Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,598, Thomas Curtiss, Conn Or Mass.

SERVICE
Conn or Mass.
Curtiss, Thomas Eunice
NUMBER
R. 2598
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This may certify that I have in my possession a Parish Record of the Congregational Church in Plymouth Litchfield County, Connecticut, kept by the Rev. Simeon Waterman formerly a Pastor of said Church, and that under the title of "Marriages since Aug. 28 th 1787 the time of my installation" there is the following record and entry - "March Thirtieth Seventeen Hundred and ninety Thomas Curtis to Eunice Gables" and that the above is a true copy of said Record with the Exception of the date which is inserted in the Record in fair legible figures as follows " March 30 - 1790 "
Ephraim Lyman -
Pastor of the 1 st Cong. Church in Plymouth
I Ephraim Lyman above named depose and say; that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Congregational Church in said Plymouth and that the above is a true extract from the Record of said Parish with the Exception above named as certified by me Ephraim Lyman
Pastor of said Church
Sworn before me Lucius Bradley Justice of Peace State of Connecticut Litchfield County
Gideon A. Hollier Clerk of the County Court of the County of Litchfield do hereby certify that Lucius Bradley of Plymouth in said County is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and by law authorized to administer oaths and to take acknowledgements of deeds, and that his commission was dated on the 11 th day of June, 1845 and will expire on the 20 th day of June, 1846 and that his signature to the accompanying instrument is genuine, and that said instrument is executed before me and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of Connecticut
Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 30 th day of May 1846 Gideon A. Hollier Clerk

The State of Ohio
Wayne County } ss. On this 12 th day of July June A. D. 1846.
Personally appeared before me Saml. N. Bissell an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county and State aforesaid Eunice Curtis a resident of Township in said county of Wayne aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law, by me doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed on the 7 th day of July, 1838, March 3 rd 1843, & June 17 th 1844, granting pensions to widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. That she is the widow of Thomas Curtis who was a Revolutionary soldier and that her said husband died in Pompey in the county of Onondaga and State of New York the first day of May, 1836, that when her said husband entered the service of his country in the war of the Revolution he was a resident of Cheshire in the County New Haven and State of Connecticut. That in the year 1780 or 1781 her said husband as she believes enlisted under Capt. James Andrews, and that she is not certain whether said Andrews was Capt of Farnsworth's or not. She has heard her said husband relate his service, but she being old and feeble and her consequent loss of memory she can not state all the particulars of her said husband's service, she is of the impression that her said husband did at some time before the close of the war enlist for during the war, she thinks that her said husband was attached to Colonel Sackett's Regiment and transferred to some other Regiment, thinks he was once under Capt. Kling & Major Cogswell. - That her name before married was Eunice Cowles of Plymouth in the county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut, that she was married to the said Thomas Curtis in said Plymouth in the year according to her recollection in the year 1789 that she has no record of the date of her marriage that she was married by Rev. Simon Waterman of said Plymouth, that she has not been married since

The death of her said husband and that she was married to him before 1794 and now remains his widow she refers to the proofs herunto annexed and prays that the pension due her under the above mentioned acts may be granted her, she further states that from what she has heard her said husband relate of his Revolutionary service that he was in the service of his country in said war from two to three years during which time he served as a private or as a private a part of the time and a part of the time a noncommissioned officer.
Witness J. M. Bissell Simon D. Stevens
her Emmeline Stevens mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that from common report that the said Emmeline Stevens is a person of truth and probity and from bodily infirmity and being lame she is unable to attend Court
J. M. Bissell Associate Judge
State of Ohio } ss. I, Emmeline Stevens of Canaan Township Wayne Co } Wayne County and State of Ohio being first duly sworn, do depose and say that I am forty two years of age. that I am the daughter of Thomas and Emmeline Stevens that my father was a revolutionary soldier, that he entered the service during the revolutionary war from Cheshire in the State of Connecticut as I have often heard him say, that he died at Pompey in Onondaga County in the State of New York on the first day of May A.D. 1836 and that my said mother now resides in Canaan Township Wayne County and State of Ohio and remains the widow of my said father and that I have heard my said father say that he served two or three years in the latter part of the revolutionary war
Emmeline Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 th day of June A.D. 1846. and I do hereby certify that said Emmeline Stevens is a person of truth and probity for the says common report
J. M. Bissell Associate Judge

