Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,596, Thaddeus Gilbert, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn. 
Gilbert, Thaddeus 
NUMBER
S. 43,596
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(All handwritten on a sheet of paper that has two sides like a book - divided down the middle)
[Left page]
See letter  16 Feb 1829
to Pensioner
(Drawing of a hand pointing to the right - thumb up) Duplicate Certificate
Issued October 6. 1829 and sent
To Pensioner at Elyria, Ohio
Augt 1833 Applied to be transfd to New York & still to reside in Ohio - Augt 19. 1833
wrote to him - see letter on
file     
Cir to Pension Agent 15 March 1841.
To Albany NY from 4. Sept 1840. 14 April 1841. Notification S March Esq.
Stafford, Genesee Co. NY

Set: to Hour: S. M Gate
20. Sept: 1841 -
Letter to T. J. Henderson & 3 Audt
22 Sep. 1841
Let. To G F. Lewis April 1750

[Right Page]
(Crossed out - To Ohio)
16.792

New York A.
Thaddeus Gilbert
Of Chautauqua Co. in the State of New York
who was an armourer in the (left blank) commanded y Captain Comstock of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler in the Connecticut line, for the term of one year. from March 1777 to February 1778,

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight - Dollars per month, to commence on the 31  day of January, 1820

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of April 1820 and sent to Z. Cushing
Fredonia N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of March 1820. - $9.03
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 6 Sept 1820. 48.-
________
$57.03 

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}

Continued and transfer to Ohio. 30 May 1829, of notification sent to R. Mussey, Elyria, Ohio
Pension Commencing 17 April, 1829.
Amount due 4 Sept. 1829 $36.80
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Free
S March P. M.

Stafford N. Y.
March 6

Pension Office
Washington

March 1841
Jn. W. Evans
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Stafford, Genesee County, New York, March 4, 1841.
Pension Office,
Application for a transfer
County of Genesse, S.S.
On this fourth day of March, 1841, before one, the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the said county of Genesee, personally appeared Thaddeus Gilbert, late an Armourer in the army of the Revolution, who is now inscribed on the Pension list, Roll of the Ohio Agency, who on his oath declares that he is the service
person who formerly belonged to the company of Infantry, commanded by Captain Samuel Comstock, in the 8th Cont.
Regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension
Roll of the state of New York, from where he remained to the state of Ohio, and had his name transferred from the New York
Pension List, to the Roll of the Ohio Agency, from where he has lately remained, that he now resides in the state of New York,
where he intends to remain,  and wishes his Pension to be there payable in future.
The following are his reasons, he said he came to the state of New York; to reside with his children.
Sworn and subscribed
before me, the day and year | Thaddeus Gilbert
aforesaid. 
L Mix J.P.
Genesee County, S.S.
Thomas D. Morrison, being duly sworn, on his oath says that Thaddeus Gilbert, the person who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the above affidavit.
Sworn and subscribed | T.D. Morrison
March 4, 1841, before me
L. Mix J.P.
This is to certify that the above named Thomas D. Morrison is a person of veracity.  
L. Mix J.P. 
Please direct to Thaddeus Gilbert Stafford
Genesee County New York to the care of 
S March Post Master
S March P.M.
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State of New York Genesee County ⎬ I certify that Lawrence Mix before whom the within affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace of the said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and do believe the signatures of the said Justice to the Certificates of taking the same are his hand writing - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this 6 March 1841 - N. W. Soper Clerk of said County
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Right parenthesis
State of New York,
Chautauqua County

