Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,857, Levi Dikeman, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Dikeman, Levi Rebecca
Nr. 24,857
CONTENTS

17535 Connecticut
Levi Dorrman
of Milton in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Bell, of the Reg t commanded by Col Webb in the Connecticut line for 21 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 70 Dollars ——— Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Aug t 1833 and del d B. Isaac of Hartford Conn Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '35 $ 140.00 Pension allowance ending 4 Sept '33 35.00
$175.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Solomonwell Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 16

Connecticut 297 Rebecca Hilkeman of Milton in the State of Conn who was a son in the company commanded by Captain John of the regiment commanded by Colonel in the army late widow of Levi Hilkeman late of Milton in the war of the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 70 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. Cont. p. in 2 May 1835 to be deducted Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Dec 1834 sent to Hana Norwalk Ct  Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $350.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 35.00 $420.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 1836  Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk Book 1 Vol. 1 Page 77

State of Connecticut, } ss. County of Fairfield
On this 18 th day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Probate within and for the District of New Haven in said County
now sitting, Zeri Dikeman - a resident of Wilton in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged years, who being first 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, 1832, That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
That in Redding in the County of Fairfield in said State. I enlisted into Capt. Stephen Pate's Company in the Month of June 1775 under Col. Webb of Stamford. was Marched to Boston. and was there discharged. in December having served six Months.
In the fall of the Year 1776. I enlisted in said Redding into Capt. Johnson Reed's company. under Col. John Mear was Marched to New York and on the lines and discharged on the lines having served three Months.
In the Spring of the Year. I was drafted in said Redding into Capt. John Gray Company was Marched to the lines. while the British were in New York. and was there discharged. having served three Months.
I of enlisted into Capt. Meigs's Company in said Redding in the Year 1778 in the team service under the Command of Col. Hays and served at Fishkill in State of New York. and served six Months discharged at said Fishkill.
In the Month of Oct. 1779. I enlisted in Danbury in said Fairfield County under Capt. David Burts as a teamster. and was stationed at Fishkill under Col. Hays and served six Months. and was discharged at said Danbury.
In the Month of April. 1780. I moved to Norwalk and entered the service under Capt. Eliphalet Lockwood of said Norwalk and continued under him in guarding and protecting the coast until the close of the War was in no regular Battle now Rev. my written discharge have no documentary evidence of my service.
Born in the above said Town of Redding April 13. 1750. Recorded in my family Bible. produced in Court. and lived in said

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. Probate Court. District of Norwalk March 30. 1833 Personally appeared the within named Simon Dohman and being duly sworn under oath according to law depones and says that in 1775 entered into the service as is hereinafter stated into Capt. Bets Company Col. Webb Regt. under Gen. Lee and was in actual service for six months
1776 entered the service as is hereinafter stated into Capt. John Gray Company Col. John Moad and was in actual service three months
1778 entered the service as is hereinafter stated into Capt. Peter Company Col. Hays and was in actual service six months
1779 entered the service as is hereinafter stated into Capt. David Burrows Company Col. Hays and was in actual service six months
1780 entered the service into Capt. Elephalick Lockwood Company Col. John Moad & Col. Stephen D. John and was in actual service on Grand end on the lines for one full year. During the whole of said term of my service making thirty three months. was in actual service as a Private soldier
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court this day and Gen. J. Dohman
Benj. Isaacs Judge
Adm. 21. per fee 70 3/4
Team Service not in the costs of Continental Pension - Paid
Adm. 21.
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Redding until April 1790. I then moved to said New-Hampshire and lived in said New-Hampshire until the year 1814. I then removed into the town of Wilton where I now live
The said Levi Dikeman 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. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Levi Dikeman
We, Samuel Mermin a clergyman, residing in the town of Wilton and Daniel Wescott residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Levi Dikeman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 82 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed, the day and date aforesaid.
Samuel Mermin Daniel Wescott
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interroga- tories, 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 Samuel Mermin who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in town of Wilton and that Daniel Wescott who has also signed to same, is a resident of the town of Wilton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Benj. Isaacs Judge
I, Charles Isaacs Clerk of the said Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Levi Dikeman for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Office, this 10 day of Augt 1832.
Chas. Isaacs Clerk

