Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2835, for William Mitchell, Pennsylvania
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Penn. Mitchell, William S.2835
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May 28.1840 - see let: 3:Audt:
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the April 1838 from 4th Sept 1834 to 4 Sept 1839. Agt notified 4th June 1840

Date of death not on AK Nov 1835 list

Ohio 13. 272
William Mitchell of Miami in the State of Ohio who was a private in teh Compy command by Camptain Andrews of the Regl command by Col Preble in the Pennsylvania line for 7 months and 10 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 24 dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of June 1832 and sent to Jno G Telford 
Troy Miami Co Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $48.00
Semi-anl allownace ending 4 of Sept - 12.00
$60.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J W Clagett Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 8 Page 16
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c Vo 25266

William Mitchell Miami
County Ohio

A&M for 7 Month
and 6 days
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183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your cliam, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necefsary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

Statement, showing the Service of William Mitchell Miami, County Ohio

Period when the service was rendered - Entered 1776, Vol Did 1776, Draft Spring 1778


Duration of the claimant's service - 
21 days; 3 months; 3 months 15 days

Rank of the claimant.
private; ", "

Names and rank of the Field of-icers under whom he served. - 
Captain Andrews, Captain Brunston; 
Lt. Rag, Col Preble; 
Col Crawford, Gl McIntosh

Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.
77 years
County of Cumberland Pennsylvania

Proof by which the declaration is supported.

Traditionary evidence certifiable - certified creditable. paper correct
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Penn. Mitchell, William S. 2835
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(3)
...alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
     The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year where you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so,
     where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into 
     service; where have you lived since the 
     Revolutionary war, and where do you 
     now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you
     drafted, did you volunteer, or were you
     a substitute?  And if a substitute, for 
     whom?
5.  State the names of some of the Regular 
     Officers, who were with the troops, where
     you served; such Continental and Militia 
     Regiments as you can recollect, and the
     general circumstances of your services. 
6.   To a Soldier - Did you ever receive a 
      discharge from the service, and if so, 
      by whom was it given and what has 
      become of it?
      To an Officer - Did you ever receive a 
      commission, and if so, by whom was it 
      signed, and what has become of it?
7.   State the names of persons to whom you 
      are known in your present
      neighborhood, and who can testify as to 
      your character for veracity, and their 
      belief of your services as a soldier of the 
      Revolution. 
 The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, as they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
  The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such application, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.   If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. 
   The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
   Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. 
  Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peach and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 
  No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 

