Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2765, Solomon Davis, Conn.

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Davis, Solomon Mary
R. 2765-
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37536 Aug 26 47 Solomon D. Dais Can Oct 7 June 1832 In at
W. N. Bradley

State of Connecticut County of New Haven } B.
On this eleventh day of August, in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty seven, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of New Haven now sitting, Solomon Davis, a resident of the Town of New Haven, in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty 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. To wit:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
That he joined Captain Henry Daggett's company of Coast Guard, which were drafted.
To the best of his memory in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, somewhere between the middle of August and the first of September.
The regiment to which this Coast Guard belonged was under the command of General Ward
He does not recollect the names of any other of the Field Officers, or of any of the Company officers except Sergeant Abraham Pinto of New Haven
At the time he enlisted, he lived in Fair Street in The Town and County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut.
He never was discharged; but was dismissed at the commencement of cold weather in November
He was in no engagement during the time he was in service

He was a substitute for his Father Thomas Davis His corps made no marches but its duty was to patrol and guard the coast, and he was occupied in that service in New Haven and vicinity
Before this corps was raised The British were in the habit of committing various depredations on the shore stealing cattle &c
He was never discharged during the war but continued liable to be called upon for duty during the war
He was born in Fair Street in New Haven in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty five. He has no record of his age
It was recorded in a family bible which was given by his my mother to her sister more than sixty years since
He was living in Fair Street, New Haven County, & State of Connecticut when called into service
He since the Revolutionary War has been a seafaring man but has made his home in New Haven where he now lives.
He was a substitute for his father Thomas Davis He cannot state the names of any of the regular officers who were with the troops in which he served
And the only officers whose names he recollects are those stated above "Captain Daggett" General Ward" & Sergeant Pinto"
The circumstances of his service are those above stated his corps was called out to repel the invasions, and hostile incursions of the enemy
He never received a discharge from the service John Skinner, Ezra Hotchkiss, Eneas Meanson Timothy P. Bess are some of the persons who can testify to his veracity & their belief of his services
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 to his knowledge.
Sworn to and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid Solomon Davis mark
We Harry Groswell, a clergyman residing in the Town of New Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, and Ezra Hotchkiss residing in said New Haven hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Solomon Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above decla- ration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion New Haven the twelfth day of August A.D. 1847 Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Harry Groswell Ezra Hotchkiss
Mary Beecher of the Town and County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut being duly cautioned and sworn says That she was Eighty years of age on the 31 st day of January 1847. that she is the widow of Frederick Beecher formerly of said New Haven, that her said husband died two years ago last March in the Eighty first year of his age, that the deponent knows Solomon Davis of New Haven well, that she has always understood that he was a soldier of the revolution, and that she

has often heard her husband say that such was the fact, and that said Davis served with him as one of the Coast Guard during the Revolutionary war and that she has often heard him and said Solomon Davis talk together about the war and their serving in the same as Coast Guard, and of the various events which occurred while they were members of that company. And she has always understood from other persons that said Solomon Davis was a member of the Coast Guard in the Revolutionary War.
I sworn to, and subscribed this Thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty seven.
her Mary Beecher mark
I Dorcas Beecher of the Town of New Haven of lawful age being duly cautioned and sworn deposeth and says. That she is Seventy nine years of age that she was born in West Haven (then so called now Orange) a Village four miles west of New Haven that she lived in that village, and at a place about \frac{3}{4} of a mile from the shore and two miles west of said West Haven for many years, that she knows Solomon Davis of New Haven who is now making application for a pension, and knew him in the Revolutionary War, that she has seen him doing duty as one of the Coast Guard frequently, that the Guard or one company of them were often on duty down on the Coast near where she lived, and according to her recollection some of them passed the place where she lived for the purpose of keeping guard pretty much every night, and that Davis was with them a member of the company. That West Haven was at this time

a part of the Town of New Haven, and further she saith not. Sworn to and subscribed this Thirteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Forty seven Lucas Beecher
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 above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Harry Crosswell who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of New Haven, and that Ezra Hotchkiss who has signed the same is a resident in the said Town of New Haven, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Henry B. Lewis Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of New Haven in the County of New Haven do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon Davis for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Twelfth day of August A.D. 1847.
Henry B. Lewis Clerk.

