Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7801, Elisha Holton, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Holton, Elisha Lydia
W. 7801
CONTENTS

N o 1605
Elisha Motton
Admitted
Private 11 mo. 26. 86
Surg t 3. 15
$51 86

BRIEF in the case of  Elisha Hotten  of Hartford in the State of Connecticut  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 82  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. As a Gen.     In 1775 Spring " 8 " Waiter Col. Putnam, Mass. S. troops   1776 Febr enlisted for 1 year served about 10 mos. & was sick near a furlough till the end of the year   1779 " 3 " Serg. t M c ay Capt. Buck  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brookfield, Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living & traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Brown Examining Clerk.

6018  Connecticut
Elisha Horton
of — in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain — of the — commanded by Col Putnam in the Cont. line for Pait at 10 men 2 days $36.86 Sundry 3 " — 15.00 $51.86
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 57 Dollars 86 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Feb 1837 and sent to H. D. Dyer Esq. Esq. J. T. Pease. Pension Arrears to 4th of July. 1832 $77.79 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar 1834 25.93 $103.72
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk, Book 9 Vol. 3 Page 47

See letter to L. T. Pease Sufield Conn. 25 March 1859.

3497. Connecticut Lydia Holton widow of Eliza Holton Massachusetts who served in the Revolutiona- ry war, as a Pri & Sgt
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 57 Dollars 86 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 24 th day of Jany/54 and sent to
J. H. Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 69 Vol. A
Q 2. 3. 16 32

State of Connecticut } Hartford County, } ss Enfield.
On this 2 nd day of January A.D. 1854. Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield in said Hartford County Lydia Holton a resi- dent of said Enfield aged Eighty three years. Who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Elisha Holton, late of said Enfield who was pensioned for his services as a private under the act of June 7 th 1832, at the rate of $51 86 per annum.
She further declares that she was married to the said Elisha Holton by Caleb Booth Esq a justice of peace on the 15 th day of November Eighteen hundred and 15 and that her said husband died in said Enfield on the 3 rd day of Feb y 1837 that she was not married to him

prior to the second of January Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated
She further declares that she is now a widow. And she has now no record of her Mar- riage. In presence
A. Johnson
Harvey Allen
Sydia { her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
Before me Abiah Johnson Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield
I Amelia E. Johnson Clerk of the probate court for the District of Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the Hon. Abiah Johnson before whom the foregoing declaration was made and certified is at this time sole Judge of said Probate Court; and that his signature to said certificate is in his own hand writing, & well known to me. In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said court at said Enfield on the seventh day of January 1854. A. E. Johnson Clerk.

Town Clerks Office
Enfield Connecticut January 7 th 1854
This certifies that I have carefully examined the records of Marriages in this Office and can find no record of the Marriage of Elisha Norton with Lydia Parsons.
Attest
Abiah Johnson Town Clerk

I Sophia Parsons, a resident of the Town of Enfield, in Hartford County & State of Connecticut, of the age of Sixty two years; being duly sworn according to law, do hereby depose & say; That I was well acquainted with the late Elisha Holton, of said Enfield; & know him to have been a pensioner, for his services in the Revolutionary War. I well know that he was the Husband of the present widow, Lydia Holton; I was present at his Marriage, with Mrs Lydia Parsons; it was in the fall of the year, a few days before our Connecticut Thanksgiving; Thirty eight years ago: They were married by Caleb Booth Esq, a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, Connecticut.
I am also well knowing to the fact, and do hereby depose & say; that the said Elisha Holton died in said Enfield Seventeen years ago the present winter; & his widow is still living, & is his widow -
Sophia Parsons
Sworn to and subscribed, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public authorized by Law to administer oaths & take depositions, throughout said State; and I certify that the Deponent is a credible & respectable person. Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

I Benjamin B Parsons, a resident of Enfield in Hartford County Connecticut, aged Sixty four years, being duly sworn according to law, do hereby depose & say, that I was well acquainted with the late Elisha Wolton a Revolutionary Pensioner, of said Enfield; and I depose & say, that I was present, & saw him married, to Mrs Lydia Parsons of said Enfield, thirty eight years ago, last November. I also know, & depose, that he the said Elisha Wolton died in said Enfield in the month of February Eighteen hundred & thirty seven, and his widow, the said Lydia Wolton, is still living, & remains his Widow. I am certain as to the time of the marriage as my son Benjamin Parsons was born the February after, of which I have a record in my family Bible as follows.
Benjamin Parsons born Feb. 25 1816
Benj. B. Parsons
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public by Law authorized to administer oaths & take depositions throughout said State at Enfield aforesaid on the 2 nd day of January 1854 And I certify that the deponent is a credible & respectable man.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

