Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37845, Nathaniel Chesebrough, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
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Chesebrough, Nathaniel
S. 37845
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19.870
Connecticut
Nathaniel Cheabrough
of New London Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Eldridge of the regiment commanded by Colonel Tyler in the Connecticut line, for the term of one year,
from ————— 17/6 to ————— 17/7
Conn. and South Line Records etc.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th day of February 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Feb 1828 and sent to Hon N. Barber H. Reps.
Arrears to 4th of March 1828. $8.17 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
$8.17
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.

Dr. C. C. C. C. C. Declaration - 20,047.

State of Connecticut ss. New London County
On this 22 nd day of June 1826 personally appeared in open Court before the County Court held at New London within & for the County of New London in said State - the said County Court being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction un limited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings & having power of fine and imprisonment. Nathaniel Chesebrough, formerly of the town of Stonington in said County, but now of the town of Montville in the County aforesaid aged seventy one years, who being solemnly sworn doth on his oath declare & say that he enlisted in Capt James Eldredge's Company in Col Samuel Holden Parsons regiment on the first Monday of May 1776 for the period of seven months, which time of service he faithfully served out, that after the expiration of said seven months he re-enlisted into the company commanded by Capt James Eldredge in Col Parsons regiment for the period of one year and after the promotion of Col Parsons to be Brigadier, he belonged to Col Tyler's regiment, & regularly performed his duty - that he was afterwards detached from said Tyler's regiment & attached to the company of rangers under Col Knowlton and was finally taken prisoner at fort Washington by the British & retained as prisoner until after the expiration of the time for which he enlisted and therefore never received any regular discharge from any

Officer - And he solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 - That the Company of Capt James Eldredge belonged to the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment, & all the service he performed was on the continental establishment, That he is now a farmer, so far as he has any occupation, & sixty one years of age, having a family consisting of a wife aged sixty nine years, & three children who reside in his family - That his property consists of the articles mentioned & contained in the schedule below
Nath l Cheesbrough
Schedule of all the estate of Nathaniel Cheesbrough late of Stonington but now of the town of Montville
  1 Looking glass $1.00 old & broken  $1.00    1 Desk, very old $5.00 1 old table $1.50  6.50    6 chairs, much worn $1.50. 9 of better quality $3.00  4.50    1 old loom Wheel etc  1.50    1 fall leaf round table & rocking chair  3.00    1 Bow 2 swine  21.00    1 harness fork & beef  8.00    hundry small debts, not collectable  25.00     $70.50  
Nath l Cheesbrough
And the said Nathaniel Cheesbrough further makes oath that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that he has not, since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged

in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 before mentioned schedule and by me subscribed Nath l Cheesbrough
Sworn to & declared in Open Court before the County Court for New London County on this 22 nd day of June A D 1826 Charles Lathrop Clerk
New London ss County Court June Term A D 1826 - I do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the S d 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 afore said schedule is Seventy dollars & fifty cents
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 nd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six
Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court for New London County

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Jan. _____, 1898
Sir -
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Nathaniel Chesebrough, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1776 7 mos. Pvt James Eldridge Samuel H. Parsons Conn   Jan * - 1777 1 yr.* " " Parsons & Tyler "          
Battles engaged in, None mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not given
Date of application for pension, June 22, 1826
Residence at date of application, Montville, Conn
Age at date of application, 71 yrs of age.
Remarks: Pension was allowed.
* A portion of this time he was a prisoner, having been captured by the British at Fort Washington
Very respectfully,
Sidney H. Dent Denver, Col.
Commissioner.

rit.
37 845
1893 - Jan. 19. Hist. Sidney N. De Denver, Colo.
Rev INVALID.
F.S.
to
74. C.5.
File No. 37 845
Feb. 16, 1904. His Anna C. Wilday
Nathaniel Christensen Pin Geo Mar
Mar. 29, 1904, Hist. to Mrs. Frank Chesters, attica, ny.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 882
[Arrangement of 1870.]