poem of Abby. Brown
Polly Fuller & Emma Stearns 20.
For & Service

State of Ohio
County of Wayne
3 3 3
Be it known that before me a justice of the peace in and for
Said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Polly Fuller and Eunice Stevens in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio who being first duly sworn according to law lays that they are the daughters and only surviving children of Thomas Curtis deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and that they believe that the United States Government is still indebted under existing laws for the pension that the said Thomas Curtis was entitled to as a soldier of said war and they are directly interested as claimants and as children of said Thomas Curtis in the pension claim of said Thomas Curtis and we hereby constitute and appoint Ford & Davis of Richland county Ohio our true and lawful attorneys with irrevocable power to examine into investigate and establish the claim for said pension and to do all acts necessary therein hereby revoking all former powers of attorney heretofore executed by us or by either of us and also hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever they shall do lawfully by virtue hereof
Witness our hands & seals this 16th day of November A.D. 1854.
Polly Fuller Eunice Stevens
Signed, sealed & acknowledged in presence of Wiseman Cotton F. McAshley
Signed, sealed & acknowledged before me this 16th day of November A.D. 1854
Wiseman Cotton

State of Ohio
County of Wayne 3 /p.
On this 28 th day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for said county Polly Huller — aged 57 years a resident of Wayne County State of Ohio who being first duly sworn makes the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the several provisions made by acts of Congress passed prior to the fourth day of February A.D. 1853, that she is the daughter of Thomas Curtis who was a private in a company commanded by Captain Amos Lincoln in Colonel David Rhea's Regiment in the War of the Revolution that he enlisted in said service as she verily believes in the latter part of the year 1778 or the former part of the year 1779 for the period of three years and served in said war during all of said three years as she has been informed and believes. She further says under oath that her mother's name was Eunice Curtis and that her former name was Eunice Coles that her said father and mother were lawfully married as she has been informed by them on or about the 18 th day of March A.D. 1788 in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut as she now thinks but is not certain as to the precise date. That her said father died on the 1 st day of May A.D. 1836 at Saratoga County & State of New York and that her said mother Eunice Curtis died at Jackson in Goshen Township Wayne County Ohio on the 12 th day of February A.D. 1851. She further says that she and Eunice Stevens of said Wayne County are the children and the only surviving children of said Thomas & Eunice Curtis and that at the time of the decease of said Thomas Curtis there were four living children to wit said Affiant & Eunice Stevens

and Chester and Thomas Curtis that said Chester Curtis died some time in October A.D. 1849 and the said Thomas Curtis died on the fifth day of April A.D. 1853. Polly Fuller
Sworn and subscribed before me Samuel S. Forster Judge of the Probate Court of said County and State, and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Polly Fuller whose genuine signature appears above. That she is a person of good moral character and worthy of full faith and credit & of the age above stated. I further certify that I have no interest in the pension claim of said Polly Fuller. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Wooster Ohio the day & year above written
Samuel S. Forster Probate Judge

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2598.
P. O. _____
Eunice Curtis
Service: wid. of Thomas
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

12,954
Eunice Curtis, widow of Thomas Ohio
Elliott & Hathaway Sep 5 1846
Ford & Davis Dec 8 1852
Ford & Davis 22 d Dec. 1854
2598
July 7 1838

V. No 12957 Eunice Burls Q Sub Elliott + Mathews Sept. 5 '46
Act 7 July 1838

Eunice Curtis, A.
Act 1836 - or 1838 -
The State of Ohio, } WAYNE COUNTY, ss.
I, Samuel L. Smith Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Samuel L. Bissell Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavits were  was taken and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially , in his own proper hand-writing, was, at the date thereof, and now is An
Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, in judicature and thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Wooster, this 2nd day of July A. D. 1846.
Samuel L. Smith Clerk.

Mansfield Nov. 29th 1884
Sir. Herewith inclosed we send further proof made by the heirs of Thomas Curtis dec. For proof of marriage & death of Solon we only have to refer to the papers in the application of Service Curtis made in her life time & on file in Pension office. We enclose proof of Service from the Records of Massachusetts.
Yours Resp't.
Foss & Davis
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions

