Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File for Caleb Jewett, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                                                                                 NUMBER
Conn.                                Jewett, Caleb                                      √
                                                                                            No papers
                                                                                      Invalid pensioner
____________________________________________________________________________
CONTENTS
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Rev. War Section.

                                                                   November 10, 1916.

Mr. Chester W. Jones,
299 Broadway,
New York City, N. Y.

Sir: --
    In response to your letter dated the ninth instant,
you are advised that a careful search of the Revolutionary 
War records of this Bureau fails to show any papers on file
relative to Caleb Jewett, and it is probable that they were
destroyed when the British burned Washington in 1814, with
many other claims which had been allowed prior to that time.
   However, the list of pensioners reported by the Secre-
tary of War, printed in 1835, shows that Caleb Jewett, a
Private in Burril's regiment, was placed on the Invalid pen-
sion roll April 3, 1787, while a resident of Litchfield Co.
Connecticut, and that he died February 8, 1820.
                                  Very respectfully,
                                   G M Salzgaber
                                      Commissioner.
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OFFICERS                                                                                                               MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
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             PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON IRVING LINCOLN ADAMS                                                            AUGUSTUS S. CRANE
     FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                                    HERBERT ROYAL CRANE  
  JOHN LAWRENCE BOGGS                                                                                  FREDERIC DEGARMAR HAHN 
    SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                               SAMUEL CHUDLEIGH HICKS
  SAMUEL CRAIG COWART                                                                                   NEHEMIAH PERRY HOWELL
           SECRETARY                                                                                                GEORGE VAIL MUCHMORE
  JOHN RANDEL WEEKS                                                                                       WILLIAM JAMES OSBORN
         TREASURER                                                                                                 DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON 
ARTHUR METCALF MORSE                                                                                   JOHN BREWER WIGHT  
       REGISTRAR                                                                                                    RICHARD TIMBROOK WILSON
GEORGE H. RICHARDS
                                                                  HEADQUARTERS.
                             756 BROAD STREET (ENTRANCE I CLINTON ST. NEWARK, N. J.
                                                       TELEPHONE 8085-M MARKET
                                                       299 Broadway,
                                                                  New York, N. Y., November 9th, 1916.

Mr. Gaylord M Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions, Dept. of the Interior,
                   Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
              On October 18th we wrote you requesting that you advise us
what the records of your office show as to the service of Caleb Jewett,
claimed by one of his descendants to have been a pensioner from Litchfield
County, Connecticut, on his service as a private with Burrall's Regiment
in Canada in 1776,
             As we have received no reply we assume that our letter has
miscarried, and would appreciate it very much if you could now send us this
information, for use in proving eligibility of his descendant to membership
in the above Society.
                                        Yours very truly,
                                         Chester Jones

PENSION
    N
  NOV
 U.  10  S.
  1916
  OFFICE
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OFFICERS                                                                                                               MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
                                                                                                                                      OF MANAGERS

             PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON IRVING LINCOLN ADAMS                                                            AUGUSTUS S. CRANE
     FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                                    HERBERT ROYAL CRANE  
  JOHN LAWRENCE BOGGS                                                                                  FREDERIC DEGARMAR HAHN 
    SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                               SAMUEL CHUDLEIGH HICKS
  SAMUEL CRAIG COWART      CHESTER N. JONES                                              NEHEMIAH PERRY HOWELL
           SECRETARY                                                                                                GEORGE VAIL MUCHMORE
  JOHN RANDEL WEEKS                                                                                       WILLIAM JAMES OSBORN
         TREASURER                                                                                                 DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON 
ARTHUR METCALF MORSE                                                                                   JOHN BREWER WIGHT  
       REGISTRAR                                                                                                    RICHARD TIMBROOK WILSON
GEORGE H. RICHARDS
                                                                  HEADQUARTERS.
                             756 BROAD STREET (ENTRANCE I CLINTON ST. NEWARK, N. J.
                                                       TELEPHONE 8085-M MARKET
                                                       299 Broadway,   New York, N. Y., 
                                                                   November 10th, 1916.