37 824 0
3-068. (Old No. 3-049.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Abel Chasebrough
June 27, 1876 71 Hontrille Conn.
may 75 Stonington (?) Conn Apt Jas Eldredge Cal Salul. H. Parsons Pnt - 7 m
may 77  P 0 Dec 76  Rst Pnt - 1 1/2
No Pnt

S. H. DENT, Attorney at Law.
McPHEE BLOCK, SEVENTEENTH AND GLENARM STREETS.
Denver, Colo., May 26 th 1892
Adjutant General U.S. Army. War Department, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
If consistent with the rules of your office I should like to have a copy from the records of the military history of Nathaniel Chesborough a private in the 6 th Regt. Conn. Col. Saul H. Parsons in 1 st call for troops April 1775. He afterwards belonged to Durkee's Regt. & was taken prisoner at surrender of Fort Washington Nov. 16 th 1776. Afterwards enlisted in the 5 th Company of 4 th Conn. Battalion, was made Ensign & served under Genl. Spencer in R. I.
The above information is to be used in an application for admission to the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. The above military record of said Chesborough comes from family information they desire it authenticated and have requested me to ask this favor of the Department.
Your obdt. servant Sidney H. Dent.

Address "The Officer in charge of the Record and Pension Division, War Department, Washington, D. C."
War Department,
Record and Pension Division,
Washington, May 31st, 1892.
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Sidney H. Dent
Denver, Colorado.
The records of the Revolutionary war are on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
The within information is respectfully requested of the Commissioner of Pensions Very Respectfully S. H. Dent
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
[Signature] Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army.
Per
(300a)
Denver, Colo. May 26 th 92
Nathaniel Chesborough Pr. 6 th Com. (Col. Saml. H. Davis) first call for troops in 1775. afterwards in Durkee's Regt. " enlisted in 5 th Co. 4 th Com. Batts
Sidney H. Dent, atty. Bks for military history for loss of Revolution purposes
S. H. DENT Attorney at law.
McCabe Block
Mr. Nathaniel Chesborough 6 th Com. Batts
Mr. Nathaniel Chesborough 6 th Com. Batts first call for troops in 1775. afterwards in Durkee's Regt. " enlisted in 5 th Co. 4 th Com. Batts
Mr. Nathaniel Chesborough 6 th Com. Batts first call for troops in 1775. afterwards in Durkee's Regt. " enlisted in 5 th Co. 4 th Com. Batts

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The Attica Mills, Frank Chesbro, Proprietor.  Flour, Feed and Grain.
Attica N.Y. Mar 17 th 1904
Pension Bureau Washington D.C. Gentlemen:—
Please forward to us the complete copy of from the Revolutionary War Pen. Records of James Chesbrough and Nathaniel Chesbrough. New London Co. Connecticut. and greatly oblige,
Yours Truly Mrs. Frank Chesbro
Soon as convenient.

Wm. Hankay
Nathl. Chesebrough
The within hand persons served with N. C. Report to Hon. N.
Barber H. R.

Daniel Collins Ensign in the same Regiment —
= James Chestnutt private in the same Regiment at the time pris- oner at the same time with Nathl Chestnutt
= Peter Peters alias Peter Williams a coloured man was in the same company with Nathl Chestnutt part of the time
The above all have drawn pensions

Pension Office June 29-1828 Nathaniel Chesbrough
New London Co Connecticut Oct 18 March 1818
FREE
Secretary of War Washington
Hon. N. Barber H. R.
adm o
per: to com: 5 Feb. 1828

Newbedon 25. June 1827
Dear Secretary of War
Inclosed is the application of Nathl. Alenbrough for a pension with the proof to substantiate his claim made in conformity with the directions forwarded for that purpose — We hope a favorable the decision will take place on his application — Yours with Respect Ed o Learned

Robert Williams of the town of Stonington in New London County and State of Connecti- cut. Aged seventy two years, testified & says that for many years he has been personally well acquainted with Nathaniel Sherbrough formerly of the town of Stonington aforesaid but now of the town of Montville in said County - That in the fall of the year 1775 he enlisted at New London under Lieut William Cleaveland in the company command- ed by Capt James Chapman in Col Sam- uel Holden Parsons' Regiment in the Con- necticut line - That in December of the same year, he was at Roxbury in Massachusetts in his said company, & there found Nathaniel Sherbrough, a corporal, in Capt James Eldredge's Company in Col Parsons Regiment - That the deponent enlisted for the term of one year, and the said Sherbrough had also then enlisted for a year in said Eld- redge's company. His first enlistment having expired - That said Sherbrough continued in the service of the United States against the common enemy in & near Boston until the Spring of 1776 and in the month of April 1776 the regiment to which the deponent & the said Sherbrough belonged together with the rest of the army were ordered to New York where they arrived in the Spring of 1 st year, & that the said Sherbrough continued to do duty in said Eldredge's Company, and part of the time as a sergeant until the fall of 1776 when sometime in the month of November

