead; he went with Josiah Dickinson, & Abraham Deming & others but they are dead.
She declared that she has deferred making her application until this time, in the hope that her friends might find some more of the witnesses but so many of them were dead before the passage of the law, that she despairs of finding any more; And she furthermore declares, that she was married to the said Elias Dickinson, in the Town of Wethersfield, by the Rev Burrage Merriam, of the Parish of Rocky Hill, in said Wethersfield, in the month of October Seven ten Hundred & Seventy two; the day of the month she has forgotten. She has no record of her marriage in her family & she believes that her husband never made any entry of it; She has an Old record Book of the Birth of her Twelve children in the hand writing of her husband, but has no record of her marriage: That was recorded, the minister who married her the Rev. Mr Merriam.
Her said Husband died in said Wethersfield, on the second day of October A D 1830: and she still remains his Widow & has never again intermarried.
All which will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed & subscribed in presence. The word "by" interlined before signing of Joseph Wright
Seth Terry X Mary Dickinson Sworn to and subscribed before said probate court the day & year first named Seth Terry Judge.

In testimony whereof, I Nathaniel Goodwin Clerk of said probate Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the origin- al proceedings before said Court, in the Mat- ter of the application of Mary Dickinson before named for a pension
And I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court at Hartford aforesaid on the 17th day of Novr. 1838
[Signature] Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford.

Jonathan Collins a resident of Wethersfield in Hartford County Connecticut do hereby depose & say, That I was well acquainted with the late Ozias Dickinson, in the time of the Revo- lutionary War, he lived in my neighborhood, I remember well that he, & my brother Simeon Collins, went away and served at Long Island, and the enemy drove them off from Long Island over on to the New York side, that I have heard them tell of their having to crop in the night & that they were followed up by the enemy very closely, & that it was thro' great difficulty & danger that they effected their escape; I was then at home on the farm at work & did not see them at New York, or on Long Island, but I well remember their going expressly to go into the service & remember their being absent a number of months & then by said Brother Simeon, & my neighbor the said Ozias Dickinson, came home together & I have often heard them both tell a great many particu- lars of their service & their sufferings
And I further depose & say, that I served with the said Ozias Dickinson in Capt Woodford's Company, when the enemy came into New Haven in July 1779 we were stationed in East Haven / we were in service not less than Six weeks the said Ozias Dickinson then came home with me,
I well remember that the said Ozias Dickinson married Mary Goodrich he did not marry her until she had one son by him viz Moses Dickinson

who was drowned several years ago in Connecticut River I remember their marriage the more distinctly from the fact that she had Moses before she was married.
The said Oziel Dickinson has been dead several years.
Jonathan Collins
State of Connecticut Hartford County ss. Wethersfield On this 14 th day of November A D 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton one of the Justices of the Peace for Hartford County Jonathan Collins who signed the foregoing deposition and then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me & he is a credible person
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

I Christian Beldan, of Middletown in Connecticut, hereby depose and say, that I am a sister of the late Ozias Dickinson late of Wethersfield in Hartford County, Conn t .
That I well remember that my brother Ozias went into the army I believe in the same campaign with my husband Seth Belden who was killed in the Battle at Hatteras, for whose services I receive a pension.
I was married myself, a little before my Brother Ozias was; he married Mary Goodrich, the next year after her Son Moses Dickerson was born; about four years before my husband was killed.
My Brother Ozias was married by the Reverend Mr Merriman of Wethersfield Rocky Hill,
My Brother Ozias has been dead Eight years & his widow has never again intermarried
In presence of
Jesse Charlton
Christian her X Belden Cross
Joseph Wright
State of Connecticut
Middlesex County
So Middletown
On this 14 th day of November A D 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut Christian Belden, who subscribed the above deposition & then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same & she is a credible person.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto

Subscribe my name to affix my seal of office on the day and year first named
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.
Joseph Collins Charleston Bell

