Pension: John and Anna Phillips, 1819 & 1839: Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Rick Girtman rickman@worldpath.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** This abstract is from a book called "N. H. Revolutionary Pension Papers", abstracted & prepared by Mrs. Amos G. Draper 1917-1922 It is available at the New Hampshire Historical Society. John Phillips and Anna (widow) Revolutionary War pension application. Originally from Plymouth, New Hampshire. Widow Anna filed from Plymouth, NH. W21967 Consolidated with Phillips John - Lucinda N. H. R8204 New Hampshire Service April 27, 1819 John Phillips of Danville, Vermont out late of New York, fifty-eight years of age, deposed: that he enlisted in 1777 for three years; served in Third New Hampshire under Capt. Benjamin Stone, Col. Scammell, until the latter was taken as an Aide to Gen. Washington, when Dearborn became Coloel. "I joined the regiment at Ticonderoga; was in the retreat before Burgoyne until Gen. Gates met us; and in the Battle of September 9 I was wounded in the body with a musket ball and was in the hospitals at Albany and Schenectady until I recovered and joined the army at Valley Forge. In the year 1779 I was at the White Plains in a skirmish and received a wound in my right knee with a bayonet; and in the year 1782 I was wounded in my head and shoulder by a blow with the breech of a gune and the hilt of a bayonet, near Pineo Bridge, N. Y., when and where I was taken prisoner and confined about four in the city of New York and then exchanged and joined the army and continued until the end of the war." that he is now an Invalid Pensioner. John Phillips. April 27, 1819 Nehemiah Phillips, of Wheelock, Vt., testified to personal knowledge of John Phillips' enlisting for the war in 1777, and that two years afterwards he enlisted himself in the same regiment, and quartered with him that winter at Danbury, Conn., and often saw him, from time to time until 1783. Nehemiah Phillips Claim allowed. June 28, 1820 John Phillips of Benson, Vt., fifty-eight years of age, testified that he was wounded September 19, 1777 at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne and his army at Saratoga; was in the battle of Monmouth in 1778; at the siege of Ticonderoga and the battle of Hubbardston, in 1777; was wounded again in 1778 at White Plains, N. Y., has a wife, Lucinda, thirty-nine; and two daughters: Gennet, fourteen years of age; and Lucinda, twelve years of age; and a son named Robert W. aged six years. that he was formerly an Invalid Pensioner, and that his wife owns $39.00 worth of furniture which "was set off to her by the Probate Court, as estate of Robert Anderson, deceased, her late husband. Pension continued. December 4, 1839 Anna Phillips of Plymouth, N. H., seventy-five years of age, deposed: that she is the widow of John Phillips, Revolutionary Pensioner, late of Westhaven, Vt., to whom she was married December 18, 1783; and that her husband died August 15, 1825 at Westhaven. Signed by mark. December 4, 1839 Jonathan Cummings of Plymouth, N. H., sixty-six years of age, testified that he was present when his sister, then Anna Cummings, married John Phillips about December 18, 1783. "I went home with her and her late husband to live ahile after their marriage. "...." They were married at my father's -- the late Jotham Cummings, deceased, by the Rev. Nathan Ward who was then the settled minister of Plymouth. Jona. Cummings. April 8, 1840 the Town Clerk of Plymouth, N. H., certified that the marriage of John Phillips and Anna Cummings, both of Plymouth, by Rev. Nathan Ward, December 18, 1783, is recorded on the books of the town. Jona. Dearborn. November 11, 1839 John Barnes and Isaac E. Jakway, and February 24, 1840, Boman Sisco, all of Westhaven, Vt., certified that they were personally acquainted with John Phillips, Revolutionary Pensioner, and "saw him after his decease" August 15, 1825. John Barnes Isaac E. Jakway Boman Sisco. November 25, 1839 John Kellogg of Benson, Vt., testified that about 1818, a man, named John Phillips about sixty years of age, came to Benson, married a Mrs. Lucinda Anderson, a widow of Robert Anderson, but was very reticent as to his former residence; and it was never known until after his death. "I sold John Phillips a small farm in Westhaven agreeing to take my payment, semi-annually, from the pension money. He lived on the farm until his death." John Kellogg. March 3, 1840 Jonathan Cummings, sixty-six years of age, of Plymouth, N. H. testified that his sister, Anna Cummings was legally married to John Phillips about 1784, as he stated in his previous declaration, and lived with her husband until 1809 "except as he twice turned her out of his house and she came home to her father's for a few months, when he came and made acknowledgements to her and took her home again. Within the time they lived together, they had eight children. In the winter of 1809 he sold his property and absconded, carrying his property with him and left her with a dependent family of children without the means of support." He went to Herkimer County, N. Y., called himself a widower who had buried his wife at Plymouth, N. H., which he said was his native place, and "married there a woman of respectability and property by the name of Stevens. He soon spent her her property and then left her, whereupon her friends, learning that he had a wife living in Plymouth, N. H., "had him arrested in 1813; tried, convicted, and sent to prison. "I received a subpoena to attend court in Herkimer County, as a witness." After his release from prison in 1818 or 1819 he went to a small place near Westhaven, N. Y., to live; but visited Plymouth, N. H., twice - once to get evidence to enable him to get a pension, and the other time to induce his youngest son to go home with him. He was then living at Westhaven with a woman he called his wife Mrs. Lucinda Anderson, widow of Robert Anderson. "I know that the John Phillips late of Westhaven, deceased, is the same man who married my sister, as I have before stated." Jona. Cummings. Claim allowed as was her subsequent claim, made March 25, 1843, while a resident of Campton, N. H., seventy-nine years of age, her last certificate being 1546, Concord, New Hampshire Agency, issued August 25, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843. According to memorandum on file, Anna Phillips was living in Campton, N. H., in 1840, aged seventy-six years. June 28, 1856 Lucinda Phillips of Brooklyn, New York, seventy-five years of age, deposed: that she is the widow of John Phillips, Revolutionary Pensioner, to whom she was married at Benson, Vt., by Rev. Mr. Kent, a Congregational minister, about December 5, 1819; and that her husband died at Westhaven, Vt., August 24, 1825. Signed by mark. June 28, 1856 Robert W. Anderson and Lucinda Anderson, both of 144 Nassau Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., testified that they were present when John and Lucinda Phillips were married; he was also present when John Phillips died at Westhaven, and both of them attended the funeral. Robert W. Anderson, Lucinda Anderson. Claim rejected for lack of official proof of her marriage, John's wife Anna never having been divorced.