in said year, the said Chesbrough, with others, volunteered, with the consent of his officers, under Col Knowton, for the defence of Fort Washington & was taken prisoner by the British and confined on board the Jersey prison ship, & was there risk and finally discharged from his imprisonment. from the Jersey prison ship after being kept there about two months as the deponent believed - The deponent knows that the said Chesbrough faithfully served the United States against the common enemy during the revo- lutionary war a period of more than nine months under his enlistment for a year in the company commanded by Capt James Eldredge in Parsons Regiment, afterwards Tyler's regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment for during all that time, they, the said Chesbrough and the deponent, belonged to the same regiment and were well acquainted with each other Robert Williams
County of New London } County Court June term } A.D. 1827.
Sworn to in open Court
This 19 th day of June A.D. 1827. And the Court find that deponent is of fair char- acter for truth
Charles Lathrop Clerk

William A Morgan of the town of Lebanon in Windham County & State of Connecticut, be- ing now seventy two years of age, deposes & says that in the year 1775 he enlisted as a serjeant in Capt Isaac Galleys company, in Col Samuel Holden Parsons regiment, that in January 1776 he went to Roxbury with recruits to join his said company, and there found Mr Nathaniel Chesebrough, a corporal in Capt James Eldredge's company in Col Parsons regiment, afterwards Tyler's regiment - That in April 1776 the army was ordered from Boston to New York, & that said Chesebrough was with the army & went to New York with his said company - That the enlistment of said Chesebrough & the enlistment of the deponent were both for one year, & that said Chesebrough faithfully served in said Eldredge's company during the term of his enlistment until the fall of the year 1776 when with others, & by the command of the commanding officer he volunteered in the defence of fort Washington under Col Knowlton and was taken prisoner by the British & confined on board the Jersey pri- son ship until from sickness or other cause he was released by the British - The depo- nent belonged to the same regiment with said Chesebrough and they both did duty as orderly serjeants, & he knows very well that the said Chesebrough, under his enlistment for a year in said Eldredge's company served more than nine months in said company -

which belonged to Col. Parson's regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment and that he served faithfully during the whole period of his enlistment in said company except while in the defence of Fort Washington and while a prisoner in the Jersey prison ship which defence of Fort Washington was undertaken with the consent & approbation of the commanding officers of said Chesborough - that the defence of Fort Washington was in the fall of the year 1776
William A Morgan
County of Middlesex ss. } County Court June Term } A.D. 1827.
Sworn to in open Court
This 19th day of June A.D. 1827 - And the Court find that deponent is of fair character for truth -
Charles Lathrop Clerk

Hon. N. Barber H.R. dep d Feb. 5. 1828

Nathaniel Chesebrough of the Town of Montville in Windham County in the State that on the first Monday of May in the Year 1775 at Stonington he enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt James Hildreth of Stonington for the period of seven months, that said Company was on the continental establishment in Col. Samuel Holden Parsons Regiment - That the Deponent served out the period of his enlistment was at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts when his time of service expired - That he immediate- ly thereafter when his first term of ser- vice expired re-enlisted into the same company commanded by Capt James Hildreth for the term of one year from the time of his second enlistment which took place second enlistment commen- ced some time in the month of Decem- ber 1775 - That Col Parsons was made a Brigadier General & then Col. Tyler became Colonel of the Regiment to which said Capt Hildreth's company belonged & that Major Chapman who was killed in the Orchard fight on the retreat from New York was Major of the Regiment - That when the British left New York the Company to which the Deponent be- longed together with the Regiment com- manded by Col Tyler to the Troops were ordered from Roxbury to New York - That the Deponent faithfully served against the common Enemy during the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Capt Hildreth

until he went into the company of Ran- gers as a volunteer to defend Fort Wash- ington - That the Deponent went upon this service at the Request of his first Lieutenant Oliver Babcock & was taken with him by the British while defending Fort Washington in the month of the Year 1776 this happening the Deponent does not now exactly remember - That in the same company of Capt Hance there was a James Beechcroft of Haverington who was taken prisoner with the Deponent at Fort Washington and who as the Deponent heard draw a pension - There were in the same Regiment with him members whose names he can now call to mind some of whom draw pensions as he believes. Wm William Avery Morgan, Robert Williams, Peter Peters, Dan- iel Collins, Zebulon Stanton & others whose names he cannot now recollect - The Deponent served out the term of his first enlistment & also served so long on the second enlistment as he could for after being taken prisoner by the British he was detained by them until very near the time his second enlist- ment expired when he was released from the prison ship Jersey at New York - The Deponent further maketh Oath that if in any declaration before made to the Government it is stated that his first enlistment for seven months was in May 1776 it is entirely by a mistake as that is not the fact