Feb 15 Solomon Davis.
Feb 1853
Meaver & buffer attys
Present.
very special

AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY,
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF New Haven } ss.
Be it remembered, That, on this 17 th day of November A. D. 185 1 , George Thompson do make known and declare that I am the husband of Jane A. Grandchild and heir-at-law to Mary who was the only wife of Solomon Davis a Revolutionary soldier, who served  years, under the command of   in the forces raised by the State of Connecticut and that he and his said wife were married about the month of previous to the year A. D. 1800 that he died about the month of October A. D. 1848 and that his said wife also died about the month of October A. D. 1850  and that a pension of  dollars a year was drawn by said no Pension has ever been received on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 18 , since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties.
And that claimant is now 60 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services : Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do : hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof ; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest, Wm Godwin } In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Henry Peck Jr } seal, day and date first above named. George Thompson  L. S.
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
Wm Godwin Notary Public [Signature]

December 21, 1936.
Mr. Raymond E. Van Syckle 1729 Ford Building Detroit, Michigan.
BA-J/ILL Solomon Davis R. 2765
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Davis of Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, and his son, Solomon Davis.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of the Thomas Davis described above. The record of only one Solomon Davis of Connecticut has been found. The data given herein were found in his claim for pension, R. 2765, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Solomon Davis, son of Thomas Davis, was born in the year 1765, at home on Fair Street, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, and lived there during the period of the Revolutionary War; the name of his mother was not given.
Following the Revolutionary War, he was a seafaring man, with his home in New Haven, Connecticut.
Solomon Davis applied August 11, 1847, while a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He stated then that he enlisted between the middle of August and first of September 1780, and served in Captain Henry Daggett's company of the Coast Guard, and was engaged in patrolling the coast in the vicinity of New Haven until about November, and that he held himself in readiness for that duty whenever he might be called. This service was rendered as substitute for his father, Thomas Davis.
His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish

proof of service as required by the pension law under which he applied.
The soldier died in October 1848, survived by his widow, Mary, who died in October 1850; they were married previous to 1800, but her maiden name and the date of their marriage were not given, nor the names of any children.
In November 1852, the soldier's granddaughter, Jane A. Thompson, was the wife of George Thompson, both of New Haven, Connecticut; he was then aged forty years.
There are no further data regarding the family of Solomon Davis.
Very truly yours,
A. D. MILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1936-Rev. 21. Hirt to Raymond & E. Van Supple-1888.
9360 P. O. Solomon Davis Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 Discharged: _____, 18 Printed Volume - Rejected - Suspended Pensions - page 78- Reason for Suspension: no admissible evidence of service Application Denied: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Pension Office August 23. 1877
Sir
The papers left here a few days since in support of the Claim of Solomon Davis to a pension under the act of June 1832  July 1832 have been examined and filed.
Before any satisfactory adjustment of this Claim can be made, Davis must depict his service there in detail, specifying the commencement and duration of each term with the names of the field and Company Officers under whom they  the battles in which he has engaged  was rendered, the probable number of troops embodied, where stationed how subsisted, quartermaster, and paid and particularly his daily routine  service of duty. And also the attendance  length of his service as a substitute and the amount received paid on his own account. Which should be sustained by the records in the Comptroller's Office at Hartford or by the testimony of two or more witnesses who were themselves in service with him. He must

show also by satisfactory proof that he had arrived at an age that rendered him liable to be called on to perform Militia duty.
A Compliance with these requisitions is rendered the more necessary in this case as it appears from Claimant's Statement that he was but 15 years old at the time he entered the service as a substitute, that his service was rendered at home as a patrol for the purpose of guarding the neighborhood, which must be shown to have been  not within the purview of  the pension law,  and to amount at the least to 6 mo actual Military service, to come within the purview of the act of June 1832.
W. H. Weston Aug 23 43
No evidence that can be admitted has been produced in support of Claimant's service,
J. H. Bradley Esq. Present

DETROIT CHAPTER SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESIDENT LLOYD DEWITT SMITH
VICE-PRESIDENTS WILLIAM C. KRICHBAUM J. RANDOLPH KENNEDY
SECRETARY RAYMOND E. VAN SYCKLE
TREASURER CHARLES A. KANTER
HISTORIAN JAMES B. BOGNER
CHAPLAIN REV M. LUTHER CANUP, D. D.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
1729 FORD BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN
BOARD OF GOVERNORS FRANK O. CLEMENTS GEORGE A. DUCHARME DR. E. CARLETON FOX EDWARD C. HOUGH PAUL H. OTIS JOHN N. W. SLOAN HENRY P. STACY HON. ROBERT M. TOMS ROLAND R. WEAVER
December 14 1936
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Thomas Davis & his son, Solomon Davis
Please advise revolutionary services and family data of Thomas Davis (wife-Mary) who with 3 sons enlisted from Somers, Tolland Co. Conn. The names of his sons were:--
1. Thomas Davis 2. Solomon Davis 3. Kitteridge Davis bn July 14, 1760 at Mansfield, Conn. mar Ann Beebe in Wilbraham Mass. pensioned Aug 1 1932 while res Enosburg, Vt. died Feb 27, 1850 (Certif No. 18880) S-10537 4. Daniel Davis bn 1764- died 1850
I have the Bureau of Pensions record on No. 3 Kitteridge Davis (1760-1840) of Enosburg, Vermont; and particularly desire the record at this time of SOLOMAN
DAVIS
Yours truly
Raymond E. Van Sycke Secretary.

34536
Solomon Davis
born
Lib. & H. Bradley Esq.
August 23 47
2765
act. 7 th June 1832
mul 32