Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40814, Samuel Callender, Continental (Penn.) Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE   NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)  Callender, Samuel.  S. 40814
Va.
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[torn piece of paper - typed with hand completed sections]

10 823
Pennsylvania
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Samuel Callender

Greenfield in the state of Pennsylvania was a private in the regiment commanded by Col Lewis of the Virginia and Pa Line Cavalry, the term of 1 yr 10 months
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[edge of paper cut off]
...ribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
...rate of 8- dollars per month to commence on 
....4 of April 1818
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.....Pension issued the 19 of May 1819
....to Honble John Murray
...n, Northumberland Co. Penn
_________________________________
...s to 4th of March 1819. 10 mos 17/30 & 4/31  85.56
....ni-anl. all'ce ending 4 ep 1819
48
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$13356

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[handwritten in other pencil "20/64 Luzerne not entitled"]
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State of Pennsylvania 
Luzerne County ss.}   On this fourteenth day of April A.D. 1818
before me the Subscriber President Judge of the 11th Judicial district of the State of Pennsylvania personally appears Samuel Callender the Elder aged Sixty two years & three months resident in Greenfield in the said County of Luzerne and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That he the said Samuel Callender enlisted in the State of Virginia in the Company of Capt. John Hays/ Lieut. Andrew Moore/ of the Ninth Virginia Reg't commanded by Col. Lewis in the year 1776 that he continued to serve in the said corps One year and ten Months that he then enlisted in Col. Miland's regiment of the light dragoons and served in that corps nearly three years that he received a furlough and discharge at the same time from Col. Miland which papers were used when he got his land from the State of Virginia that he was at the Capture of Genl Burgoyne in the Battle of Monmouth and several smaller engagements with the enemy - And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services -
Samuel Callender
Swron to subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid at Wilkes barre in the County of Luzerne
Th. Burnside

I Thomas Burnside President Judge of the 11th Judicial district of the State of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Callender did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned Act of Congress.
Th. Burnside
To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Esq. Sec'y of War
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Ss

I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid do certify and make known that Thomas Burnside Esquire is and was at the time of Sequing and taking the foregoing Deposition and certifying the same President Judge of the eleventh Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania that the signature is his proper handwriting and that full credit and faith are due to his official acts as such In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Wilkes Barre in the County afs in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen 30th day of April.
Andrew Beaumont Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Ss

Before me Jesse Fell Esquire one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Enos Brown Junior who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he the deponent served for some time as a soldier in the revolutionary war. that about the year 1779 he became acquainted with the within named Samuel Callender and that the said Samuel was at that time a soldier in the army of the United States and attached to the Regiment then commanded by Col. Miland and stationed at that time at Pound Ridge in the County of Westchester and State of New York, that the said Samuel Callender served in the army for at least two years to the knowledge of this deponent and how much longer the deponent does not know neither does he now recollect the Company to which the said Callender was attached.
Sworn & Subscribed
Before me Jan 27 1819
[signed] Enos Brown Jun
[signed] Jofse Fell

John Miller being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with the within named Samuel Callender and with his circumstances and that the said Callender is to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief in indigent and reduced circumstances and stands in need of the aid of his County for support.
Sworn & Subscribed
Before me Jan 27 1819
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Saml Callender


Found on Virginia Rolls
Admitted

Not on Rolls
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Pennsylvania Luzerne County Ss
I Jesse Fell one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Samuel Callender did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his declaration and that he is in reduced and indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for support. I further certify that the within named Thomas Burnside since making the within Certificate has resigned his office of President Judge Dcd and removed from the County
Jesse Fell
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Saml Callender

not entitled
10823
19 May 1879
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November 22, 1937.
RA-J/ILL
Samuel Callender
S. 40814

Mr. M. Roy London
Colby Junior College
New London, New Hampshire.

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of your ancestor, Samuel Callender, whose wife was Martha Slossen, and state, also, that he received a pension from the United States Government.
The record has been found of only one Samuel Callender who received a pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. The data given herein are shown in the papers on file in that claim, S. 40814.
The date and place of birth, and the names of the parents of Samuel Callender are not shown.
Samuel Callender enlisted in Virginia, in 1776, and served one year and ten months as a private in Captain John Hays' company, Colonel Thomas Lewis' Virginia regiment. He then enlisted in Pennsylvania, and served two years and ten months as a sergeant in Captain John Heard's company, Colonel Stephen Moylan's Continental Dragoons. He was at the surrender of General Burgoyne, in the battle of Monmouth, and in several small skirmishes.
After the war he resided in Wallkill, Orange County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, while a resident of Greenfield, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-two years and three months.
About 1778, while in the neighborhood of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the soldier married. One David Slauson, of Orange

