Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,408, Daniel Dikeman, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conin,
Dikeman, Daniel
S 15-408
Carded
CONTENTS

Hon O.S. Seymour Sep 26 1852 Saml J. Lockwood ap 9/8/53
32.57%  Connecticut
Daniel Dikeman
of Bridgeport in the State of Conn. who was a Private in the Co.  commanded by Captain Davenport of the Regt  commanded in the Forest time for 14 weeks & 23 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. at the rate of 47 Dollars 00 . Cents per a to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Oct  1833 and sent to Abd.  Johnson  Mariposa Co.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833  117.50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept 34  23.50
$141.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Issued June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm. Salner Clerk, Book 6 Vol. thru Page 11

State of Connecticut } ss County of Fairfield }
on this 11 th day of September 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before the County probate for the District of Fairfield in the County and State aforesaid. Daniel Dikeman, a resident of the Town of Kennebec in said County & State aged Twenty six years who being first duly 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 th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. The declarant says that in the spring of the year 1777. when the British went to Danbury in Connecticut and burnt it. he volunteered under a Lieutenant John Davenport of Stamford in Connecticut. with whom he was personally acquainted to aid in repelling the Enemy. General Wooster. General Storch and General Gourd & Silliman were in command on the side of the Americans. The applicant says that he was wounded in the thigh by the bayonet of a British soldier at Ridgefield at the time of their return from Danbury, and Lieut Davenport was killed by his side. The time he spent, in actual Service, was three days and the time of service, and disability by his wound was one month. He served at this time, as a private soldier, and a militia man - The applicant also says that in the year 1778 his Father Daniel Dikeman then residing in Danbury in Connecticut. with others living in that Town. was drafted and marched to Fickett

in the state of New York. The names of the Officers the applicant cannot now recollect. Nor the length of time for which his Father was drafted - but according to the best of his recollection a Col. Muzzey commanded a Regiment there. Some time after his arrival at Fishkill his Father was taken sick and obtained a furlough to return home for one month. At the expiration of which time not being being able to return to his post & duty his son the present applicant volunteered and went to Fishkill in his Father's room and was accepted as a substitute in the place of his Father. Here the declarant says he did military duty as a private soldier for three months viz during the months of September October and November of 1778 until the time for which his Father had been drafted had expired - when he was discharged and had a written discharge which he has since lost. The troops he thinks were state troops. or were raised by the State of Connecticut. He knows of no one now living (though there may be such) who can testify for him in either of the foregoing cases. The declarant also says that sometime in the month of March in the year 1779 according to the best of his recollection he was drafted for nine months and that he with the company of drafted men in which he was placed were marched under Capt Benjamin Broughton of Danbury to camp in the state of New York, where they were stationed during the period of the draft. Paul Hamilton was Lieutenant and Jacob Paterson Ensign of the said company and he thinks that Col Schuyler Beardsley commanded the Regiment to which the said Company belonged. He He did military duty as a private soldier at camp until the time for which he was drafted had

expired. when he was discharged, but had no written discharge. The Troops he thinks were state Troops - The applicant also says that in August 1781 he enlisted for one month under Ensign Levi Keeler of Ridgefield to guard the Beach of Long Island Sound. And he was stationed at a place then called Five mile River in the Town of New Canaan where he stood and did military duty as a Private Soldier for the term of his enlistment. and for one month. when he was discharged. but had no written discharge. The Guard was an independent guard and were as he believes state Troops. and the duty of the Soldier was his only business during the term of his engagement. He knows of no one who can testify for him in this case - The declarant further says that in October 1781 according to the best of his recollection and belief. he was again drafted for one month to serve in a Company of guards. destined to guard some part of the coast of Long Island Sound & was commanded by Capt. Daniel Houghton James Beckwith of Ridgefield was Lieutenant and William Foster of the same place was ensign. The said Company was stationed at Five mile River then so called in the Town of New Canaan in Connecticut. where in the months of October and November of the year of 1781 he did military duty as a Private Soldier for one month. and at the expiration of his term of service he was regularly discharged. but had no written discharge. The duty of the soldier was his only business during the term of his draft. And the guards in this instance also he believes were state Troops - The declarant says that he was born in the Town of Danbury