State of Connecticut Fairfield County
On this twelfth day of November 1836 personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of New York in said County and State being a Court of Record. Rebecca Dikeman a resident of Watertown in the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836. That she is the Widow of Levi Dikeman who was a private soldier during the revolutionary War and owing to her great age and infirmities can not prove her own knowledge. That for said husband's services for the United States, but to the best of her knowledge and belief the names and rank of the officers and the terms of his services are fully laid down at her provere and sworn to and will appear by his declaration and application in granting said Levi Dikeman a Pension under the act of June 7. 1832 on the Records at Washington as per his Certificate dated the 26 day of August. 1833 and N. 17535 which Certificate was surrendered to the War Department on the death of said Levi Dikeman.
She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Dikeman on the 9 th day of February 1774 in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four that her husband the aforesaid Levi Dikeman died on the 2 nd day of May. Eighteen hundred and thirty five and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before this Court of Probate.
Rebecca Dikeman Her Mark

My wife was born cD 1750 April the 11 and 12 my wife the first and was married February the 9 cD 1774 our oldest son Samuel was born November the 2nd Day cD 1774 James was born April the 7 cD 1775 Salmon was born December the 11 1777 Sturges was born September the 17 cD 1780
Rebecca was born September the 9 cD 1782
Levi was born October the 6 cD 1784
Clarey was born March the 2 cD 1787
Esther was born July the 18 cD 1789
Polley was born February the 10 cD 1792
Aaron was born January the 3 cD 1796
My Son Sturges was killed April the 25 cD 1791 in the 11 year of his age
My Daughter Clarey died November the 28 Day in the 28 year of her age cD 1807
Levi Dikeman Died May 2nd 1885 A.E. 85 years 1 month & 9 Days

We the subscribers saw the Rev. Mr. Nathan Bartlett join in Marriage the above named Levi Dikeman and Rebecca Lyons, on the 9 th day of Feby A. D. 1774.
John Couch
Sarah Couch
A true Copy of the Original Certificate Test, John Couch, Regist.
State of Connecticut.
Fairfield County ss. Redding
Oct r 21 st 1836.
I certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of Record
Attest Jonathan H. Sanford Town Clerk

August 4, 1938
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LEVI DIKEMAN W. 24057 BA-J/1838:MLB
Mr. William M. Clevenger 17 South Stanton Place Atlantic City, New Jersey
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request a photostatic copy of the affidavit of Daniel Wescott which is on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 24057, based upon service of Levi Dikeman.
Levi Dikeman made application for pension on August 10, 1838, then a resident of Wilton, Connecticut. His affidavit, or statement, continues on a second page on which is the affidavit of Daniel Wescott.
If you desire only the affidavit of Daniel Wescott on this closing page of application of Levi Dikeman, the cost will be twenty-five cents. If you desire the entire application of Levi Dikeman on August 10, 1838, in support of which was the affidavit of Daniel Wescott, the cost will be fifty cents.
Please make remittance by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. Do not send postage stamps in payment.
Very truly yours
A. B. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

M. CLEVINGER 10 SOUTH STENTON PLACE ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
In the Revolutionary War Pension files W 24857 relating to the soldier Levi Dikeman is an affidavit by one Daniel Wescott. What would the charge for a photostatic copy of this affidavit.
Wm Dewey 7/8/33
Very truly yours
A. B. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

1933-Aug. 4 H. M. Ellsworth ad cost of photo. MNH
Recd WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 2485
Rebecca Dikeman
wid. of
Levi Dikeman
Div. Rev. War
Act June 7 th 1836.
Index: Vol A , Page 185
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss Probate Court District of Southport Personally appeared Daniel Jackson aged 86 and being duly sworn in open Court depose and say that he is well acquainted with Lieut. Dikeman of Milton in said County and knows that said Dikeman served in the Revolutionary War under Capt. Ephraim Lockwood of said Southport from the month of April 1780 to the close of the War in guarding and protecting the sea coast and he was a good soldier
Daniel Jackson
Sworn and subscribed this 10 day Augt. 1832 and that said Daniel Jackson is a credible Person
Benj. Loewen Judge