OK - Mrs. Finch
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County, New York, 1828, stated that said Samuel Callender married his aunt, but did not state her name, and that they remained near Stamford during the winter.
In 1820, the soldier and his wife, aged sixty-five years, were living in Greenfield, Pennsylvania, with their youngest son, whose name is not shown. The soldier then had seven children, all married, and he was referred to as Samuel Callender, the elder.
It is shown also that Samuel Callender received 100 acres of land from the State of Virginia on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

This pensioner was dropped on acct. of property in 1820 - A. B. - Not on 1828 - S of War.
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[trifold paper - left third cut off]
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40814
by INVALID.
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File No. 40.814
Samuel Callender
Div Rev War
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Act: 18th March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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May 6' 96 sold pensd to Chas  L Middletown
N
LWB
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Apr. 15, 1897 - His ┃
to Mrs. Sarah A.
25 Highland Ave
Middletown, N.Y.
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1915 Dec. 30. Hist. to John
E. Baker 
1923. Sept 1-Hist. to Mrs. Wilbur A Jones. M. F.
1924. Sept 29 Hist to Alfred E. Lister M. F.
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1929 - Oct 9. Hist to Mrs Bessie M. Rightmire Esq
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1933 Apr. 29. Hist. to Hettie Fisher A.D.Y.
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1937. Nov. 22 - Hist. to M. Roy London L..L.
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See letter April 25 1829 to the Secretary of the Treasury.
See letter 29 July 1829 to A Beaumont

[written horizontally]
Notification sent October 11 1820 to Samuel Dale Lancaster, Lancaster Co.
Returned Dec 6th 1820 & sent to Andrew Beaumont Dec 7 1820
Walker Vance
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Samuel Callender - Served Penn line - 

Penn

Nov File No 40.814 Ok LDS

Nov 11/79
Evidence insufficient act 1828
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OWJ
# 40.814
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421
Recd July 9 1828

acknowledged 9
Samuel Callender

A Dickinson Res
Office of the Secretary of the Treasury
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Wilkes Barre
July 2

Free

Abraham Bradley Esq
Washington City DC
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Wilkes Barre July 1 1878
Abraham Bradley Esq
From the recommendation of Judge Hallenback I have presumed to authorize you to receive my pension under the late act of Congress. Aaron Ogden and others claim a certain percentage to wit 5 percent on an estimated amt ($2,000 for a private and 3000 for a Captain) for certain services performed in procuring the passage of said act. Not understanding this claim precisely and thinking the demand a novel one to say the least of it. I have prefered to authorize yourself to assist in placing my name upon the Register and request you to pay to Mr Aaron Ogden five dollars compensate yourself for your trouble and transmit the
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balance to me by mail to "Greenville" Luzerne County Pennsylvania.
Your Obt & humble svt
[signed] Samuel Callender
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State of New York
County of Orange Ss

Benjamin Brown
of Calhoun in the County of Orange being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he this deponent is acquainted with Samuel Callendar
and was acquainted with him during the
revolutionary war that he the said Samuel Callender served in Col. ....Miles.... Regiment of Light dragoons that this deponent [illegible] that the said Samuel Callender served in the said Regiment in the County of Westchester
in the State of New York and in the State of Connecticut for more than two years and that he this deponent hath been acquainted with the said Samuel Callender ever since that period, that the said Samuel Callender hath lived for some time service the revolutionary war in Wallkill in the County of Orange and State of New York and that he now resides in the State of Pennsylvania as this deponent is informed and believes, and further saith not.
[signed] Benjamin Brown

Sworn the tenth day Jan 1820 before me -
Joseph Chattle Justice of the peace in the
County of Orange & State of New York
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S Callender - 421.
Rec 24 Feb 1829

Free
Mr Richard Rush Esq
Washington City

Greenville Pa
feb 7
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affirmation of David Slauson
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I Asa Dunning, Clerk of the Court of the County of (illegible) in the State of New York do Certify that Horace W Elliott before whom the within affidavit or affirmation was taken was at the time a Justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 13th day of December 1828
Asa Dunning Clerk
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S. Callender 4211

1839
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War Department,
Pension Office,
October 13 1820
10823

Sir, 
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818 and 1st May 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J.L. Edwards

To Mr Samuel Callender
Greenfield Luzerne County Pa
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Revolutionary Claims.
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Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
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Treasury Department
22 April 1829

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Samuel Callender under the above mentioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and, if so, what discharge, or other evidence was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.