(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B.  who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: - For ____year ____months, and _____days, I served as a ___.  For ________months and ____days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."
   It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months" is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served "two years" in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f).  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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The State of Ohio
Miami County 
On this third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally append in open Court before the Court of Commons please for the County aforesaid now sitting William Mitchell a resident of Piqua in the County of Miami and state of Ohio aforesaid aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain his benefit of the act of Congress [illegible] June Seventh 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 
Said deponent that he was born in July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifth six in the County of Cumberland in the state of Pennsylvania he has no record of his age but recollects his age from frequent recurrence to the subject. In the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and early in the spring this deponent went from Cumberland County the place of his residence to what is now Washington County in said state at which place he was [illegible] during the summer of said year 1776 in a militia company commanded by Captain Andrews in the revolutionary service and he marched under the command of Captain Andrews to a military station at a place called Logstown below Pittsburgh and he then with about ten others volunteered our of said company and attached himself to Captain Brinton and served Captain Brinton three weeks at which time he was discharged from said service by Captain Brinton but no written discharge was given and after said discharge said deponent returned to Cumberland County his former residence and in December of same year it became {illeible] that [illegible] this deponent or his brother James who was thus married and had a family must again enter the service and this deponent again volunteered as a substitute for his said brother and [illegible] as Carlisle said deponent does not remember the Captain of the Company with which he marched from Carlisle deponent thinks the Lieutenant's name
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Was Rey and Ensign's Mitchell and from Carlisle he marched to Philadelphia and was attached to a Regiment Commanded as this deponent now thinks by Col Peebles and from there he was marched up the Delaware with the view of joining Washington's army and this deponent took and remained sick some time in service and returned to Philadelphia and at the end of the term for which he had engaged to serve being three months he was discharged at Philadelphia but no written discharge was given he believes and n the spring of 1778 said deponent went again to what is now Washington County in Pennsylvania and about the first of September of that year he was drafted for a four months tour and marched in service of the United States under the command of Lieutenant Miller to the mouth of Beaver and was placed under the command of Colonel Crawford in the [illegible] commanded by General McIntosh said deponent thinks Colonels Broadhead and Campbell of the regular troops was in said service. Said deponent served in this tour three months and a half when he was discharged but he believes no written discharge was given him. This applicant further states that at the time he entered upon the first tour of duty as aforesaid under Capt. Andrews the whole company to which he belonged was ordered out to guard the frontier against any occupations of the Indians, with whom the government were then holding a treaty at Pittsburgh as it was thought probable that those Indians would be disposed to commit depredations upon the frontier settlements on their return home from the treaty, unless some precautionary measures were taken. That the tour of duty in which he was marched to the mouth of Beaver under Lieutenant Miller as aforesaid, was performed at the mouth of Beaver aforesaid that he helped to build the fort at that place and that when the main body of the troops were marched into the Indian country he remained there until he was discharged as aforesaid, he having been retained as an artifice that in several tours of duty which he performed as aforesaid he served as a private and that in the first tour aforesaid it was only a day of two from the time the he entered  said service under Andrews until he volunteered under Capt. Benton.
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This applicant further states that in the tour of duty performed under Andrews and Benton he served at least three weeks.  In the tour under Ray he served at least three months and in the tour under Lt. Miller he served at least three months and a half, that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to prove his said service.  And in answer to the interrogatories put to him by the court he says -

1. He had already stated where and what year he was born.
2. He had no record of his age
3. H has already stated when he resided when he entered the service,  That he lived in what is now Washington County Pa. until the year 1794 when he removed into Hamilton county late of Ohio and that he remained there until 1821 when he removed to Miami county aforesaid where he has resided ever since
4. He has stated how he was called into the service.
5. He does not recollect any further than he had already stated, the names of any of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served, nor any continental or militia regiments.
6. He does not recollect that he ever received any discharges from the service.
7. H states that names of Lewis Harrison- clergyman of the county of Miami aforesaid and Thomas Adams of the same county to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid in                                               William Mitchell
open court

                      John G. Telford, Clerk
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Mr. James Harrison, clergyman residing in the county of Miami Ohio and Thomas Adams residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Mitchell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and Subscribed                                      James Harrison
the 3rd day of May 1833                                  Thomas Adams
John G Telford, Clerk

and said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certified that it appears to them that James Harrison who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the county of Miami aforesaid and that Thomas Adams who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit.

I John G Telford Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Miami aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original [illegible] of the court in the matter of the application of William Mitchell for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this [illegible] day of May eighteen hundred and thirty-three

John G Telford, Clerk
Miami County Clerk
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January 25, 1935
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William Michell-S.2835
BA-J/AWF

Mr. R. S. King
Georgia School of Technology
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request information in regard to William Mitchell, 
born in 1756, served in the Cumberland County, Penn-
sylvania, and a pensioner in Ohio.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 2835, based
upon the Revolutionary War service of William Mitchell.

William Michell was born in July 1756 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, name of his parents
not given.

He served as a private, while residing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, as follows:  in the
summer of 1775, three weeks under Captains Andrews and Brenton or Brinton, marched in to "Logstown" below Pittsburgh, and was a guard to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the Indians; from in December, 1775, three months under Lieutenant Ray in Colonel Peebles Pennsylvania regiment; in 1778, three and one half months under Lieutenant Miller in Colonel Crawford's regiment, was in General McIntosh's expedition, and assisted in building the ford a the mouth of Beaver.

