Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36190, for Mark Newell, Connecticut
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(3-1776) [Stamped, image of a star]

SERVICE | NUMBER
Conn. | Newell, Mark | S. 36190

CONTENTS
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Exam'd with orig. Rolls. Aug. 1813. ESP.
3/4
40
10
41.03

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3577.
Connecticut Roll
Mark Newell
Capt. Stanley
private
Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the first of October 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Oct. 1818 and sent to Roger Whittlesey Esqr Southington Connecticut

Pension of semi-annl. to March 1819 5 mo. 4/31
41:03
$41:03

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

3Years-
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36190
Revy INVALID

File No. 36,190
Mark Newell
Pri Rev war

Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 296

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Hon. John Calhoun Secy of War
Washington Col.

Correct
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Before me Jonathan Brace Esquire Judge of the County Court of Hartford and State of Connecticut upon this first day of October AD 1818 personally appeared Mark Newall of Southington in the County aforesaid and made oath as follows, to wit-
that at this time and for more than thirty years last past he hath resided in the said town of Southington and is a a citizen of the United States that in the month of May AD 1776 he enlisted into the service of the United States and served for the term of six months in a company commanded by Capt. Gad Stanley and in a Regiment under the command of Col. Fisher Gray, and that in the month of May AD 1777 he again enlisted as a private soldier into the Service of the United States for the term of three years into a Company commanded by Capt. Eli Leavenworth and in a Regiment commanded by Col. Return.
Jonathan Meigs and that he continued in the same Regiment in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain till the expiration of the said term of three years when he was honourably discharged by Maj. Gray then commandant of said Regiment and that his discharge by time and accident is lost and that he the said Mark Newell at this time by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support being at the time about sixty years of age

Jonathon Brace Judge of the County Court for the county aforesaid
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And I the said Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court as aforesaid do further certify that the said County Court is a Court of Record and that from the affidavit of the said Mark Newell, together with the certificate of Elisha Colt Controller of this State and the depositions Samuel Pardee, John E. Benjamin Esquire and James Powers which are hereunto annexed that I am satisfied that the said Mark Newell served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain upon the continental establishment for the term of nine months at least one time - and that by his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and I therefore transmit the same to the Secretary at War that the said Mark Newell may be placed upon the pension list
agreeably to the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 Oct"1 _____ 1818 _____
Jonathan Brace Judge as aforesaid -

sealed with the seal of said County Court by direction of
the Hon Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court and I also certify that Roger Whittlesey Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hartford & was on the 30 day of September 1818 appears by
a Commission remaining in my office & I believe that the signature herein after made is his signature. Witness my hand & the seal of said County Court

Thomas Chester Clerk
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I Samuel Pardee of Southington in the County of Hartford do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Mark Newell the applicant before named for forty years last part that I served with him in the Company of Capt Gad Stanley for the term of six months as he hath stated in his affidavit and that in the spring of the year he enlisted into the service of the United States in the year 1777 and that I do
verily believe that the said Mark Newell continued in the service of the United States in the Continental Army till the expiration of the said term of their years and was then honourably discharged. And I do further say
that the said Mark Newell by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support being at this time about sixty years of age and law and infirm as to his health.

Samuel Pardee

James Power of Southington in Hartford County of lawful age deposeth and saith that he served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary army of the United States for the term of six years in the Regiment commanded by Col Return J Meigs & that Mark Newell the applicant before named served as private in the same company and same Regiment and lived in the same tent with the deponent for the term of two years

James Powers

John E. Benjamin Esquire one of the Justice of Peace for the County of Hartford deposeth and saith that he hath been acquainted with the aforesaid applicant Mark Newell about seven years that he is about sixty years of age infirm in health that by his reduced circumstances in life he is need of assistance
from his country for support that he is well acquainted with Samuel Pardee the above named Deponent and that the said Samuel Pardee and the said Mark Newell are
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man of respectable standing in society and that full credit is to be given to their testimony

John E Benjamin

Hartford County ss Southington Sept. 30th 1818
Personally appeared before me Roger Whittlesey one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid Samuel Pardee James Power and John E Benjamin Esquire and severally made oath to the truth of the foregoing depositions as by them severally subscribed

Roger Whittlesey
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State of Connecticut Comptrollers Office
Hartford October 1 1818

Upon examination of the Books of this Office it appears that a Mark Newell served as a private in Colonel Return J Meigs Regiment in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War from the twenty third day of May 1777 to the twentieth day of April 1780- and that the pay for his services was made to him by this state, was charged to the United States and allowed the State in the final settlement of the accounts of this State for the Expenses of the Revolutionary war- 

Certified by
Elisha Colt Comptroller of Public Accounts

Mr Newell requests that the return may be made either him or to Roger Whittlesey Southington Con.

R Whittlesey