Mansfield Ohio Dec. 14/34
Sir
Yours of the 1st. inst. is before me wherein you say "The certificate of the secretary of State of Mass. filed in support of the case of Maria Curtis die of Ohio cannot refer to her husband Thomas Curtis, &c. That it does refer to her husband we have no doubt. We became fully satisfied that said Thomas Curtis served in Mass. instead of Conn. before said certificate was rec d for the following reasons. The son-in-law of said soldier (Mr. Fuller) who is a man of more than ordinary intelligence & memory, informed me that said soldier did not serve in Conn. or under officers of that State. That says soldier lived before and after his service in Conn. near the line of Mass. which will readily account for the mistake of Maria Curtis & her witnesses. Mr. Fuller further informs me, that he has often heard said soldier say in his life time that the officers under whom he served were not of Conn. That he ran away from home crossing over to Mass. only a few miles, and enlisted a short time before he was sixteen years old, or enlisted in Conn. & was taken immediately over to Mass. he is not certain

which. He further informed us that he had often heard said Thos. Curtis speak of Capt Lincoln and he felt quite certain that was the Captain under whom said soldier served, and the records of Mass. show that Mr. Fuller correct in that particular.
Mr. Fuller is much more distinct in his recollection of facts and dates than either of the surviving children and having obtained the above information from him we were induced to have the Mass. records searched. As to the time when he enlisted, said Curtis may be easily mistaken. Mr. Fuller and both surviving children agree in saying, said soldier always said he retired the service before, or about the time he was 76 years old, and their best impression is he was born 1763. We have been informed the records of Conn. furnish no proof of the service of any man by the name of Thos. Curtis. We can procure the affidavit of Mr. Fuller to the above facts as detailed to him by said soldier if that will be sufficient, which is probably the best & only proof we can furnish tending to show that the certificate from Mass. refers to Thos. Curtis the husband of Eunice Curtis of Ohio.
Yours Truly
Wm. L. P. Waldo.
Amos Davis

The State of Ohio
Wayne County
ss I Polly Fuller of Canaan County of Wayne and State of Ohio, being first duly sworn according to law, do on my said oath depose and say that I am aged 48 years and that I am a daughter of Thomas & Eunice Curtis and that my said father was a Revolutionary soldier and went into the service of his country in the war of the Revolution from Cheshire in the State of Connecticut as I have heard him relate and that he died in Pompey in the County of Onondaga and State of New York, the first day of May 1836, and that my said mother now resides in said Canaan in the County of Wayne and State of Ohio and remains the widow of my said father, that I have heard my said father relate his Revolutionary service but do not remember all the particulars of his service, heard him say that he served in the latter part of said war and that he served between two and three years.
Polly Fuller
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 th  day of June A.D. 1846 and I do hereby certify that Polly Fuller is a person of truth and probity, to the best of my knowledge and believe by known her personal
John Blocker
The State of Ohio
Wayne County
ss I Samuel Fuller of Canaan in the County and State aforesaid, being first duly sworn according to law, do on my said oath depose and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Curtis late of Pompey in the County Onondaga and State of New York, deceased, and that said Thomas Curtis was reputed and believed by his neighbors to of been a Revolutionary soldier and that said Thomas Curtis died in said Pompey in the County of Onondaga and

on the first day of May A.D. 1836. That I have heard said Thomas Curtiss relate his Revolutionary service, but do not remember all the particulars of his service, heard him say that he was a resident of Cheshire in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut and went into the service from said Cheshire, That he enlisted in the year 1780 or 1781 and served until the close of the war I believe he said that at one time he had the care of a lot of horses that belonged to the army, Eunice Curtiss widow of said Thomas Curtiss now resides in Canaan in the County of Wayne and State of Ohio and now remains his widow.
Samuel S. Gulliver
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 th day of June 1846 and I do hereby certify that Sam l S. Gulliver is a person of truth and probity and believe him per sonal knowledge
John Blocher a father of the person
The State of Ohio, } WAYNE COUNTY, ss. }
I, Samuel S. Gulliver Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby certify that John Blocher Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavits were  taken taken and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially , in his own proper hand-writing, was, at the date thereof, and now is an
acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, in judicature and thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Wooster, this 2nd day of July , A.D. 1846.
Samuel S. Gulliver Clerk.

State of Ohio Wayne county ss.
On this 16 th day of November A D 1834, before me a Justice of the Peace of said county, personally appeared Phoebe Kenny of said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, says that she has been acquainted with the family of Thomas and Eminee Curtis for about thirty five years, that she was well acquainted with said Thomas & Eminee Curtis, and all the members of their family while they lived in the state of New York, and has since been familiarly acquainted with the said Eminee Curtis in Canaan township Wayne county Ohio, from and after the death of her said husband, until the death of said Eminee Curtis, which took place at said Canaan township on the 17 th day of February 1837, that she was present at the funeral of said Eminee Curtis, and saw her interred, that Polly Fuller, who makes application for pension, and Eminee Stevens both of said Canaan township Wayne county Ohio have both been during all the time of my said acquaintance with said family, been recognized & claimed by said Thomas & Eminee Curtis, as their lawful and legitimate children; that since the death of said Thomas Curtis, the said Eminee Curtis has lived with her daughter, said Polly Fuller, and always claimed her, and said Eminee Stevens, to be her lawful children, by her said husband Thomas Curtis; that at the death of said Thomas Curtis, he had four living children, to wit: said Polly Fuller and said Eminee Stevens, and Chester and Thomas Curtis; that said Chester & Thomas, are both dead, Chester died before, and Thomas died since, the death of their said mother, Eminee Curtis, leaving the said Polly Fuller & Eminee Stevens, the only surviving children of said Thomas & Eminee Curtis. Affiant further says that she has no interest in said pension claim.
Phoebe Kenny
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that I am acquainted with said Phoebe Kenny & that she is a person of good moral character & worthy of belief Wise man Galloway