Nor did he ever mean to be understood that it must have arisen from the error of the person who drew up his de- claration - that he knows has distinct- ly remembered it as any fact that exists that on the first Monday of May 1775 when the militia were out for exercise he enlisted into Capt Isaac Eldridge's company for six  seven months, upon the ex- piration of that enlistment, again en- listed into the same company for a year to which period he served out in the same herein before sta- ted in said company which was on the continental establishment - The deponent is aged, poor & infirm would not ask for a pension were it not necessary to support him the few days which remain to him and did he not know & believe that his service & poverty entitle him to it.
Wath: Chebrough
State of Connecticut, County & City of New London
Personally appeared Mr Nathaniel Chebrough signer of the above affidavit & made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein sta- ted contained Before Wm. Parkhurst Justice of peace
Washington 5 February 1825
I certify that Ebenezer Seamed is a justice of the peace and that the above is his deposition.
Wm. Parkhurst

State of Connecticut, County of New London ss.
On this 13 th day of June 1827, in open Court, before the County Court now in session in and for the County of New London, the said Court being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, keeping a record of its proceed- ings, having jurisdiction to an unlimited amount and having power to fine & imprison such personally appeared, Nathaniel Chesbrough, late of the town of Stonington in said County, but now resident and dwelling in the town of Montville in the County aforesaid, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declarations in order to obtain the pro- visions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the act 1 st of May 1820 - That he, the said Nathaniel Ches- brough enlisted for the term of seven months on the 1 st Monday of May 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain James Eldridge, in the Regiment commanded by Col Samuel Holden Parsons in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps until the expiration of his said enlistment when he immediately upon the expiration thereof reenlisted into the same company commanded by Captain

James Eldredge, in the regiment commanded by Col Samuel Holden Parsons, and afterwards upon his promotion to be Brigadier General com- manded by Col Tyler in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment which second enlistment was for the term of one year - That he faithfully served the United States against the common enemy during the Revolutionary war all the time of his first enlistment, and continued still to serve in the same manner during his second enlistment, performing part of the time the duty of orderly sergeant - That all the time he was in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war from the time of his first enlistment for seven months until the expiration of his second enlistment for a year he was in the same company commanded by Capt James Eldredge and never belonged to any other company or corps, except that about one month before the expiration of the period of the second enlistment he the deponent with several other privates from the company of Capt Eldredge, volunteered with the consent of their commanding officers in the defence of Fort Washington under Col Knowlton - That the defence was unsuccessful and the deponent with others on the 16th day of November 1776 according to his recollection, was taken prisoner by the British and confined on board of the Jersey prison ship from which he was not liberated until after the expiration of his said second enlistment and never obtained any discharge from the army - That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present that

his name is set on the rolls of any State that after the passage of the law of 1818 he made appli- cation for a pension, but the papers were mis- laid & lost by the person to whom they were confided, which fact was not known to the Deponent for some years, & afterwards & he was from year to year expecting his said pension and that he renewed his application again in June 1826 and that living remote from witnesses who knew the facts stated in his application & being now advanced in life, it has been difficult for him to stir about & procure the necessary testimony. And in pursuance of the act of 18 th May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & 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 provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolution- ary war," & 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 submitted nor has any alteration or change in my property been made since the 18 th of March 1818 to my knowledge - that he has a wife aged seventy years & three children who reside in his family and on whom he is dependent for support & that he is now quite infirm & subject to the indisposition Isaac C. Sherbrough

Schedule of all the estate of Nathaniel Chesbrough late of Norington but now of the town of Montville
  1 looking glass old & broken  $1.00    1 set very old $5. - 1 old table $1.50 -  6.50    6 chairs much worn  1.50    9 of better quality  9.00    1 old loom wheel &c  1.50    1 fall leaf round table & locking chain  3.00    1 cove & twine  21.00    1 barrel pork & beef  8.00    Sundry small debts not collected  25.00     $70.50  
Nath l Chesbrough
I do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (made in open Court) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly 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 seventy dollars & fifty cents - That the annexed petitions of Robert Williams and William A Morgan are also truly copied from the record of said Court, and that on due examination & inquiry the Court find that said Williams and Morgan are men of fair character for truth - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at New London in
County this 19 th day of June A D 1827 Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court in New London County.