Pension File - Deliverance EATON Widow Elijah

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Extract from Rejected Pension Application of Deliverance EATON widow of Elijah EATON:

Elijah EATON Sr. left Connecticut for Columbia County New York sometime before 1771. Elijah's service in the Revolutionary War was described in an application for a pension (#R3208) of his wife, Deliverance, on 22FEB1844(then residing Cortland Co. NY), in which she claimed Elijah served one month or more in Capt. BEEBE'S Company of Col. WATERMAN'S regiment July 1777. Around 1780, Elijah Sr. went to Albany as juryman, enlisted eight months in the army & served most of his enlistment...balance served by man he hired with help of a Capt. OSTRANDER ...Deliverance didn't remember dates well...remembered that Elijah was serving the year Burgoyne was taken prisoner...on another occasion Elijah was drafted one month & hired a man named Erasmus(?) WILSON to take his place...went to Albany from Schodack to see him while he was on jury duty, but he had left with his unit down the Hudson River...on another occasion after several weeks service, Elijah went home & persuaded Deliverance's brother, Henry MOTT, to go back to Saratoga in his place...Henry MOTT was under 21 years of age and a minor was bound to Elijah's care.

Elijah recorded births & marriage in family bible...Deliverance signed application with her mark "X". She went on to say "...she however well knows that he was in the service as aforesaid - In the last town she has often heard him say he was in a skirmish-that the man who stood next to him was shot through the jaw-".

Deliverance Mott EATON was living in Willet with son Peter before she died.

Family Group Sheet for Elijah Eaton

BIRTH	02SEP1742	Ashford	Windham	CT
MARRD	21MAY1771	Chatham	Columbia	NY
DEATH	03MAR1805		Schoharie	NY
OTHER RESIDENCES		Schodack	Rennssalaer	NY
OCCUPATIONS	Farmer
MILITARY RECORD	French & Indian War,	Revolutionary War
HIS PARENTS	Nathaniel Eaton	Perry, Easter(Esther)
WIFE*Deliverance MOTT
BIRTH	08DEC1751	Portsmouth	Newport	RI
DEATH	09SEP1849	Willet	Cortland	NY
BURIAL	Willet Village Cemetery	Willet	Cortland	NY
OTHER RESIDENCES		Otsego & Columbia Co., NY
OCCUPATIONS	Housekeeper
HER PARENTS	John Mott	Elizabeth Greene

CHILDREN:

-1	Nathaniel	22JAN1772NY	22SEP1860NY	m1		Ann ?
				m2		Phebe ?
-2	Elizabeth	22FEB1775NY	18DEC1846	m		John/Isaac R. HART
-3	Elijah	06JUL1777NY	03SEP1804	m		Nancy SLOAN
-4	DELIVERANCE	17MAR1780NY	08APR1868OH	m	c1799NY	RUSSEL DARROW *
-5	Johanna	10FEB1783NY		m		Thomas CRIPPEN
-6	John	09SEP1785NY	15FEB1968IL	m1	22DEC1805NY	Lydia PRESTON
				m2	25OVT1829NY	Lucy L. DAINES
-7	Mary/Polly	12JUL1788NY	26MAY1882NY	m	01JAN1805NY	Robert TENNANT
-8	Lydia	05JUN1791NY		m1		Henry HARE
				m2		William SHERWOOD
-9	Peter	06MAR1793NY	11MAY1881NY	m1	14JUN1825	Polly Van SISE
				m2		Almira BURLINGAME

First three children b. Chatham, Columbia Co., NY.

    Most of the children resided in Cortland Co. at some point.

Submitted by H. Andrew BROWN           e-mail: habraun@pacbell.net