Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39977, Henry Bentley, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Bentley, Henry

NUMBER
S.39977
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11.197 R
Pennsylvania
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Henry Bentley
of Tyrone in the state of Penna. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cook & others of the Pennsylva line, for the term of 6 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of October 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of June 1819 and sent to Hon: andrew Boden Carlisle, Cumberland Co. Penna.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 4 mos 27/31.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Septemr

38.96
48-
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$86.96
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(Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.)
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State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County fr.

          On this ninth day of October 1818 before me the Subfcriber one of the Afsociate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Cumberland, personally appears Henry Bently, aged Eighty Years in June last, resident in Tyrone township in said County, who being by me first sworn, according to Law, doth on his Oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congrefs, 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 Henry Bently enlisted in the Borough of Carlisle in said County in the State of Pennsylvania, in or about the Year Seventy six in the Company comman-ded by Captain MKinly, in the twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania line, Commanded by Colonel Cook, and afterwards was drafted into-
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Col. Craigs Regiment, & lastly he served about three years under Col. Harmor, that he continued to serve in said several Corps, or in the Service of the United States untill the close of the War, having been in the Service of the United States for about six years & ten months, when he was discharged from service in the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania,- that he was in the Battles, of BrandyWine in a Skirmish at Brunswick, & at the taking of Cornwallis at York. in Virginia- that the discharge he recieved at Philadelphia he some years ago sent on to Harrisburg does not know what has become of it since- Deponent further saith that he is in Reduced Circumstances, and Stands in Need of the afsistance of his Country for Support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services-
Sworn to and declared before me
the day and year aforesaid-
Jacob Hendel
Henry Bentley
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Cumberland County Js
          Before me the Subfcriber one of the Afsociate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County personally came Benjamin Jones and being duly Sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Henry Bently for twenty
five years & (illegible), that he has no property, &  for the two last years past, has been maintained by his Son Sampson Bently who is a Labourer & a man of no property, Ben jamins
Sworn & Subfcribed
Octo 28th 1818
Jacob Hendel
Cumberland County Js
          I Jacob Hendel one of the Judges of the Court of Commo pleas in and for said County, do Certify that it appears to my Sattisfaction that said Henry as Stated in the proceeding declaration, did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the Common enemy and that he is in Indigent Circumstances and Stands in need of his Country for Support, 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 aforementioned Act of Congrefs Witnefs my hand &Seal at Carlisle the (crossed out) twenty=eight (crossed outS) of October 1818-Jacob Hendel (illegible)
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.....information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in the Bureau.  Henry Bentley Sur. File. 39977.
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Dates of Service or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers Under whom Service Was Rendered/State.

1776/Served 6 years/Pvt/Captain Makinley Colonels Cook, Craig, Marmor/Penna.
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Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Sk. at Brunswick and taking of Cornwallis.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Carlisle, Penna.

Date of application for pension, Oct. 9, 1818. His cl. was al.

Residence at date of application, Tyrone Township, Cumberland Co, Penna.

Age at date of application, born June 1738

Remarks:  A son Sampson was referred to, no other family data.
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39977
INVALID.
Revy.
File No. 39,977
Henry Bentley
Priv. Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 33

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1910 July 29 Hist. to E. M. Vilette       P.L.M.
1910 Sept 6 E. M. Violette referred to aud.
for last payment.
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by A. Mae D.27/710
Claim No.______
Certificate No. _______
Claimant Pa.
Soldier Henry Bentley
Service ________
Additional Service ___Rev.
No. ____ claim, State records _____, 191_.
No claim, combination records ____, 191_.
No Wed.
Rej.
________________________Chief of Division
6-1944
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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI

E. M. VIOLETTE, EIROPEAN HISTORY
EUGENE FAIR, ANCIENT HISTORY
H.W. FOGHT, AMERICAN HISTORY
A. OTTERSON, CIVICS

DIVISION OF HISTORY 
AND GOVERNMENT
7/23/10

Commission of Pension Bureay
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir,

    I should be pleased to have a transcript of whatever record you may have of John Wheeler of Connecticut and Henry Bentley of Pennsylvania, both of whom are Revolutionary soldiers.

                                     Yours truly,
                                             //s//
                                      E.M. Violette
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STATE NORLMAL SCHOOL
KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI

E.M. VIOLETTE, EUROPEAN HISTORY
EUGENE FAIR, ANCIENT HISTORY
H.W. FOGHT, AMIERICAN HISTORY
A. OTTERSON, CIVICS

Division of History
and Government
8/28/10

Pension Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

   At my request you sent me on July 29 a transcript of the record of Henry Bentley, a Revolutionary Soldier from Pa.  
    I am especially desirous of ascertaining the dates of the death of this man and his wife, Jane Nicholson Bentley.  I had thought that your records would show when the pension was transferred to his widow, if he died before his wife did, and when it was discontinued for her.  The first would show about when he died & the last when his wife died.
    If I may get you to make this investigation for me, I shall be grateful.  This information will end a search I have been making for some time.

                                  Yours truly,
                                        //s//
                               E. M. Violette
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September 6, 1910.

Mr. E. M. Violette,
State Normal School,
Kirksville, Mo.

Sir:

    I reply to your letter dated the 28th and received the 31st ultimo. relative to the claim of Henry Bentley, Sur. file No. 39.977, you are advised that in order to ascertain the date of last payment of soldier's pension and to whom paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department, citing all of the following data: "Henry Bentley, Certificate No. 11,197, issued June 1, 1819, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at the Pennsylvania Agency."

                                 Very respectfully

                                             Commissioner.