in the State of Connecticut the 29 th day of August 1757. and that Danbury was the place of his residence (except for short periods of occasional absence) until about twenty two years last past. During this last mentioned period he has resided part of the time in Fairfield. part of the time in Weston and most of the time in Norwalk near the border of Fairfield. He has no record of his age. He says at present, it having been burnt by the British at the time they burnt Danbury - He is acquainted with Peter Wijnkoop and Louis Bayame a Esqrs of Fairfield and Capt Samuel Burrill and Seth Taylor Esqrs of Norwalk and some others who can testify as to his general character. So far as he knows the declarant says he has produced the best evidence in his power in support of his application. Time & casualties have swept from the Theater of Life many, very many of those who were actors in the great Drama of the Revolution and particularly of those, who were coactors with the applicant in some of its rugged Scenes. on which account he says he will be obliged to rely up upon his own attested declaration and the evidence in proof of his general character for truth & revolutionary services. to sustain some part of his claim - But trusting in the candor and impartiality of the Pension department of the Government he commits his case to their decision, in full confidence of a favorable result - And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not in the Pension Rolls of the Agency of any State - And the declarant also adds although in some measurement of place here. that the reason why he has not produced the testimony of a Clergyman. is because the Clergyman with whom he was personally acquainted. while residing in

residing in Danbury we chace and others of that order to whom he has been personally known since that time are all some of them chace and some of them have removed to parts unknown to the applicant, so that he finds himself reduced to the necessity of employing the testimony of Laymen of respectability only, to prove his general or traditionary character as a Soldier of the Revolution Sworn to & Subscribed on the day Daniel Dikeeman and year aforesaid before David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid.
We Peter Wijnkoop Esq. of Fairfield aged sixty one years and George L Cable a resident of the Town of Stamford and both of the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Dikeeman who has submitted and sworn to the foregoing declaration, having resided for many years in his immediate neighborhood. That we believe him to be seventy six years of age. That he is respected and beloved in the very neighborhood where he resides & have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. and we also know him to be a man of truth and of unquestionable veracity -
Sworn to & Subscribed on Peter Wijnkoop the day & year aforesaid Geo. L. Cable before David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid.

And the said Court hereby declares its Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 it, that Peter Wynkoop Esq. is a resident of the Town Fairfield and George L. Calk a resident of the Town of Stewart. who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Certificate are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to full credit. - David Hill Judge of Probate
I David Hill Esq. Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Fairfield aforesaid. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Dikeman for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of Office on this 11 th day of September David Hill Esq. Clerk.

State of Connecticut ss District of Fairfield September 11 th 1833 I David Hill Judge of the County Probate for the District aforesaid. do hereby certify that Samuel Avery and Louis Raymond Esq. the two persons who have subscribed and made oath each to one the foregoing depositions are sworn are sworn of the strictest veracity and that their statement is entitled to full credit; and I do also certify that Eliphalet Swift before whom the deposition of Samuel Avery & Louis Raymond was taken & that Henry Smith before whom the deposition of Samuel Robbins was taken B. are Justices of the peace within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid -
State of Connecticut ss County of Fairfield ss
I David Hill Jr. Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Fairfield in said County and State. do hereby certify that David Hill the who has subscribed the foregoing certificate is Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid and also that the foregoing signature of his name is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of Office this 11 th day of September AD 1833 - David Hill Jr. Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MOS/mar
May 1, 1930.
Mrs. J. D. Waterbury 5 Bonnie Brae Utica New York.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 15408, it appears that Daniel Dikeman was born August 29, 1757 and was the son of Daniel.
While a resident of Danbury, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut troops as follows:
In the spring of 1777, at the time the British burned Danbury, three days under Lieutenant John Davenport, and received a bayonet wound in the thigh by a British soldier, at Ridgefield, on the return from Danbury. From September 1778 three months as a substitute for his father, names of officers not given. From March 1779 nine months in Captain Benjamin Boughton's Company, Colonel Nehemiah Beardsley's Regiment. From August 1781 one month under Ensign Levi Shuler (?) and was engaged in guarding the coast of Long Island Sound, and from October 1781 one month under Captain David Boughton and was engaged in guarding the coast of Long Island Sound.
He lived at Danbury, Connecticut until about 1811, and from that date he lived in Fairfield, Weston and Norwalk.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Norwalk, Connecticut.
In 1853 he was living in Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
There are no data relative to wife and children.
This is the history of the only soldier named Daniel Dikeman that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