The Hon. the Secretary of War.

Th. Ingham

See letter from W.Dept. 25 April 1829

23 Apr
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Revolutionary Claims.
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[ B. ]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and
Privates.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain
surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Samuel Callender of Greenfield in the county of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania
do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a Sergeant in Captain John Herd's Company, in the fourth Regiment of the light dragoons (Col Milan Pennsylva) Line. And, I also declare, that I afterwards received  certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.
And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension
List of the United States.
Witness my hand, this first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
[signed] Samuel Callender
Before me John Myers one of the Justice of the Peace in and for in the county of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared, this day, Daniel Collins and Andrew Beaumont of the said county, who did severally make oath that Samuel Callender by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this first day of July, in the year 1828
[signed] John Myers Justice of the Peace
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I Charles D Shoemaker Clerk of the Court of the County of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that John Myers before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the (L. S.) said Court, this first day of July A D 1828
[signed] C.D. Shoemaker Clerk
*Sergeant, Corporal, Musician, or Private, as the case may be.
The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off: if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of .....dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of ......

* Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths.
Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be
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421 

Revolutionary Claims.
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Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
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Treasury Department
6 September 1828
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Samuel Callender under the above mentioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution.
Richard Rush
The Hon. the Secretary of War.

Th. Ingham

War Department
Bounty Land Office
15 Sep 1828

Samuel Callender a soldier of the Penna line, is not returned as entitled to land from the U States, or has a warrant issued for him.
[signed] E Stephens
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General Land Offr
28 April 1829

It appears from the List of Warrants found by the Register of the same office at Richmond Va that Samuel Callender is stated to have been a Soldier for three years, & as such a Warrant for 100 acres was issued in his name
[signed] G W Graham
Commissioner
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[letterhead]
[upper left]
Charles L. Mead
County Treasurer.
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The Treasurer can be consulted evenings at his residence, 24 Mulberry St., Middletown, N.Y.
[upper right]
Office of County Treasurer
of Orange County.

[handwritten letter]
Goshen, N.Y. April 30 1896

Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
Please give me the military record of Samuel Callender in Revolutionary War. Think he drew a pension & was from Virginia. was born in Virginia died in Pennsylvania.
Yours Respectfully,

Chas. Lo. Mead
Middleton Orange Co N.Y.
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Dept of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington D.C.

Will you kindly give me information of Samuel Callender born in Va April 10th 1756 died in Pa March 12th 1830
Anything in regard to his military record will be gladly
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received - 
Yours very truly
Mrs Sarah S Horton
25 Highland Ave
Middletown Or Co New York 
March 18th 1899
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[header]
Raymond E. Van Syckle
Attorney and Counselor at Law
1729 Ford Building
Detroit, Michigan

[letter]
Dec. 20, 1915

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: Please advise Revolutionary War service and  family data contained in Pension File: ----
Samuel Callender (1756-1830) pensioned Apr. 14, 1818 to May 19, 1819; dropped per act May 1, 1820.
Respectfully yours, 
John E Baker
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Klamath Falls - Oregon
July 18-1923

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[stamped]
U.S. Pension Office
Jul 26 1923

Gentlemen: - 
I am a great grand-daughter of Samuel Calendar who served as fifer in the Rev. War. He was a very young man at that time. He probably served in Crow's Regiment, N.Y. Militia.
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He also served as fifer in the war of 1812 in Capt Hezekiah Barns, Jr's. Company of Infantry, 4th Regiment (Williams'), Vermont Militia.
Is there any record in your office that will help me to give official proof of his service in the Revolution? I wish to join the D.A.R.s, on this record.
Thanking you in advance for any information you can give, I am
Your very [illegible]
(Mrs Wilbur A.) Nellie Rose Jones.
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[letterhead]
[upper left corner]
Walter L. Henwood, President
Boyd A. Musser, Vice President
[upper right corner]
A.E. Lister, Treasurer
Geo. E. Schultz, Secretary
[center]
Tip-Top Coal Company
613-615 Brooks Building
Scranton, Pa.
Mines South Valley, Pa.

[handwritten letter]
Sept 6 1924

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir - I understand that one of Mrs. Lister's ancestors, Samuel Callender, born 1757 in Virginia received a pension about 1818 but that pension was discontinued in 1820. If so will you kindly supply me with copy of his application for pension?