affairs of Mary J. Athlone Master & Rich

State of Ohio Wayne county ss.
On this 16th day of November A.D. 1884 before me a justice of the Peace of said county personally appeared Mary Jane Ashley and Martin L. Rice both of said county of Wayne who being first duly sworn according to law say under oath that they have each been raised and still live in the family of Polly Muller who is the reputed daughter of Thomas and Emma Curtis that the said Emma Curtis deceased also lived with said Polly Muller for about sixteen years last prior to her death. That the said Emma Curtis always recognized and claimed the said Polly Muller who makes application for the Pension due her from the United States Government, and Emma Stevens of said county to be her lawful children by her said husband Thomas Curtis. That they sincerely believe the said Polly Muller and Emma Stevens are the only surviving children of said Thomas and Emma Curtis. Affiants further say under oath that they were each present when the said Emma Curtis died and that they each attended her funeral and saw her buried that she died at Bureau Township Wayne county Ohio on the 12th day of February A.D. 1880 and was buried on the day following. That they remember it rose on the 12th of February 1880 that said Emma Curtis died from the fact that she died the day after she was said to be eighty years of age and they both remember full well that it was on the 10th day of February 1881 that she claimed to be eighty years of age.
Affiants further say that they have no interest in the pension claim above referred to.
Mary Jane Ashley Martin L. Rice
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above written and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with said Mary Jane Ashley and Martin L. Rice that they are both persons of good moral character and worthy of belief that I have no interest in said Pension claim
Wise man Cotton J P

The State of Ohio, } WAYNE COUNTY, ss.
I, Benjamin Eason, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, do hereby
Certify that Wisman Cotton
before whom the foregoing Affidavit
_____ was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially, in his own proper hand writing, was at the date thereof, and now is
An acting Justice of the Peace
within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, in Indenture and thereout.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Wooster, this 21 st day of November 1854.
Benjamin Eason Clerk.
By William McKee Depr.

12954 July 28 1826
Cunice Curtis,
July 7, 1838.
Hon. Jas. Buchanan Washington City D.C.
BB

Chardon Geauga County Ohio July 21 st 1846.
Sir
We herewith send the Declaration & proofs of Mrs Cunice Curtiss claiming a pension on account of the Revolutionary service of her husband the late Thomas Curtiss, deceased, it is believed that there is a record proof of the service of the said Thomas in your office Respectfully your O.B. Servant.
Elliott & Hathaway
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Affidavit of Chas. Kearney

State of Ohio Wayne County ss.
On this 16th day of November A.D. 1854, before me a justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Charles Keene of said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, that he was well acquainted with Emma Curtis of Canaan Township Wayne County Ohio, for about 15 years prior to her death, and that he is, and has been, for said length of time, acquainted with the children of said Emma Curtis and her former husband Thomas Curtis, that the said Emma Curtis died at said Canaan Township on the 12th day of February 1837, that he was present at her funeral and saw her buried, that Polly Miller & Emma Stevens, of said Canaan Township, are the children, and the only surviving children, as he verily believes of the said Thomas & Emma Curtis, that Chester Curtis, & Thomas Curtis, who were also children of said Thomas & Emma Curtis, are both dead, Chester Curtis having died in the fall of the year 1849, at said Canaan Township and said Thomas Curtis having died in the month of April A.D. 1853. Affiant further says that he has no interest in said Pension claim.
Charles Keene
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with said Charles Keene above named that he is a person of good moral character and well worthy of belief. that I have no interest in said Pension claim.
Wiseman Cotton J. P.