P
15408 INVALID.
1880. May 1. Sick to Mrs. D. Waterbury, Secy Frederick Dikeman D. 39447 M.C.O.
File No. 15.408
Daniel Dikeman
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 97
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Westport Oct. 22/1852
J. P. Heath Esq. Commr. Pensions
Dear Sir
Nearly two years since Mr Daniel Dikeman of this place who has been receiving half pay for some twenty years or more for Revolutionary services applied for the Office for the arrears of his pension. The business was managed by an agent here who professes never to have received anything of it although he has always stated that it would be paid without doubt - Mr Dikeman is very old & infirm & in destitute circumstances and his friends as well as himself are anxious to ascertain whether the money has not actually been paid for him - If it has it would be a great relief and comfort to him during the rest of his life. and it would confer a great favor on an old helpless & poor man who has good claims on his country if you would be good enough to investigate & inform him as soon as possible whether he has not been cheated out of his dues by the designing men - Please address -
Yours Respectfully (C) Samuel J. Lockwood Westport -
Ct -

Washington S. Oct. 1852
Sir,
We have a power of attorney on file to examine the Revolutionary papers of Daniel Dikeman, of Conn. I have once examined the papers, we are requested to re examine them, & desire to do so.
Respectfully
Edward Smith
J. B. Heath Esq Com Pensions

John
Comm. 25-5-1853
Concord
E. Swift
FREE
Rel: to Dickerson Dan. Dickerson Washington
Jan 3 1853

Westport Cont. June 11 th 1853 -
Sir
Daniel Dikeman a poor, but respectable old man, over ninety, whom I have known over twenty years, draws a small pension of about forty five dollars a year & who has always claimed he had not justice done him & says he actually served in the war of the rebellion two years & four months & ought to receive a full pension owed upon me & requested that I would make some enquiries of you for him & as a matter of charity I told him I would. He said that about two years ago a man by the name of Taylor, I believe from New York called on him & told him he could get a full pension for him & also his back pay & all he had to do was to give him a power of attorney. That he accordingly gave him a power of attorney. That some two or three months ago Taylor called on him again & told him that he had got the pension allowed & also the back pay & he had nothing to do but get the money. That he had since understood that Taylor had been arrested & was in jail for some fraudulent conduct in procuring pensions. That he could not ascertain whether he had done any money for him, & if any thing what - If a certificate

has been omitted who has it - I know nothing of this Taylor, but as a creed of charity to the old man, who I believe is very honest as he has always borne that character, will you inform me what has been done, if any thing, that I may inform him - With great respect
Yours
D Swift

James L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Washington
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Fairfield Sept. 17. 1883.
Sir,
In compliance with the request of Daniel Dikeman, whom I believe to be incapable of a wilful misrepresentation, in relation to his revolutionary services, I herewith forward his declaration and documents, in support of his claim to be placed on the pension roll. The situation of the worthy applicant makes him very desirous to receive the amount of pension to which he is entitled as speedily as may be practicable. I therefore commend his case to your early consideration.
With great respect,
I am your obedt Servt.
J. L. Edwards Esq. G. Pomfret

Know all Men by these Present s, THAT I Daniel Dikeman a resident of the town of Westport Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and appoint Edwards Smith of Washington D.C., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place and stead, to examine each and every paper now on file in the Pension Department Washington City D.C. relating to my claim of pension as a private in the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Eighteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one Daniel Dikeman
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Geo. L. Cable Judge
Personally appeared before me Daniel Dikeman who acknowledges the above letter of attorney to be his free act & deed George L. Cable Judge of the court of Probate for the District of Westport County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut

Daniel Dikeman Rev. Pensioner To
Edwards Smith Power of attorney.
we desire to see the papers in this case 27 Sept '57 Ex by Edwards Smith
W Cole Sept 27. 51

STATE OF CONNECTICUT COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE. } ,,
Cert. I, Thomas Robinson CLERK. of the Court, within and for Fairfield County, and keep- er of the Seal thereof, hereby certify—That
George L. Cable Esquire, was on the 18th day of Sept 1851 and now is Judge of the County Court within and for said County duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and other instruments, and to administer Oaths; that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and know that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court, at New Britain in said County and State, on this 21 st day of Sept A. D. 1851
Thomas Robinson Clerk.

