The following provided by Litchfield Patriots Revolutionary War:
December 23, 1838. Litchfield Revolutionary War Patriot, Ezra Camp, died in the town of Litchfield. He is buried in the Morris Burying Ground.
On the 1st of August 1832, Ezra Camp went to the Litchfield Courthouse to apply for a pension based on his military service to the United States of America during the Revolutionary War. His affidavit was taken by Hon. Frederick Wolcott, Judge of the court of Probate.
Under oath, he swore "that I was born at Milford in New haven County Connecticut on the 7th day of March 1763. That there is no record of my age to my knowledge. That during the revolutionary War a garrison was left in the fort at Milford for at least three years, from the spring of the year 1779, for the purpose of protecting that town of the shipping being there against the British. I enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States for the purpose afore said,. Also to prevent any illicit trade between the British & the Americans. I was stationed in said Fort from March 1779 till March 1782. I enlisted in March 1779 for one years and in March 1780 for a second year and in March 1781 for a third year. I served as such soldier in said Fort for the purpose above stated through said three years. The first two years I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Joseph Davidson and the last year I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Nathan Baldwin, who at said served times commanded at said Fort, and who enlisted men for said purpose by authority of the Governor of Connecticut. I have no documentary evidence of this service, I rely upon the deposition of Abel Clark who was an inhabitant of said town of Milford during my first year of said service, He was a soldier and served with me in said Fort during said last two years. Since the war I have lived in said Milford till about the year 1795, I since then in Washington and Woodbridge Connecticut, and for the last 25 years I have resided in the town and County of Litchfield, Connecticut. There was only one company of men stationed in said Fort at any time while I was there. During my first year's service New Haven was taken and Fairfield and Norwalk burned by the British. I am known to the Rev. Vernon Taylor, Gen. Morris Woodruff, -S----- Sanford and S------ Harrison in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for ---- and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
December 23, 1838. Litchfield Revolutionary War Patriot, Ezra Camp, died in the town of Litchfield. He is buried in the Morris Burying Ground.
On the 1st of August 1832, Ezra Camp went to the Litchfield Courthouse to apply for a pension based on his military service to the United States of America during the Revolutionary War. His affidavit was taken by Hon. Frederick Wolcott, Judge of the court of Probate.
Under oath, he swore "that I was born at Milford in New haven County Connecticut on the 7th day of March 1763. That there is no record of my age to my knowledge. That during the revolutionary War a garrison was left in the fort at Milford for at least three years, from the spring of the year 1779, for the purpose of protecting that town of the shipping being there against the British. I enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States for the purpose afore said,. Also to prevent any illicit trade between the British & the Americans. I was stationed in said Fort from March 1779 till March 1782. I enlisted in March 1779 for one years and in March 1780 for a second year and in March 1781 for a third year. I served as such soldier in said Fort for the purpose above stated through said three years. The first two years I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Joseph Davidson and the last year I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Nathan Baldwin, who at said served times commanded at said Fort, and who enlisted men for said purpose by authority of the Governor of Connecticut. I have no documentary evidence of this service, I rely upon the deposition of Abel Clark who was an inhabitant of said town of Milford during my first year of said service, He was a soldier and served with me in said Fort during said last two years. Since the war I have lived in said Milford till about the year 1795, I since then in Washington and Woodbridge Connecticut, and for the last 25 years I have resided in the town and County of Litchfield, Connecticut. There was only one company of men stationed in said Fort at any time while I was there. During my first year's service New Haven was taken and Fairfield and Norwalk burned by the British. I am known to the Rev. Vernon Taylor, Gen. Morris Woodruff, -S----- Sanford and S------ Harrison in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for ---- and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The following provided by Litchfield Patriots Revolutionary War:
December 23, 1838. Litchfield Revolutionary War Patriot, Ezra Camp, died in the town of Litchfield. He is buried in the Morris Burying Ground.
On the 1st of August 1832, Ezra Camp went to the Litchfield Courthouse to apply for a pension based on his military service to the United States of America during the Revolutionary War. His affidavit was taken by Hon. Frederick Wolcott, Judge of the court of Probate.
Under oath, he swore "that I was born at Milford in New haven County Connecticut on the 7th day of March 1763. That there is no record of my age to my knowledge. That during the revolutionary War a garrison was left in the fort at Milford for at least three years, from the spring of the year 1779, for the purpose of protecting that town of the shipping being there against the British. I enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States for the purpose afore said,. Also to prevent any illicit trade between the British & the Americans. I was stationed in said Fort from March 1779 till March 1782. I enlisted in March 1779 for one years and in March 1780 for a second year and in March 1781 for a third year. I served as such soldier in said Fort for the purpose above stated through said three years. The first two years I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Joseph Davidson and the last year I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Nathan Baldwin, who at said served times commanded at said Fort, and who enlisted men for said purpose by authority of the Governor of Connecticut. I have no documentary evidence of this service, I rely upon the deposition of Abel Clark who was an inhabitant of said town of Milford during my first year of said service, He was a soldier and served with me in said Fort during said last two years. Since the war I have lived in said Milford till about the year 1795, I since then in Washington and Woodbridge Connecticut, and for the last 25 years I have resided in the town and County of Litchfield, Connecticut. There was only one company of men stationed in said Fort at any time while I was there. During my first year's service New Haven was taken and Fairfield and Norwalk burned by the British. I am known to the Rev. Vernon Taylor, Gen. Morris Woodruff, -S----- Sanford and S------ Harrison in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for ---- and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
December 23, 1838. Litchfield Revolutionary War Patriot, Ezra Camp, died in the town of Litchfield. He is buried in the Morris Burying Ground.
On the 1st of August 1832, Ezra Camp went to the Litchfield Courthouse to apply for a pension based on his military service to the United States of America during the Revolutionary War. His affidavit was taken by Hon. Frederick Wolcott, Judge of the court of Probate.
Under oath, he swore "that I was born at Milford in New haven County Connecticut on the 7th day of March 1763. That there is no record of my age to my knowledge. That during the revolutionary War a garrison was left in the fort at Milford for at least three years, from the spring of the year 1779, for the purpose of protecting that town of the shipping being there against the British. I enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States for the purpose afore said,. Also to prevent any illicit trade between the British & the Americans. I was stationed in said Fort from March 1779 till March 1782. I enlisted in March 1779 for one years and in March 1780 for a second year and in March 1781 for a third year. I served as such soldier in said Fort for the purpose above stated through said three years. The first two years I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Joseph Davidson and the last year I was enlisted by and served under Lieutenant Commandant Nathan Baldwin, who at said served times commanded at said Fort, and who enlisted men for said purpose by authority of the Governor of Connecticut. I have no documentary evidence of this service, I rely upon the deposition of Abel Clark who was an inhabitant of said town of Milford during my first year of said service, He was a soldier and served with me in said Fort during said last two years. Since the war I have lived in said Milford till about the year 1795, I since then in Washington and Woodbridge Connecticut, and for the last 25 years I have resided in the town and County of Litchfield, Connecticut. There was only one company of men stationed in said Fort at any time while I was there. During my first year's service New Haven was taken and Fairfield and Norwalk burned by the British. I am known to the Rev. Vernon Taylor, Gen. Morris Woodruff, -S----- Sanford and S------ Harrison in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for ---- and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
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"In memory of Ezra Camp, who died Dec. 23, 1838, aged 76 years."
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