Resptfly yours
Alfred E. Lister.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office L Sep 9 1924
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201 Mantua Ave.,
Wenonah, N. J.
Aug 4, 1929.

War Dept.
Office of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[stamped]
U.S. Pension Office Aug 6 1923

Gentlemen, 
Will you kindly send me the record of Nathaniel Tuthill an officer in the Revolutionary War also of Samuel Callender, private from Virginia & Nathaniel Tuthill I believe was from New York State.
I am desirous of having this information as it is my wish to join the Daughters of the Revolution and I have been told this is the first step toward joining this organization.
Thanking you.
I am
Very truly, 
(Mrs.) Bessie M. Rightmire
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Greensburg, Pa. April 25, 1933

Department of Interion
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Could you tell me if Samuel Callender received a Pension for Revolutionary Services He was a Private mc Corp. and Segt He was born 1756 died March 30, 1830 at Scranton, Pa. his wife was Martha Slawson I wanted to know from where he served and in whose company I do not know where he lived during the War.
Yours Truly
[signed] Hattie Fisher
Hattie Fisher
505 Tremont Avenue.
Greensburg, Pa.

[stamped] Received Apr 27 1933
Mail, SubDiv Vets Adm. pension #3
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SECRETARIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

COLBY JUNIOR COLLEGE
NEW LONDON
NEW HAMPSHIRE

[stamped] RECEIVED NOV 10 1937 [stamped]

Nov 9, 1937

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:
I am trying to trace my ancestry for Membership into the Sons of the American Revolution
I am the great great grandson of Samuel Callender and Martha Slossen his wife.
Samuel Callender was in the Revolutionary War. I am told was Washingtons' Body Guard. There is a Monument in Washington in his memory
Can you give me the dates of birth, marriage and death of these two people.
You will find in the records that Samuel Callender received a pension and then returned it to the Government.

Very Truly Yours

M. Roy London
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[letterhead]
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

[typed letter]
O.W. & N. Div.
L.W.B.
I. 40814.

May 6th, 1896.

Sir:-
Replying to your request from information concerning the military record of Samuel Callender, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 10th, 1818 at which time he was residing at Greenfield, Penna., and 62 years of age, and his pension was allowed for one year and ten months' actual service as a private in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. John Hays and Col. Lewis.
H enlisted from the State of Virginia*
Very respectfully, 

Commissioner.

Mr. Charles L. Mead, 
Middletown, New York.
Orange Co.
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[box with text in upper left corner]
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original states.

[letterhead]
Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C., 

O.W. & N. Div Revolutionary

[typewritten letter]
April 15, 1897.

Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Samuel Callender, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 10, 1818, at which time he was 62 years of age and residing at Greenfield, Penna., and his pension was allowed for one year and ten months' actual service as a private in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hays and Col. Lewis. Place of his enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully, 

Commissioner.

Mrs. Sarah A. Horton, 
25 Highland Avenue, 
Middletown, N.Y.
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date soldier referred to his youngest son of Greenfield, Pennsylvania with whom he and his wife aged sixty-five years were then living. No names stated. Soldier was called Samuel Callender the elder.
The above noted is the only soldier named Samuel Callender found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours, 

Earl D. Church
Commissioner.

[handwritten note "Searched & Copied by E E L]
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resident of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He had seven children who in 1820 were all married, and at that date soldier referred to his youngest son of Greenfield, Pennsylvania with whom he and his wife aged sixty-five years were then living. No names stated. Soldier was called Samuel Callender the older.
The above noted is the only soldier named Samuel Callender found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully, 

Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section

September 11, 1923

Mrs. Wilbur A. Jones
Klamath Falls, Ore.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 40814 it appears that Samuel Callender enlisted in Virginia in 1775 and served as a private one year and ten months in Captain John Hays' Company, Colonel Thomas Lewis' Virginia Regiment; he then enlisted in Pennsylvania and served as a Sergeant two years and ten months in Captain John Heard's Company, Colonel Stephen Moylan's Continental Dragons. He was at the capture of Burgoyne and battle of Monnouth.
After the war he resided at Wallkill, Orange County, New York. He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818 while a resident of Greenfield, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania aged sixty-two years and three months.
At the time of his marriage about 1778 he was
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a resident of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He had seven children who in 1820 were all married, and at that date soldier referred to his youngest son of Greenfield, Pennsylvania with whom he and his wife aged sixty-five years were then living. No names stated. Soldier was called Samuel Callender the elder. The above noted is the only soldier names Samuel Callender found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.