I, Calvin Chapin, do hereby depose and say, that in the Records of Marriages solemnized in this town, by the Rev. Burrage Merriam  Lewis former Pastor of the Congregational Church at Wethersfield, in the Parish of Rocky Hill, I find, an entry, of which the following is a true copy. "Married Seventeen Hundred and Seventy two October - Oziel Dickenson and _____ Goodrich"
The foregoing is a true transcript from the said record; with the exception of the date, which is put down in the original record, in the words & figures following; viz. 1772 October _____
And I Calvin Chapin above named, depose & say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the third Congregational Church in said Wethersfield, which was under the pastoral care of the Rev. Burrage Merriam; Lewis , above named; & the above is a true transcript, from the said record, with the exception as above expressed; by me; & as I fully believe in the handwriting of the Rev. B. Merriam Lewis with which I am somewhat acquainted & who was Pastor of said Church in the year 1771 & 1772.
Attest
Calvin Chapin Pastor of the said 3d Church & congregation.
State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss Wethersfield On this 14 th day of November 1838, personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton Esq one of the Justices of the Peace for Hartford County in the State aforesaid Rev. Calvin Chapin D.D. who has

Signed the foregoing deposition & he then & there made made solemn oath, to the truth of the same, & he is a credible person, with whom I am well acquainted as pastor of the Congregational Church at War- field Rocky Hill. and is also a pensioner for his services in the Revolutionary War as well as a Doctor of Divinity
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace And I further certify that before the signing said certificate & administering the oath to said Dr. Chapin the name of Lewis was erased & the name of Beman was inserted.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace.
Dr. Chapin

... reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Ozias Dickinson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. 17721
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     76- July 79 8 mos. 1st. 6 weeks Chester Wells Horsford John Chester Conn                                                                 
Battles engaged in, Long Island Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ Date of application for pension, Nov. 17. 1838 Her claim was allowed Residence at date of application Wethersfield, Hartford Co. Conn. Age at date of application, 86.  She died Oct. 2 1838 at Wethersfield Remarks: Her name Mary Goodrich  Oct. 1772 at Wethersfield Conn.  12 children Moses oldest

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1906 Mar. 8. Heir to D. S. Fick letter in Mrs 25-840
No. 17721 Mary Dickinson Widow of Ozias Dickinson Pris Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Ex:—Vol. 64 Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]

East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Connecticut
Nov 23 rd 1838
Revered Sir
I herewith transmit the application of Mary Dickinson, Widow of Deias Dickinson late of Wethersfield for a Pension: by examining the papers of Sarah Wilson former widow of Samuel Dine the beginning & end of the service of the Six Battalions in 1776 may be seen, by my own certificate & by that of Andrew Kingsbury Esquire now deceased.
And am very respectfully Your Obedt Servt
Jesse Root
Hon J L Edwads commissioner of Pensions
P. S. The application is under act of July 14 th 1836

Mon S. L. Edward Comand. J. Nelson

W. W. Edwards Please inform me to whom Mary Dickerson (Alumni) Kenswick found 13 May last was lost. I am insured of about a hundred dollars. Yours Respectfully W. L. Edwards

I William Adams, hereby depose & say that I was well acquainted with the late Ozias Dickinson, of Watersfield in Hartford County Conn; I have spent a great deal of time with him; & have heard him tell much of what he had seen and suffered in the Army, in the Revolutionary War.
That he served under Col John Chester, in the Campaign at New York, & that quite a number of the regiment became disaffected with Col Chester on account of his strictness & severity in discipline: tho I never understood said Dickinson to say that he was one of the disaffected party.
I have every reason to believe, and do fully believe; from what said Dickinson has often related to me, that he was out to the amount of several years, in the Revolutionary War.
I know him also to be the man, who lived with the present widow Mary Dickinson, & that the said Ozias Dickinson has been dead eight years. He died in my Neighborhood.
I further, declare to have heard him tell of his being in the Army; when in the Winter they were reduced to the most painful sufferings from hunger & from being destitute of Stockings & Shoes, & having to travel on the frozen ground, barefooted, I cannot name the year, nor the place.
William Adams

