Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,479, Dyer Converse, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Converse, Dyer
S 36,479
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36 479
Rev INVALID.
File No. 36,479
Dyer Converse Rev Mr
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

466
Connecticut Roll
Dyer Converse Capt Manning Private Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Jonathan Brace Hartford, Con.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept. 1818
5 months 2/30  $40.53
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
.76 One Year
East Windsor, Hartford Co.

Dyer bonnet print
3 April 1818
Lowest

State of Conn & 3 } / County of Hartford } /
Dyer Converse of East Windsor in 1 st County being duly sworn doth depone & say that he served in the revolutionary war, on the continental establishment since the revolutionary Conn't line for more than one year -
That having served seven months in the campaign of 1775 he again entered the service on the 1 st day of January A.D. 1776 to serve as a private for one year & faithfully served at Cambridge & New York until the term for which he enlisted had expired, when on the 2 nd of Jan'y 1777 he received an honorable discharge at Trenton - That he belonged to Capt Ephraim Manning's company, & the first Connecticut Reg't under the command of Lieut Col o Thos Grosvenor, and Col o John Barker.
That he is a resident citizen of the U. States has never had a pension - is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support -
Sworn to subscribed & } Dyer Converse this 3 rd day of April 1818 }
Before me - Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford of asaid -

These certify whom it may concern That the bearer Dyer Canverse formerly of Hillings now of East Windsor in the State of Connecticut served as a Soldier for the Liberty and Security of the United States and served one year in the year AD 1776 at Cambridge & New York in the same Regiment that I served in those terms of time given under my Hand at Danvers this 13: day of February AD 1818
Thos. Grosvenor Lieut Col Command of the 1 st Connecticut Regt of the Revolutionary Army

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss. Hartford and County of Hartford. }
I JONATHAN BRACE, Judge of the County Court, within and for said County, the same being a Court of Record, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Dyer Converse who swore to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, served as a private in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy, and on the Continental establishment, for at least the term of nine months, and is a resident citizen of the United States, in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support. His discharge he also swears is lost
And in addition to the proof contained in the foregoing affidavit, and in support thereof, I further certify that it is proved to me by the testimony under oath of  certificate hereto annexed  Thos Grosvenor Esq , who to me is well known to which appears to be genuine,  who is a credible witness, that the said Converse served in the revolutionary war, as aforesaid ;
and from the like testimony of Gordon Ellsworth that the said Converse is in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, and subscribed my name at Hartford aforesaid, this 14 th day of April —
A. D. 1818.
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of said
April 14. 1818 Sealed with the seal of said court by direction of the Honorable Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said court
Thomas Chester Clerk