Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Richard Garrison, N.Y. Agency
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(9-1776)
SERVICE
NUMBER
[handwritten]
[checkmark] 
Garrison, Richard 
Dis - no papers
N. Y. Agency
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CONTENTS
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[handwritten] [checkmark] 62/West/35th St.
New York
Sep. 16, 1914
[stamp "U.S. PENSION OFFICE SEP 17 1914"]
[handwritten]
The Honorable
The Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:
I should be very glad to receive information concerning my Revolutionary ancestor: [underlined twice, "Garrison, Richard"] - quartermaster (June 1778) Westchester Co., N.Y/ 1st (South) Regt. Col. Joseph [illegible]; 2nd. major under Brig-gen Lewis Morris -
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[handwritten]
I find that his name appears among the applicants for pensions, and would be glad to receive any I [illegible] that connections your office may possess. 
Thanking you [illegible]
Very respectfully, 
Gertrude B. Weed
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M.B.H. [handwritten]

Rev. War Section.

on [handwritten initials]

Mrs. Gertrude R. Weed,
621 West 135th Street,
New York City.

September 22, 1914.

Madam:
In response to your letters dated the 15# and 16# instants, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that 300 acres of bounty land was allowed under warrant No. 98 which issued March 3rd, 1797, on account of the Revolutionary War services of Captain James Buton of Massachusetts.

X [handwritten]

In the report from the Secretary of War in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, which was printed in 1835, on the list of invalid pensioners [invalid pensioners was underlined by hand] who had been in receipt of pensions at the New York Agency, whose residence could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of the papers
in the War Office in 1801 and 1814, appears the name of Richard Garrison, [Richard Garrison was underlined by hand] a Quartermaster, annual allowance $76. This Bureau has no further data in its files relative to either of the above soldiers, owing to the burning of the War Office in 1801, and the
destruction of the papers when the British burned Washington in 1814.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber [signed by hand]
Commissioner.