PENSION: Oliver Norton; Easton, Washington Co., NY

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State of New York County of Washington SS
On this 20th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the
Judges of the court c of Common Pleas in and for the said county now sitting
Oliver Norton a resident of the town of Easton in the county of Washington and
State of New York, aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn according to
law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of congress passed June 7th 1832. He entered the service of the United
States under the following named officers in the month of August 1778 at the
Town of Hebron In the county Hartford and State of Connecticut. He volunteered
at Hebron aforesaid into a company commanded by John Skinner. . . . Marched
from Hebron to Norwich. Staid three or four days there and then went to New
London where he assisted in building Fort Trunble and did garrison duty,
marched frequently to the alarm post at Black rock about six miles from
Trumble, staid at New London two months and went home. He received a written
discharge but has lost it. In July 1779 he was drafted at Hebron aforesaid and
entered a company commanded by a Capt. Palmer. The company marched to New
London and he was in garrison these two months. Colonel Stoners of the
Connecticut Line was in command. At the expiration of this time he was
discharged but did not receive a written discharge. At this time there was a
Massachusetts Regiment at that place. A Major Shepard was with the army
consisting at this time of three Regiments. He thinks that Colonel Ledyard had
the command at Fort Griswold at this time. The first of April 1780 he enlisted
under Capt. Oliver Olmstead of Colchester Connecticut who had charge of a
company of Continental teams, consisting of twelve. They went from Colchester,
Co. Hartford and were engaged drawing continental stores 3 or 4 days from
thence to Litchfield staid at Litchfield two days and then went to the army
crossing the river at Kings Ferry, then lying at Hackensack New Jersey, and
carried with them some stores for the army after this they were employed in
foraging for the army at that place untill General Arnold condemned the
provisions at Stoney Point in New York when they were employed in carrying the
provisions to the stores at Tappan Bay. After Arnold went over to the British,
the provisions were discovered to be good and they were then employed in
carrying them back. When this service was completed they were employed in the
foraging business again at Hackensack. The Army moved from there In November.
It was very cold and snowed. They suffered very much. They went into winter
quarters within about forty miles of Philadelphia. There this deponent was
taken sick but remained with the army until about the first of January and
then he hired one Captain Taylor of the army to carry him home and gave him
twelve dollars. This Capt. Taylor had charge of a company of continental
teams. This period of service was between nine and ten months. He lay at home
sick until the (next) spring. In the month of June or July 1781 he was again
out under Captain Adjutant of (Malbury) Connecticut of the Connecticut line
and was stationed about three quarters of a mile from Fort Griswold in Groton
up the Thames. In this expedition he was out about two months and was then
discharged and returned home. The fall that New London was burned he was out
six weeks under Capt. Timothy Dutton. Went to New London and staid there the
whole time and was discharged. . . . He has no documentary evidence where with
to prove his service. His father moved from Martha's Vineyard to Hebron and
from thence to Deerfield in the State of Massachusetts and from thence this
deponent came to Greenwich in the State of New York, and from thence to Easton
in the county of Washington and State aforesaid where he now resides. Born in
1763 at Edgertown, Massachusetts.

He,thereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the
agency of any State.

Sworn and subribed the day and year aforesaid Oliver Norton.