He resided in Washington Cunty, Pennsylvania until in 1794, when he moved to Hamilton County, Ohio,
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and in 1821 moved to Miami County, Ohio.

The soldier, William Mitchell, was allowed pension on his application executed May 3, 1833, then living in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio.

The tour from December, 17756 for three months, William Mitchell served as a substitute for his brother, James Mitchell, who then had married and had a family.  One ___ Mitchell was ensign in this tour, his relationship to the soldier, not shown.

It is not stated that the soldier had wife or children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person to who sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General accounting Office, records division, Washington, D. C., citing the following:

William Mitchell
Certificate # 13272
Issued June 11, 1833
Rate $24.00 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 132
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours

A, D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Second Comptroller's Office,
May 29, 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Mitchell, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Seventy-five Dollars and ____ Cents per annum, under the law of the June 7, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837 to the 4th of Sept. 1839.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Second Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
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2835 INVALID.
File No. 2835
William Mitchell
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index — Vol. A, Page 236

[Arrangement of 1870]

Left Section (Notes):
1st Sept. to Fishkill, 4 p. 2
Sept. 4th, June 6th, 4727
Filed A.
1825 May 6, heirs to Mary E. Mitchell.
1825 Sept. 4th Heirs for administrator, William Mitchell deceased.
1835 Jan. 26, heirs to A.S. Sterling.
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715 W. High St.
Piqua, Ohio

Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. of Revolutionary Claims
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am writing you for the complete military record, date of enlistment, battles engaged in, and date of discharge of Mr. William Mitchell, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

I have the original Pension Certificate Number 13,272, and dated June 11, 1833, recorded in Book E, Volume 8, Page 16, Records of the...
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Pension Office,
Can you also give me the maiden
name of his wife and date of his
marriage as I am wishing to
make application for membership
in the D.A.R. I shall appreciate
any information you can give me
and if there is any charge shall be
glad to remit for the same. I am
anxious to have the information as
soon as possible

Thanking you in advance.
I remain,
Yours very truly,
Mary E. Mitchell
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Executed May 3, 1833, while a resident of Piqua, Miami County, Ohio.

    It is not stated whether soldier had a wife or children.

                            Respectfully,

                             Wilder S. Metcalf
                             Commissioner.
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[Illegible] S SECTION. 
3 - 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.
In reply to your request of [blank]
received [blank] for a statement of the military history of William Mitchell
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Summer 1776
Length of Service 
3 weeks
Rank 
Pvt. 
Officers under whom service was rendered 
Captain 
Andrews
Brinton
Colonel 
[Check mark]
State 
Pa 

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment 
Dec 1776
Length of Service 
3 mos. 
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain 
[Illegible], Ray
Colonel
Peebles
State

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment 
Spring 1778
Length of Service 
3 1/2 mos. 
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain 
[Illegible], Miller
Colonel
Crawford
State

Battles engaged in, 
none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, 
Cumberland Co., Penn
Date of application for pension, 
May 3, 1833 His [illegible]
Residence at date of application, 
Piqua, Miami Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, born in July 1756 in Cumberland Co. Penn
Remarks: It is not stated whether he had a wife or children
Brother James
Respectfully, Commissioner.
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Atlanta Georgia
Mechanical Engineering Dept.

January 7, 1935.
Pension Department
Interior Department
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

    I would appreciate it if I might receive a copy of the statement made by William Mitchell when he applied for his pension.  Said William Mitchell was born 1756 and died after 1833.  He enlist in the revolutionary war in 1776 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and applied for and received a pension in 1833 from Urbana, Ohio.  This information will be greatly appreciated.

     Yours very truly,
             //s//
       R. S. King
Head of Mechanical Engineering Department,
Georgia School of Technology,
Atlanta, Ga.


(Date stamp)
RECEIVED
Jan 10 1935
(remainder faded)