Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,489, for Cornelius Lynde, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Green Mt Boys
Mass.

Lynde, Cornelius
Rebecca

NUMBER
W. 20.489

CONTENTS
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9145
Vermont

Cornelius Lynde
of Williamston in the State of Vermont
who was a Pr. in the Com commanded
by Captain Thayer of the Reg commanded
by Col. Felton in the Mass -
Militia 15 dys -
Ensign 9 mo. 15 dys -
Old Case
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 96 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of April
1833 and sent J. K
Parish Randolph Vt
Arrears to the 4th of March 33    $193, 32
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep. 33.   4833
$231.65
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. ⎬
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 3  Page 74
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State of Vermont
District of Randolph ss}
On this 3rd Day of August 1832 personally appeared before the [illegible] probate Court of the District of Randolph and State of Vermont now sitting in Brookfield Cornelius Lynde resident of Williamstown in the County of Orange and District of Randolph and State of Vermont aged eighty one years who being fist duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the Army of the United States according to the best of his remembrance in the month of August 1775 as a substitute for Archibald Lausau a Sarjeant by consent of the Colonel of the Regiment Col. Fellans He does not recollect the number of the Regiment if it had any number at that time and continued to serve in the same Regiment as a Serjeant four months as near as he can recollect when said Lausau returned and he was discharged He served under the following named Officers Col. Fellons Lieut Col. Aguron Euger - Maj Tupper Capt Thayer Liuet Warner at Dorchester near Boston At the time when he entered the service he was a resident of Weston in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts
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State of Vermont}
District of Randolph  ss}

On this 27th day of August AD 1838 at Williamstown in said district personally appeared before this Probate Court
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June 1, 1921.

Mr. Samuel F. Batchelder.
721 Tremont Building.
Boston, Mass. 

Sir; 

In response to your letter of the 26th ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Widow File No. 30,489, it appears that Cornelius Lynde, while a resident of Weston, Worchester County, Massachusetts, and a student at Harvard College, enlisted in August 1775, and served as a Sergeant, for four months, in Captain Thayer's Company, Colonel Fellow' Regiment. After this service he went to Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and on January 15, 1776, he volunteered and served in Captain Hopkins' Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, which marched to Quebec, where on April 15, 1776, he was commissioned Fourth Ensign of Captain William Satterlee's Company, Colonel Samuel Elemore's Regiment of Foot, in which he continued until discharged February 1, 1777, and his own request, for the purpose of rejoining his class at college.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818, at which time he lived in Williamstown, Orange County,
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Vermont, and was sixty-six years old. The date and place of his birth are not stated. He died February 17, 1836. 
He married at Williamstown, Vermont, October 6, 1788, Rebecca, maiden name not stated, and they had children, three of whom were born prior to 1794, one son was eighteen years of age in 1820, but the names of the children are not on record. The widow Rebecca was allowed pension on her application executed August 27, 1838, while living at Williamstown, Vermont, aged sixty-eight years.
Very respectfully, 
Washington Gardiner
Commissioner.
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Harvard College
Class of '93

Samuel F. Batchelder
Secretary
721 Tremont Building
Boston, Mass. 

26 May 1921

Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

Cornelius Lynde of Brookfield or Leicester, Massachusetts, the next town, an undergraduate at Harvard College, was absent from his studies from April 1775, to January 1777, "while an officer in the Continental Army." He then returned, and on his petition was allowed to resume his place in his class "in view of his repeated promotions in the army."

The ordinary sources of information seem to give very little about this ambitious young Harvard man's military career - particularly as to his rapid rise in the service. The Pension Report for 1835 shows that he received a pension from the Government, being placed on the roll 1 April 1833, his place of residence then being Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont and his age 83. 

If your records give any information in addition to this, such as the nature of his services and the successive ranks held by him, I should be grateful for a memorandum on the subject. 

Respectfully yours, 
Samuel F. Batchelder
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War Department

Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, 

Cornelius Lynde late an Ensign in the Army of the Revolution, in inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twenty third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War