7 I Benjamin Lynes of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut Aged twenty three years, being first sworn According to Law, do depose and say, That I am well and personally acquainted with Levi Dikeman of of Wilton in said County, and have knowledge, that in the year 1778 - the said Dikeman, then residing in Redding in said County, enlisted into a Company raised to proceed to Boston in the State of Massachusetts, for the defense of said Town. That he left home and proceeded on said Town as this deponent believes in the Month of June 1778 - and was absent about six months - This deponent lives in the family of said Dikeman during his absence, and knows that his family frequently received letters from him dated at Boston. And further that said Dikeman sustains a fair character for integrity and truth -
Benj a Lynes
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } S Ridgefield 3 rd August 1832
On the day and year aforesaid personally ap- peared Benjamin Lynes, known to me as a person of truth and veracity, and who has subscribed the foregoing deposition, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same
Before me Harvey Smith Justice of Peace

I David Gilbert of Bridgewater in the County of Linnfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy six years being first duly sworn according to law do depose and say, That I am acquainted with David Dikeman of Wilton in the County and State aforesaid and was acquainted with said Dikeman during the war of the Revolution, and according to my best recollection and present beliefs said Dikeman enlisted in the year 1778 in the Spring of the year under Micajah Starr and served until some time in the month of November of the same year making six months or more in the army service being under Ezra Starn who was at that time Quarter Master General, said service was performed in New Jersey and at White Plains in the State of New York, at the expiration of said service said Dikeman was honorably dismissed as this deponent verily thinks and believes. That also in the year 1779 in the month of October said Dikeman re-enlisted into the army service for the period of six months under David Boushton, Quarter Master still being Quarter Master General and served out the full period of his enlistment in the army service, at White Plains, Fishkill & Newburgh, this deponent well recollects, that 20 loads of onions at a particular time were carted to Fishkill for the use of the army at that place and vicinity and that Matthew Boushton a Quarter Master was dismissed the service for selling part of his load of onions from which service Dikeman

was honorably discharged at the expiration of said six months and for then say not - except that the engine before named was in the militia or state troops -
David Gilbert
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield { Bridgefield Aug 1 st 1832 Be it remembered that on the day and year above written, personally appeared David Gilbert to me well known as a person of truth and credi- -bility. She gives this deposition in consequence of being unable from age and bodily infirm- -ity to attend court and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated after being duly cautioned to speak the truth -
before me J. S. Northrop Justice of Peace and Associate Judge of Court for Fairfield County -

State of Connecticut Fairfield County. ss. Nov. 12. 1836 Personally appeared before me Benj. Isaac a justice of Peace within and for said County. I know him to be the person described in and who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says, that he is in the fifty fourth year of his age and is the third child of Benj and Rebecca Dikeman and will remember of seeing his father prepare himself to go on board during the revolutionary war and also that the said Benj Dikeman died on the 2 d day of May 1835 and that his Mother Rebecca Dikeman has remained his Widow ever since that period. I know him to be a man of good and substantial character and a respectable person & witness.
Benj. Isaac justice of Peace
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss I George Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Benj. Isaac whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Probate to the foregoing deposition was on the day and date thereof and for more than one year before a justice of Peace in and for said Fairfield County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths and to take depositions and on well acquainted with the handwriting of said Benj. Isaac and know the same to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this 21 day of November 1836
G. Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County. S. Norwalk Oct 22. 1836
Personally appeared before Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace within and for said County. Samuel P. Randle of Milton in said County and being duly sworn according to Law depose and says that he is Forty four years of age that was well acquainted with Levi Dikeman late a Minister of the Gospel and well acquainted with his Widow Rebecca Dikeman and knows that said Rebecca Dikeman has remained the Widow of said Levi Dikeman and is now his Widow
Samuel P. Randle
Sworn and subscribed the day and
Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and that he is a respectable and credible Witness
Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County. S. Norwalk Nov. 12. 1836
Personally appeared before Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace within and for said County. Frederick Brown of said Norwalk who being duly sworn according to Law depose and say that he is well acquainted with Levi Dikeman formerly of Milton in said County a Revolution Warman of the United States and knows that said Levi Dikeman died May the 1. 1835 and that he is well acquainted with Rebecca Dikeman and that she has remained his Widow since that period
Sworn and subscribed the day Frederick Brown and Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and that he is a credible Person & Witness
Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace

I, George Taylor Clerk of the said Probate Court being a Court of Record do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Rebecca Dickerson for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Court this 21 day of November 1836
Wayne Clerk

When was Levi Dikeman pri. 70/8/1. Pan m (act p. 2) at Court agency act 7. June 1832?
E.W.C. Nov 3. '36
Paid 2 May 1835 paid to that period kk