Mr. F. D. Byington,
    Acting Commissioner, Dept. of the Interior,
             Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
                                   Referring to the attached correspondence, I want to thank
you for the trouble which you have gone to in looking up this question as
to the record of Caleb Jewett, but I am inclined to believe that there has
been either a mistake in the printing of the old pension lists or else
you have overlooked the record which I am after.
                                 If you will refer to the Connecticut Pension List of 1835,
published under resolution of the Senate of that year, on page 9 you will
find the following record:
        "  Caleb Jewett, Private Annual allowance $20. Sum received $580.
                Placed on roll April 3, 1787 -- Commenced Pension April 3, 1787
                Died February 8, 1820 - Burrils Regiment."
                                   If you will, therefore, again have this matter looked up
I can assure you it will be appreciated very much indeed by our State
organization.
                                    Yours very truly,
                                        Chester N. Jones
Encs.
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Rev. War Section.
                  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                         BUREAU OF PENSIONS
                                  WASHINGTON
                                                                    Nov. 9, 1916.
Chester N. Jones
299 Broadway,
New York City, New York.

Sir:-
         In reply to your letter dated the 18"" ultimo and
received the 19th ultimo, you are advised that the Revolu -tionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information
in regard to any Caleb Jewett
Very respectfully,
                            very respectfully,
                                  F. D Byington
                                  Acting commissioner
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p 9.9 Com Pen his
Senate Res. 1835

Caleb J - Private
On at  $120
Sums Rec. 580 .11
Burrils Reg
    Placed  Ap 3 1787
Conn Pri    "   "    "
__________________
Died feb 8. 1820

CHIEF CLERK                                         PENSION
    NOV                                                        O
     11                                                         OCT
   1916                                                  U.  19  S.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS                            1916
                                                                OFFICE
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             PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON IRVING LINCOLN ADAMS                                                                     AUGUSTUS S. CRANE
     FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                                             HERBERT ROYAL CRANE  
 SAMUEL CRAIG COWART                                                                                             FREDERIC DEGARMAR HAHN 
    SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                                        SAMUEL CHUDLEIGH HICKS
 CHESTER NEVILLE JONES                                                                                            NEHEMIAH PERRY HOWELL
           SECRETARY                                                                                                        GEORGE VAIL MUCHMORE
  JOHN RANDEL WEEKS                                                                                               WILLIAM JAMES OSBORN
         TREASURER                                                                                                         DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON 
    E. ALLEN SMITH                                                                                                        JOHN BREWER WIGHT  
       REGISTRAR                                                                                                            RICHARD TIMBROOK WILSON
WILIAM CLINTON ARMSTRONG
        CHAPLAIN
RT. REV. EDWIN STEVENS LINES D. D.                                                                            PAST PRESIDENTS
                                                                  HEADQUARTERS.                              
                             756 BROAD STREET (ENTRANCE I CLINTON ST. NEWARK, N. J.      JOHN FRANKLIN FORT
                                                       TELEPHONE 8085-M MARKET                                JOHN LEONARD MERRILL
                                                                  New York, N. Y., October 16th, 1916.
                                                                               299 Broadway.

Mr. Gaylord M Saltzgaber,
      Commissioner of Pensions, - Dept. Interior
               Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-
                             Will you kindly advise what the records of your
office show as to the service of one Caleb Jewett, who, ac-
cording to the claim of one of his descendants, was a pen-
sioner from Litchfield County, Conn, having served as a pri-
vate with Burril's Regiment in Canada in 1776
                              Yours very truly,
                                 Chester N Jones
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES                                                                                      Division of Veterans' Administration Archives                     
  Form VAM-51-
12-5-41                                    BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD

NAME , Jewett,  David                                     GRADE    Fifer                             LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT
NUMBER     4452                                              ACREAGE    160                           ISSUED   July 22, 1789    
                                                                                                                             To ----- not shown -


The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.