We Lewis Raymond & Samuel Avery of the town & county of Fairfield of lawful age do hereby certify That we have been acquainted with Daniel Dikeman of Fairfield the foregoing appli- -cant for a pension, for more than twenty years last past, that he has lived in the vicinity of our residence; That his general character for truth and veracity is good, and the public may place full confidence in the truth of whatever he relates under oath -
Given to Guilford at said Fairfield this 9 th day of Sept 1833 -
Sam Avery _____ Lewis Raymond
Edward Scripps Jr of Scan

I Samuel Stebbins of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, being in the 70 th year of my age, since the 27 th day of February last past. Do on Oath testify and say, that in the Autumn of the year 1781. I was in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Broughton, whose Lieut. was James Rockwell, and whose Ensign was William Forrester, both of said Ridgefield. That said Company were drafted for the term of one Month, and that said Company were stationed at or near Five mile River called, in the Town of Norwalk, for the purpose of guarding the Coast. Said service was performed according to my best recollection in the Months of October and November, and I well recollect that Daniel Dikeman was a private in said Company and did the duty of a private soldier for the full term of said Month. Said Dikeman as I then understood, and now understand, was of the Town of Danbury at the time when the service was performed. Samuel Stebbins
Sworn and subscribed this 26 th day of August 1832, and I Certify that the Deponent is a Credible Witness
Harry Smith Justice of Peace

I William Patch of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy two years being duly sworn, do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Daniel Likeman of Fairfield in the said County, who hath applied for a Pension. He was born in said Danbury, and continued to reside there until long after the Revolution, and has. In the year 1779, there was a draft of men from the Regiment of Connecticut Militia commanded by Colonel Nehemiah Hazard. I was on a tour of duty in the service of the United States, at Carmel in the State of New York New York, Captain Benjamin Baughton who commanded a Company in the said Regiment entered the service in said Regiment, entered said town, and marched from said Danbury with his Company, or a part of it. My Brother John Patch then belonged to said Company of Militia and there marched under the command of said Captain Baughton to join the said Regiment at Carmel. I do not recollect at what time said Baughton left Danbury with his Company, but believe it was in the spring of the year. Afterward, and in the month of July, or August of the same year, my said Brother John was drowned in said Carmel. and since that time from said Danbury attended in general with said said Company under the command of said Baughton on duty. There was in one Regiment there many present recollection, and that was commanded by said Colonel Hazard, and I further depose and say that I saw the said Daniel Likeman at

said Carmel, in the service in said captain Bousfield's company: And although he cannot distinctly & positively now recollect yet according to his best recollection 'twas the said Daniel M'Kernan left said Bousfield in the command of said Bousfield, at the time he marched from Washington as aforesaid.  Wm Peter
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
On this 27th day of August A.D. 1833 personally appeared William Peter the above named Deponent, and being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the same. And further testified that well knows the said Deponent to be a man of truth and credible witness to the facts testified by him.  Deponent
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
A Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for the District of Danbury in said State, do hereby certify that on the 27th day of August A.D. 1833 William Peter the above named Deponent, personally appeared before said Court and subscribed to the foregoing deposition, and being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the same. And the said Court doth certify that said Deponent is well known to the Court here, to be a man of truth & credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, the day & year first above said.  Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

Stephen Root of Danbury in the county of Fairfield & State of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said county and State do hereby certify that Edward Taylor Esq. who has testified to the caption of the foregoing deposition of William Root is Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is in his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand this 27 th day of August 1833
Stephen Root Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury Conn- -necticut -