Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18715, Jonthan M Bissell, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Bissell, Jonathan M

NUMBER
S.18715

carded

CONTENTS
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No. 22 Windham Coy. Vermont
Jona M Bissell
Dec 86 for Pension
31 July 1832.

No. 5198


Please to make return to [illegible]
{illegible] Vt.
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STATE OF VERMONT.
County of Windham ss.
Probate District of Marlborough at the Probate Court, within and for said District, being a Court
of Record, expressly so declared by the Statutes of this State, and as such having a Seal & Register
On this 31st day of July
A. D. 1832 - Personally appeared in open Court, -- At [illegible]
on the 31st Present the Hon. Marshall Miller, Esquire Judge of said Court
in said District
Before the said Probate Court, within and for said District
now sitting--- Jonathan M. Bissell
a resident of Stratton
in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged Sixty nine
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832--That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
the said Jonathan M. Bissell declare and says that in the month of July or August 1777 he went as a substitute for his Father, Juber Brisel, he was drafted into the day of
the Revolution, at Spring pit Manachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. Chapin in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ruggles Woodbridge. Marchant
printed in the County of Berkshire in the State of Martha and remained there some days for the Regiment to fill up-- we then went to Bennington Vt and and
there a few days after the Battle and was there used or detached from the Regiment and left with reguard to guard the prisoners and after remaining there about two months
he was dismissed about the time of the Survey of Burgoynes army- And afterwards in the summer 1779 he enlisted for the term of three months and went to
three months
Springfield Massachusetts, and tried and Corps stationed there to guard a continentel stores on the Hill, so called, and served then for and during the time of
that the captains name was Colton-- Major Church had some command there respects a Sargeant Lilley-- and in regularly dismissed at the
son Springheld said. And afterwards in the summer of 1780 he enlisted for the term of three months at Springfield, and entered the company commanded by Capt
Browning in me does not now recollect of the name of the one part and they live-- thence to Redhook-- hence & appoint
after he died at Westpoint was detached and put on you. Arnolds life guard and was in his guard for the space of the week at a place called Robinson's Farm
then sent back to the first, and was soon after detured and sent up the River above were to chosen and as the then Arnold went of the British upon which an
ance for the time at Westpoint marked to Fishkill where order to such to worshiping again to
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
And he further
as to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers upon his said oath, as follows:
The witnesses 1. He was born in the town of West Winsor in the County of Hart State Connecticut in the year 1762
living by whom
he can prove
his service
2. He has no record of his age has been told by his father in his life time that his age was recorded in the town of Windsor
. He never
2
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3. In the town of Shingfield Chick Parish, County of Hemphill chusetts Montague on Conneticutions
forty years ago-- was there for 4 years and then moved an on the river into the town of Greenfield, and moved from Granfield
to sit in 1819 remained there one year from thence to help them about three years & then moved to Stratton
he now lives
the first time out as a substitute, the other the
her a substitute was for his father Jaber Bissell
that any in particular except thare whenkey named
and any discharge in writing
He names Biles Mann Abel Grant with his neighbors & townsmen. there is a clergymen
in Stratton
Jona M Bissell
Marshall Miller Judge of Probate
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
We Wille Mann residing in the town of Stratton
of Stratton
in said District
and A Crantsin
said District
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jones. Bill
sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixtysoldier

of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a
Abel
Killen
Marshall Miller Judge of Probate
And the 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
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Vermont
Jonathan M. Bissell
Of [illegible] in the State of Vt
who was a pr; in the _______commanded
by Captain ______of  the Rgt commanded
by C Woodbrige in the  in the Mass
line for
1 month 9 days

Inscribed on the Roll Ermon.
at the rate of 20 Dollars 33 Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certicate of Pension issued the 8 day of July 36
by
and J. P.
Patre-
1
Arrears to the 4th of 34
Semi-anl. allowance ending
1
& 99
=
12. 16
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Act June 7, 1832
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