On this thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before me the Jude-Secular First Judge of the court of common pleas herd in and for the said county, personally appeared Thaddeus Gilbert, aged about sixty seven year, a resident in the said county, 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 up endith "An Act to provide for certain persons on land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That the said Thaddeus Gilbert enlisted into the continental service as a Sargeant under one Ensign, Solomon Hubber, of Capt. Samuel Comstock's company, of the Assignment then commanded by Col. John Charpeter of the Chandler line at the Parish of Welton in the town of Norwath, in the State of Connecticut, on the Fourth day of March, in the year on thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, to serve during the said Col. Chandler, who then commanded the regiment to which the said Gilbert belonged, requested him the said Gilbert, to serve as an Armourer for the said regiment, that the said Gilbert rather hesitated, upon which the said Col. Chandler in the most warm and patriotic manner used the said Gilbert to perform the said service, alledging as a reason, that every one ought to do that which was most beneficial to the cause in which they were ingaged & promised the said Gilbert that he should still return his right to be promoted in the line if a vacancy happened. That the said Gilbert then consented, and served faithfully as an Armoror in the said Regiment until the last of December following at Valley Forge. And that his discharge mentioned that he was "discharged with the thanks of his officers for his good services-" That he received a Sargeant's pay and no more for his said services. That his said discharge is now lost, and that he has no further evidence of his services now in his power. And that he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support-
(Right parenthesis)
Subscribed & sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid
(signed) Thaddeus Gilbert
(signed) Lattic Gushing
I Lattic Gushing First Judge of the court of Common pleas in and for the county of Chautauqua aforesaid, As hereby certainty that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thaddeus Gilbert did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration by him & observed & sworn to before me, against the common enemy. And I further testify from my own knowledge and from the
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representations of andotable writings Thus I am also satisfied that the said Thaddeus Gilbert is in redused circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and herd before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress- Date the 31- day of January,1820,-
Lattic Gushing
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District of Connecticutt
On this 7th day of January 1820 before me
Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Salmon Hubbell of Bridgeport in said District during the War of the Revolution a Lieutenant in the army of the United States on
the continental establishment who being duly sworn doth depose and say that on the fourth day of March 1777 the deponent then being
Ensign in said army in Capt Samuel Comstock
to tarif in Col John Chandler Regiment in the Corner hath line he enlisted one Thaddeus Gilbert (then of Wilton in Connecticut now residing in or near Albany in the State of
New York as this defendent understanding as a sergeant in said Company to serve during the continuance of said War and that soon after the said Gilbert joined his said regiment he being an blacksmith was selected by said Col Chandler to do and perform the duty of and announcer for said regiment and that the said Gilbert faithfully served the United States  in the company thereof innoficial capacity of an armouren untill he was from said army
honourably discharged which took place
at or near Valley Forge at the close of the said year 1777 according to the best
recollotion and full beliefe of the deponent which discharge was by this deponent is confident or code by James Varnum who then commanded the brigade to which said
regiment then belonged and that the reason of his discharge was that the government refusing to allow to him any exctra pay
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on account of his so worthily doing the duty of an manner for which allowance he had been encouraged his officers to look [illegible] the denial of it they considered it no more than honourable treatment him to grant him a discharge if he wished it which he did and it was according so done - [different hand writing]Salmon Hubble 

[different hand writing again]District of Connecticut Shalford Jan 7 1820 Be remembered that on the day came and appeared before me Richard Edward district judge of the United State for said District, Salmon Hubble of said Shalford, a [illegible]marnighbour to and a person well known to be and every and disinterested the said in my presence subcribed the foregoing petition and having been duly sworn before W made oath the fath stated in said three depositionabout  Edwar by this Judge of said District I May 18th Jany 1890 ┃ yours
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Original Claim
The State of Ohio
Lorain County

On this ninth day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine: personally appeared in open Court; the Court of common Plead in and for the County of Lorain, being a Court of Record for the said County Thaddeus Gilbert resident in said County aged seventy five years and six months; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820.  That the said Thaddeus (as a ?) Gilbert enlisted during the war on the fourth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Comstock in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler - the line of the Sate of Connecticut on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps as a Sargeant for the said Regiment until the month of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, when he was honorably  discharged from the service at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania.  That he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of New York, and that the following are
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the reasons for not continuing his application under the law of May 1820, or at the time of the passage of the pension law of the 18th of March 1818 he was then in the Province of xxx Canada on business and continued there to complete his business til the autumn following, when he returned to his family in the State of New York and in the year 1820 he made an application for the benefit of the pension law of the 18 of March 1818 and was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York and drew one months pay only on the passage of the pension law of the first of May 1820 requiring an oath of actual residence in the United States on the 18 March 1818 having been in Canada as aforesaid at that time, he mistook the legal meaning of the word resident supposing it meant a resident where he actually was, and always has labored under that mistake until only lately he had been advised to the contrary.

And in pursuance of the act of the 11 May 1820, Ido solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time be gift, sale or in any manner disposed of property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" xxx on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me and property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor
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have I any income, or any property real or personal (except necessary clothing and bedding) that since the 18th of March 1818. the  following change had been made in my property   on the second day of January D1822.  I surrendered all my property of every kind to my creditors to release my body from imprisonment and took the insolvent debtors oath, which append by the certificate thereof hereto xxx that he is by occupation a blacksmith, but owing to old age and infirmity is unable to pursue it but little he had no other family than a wife who is sixty seven years of age and who has been unable to do any house work for more than three years past and who is now quite a cripple that he and his wife have been supported by private charity principally since the 2 day of January 1822.