N 12954 Eunice Curtis, widow of Thomas O act 7 July 1838
Marrid 1790 Instated and 1836
12954 Vernal Creek Effingham

State of New York
Orleans County } ss.
I Lemuel Cook aged 83 years a resident of Saratoga in the County of Orleans and State of New York being first duly sworn according to Law, do on my oath depose and say that in the time of the Revolutionary war I resided in Plymouth, Litchfield County, State of Connecticut that I am a pensioner of the United States, and that I was acquainted with Thomas Cartis who resided in the time of the Revolutionary war, in the town of Cheshire, County of New Haven, State of Connecticut. That the said Thomas Cartis enlisted and went into the war of the Revolution in the year 1780, and entered the Service in the year 1781 - that the said Thomas Cartis enlisted for three years, and served two years and six months that said Cartis was at Yorktown in the Service as a Wagoner, and served his time as Wagoner - that said deponent, says he knows of the enlistment of said Cartis by being informed by said Cartis and his Brother, Gilbert Cartis, and saw said Cartis in the Army at Yorktown as a wagoner. This deponent further says that sometime after the war, the said Cartis moved from Cheshire to Plymouth, Litchfield County, and at Plymouth said Cartis was married to Carrie Colby by the Rev. Simon Waterman, he thinks in the year 1789 - he was not at the marriage, but was told so by the parties, the parents, & by the Rev. Simon Waterman himself, and further said deponent thinks that said Thomas Cartis died in Tompkins in the State of New York.
Lemuel Cook
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4 th day of March A.D. 1846 and I hereby certify from personal knowledge that the said Lemuel Cook is a person of truth and probity. Jonathan Howard Justice of the peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, Orleans County Clerk's Office. } ss.
I hereby certify that Jonathan Howard , Esq., before whom the annexed proof or acknowledgment or Affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to said certificate is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal this January 1st 1843 and 6th day of March 184 0  and that his term of Office Commences
E. D. Merrill Clerk. Dept. Clerk for S. L. Southwick

State of Ohio Wayne County Ss On this 16 th day of October A.D. 1845 personally appeared before me John Blocher a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Wayne aforesaid Eunice Curtis a resident of Canaan Township of said county, aged 74 years who being first duly sworn, by me according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of congress passed July 4 th 1838, March 3 rd 1843 and June 17 th 1844 granting pensions to widows of Revolutionary soldiers that she is "widow of Thomas Curtis who was a soldier in the war of the revolution that at that time, Thomas Curtis her said husband resided in the town of Cheshire New Haven county and State of Connecticut that in the year 1780 or 1781 said Curtis was enlisted by capt. Jonas Andrews she thinks for two years and that he also enlisted for during the war She thinks his first service was in a regiment commanded by Colonel Saml and he was taken out of Saml regiment, and put into some other and thinks very likely under Colonel Meigs, and at one time under Major Coggsil and once under capt. Ming, her name before marriage was, Eunice Gawles She and said Curtis was married in the year 1789 in the town of Plymouth, Litchfield county and State of Connecticut by Rev Simon Waterman, and that her said husband Thomas Curtis, died in Pompey

State of Ohio Wayne County Ss Personally appeared before me John Blocher a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Simon Stevens resident of Canada Township in the county aforesaid, of lawful age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he was well acquainted with Thomas Curtiss and Eunice Curtiss now his widow that said Curtiss died in the Town of Pompey and State of New York on the first day of May 1836 and that said Eunice his widow now resides in Canada Township in said county of Wayne and has not been married since the death of said Curtiss and that I have frequently heard said Curtiss relate his services in the war of the revolution and think without doubt that is entitled to a pension
Simon Stevens
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16 th day of October A.D. 1845.
John Blocher J.P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Oct. 24 th 1854.
I Hereby Certify , That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Thomas Curtis is borne on Continental Army Books, in Capt. Amos Vinal's Company Col. Paul Revere's Regt. from Jan'y. 16. 1779 To May 8 th 1780. 15 Mos 23 days, as Mates. Said Curtis was a Byrum man.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Ohio Wayne County Canaan Township
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the services of Thomas Curtiss in the War of the Revolution. He was from New Haven County State of Connecticut. He enlisted from S d New Haven County Connecticut in the Year 1778. as a private in a company commanded by Capt n Jonas Andrews or at least Jonas Andrews was the recruiting officer. Regiment commanded by Col. Lamb of which Regiment Thos. Cogswell was Major, and served about three Years. He acted part of the time as Garrison & Waiter of the Staff's Horses. He was also at times Waiter to Major Cogswell.
I am the daughter of S d Thos. Curtiss and am now fifty Years of age, and my memory and knowledge of facts does not enable me to state the services of Thos. Curtiss more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand this 5 th day of January A.D. 1854
Signed by me Eunice Stevens in my presence Wm. Cotton J. P. of said County
Eunice Stevens