State of Connecticut Hartford County S To Wetherfield on this 14 th day of November AD 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton one of the Jus- tices of the Peace for said Hartford County William Adams a resident of said Wetherfield a credible & respectable man who then & there made Solemn Oath to the truth of the within certificate by him subscribed before me.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Stillman a resident of Wethersfield in Hartford County, Connecticut, hereby depose and say, That I have been well acquainted with the late Ozias Dickinson, of this town, I was in the service in various places, in the Revolutionary War, for which I received a pension. I understood from the time I was in the service, that the said Ozias Dickinson was in the service, a good deal during the war, but I never happen to be where he served, but I have been uniformly told that he was in Chester Wells company, & Col o John Chesters Regiment, I was out in 1776 but was in the Militia under Capt l Elijah Wright attached to Col o Eno s Regiment.
But there is not any doubt, on my mind from the information I had soon after the war, & from that time down; that he was a good deal in the War, tho' I cannot specify any particular service, except, in the State Troops in the Summer & fall & winter of 1776, the exact amount of time I cannot specify. I remember that the said Ozias Dickinson, lived with my father, before the War & that while he lived there he courted Mary Goodrich who then lived at the house of Deacon Samuel May, in said Town, I well recollect to have heard that they were married at the time it took place the said Ozias Dickinson died in this town, about eight years ago, & his widow still lives in our neighborhood & she has never again intermarried.
Joseph Stillman State of Connecticut } S Wethersfield Hartford County } On this 15 th day of November A D 1838 personally

appeared before me Jesse Charlton one of the justices of the peace for said Hartford County Joseph Stillman, who has signed the within deposition before me then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same, & he is a credible & respectable man; & a pensioner for his services in the Army of the revolution.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
William Adams vs Jos. Stillman

4091
Mary Dickinson Wid of Azias Conn.
Act July 4 1836 Married 1772 died 1830
Allow 7 mo 12 days pri. Capt Chester Col Chester Conn. Muhle $24.11 per ann
Schahalla Esq East Windsor Hill Conn

I Joseph Wright, a resident of Wethersfield, in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby depose & say, That I was well acquainted with Ozias Dickinson late of said Wethersfield, And can testify & do depose That, the said Dickinson died in this Town of Wethersfield on the second day of October Eighteen hundred & thirty: I watched with him a night or two before his death and was present at his funeral, And I knew him to be the husband of the present widow Mary Dickinson, & she is still living & she has never again intermarried.
Joseph Wright
State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Wethersfield on this 14 th day of November A.D 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton one of the Justices of the Peace for said Hartford County Joseph Wright who signed the above deposition in my presence & then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same & he is a credible & respectable inhabitant of said Town
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify That for the services of the Soldiers from Connecticut, in the Revolution war in the year 1776 I know of no complete Roll of the names of officers & men for that year
There are some fragments of said Roll of Capt Chester Wells company attached to Col Chesters Regiment in which I find That Capt Chester Wells was with his company in New York on the 10 th July & and in another Roll of the same company, in which there is no mention of the time when the services commenced, but it is expressed time of discharge December 25.
On this Roll, I find the name of Ozias Dickinson, as with the company at the time it was discharged in December A 1776, And I find a part of another Roll of the following description "A pay Roll for the travel of Capt Chester Wells Company in Col Chesters Reg t from Weathersfield in Connecticut to New York July 1776" I find Ozias Dickinson the distance traveled 120 " 10
I do not find any entry of the time of their enlistment or of their leaving home.
Dated at the Comptrollers Office in Hartford in the State of Connecticut this 30 th day of October A 1838.
Henry Kilbourn Compt l
And I further certify that Capt Aaron Housford is credited for services rendered in the year 1779 in the following Manner, viz Militia Service from April to Nov A 1779 Sept 17 th 1779 Capt Aaron Housford Amount paid in Colonial Money 1 l 308 3 s 3 d Computed Value of services from April 1 st to Nov 1 st - 1779 £94-17-6
Henry Kilbourn Compt l

Comptroller in Ozias Dickinson

I Royal P. Winman Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify That Jesse Charlton Esq., before whom the annexed certificates of Jonathan Collins, & William Adams, Joseph Stillman, & Calvin Chapin D. D. & Joseph Wright, were taken is a lawful Justice of the peace at this time & has been for more than four months at least, & that his signature to the said certificate is his genuine signature, & I further certify that the same Jesse Charlton, before whom the certificate of Christian Belden annexed, was taken is a lawful Notary Public for said State, duly commissioned & by the laws of said State authorized to take Depositions & administer Oaths; & that his signature to the depo- sition of Christian Belden annexed, is genuine as is also his Seal known to me.
Dated at Hartford, in said State this 28 th day of November, A. D. 1838.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto sub- scribe my name, & affix the Seal of said State at, the Office of State in said Hartford on the day & year above named.
Royal P. Winman Secretary of State.