Sworn to & declared on the 9th)
day of March A.D. 1829 in)
open Court before me)             Thaddeus Gilbert
Ebert Whiton, Clerk)

I Ebeneger Whiton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lorain County  do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of   the Court that the said Thaddeus Gilbert did serve in the Revolutionary as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and statement concerning his property are truly copied from the records at the said Courtand I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court he has no property other than necessary clothing and bedding -

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine

Ebert Whiton, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of Lorain County
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I George G Gilbert of lawful age & duty swear before & say that I am well acquainted with Thaddeus Gilbert and know him to be the same individual mentioned in the accompanying statement & also that said statement is the truth
                                  George G Gilbert

Subscribed & sworn to before me 
this 15th day of April AD 1829
                                  Frederick Whittlesey
                    Just Peace for (illegible)

I Ebenezer Whiton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lorain in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the above named Frederick Whittlesey was on the day of the date of the above certified a Justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & sworn & that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts as such & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine -

                          In Testimony where of & have here unto signed my name and affixed my Official Seal at my Office in Elyria the seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine
           Ebenezer Whiton Clerk
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By the Honorable John H. Jones Esquire first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee. To all to whom these presents shall come, Whereas Thaddeus Gilbert of the town of Attica in the County of Genesee and State of New York, did present a
petition to me praying that the said Thaddeus Gilbert in making an assignment of all his Estate in trust for the benefit of all his creditors, might be former exempted from out or imprisonment for or by reason of any debt or debts due at the time of making such assignment or contracted for before that time
though payable afterwards, and if in person from his impersonment in pursuance of the act entitled "an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases" passed April 7. 1819,
And I did [unclear] appoint the second day of January instant, at the house of John Clute in the town of Perry for all the creditors of the said insolvent to appear before me to show cause, if any they had, why an assignment of
the said insolvents Estate should not be made, and he the said insolvent exempted from imprisonment as aforesaid on complying with such things as an required of him by
the said act; due notice of which has been published and given according to the said act. 

To whom it appears to me the said insolvent hath conformed in all respects to those matters and things required of him, according to the true intent and meaning of the said act, and the said insolvent hath Executor or assignment of all his Estate to Ira Gilbert assigner appointed by me who has duly
certified the same to me. I do therefore, by virtue of the said act, on that the person of the said insolvent debtor shall
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he and is hereby [illegible] hereafter Exempted from imprisonment for or by reason of any debt of debts due at the time of making the said assignment or contracted before that time though payable afterwards and if in prison from his imprisonment. And an Shriff and other officers, are hereby required  to cease from imprisoning hereafter the said in about on any writ, [illegible] or execution, for any such debts as aforesaid.
Given under my hand and seal this second [?] day of January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. 
 John H. Jones J.P.

State of New York
Geneva County Js
I Chauncy L. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Geneva do hereby certify and attest that the preceeding is a true and correct copy of the original discharge of Thaddeus Gilbert filed in the office of the Clerk of the County aforesaid on the 4th day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty two In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county and subscribed my name thus 
4th day of January A.D. 1822
C.L. Sheldon Clk
By R Coffin [illegible]

Con
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                                             May 29, 1931
Miss Helen M. Fox        Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
1122 Second Street.     MCS:MLB
Lorain, Ohio


Dear Madam:

     You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 43596, that Thaddeus Gilbert enlisted in the parish of Welton in Norwalk, Connecticut, March 4, 1777, and served as sergeant in Captain Samuel Comstock's company in Colonel John Chandler's Connecticut regiment, and was discharged in December, 1777, or February, 1778. He was engaged as an armorer. 

     He was allowed pension on his application executed January 31, 1820, at which time he was sixty-sever years of age and was living in Chautauqua County, New York.

    In 1822 he was a resident of Attica, Genesee County, New York, and he then referred to his wife as being sixty-seven years old but did not give her name. 

   In 1822 reference was made to Ira Gilbert, relationship to soldier not shown.

  In 1829 soldier was living in Lorain County, Ohio. In that year one George G. Gilbert was living in Lorain County, Ohio, relationship to soldier not stated. 

  In 1841 Thaddeus Gilbert stated that he had moved back to Genesee County, New York, to reside with his childern but he did not state their names. 

There are no further date relatives to the soldier's family. 

                         Very truly yours


                                    E. W. MORGAN
                                    Acting Commissioner
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[left side]
43596
INVALID 
Revy
File No. 43,596
Jonathan Gilbert 
armorer Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:__ Vol. 5, Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870]

[right side]
1931 [illegible] [illegible] to
Miss Helen M Fox
See clm Bildad Belden
6.40744.
wcs
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H.792
New York

Thaddeus Gilbert, at Chautaugue Co in the state of New York, who was an amoruer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler, of the Connecticut line, for the term of six years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31. of January, 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of April, 1828, and sent to Zattee Cushing, Judge, Fredonia, New York. 

