Individual Details

Biography

https://archive.org/details/arthuraylsworthh00ayls/page/72/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/arthuraylsworthh00ayls/page/116/mode/2upNorthampton goes from Montgomery County to Fulton County in 1838

Military

On 11 March 1834, JohnEllsworth, resident of Hope, Montgomery County, New York aged seventy-six yearson the last 17 April provided a statement for his application for a pensionbased on his service in the Revolution. His first enlistment was 10 August 1775,while he was resident of Killingly, Connecticut in the Rhode Island Statetroops under Lieut. Thomas Sweet. They were at Block Island, East Greenwich,Providence, and then Boston where they joined the company of Capt. Smith. Hewas discharged on 1 January 1776. In the last of February 1776, he enlisted inthe Connecticut levies under Ensign David Cady and joined with the company ofCapt. James Gordon near Boston, the regiment commanded by Col. Douglass and Lt.Col. William Denison. They were there until the fortification at DorchesterHeights were built and then marched to Roxbury until the British evacuatedBoston. John was discharged 1 April. He next enlisted from Plainfield,Connecticut about 1 August in the company of Capt. Abram Shepherd in a regimentof Connecticut State troops with duty at New York. They joined with the companyof Capt. John Dixon. The troops were in Harlem Heights, White Plains, and NorthCastle. He was discharged on 1 January 1777. On 29 June 1778, he enlisted fromPlainfield, New Hampshire in New Hampshire forces and joined a regiment atProvidence in the company of Capt. Samuel Dearborn and regiment of Col.Peabody. He was discharged on 1 January 1779. John was granted a pension basedon his service of 17 months and 14 days.Other informationprovided was he was born 17 April 1757 at West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Hisfather died when John was three years old. He lived in Killingly, Connecticutat the time of his first enlistment and was resident of Plainfield, NewHampshire at his last enlistment. After the war, he returned to Killingly, thento Cambridge in Washington County, New York, then to Granville, and last to Hope,Montgomery County just a few rods north of Northampton where he was nowresiding.[1] [1] U. S.Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Case S9854