I Harvey Allen, a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County, & State of Connecticut of the age of Fifty nine years; being duly sworn according to law, do hereby depose and say; That I was well acquainted with the late Elisha Holton, a pensioner of the United States, for his services in the Revolutionary War. I am well knowing to the fact, that he married Mrs Lydia Parsons, of Enfield (Conn.)  of said . I was present at their marriage; they were mar- ried by Caleb Booth Esq, a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County. I was married myself in March 1815; & the said Holton in Nov following; I have a record of my own Marriage but not of Mr Holtons.
He, the said Elisha Holton, died in said Enfield on the 3 rd day of Feby 1837, That is the date on his Tomb Stone, in the old burying ground in Enfield: his widow the said Lydia Holton is still living, & remains the widow of the said Elisha Holton; & has never again married. I was not at his funeral, but heard of it within a few days of the time, it took place.
South Windsor Dec r 22 nd , 1853. Harvey Allen Sworn to and subscribed before me Jesse

Charlton a Notary Public, authorized by Law to administer oaths & take depositions thruout said State; And I certify that he deponent is a credible witness & respectable man..
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 State of Connecticut County of Hartford } Probate District of Enfield }
On this 6 th day of August 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before William Dixon Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield Elisha Hotten a Resident of Enfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged Eighty two 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 That in the Spring of 1775 he believes in the month of April he Enlisted for the Term of Eight months in a Company of Massachusetts Massachusetts State Troops raised in the Town of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts That immediately after his Enlistment he was called upon to Serve as a waiter to Col Rufus  Brade Putnam That Col Rufus Putnam was his Uncle being brother his mother. That he went to Roxbury & Served there the full term of Eight months & during the whole term was retained by the Col Rufus Putnam as his waiter. That his memory is very much impaired by old age and recent severe sickness and for that reason & for the reason that by being waiter to Col Rufus Putnam he had little to do with the

Company to which he belonged he cannot now recollect the names of the officers of his Company he frequently saw all the late officers who were stationed at & who visited Roxbury but he recollects the names only of Generals Washington & Putnam. he knows of no person living who served with him in the same Company or Regiment. he became acquainted with Abadi at Green a person then serving in the Connecticut Troops at Roxbury now living at Enfield Connecticut where he the P. Walton now resides and the P. Green can testify to his service at Roxbury. that in the month of Feb 1776 he again Enlisted at P. Brookfield for the term of one year that he continued to serve as waiter to P. Col. Putnam  General Putnam that soon after wards he believes in the month of March he went with P. Col. Putnam to the City of New York that his route lay by Norwalk in Connecticut to New London thence by water to New York that he remained at New York until May of June. he cannot certainly tell which. that he had been sometime confined with sickness that as soon as he was able to travel which he thinks was in the month of June his uncle the P. Col. Putnam told him that he had a furlough & might go home to Brookfield. that he continued to serve his health was not restored until after the expiration of the year for which he had Enlisted

so that he did not leave the Regiment again, but believing his furlough was renewed & Extended to the Expiration of year. That he knows of no person living who can testify to his Service at New York That there may be persons living in at Brookfield but that he has not visited that place for forty years that he removed from at Brookfield to Enfield in the State of Connecticut in the year 1777 or 1778 that he married at at Enfield & has ever since resided there That in the year 1779 in the month of July  May as he believes he volunteered from a Company of Militia at at Enfield & Marched to New London under Capt Jonathan Bush & served there three months. That while there he was appointed Sergeant Major and performed the duties of that office until the Expiration of the three months. That there is Deaph a person now living at at Enfield served with him at New London & can testify to that Service. That he does not know that there is any record of his birth, that he was born in at Brookfield in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts where  where that he went to Brookfield to live at the age of 9 years & lived there 15 day of Feb. 1750 That he removed from that place as before mentioned & that his relations all left that place any soon after that he does know that he has a single acquaintance living there now, that he is wholly destitute of property and it is out of his power to send to Brookfield to Enquire for Evidence of his Service; He

hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state
Elisha Hutton
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm Dixon, Judge
We Francis L Robbins a Clergyman residing in Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut and Lorain D Pease a Pastor of a Church residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Hutton who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty two years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Francis L Robbins.
Lorain D Pease
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm Dixon, Judge
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Francis L Robbins who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the Town of Enfield and that Lorain D Pease who has also signed the same is a Resident in the Town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm Dixon, Judge
I Alonzo Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Hutton for a pension on testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 11 th day of August 1832
Alonzo Booth Clerk