Arrears to 4th of March, 1820 $9.03
semi-anl. all'cc ending 4 Sept 49.00

2 mos to 31 1820.          $57.03

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818. 

See letter to Hon. E. Whittle say 6 Feb 1827.
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Commercial Bank of
Cincinnati
Pension Agency   DD hearde '41.
Copy

Thaddeus Gilbert paid to the 4 Sep 1840.
Signed
J.S Armstrong
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                                        Detroit, Michigan
                                       March 26th 1850.

Hon A. L. Edwards

Sir

Please to inform me if Thaddeus Gilbert to whom a Pension Certificate was issued, (of which the within is a true copy) was entitled to land and oblige. 

Yours respectfully
G.F. Lewis for Douglas Payne
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]on side] Pension Office May 1st 1829

Elyria 
April 21 
Hon, John Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City

[upside down] Pensions


m-s Con
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Elyria April 21, 1829

The Honble John H Eaton

Dr Sir
Inclosed are the papers of Thadeus Gilbert to continue his application for a pension. He relies implicitly on the justice of the present government. His former papers he informed me are to be found under the N. York head in 1820. (as Mr. Gilbert then resided in that state). Have the goodness to inform me if any other evidence will be necessary, and what for I believe every one who knows Mr. Gilbert can vouch for his honesty and veracity.
I remain
Respectfully yours
R. Mussey

Please direct to me Elyria Lorain County Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Lorain County Ss
On this 25th day of September 1829 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Lorain personally appeared George G. Gilbert who on his oath declares that he well knows Thaddeus Gilbert to be the same identical person described in the above or annexed affidavit.
Geo G. Gilbert

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
Lewis Ely J. P.

I hereby certify that the above deponent Geo G. Gilbert is a person of truth and undoubted veracity and upon whom the most explicit reliance may and ought to be placed.
Lewis Ely J. P.
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE

The State of Ohio
County of Lorain          ss.
     On this twenty fifth day of September 1829, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Lorain personally appeared Thaddeus Gilbert who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Comstock in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate of that face, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate, on or about the first day of February 1826, at or near The Township of Elyria in the said County of Lorain he the said Thaddeus by some casualty lost the said certificate and has never since been able to find the same

Sworn and subscribed to, before me,}
the day and year aforesaid. }  Thaddeus Gilbert
Lewis Ely J.P.
_______________________________________________
Notes.- the last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be property authenticated. 
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years also, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. the person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. the magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge or Notary Public, as the case may be. 
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.
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The State of Ohio
Lorain County ss:
I Ebenezer Whiton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County hereby certify that Lewis Ely, Esquire who signed the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace within + for said County duly Commissioned +Sworn and that full faith + credit is due his official acts as such -  
In Testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name + affix the seal of said Court at my office in Elyria the 25th day of September AD 1829_
Ebenr Whiton Clerk
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Case of Thaddeus Gilbert
Chautaugue Co N. York
Armourer
Zattee Cushing

Judge
Predonia, N. York

Rec. 25 Feb 1820
Col. Chandler's Reg.
Connecticut live 6 years
31 January 1820

Admitted
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H.R.   Washington 30th Aug 1841

Sir
I enclose certain pension papers sent me by Ms. Farnham which you will please examine and inform me of the result of your examination at my residence LeRoy as I leave, this city in the morning on account of ill health. 

                 Very Resply Yr Ob Svt
                   Seth M Gates

Hon I. L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
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War Department
Duplicate
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818 - Thaddeus Gilbert

Late an armourer in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension list roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 21st day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty

Given at this war office of the United States, this sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine

In for Baton 
Secretary of War

This certificate issued in lieu of one dated 28th April 1820 supposed to be lost or destroyed, which, should it be at the agency, the agent is requested to activate to their Department.
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H.M. Fox
1122 2nd St

NATHAN PERRY CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION
LORAIN, OHIO

Veteran's Administration
Bureau of Pensions
Rev War Section
Washington D. C.
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                  NATHAN PERRY CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
                        LORAIN, OHIO

                            Rev Dept Bureau of Pensions
                            Washington D.C. 

Dear Sirs

     Would you kindly send me the Rev Record of a soldier who was pensioned in 1820 and is given of Lorain Co. Ohio Thaddeus Gilbert by name. 
I am a member of the Research Committee of the Lorain D.A.R. Chapt and found the grave of a Bildad Belding born in Neathersfield Conn does your records show if he ever received his pension in Ohio in 1824 we are very anxious to mark his grave. 

   Thanking you 
   Miss Helen M. Fox
   1122 2nd St Lorain O.