Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1919, Jesse Child, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
born.
Child, Jesse
R. 1919.
CONTENTS

6132
Sara Child Massachusetts
Received 18 May 1833 vide letter to Simon Davis do to W Broadman Sept 5. 1823.
1919

REJECTED
S. 919
P. O. _____
Jesse Child
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

John Child Massachusetts - declaration made in Connecticut
Resche Admitted
in Aug 16 '79 as Jan 15 '80
4.29
Simon Davis Prison
Prison Webster Mass

BRIEF in the case of Jesse Child  of Webster  in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 40  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1779 - - - 1 9 — Private Gen. Gates, Col. H. L. Douglass  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wethersfield, Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  traditional and two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  They want the certificate of a magistrate. Clergyman omits the credibility of one of the witnesses is omitted 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payson
Examining Clerk.

Aug 24 45
W. H. Chapman New York
J. P. Kennedy Esq. Commissioner of Revenue Washington
Dear

Webster August 19. 1843
Dear Sir:
Jesse Childs application for Pension was made 1833. under the act of 1832 S. Davis, agent.
Yours Respectfully
William Crossman
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions.
see my letter of July 8. your reply of the 14. 1843

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Connecticut County of Windham 3 rd .
On this 19 th day of July A.D. 1832, personally appeared before me, the County Court of the County of Windham aforesaid now sitting, Isepe Child a resident of the town of West  East Windham and State of Massachusetts, aged 70 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, states on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In 1779, I was drafted into Capt Samuel Chandler Co, about the last of June or 1 st of July, mustered at Windham Ct. & was marched under Capt Buel to the North River near Robinsons farm, was put into Col Dyer's Regt. I believe was taken sick & put into the hospital, on my recovery joined the Regt. & did duty, marched to East Point & to Danbury Ct & then ordered to Morris town N Jersey, to winter quarters at the barracks, there prepared, was discharged about the 1 st of March 1780, was out nine months.
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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.
The following interrogatories were by said Comt propounded to said applicant, viz:-
1. Where and in what year were you born? I was born in Thompson Ct. where I have lived till within a few years now in Webster Mass. born in May 1762. 2. Have you any records of your age; and if so, where is it? Yes on my family record 3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? Thompson Ct. where I have always lived till within a few years now in Webster Mass. 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? as I have stated 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. I have so far as I can remember them 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? I do not know as I ever had one
7. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief in your services as a soldier of the revolution. Amarah Winter, Lydia Child. J. S. (Sister) & Jason Phipps. &  Moses Pixley.

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut. Attest: William Bolles Clerk.
Lycaenidae Jason Dufresne
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Wickham in the State of Connecticut . Attest: Jeremiah B. Buel Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Lydia Child who has signed the preceding certificate is a resistant resident in the said town of Worcester, in the Prov. of Massachusetts and that Jason Phipps who signed the same is a resistant in the said town of Thompson and is a credible person, and that this statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Armin Bollerblab
Asrin Bolles Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the S. Court in the matter of the application of Sasse which for suspension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19 th day of July, A.D. 1832.
Miss Bessie Clarke

Pepe Child N o 6132.
P D
Roles - until 16 th Aug 7 79 since Jun 15. - '80
Admitted. Private. Cont l & Nutrition Comm te 9 months
Sans from 16 Aug 1779 to Jan 15. 1780 - Su. Cl. Rely. Cl. Dunke's neg t .

And I the said Moses Bixby within referred to in the bond as within in open court , do hereby say, that I was mustered with the within Jesse Child, at Win Abarn. & in the same Regt. a soldier with him. I saw him then & ever have known him, as he has set forth & remember he was sick -
Moses Bixby
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before the County Court of the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut - Attest William Bolles Clerk
(Signature of William Bolles)