State of Connecticut Hartford County Probate District of Enfield
January 29 1833
Personally appeared before me Wm Dixon Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid Elisha Hutton who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that by reason of old age severe indisposition & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his Service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned he was in the following grades, For one year & Eight months the 1 st second (Except when absent on furlough by reason of sickness) second as a private, and for three months & second as a Sergeant Major & for such Service I claim a pension I further say that I cannot find by diligent Enquiry that there is any person living at Brattlefield (where I resided when I first entered the Service) or Elsewhere who can testify to my Service Excepting Abadiah Green & Asaph Lury who have testified to the same
Elisha Hutton
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm Dixon, Judge
I hereby certify that Abadiah Green & Asaph Lury who have testified to the Service of Elisha Hutton whose depositions are hereto annexed are both credible persons
Wm Dixon, Judge

I certify that Alonso Booth who has signed the foregoing Certificate with his own proper hand is Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield duly appointed thereunder according to law
Wm Dixon, Judge

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Probate District of Enfield } 5/10
On this 14 th day of Aug t 1832 personally appeared in open Court before William Dixon Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield Obadiah Green a Resident of said Enfield who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath Testify & say that he is well acquainted with Elisha Holton a Resident of Enfield. That he first became acquainted with said Holton at Roxbury near Boston in the year 1795 that said Holton was then in the Service and acted as waiter to Col o Rufus Putnam. That he does not know how long said Holton served at Roxbury in 1795 but he recollects seeing him frequently during the summer & for that he saith not
ALL OF THIS IS TRUE
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above
Wm Dixon, Judge

State of Connecticut County of Hartford Probate District of Enfield
On this 16 th day of Aug t 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Wm Dixon Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield now sitting Col o Asaph Terry a Resident of Enfield who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath testify & say. That during the Revolutionary war Elisha Hutton now a Resident of Enfield and an applicant for a pension under the act of June 4 th 1832. first came to write at Enfield that in the year 1779 Hutton performed a tour of service at New London in a Company commanded by Capt Jonathan Back that while at New London Hutton had an  was appointment in the Staff performed the duties of it. This deponent believes it was that of Sergeant Major. Hutton served at New London this tour thru knows this deponent served in the same Company with him further he saith not Asaph Terry
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Wm Dixon, Judge

I, Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
That William
Dixon Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his proper handwriting to the foregoing Certificate, is, and for more than six months last past has been, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the Probate District of Enfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified; That said Court is a Court of record and consists of said Judge alone, having a proper Seal belonging thereto, with power to administer oaths to witnesses, touching all matters cognizable by said Court, with power also to appoint and swear a Clerk, and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Judge in court and country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the thirteenth day of _____ in the year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Thomas Day

Revolutionary War WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7801 Lydia Holton Wid. Elisha Holton Sergt. Rev. War
Act: Feby. 30/53
Index:—Vol. 28 , Page 343
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6018
Conn
No 4.110
Jan 14/54
Lyman Norton
W. H. Norton Boston
Attache $51 84 / 100
Conn Feb 3/53
J. P. Waldo; Commissioner of Pensions, Washington. D C

Feb 37 Pension Office January 16/54
Sir Please report time of last payment to or death of, within named pensioners & if arrear to whom paid
Respectfully F Burt Esqrs J. C. C. 3 and J. C. C. Present
Elisha Hooton, Act 1837. $51.83. per annum, died 4 Feb. 1837. Paid.
F Burt Auditor

Brief in the case of Sydney Hutton widow of Elisha Hutton Hartford County and State of Connecticut act of February 3 1853.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of June 7. 1832 at $51 86 / 100 per annum & paid to his death February 4th 1837
Allowed $51 86 / 100 per annum to Jan. 1853
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by Sophia Parsons & Benjamin B Parsons residents of S.D. Pa. and certified to be credible
Death of husband proved by audl. report
Identity & widowhood proved by cr. witnesses
Name and residence of Agent
J. H. Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn. Examining Clerk. J. S. Gray

East Windsor Hill Jan'y 3 rd 1883 Hon. S. P. Waldo Commissioner Sir
I herewith send the application of the widow of Elisha Holton late of Enfield in Hartford County for a pension under act of Feb y 3 rd 1883
The evidence that I file Charters before where part of the evidence was taken is a George Holton public at this time was sent in Mr. Stanley Ferry's hand about the first of December
The Commissioner informed him by letter that one Authenticated certificate would be satisfactory during the con- tinuance of the period period for which she was appointed
Yrs. Sincerely J. H. Charlton