Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Amos Ranney, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
       SERVICE                                     NUMBER
Conn.                   Ranney Amos        [ck mark]
Conn Sea Service
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AW    Rev. War Section
                           March 27, 1915.

Mr. Charles C. Adams,
    Cromwell,
      Connecticut.

Sir:-
   I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, your letter  dated the twenty-fourth instant containing data relative to Amos Ranney a soldier of the Revolution.
     Another careful search fails to show a claim for pension in the files for said Amos Ranney, and his name does not appear on the list of rejected Revolutionary War pension claims or on any list of Revolutionary War pensioners who resided in Connecticut.
   The statement which you quote is dated June 21, 1820, is obviously an affidavit made in compliance with the Act of Congress passed May 1, 1820 (amending the Act of March 18, 1818), which required that the Court of record before which the affidavit was  executed, should forward a copy of said paper to the Secretary of War, with the opinion of the Court in regard thereto, and retain the original paper in the Court.
     As the paper you saw is marked 'copy, and contained data relative to military service not required by the Act of May 1,
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1820, it is possible that it was his application for pension under the Act of March 18, 1818, and schedule of property under the Act of May 1, 1820, and that the Court did see fit to forward either the original, or "copy', to the Secretary of War.

                         Very respectfully,
                             GM Saltzgaber
                               Commissioner.




                          Amos Ranney --2.
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                                    See negative slip on bark 
                                        of this

These papers should not be considered as constituting as a pension claim and data should not be given to inquirers from these papers.

see Bureau letter of Mar 27. 1910
Claim never reached the Office.

           [Initialed] AW
                 Mar 27, 1910
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[Initialed AW in upper left corner]
Rev. War Section. [ck mark, illegible note]
                            3-1865
           DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
           WASHINGTON      March 23, 1919.

Mr. Charles Collard Adams,
Cromwell, Connecticut

Sir:-
 In response to your letter dated the eighth instant, you are advised that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show a claim for pension filed on account of the Revolutionary War services of any soldier named Amos Ranney, under any spelling of the name.
    It is proper to add that the regard of pensions issued prior to 1814 is incomplete, owing to the destruction of papers when the British burned Washington, in that year.

It is requested that you furnish any data in your possession relative to the alleged pensioner, that will enable this Bureau to make a further investigation in regards to him.  Please quote the volume and page thereof, in which you have printed the affidavit found by you in Chatham, Connecticut.
                            Very respectfully,
                            G.M. Saltzgaben
                                  Commissioner
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                                              Cromwell, Conn.
                                                   March 8, 1915

The Bureau of Pensions,
                                        Washington, D.C.
Sirs:-  I would b pleased to be given the data of death of Amos Ranney, a Revolutionary pensioner from the Town of Chatham, Conn.  I have printed his application for a pension, having found a copy of it in the archives of the County.
Did his widow Lucy receive a pension?
                          Respectfully yours,
                              Charles Collard Adams
                      Late Chaplain 22d Reg. C.V.G.
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   [Stamp]

                   PENSION
                         D
           U.       MAR     S.
                        9
                     1915
                   OFFICE
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Box 236
Cromwell
Conn                             Box 236
                                      Cromwell, Conn.
                                      Jan. 16, 1918,

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:- Please inform me of the date of [last two words crossed out] last payment date of pension of Amos Ranney who on June 21, 1820, asked for a pension. He was from Chatham or Middletown at the date of his death, Please favor me with the date of his death. I have a certified copy of his application. The information is for use in a membership blank of the D.A.R. [ck mark]
    Respectfully
Charles Collard Adams
Late Chaplain 22nd Regt. Conn. Infy
Author of the Ranney Genealogy
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2.
in Co. of Capt. Edmund Bulkely & Col. Samuel Urble ... Continental establishment served -Dec 1779 at West Point N.Y.
Was in Battles of Bunker Hill, White Plains and Monmouth.
While ion ship Oliver Cromwell assisted in capture of Cyrus and Admiral Keppel in one engagement.
For 18 years a "wood cutter - had wife Lucy aged 78. "Scedule [sic] of the real and personal property
                                      [illegible heading]   
                                          dols.    cts   
One ax ------------------    1.00  
Shovel & tongs                             .25
Four Chairs                                    .80  
One old table                                .25   
------                                   ---------                                                         
------                                   ---------                                                                                      
                                           ___________  
In all total                              $ 3.77

I Note,  His children by 1st wife who was Rachel Hill, have gone in different directions. He had m (2) Lucy ________-, I can find no record of their death - And that I seek, where he lived and when he died.
                                 Very truly yours,
                                 Charles Collard Adams
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[Stamp]
     
               PENSION

           U.    MAR     S.
                     26
                    1915
                 OFFICE
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[Left Column from top]
Hon Frank Langdon Wilcox - President
Berlin, Conn.
Charles Collard Adams, M.A. Sec'y-Treas.
Cromwell, Conn.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The President,
Charles Henry Stanton, Clinton, N.Y,
Ebenezer Goodhue Ranney,
Cromwell, Conn.
John Goodhue Ranney, Syracuse, N.Y.

[Right column from top]
Rev Francis Goodwin, D.D. Hartford, Conn.
Wm Pie repont White, Utica, N.Y.
Edgar Jared Doolittle, Meriden, Conn.
Zenas Edwards Ranney, Middletown, Conn.  name crossed out]
John Hall Sage, Portland, Conn.
Charles Eben Jackson, Middletown, Conn.
Geo. H. Blanden, Springfield, Mass.
Geo. Washburn Stocking, W. Va

       CROMWELL, CONN., March 24, 1915

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sir:-  Replying to the enclosure I beg leave to say: I found in an office in Middletown, the county seat, a quantity, marked "copy" of applications for pensions from Rev. Soldiers  That of Amos Ranney I presented to his grandson now 86 years of age. I quoted it in my book 'Middletown Upper  Houses" and give you herewith the substances.
        Date June 21 - 1820
Enlisted in latter part of April. 1775, for seven months in the .Co commanded by Capt. E. Scott, Col. Samuel Wyllys, on the Continental establishment, was discharged T West Point, State of New York.  Enlisted for eight months  in Jan 1776 under Capt. Blackman, Col. _____ Meade, served till - Sept1776  discharged at Horse Neck (CT). 3rd  Enlisted for a cruise on Ship Oliver Cromwell - - Jan 17781 [sic] Capt. Timothy Parker, served 1 ,months, disc. at Charleston, S.C. Enlisted for term of 9 months on - March 1779
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       [Stamp]


                 U.     MAR     S.
                           26
                         1915
                        OFFICE
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AW Rev. War Section.     [next word/s illegible]

                                           Jan. 26, 1916
Rev. Charles Collard Adams
Box 236, Cromwell, Conn.
Sir:
  In reply to your letter of the first instant, you are advised that a careful search of the records fail to show a claim for Revolutionary War pension on file for Amos Ranney and his name does not appear on any list of Revolution War pensioners who resided in the State of Connecticut, nor does it appear on the list of rejected Revolutionary War claims.

You are advised as above on March 27, 1915 and also then advised as to the nature of the paper relative to said soldier from which you quoted and which you state was dated June 21, 1830.

The Bureau is unable to aid you further in this matter.
                   Very respectfully,
                    GM Saltzgeben
                   Commissioner
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AW   Rev. War Section.  
                                   March 23, 1915.
Mr. Charles Collard Adams
Cromwell, Connecticut.
SIr:-
  In response to your letter dated the eighth instant, you  are advised that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fail to show a claim for pension filed on account of the Revolutionary war services of any soldier named Amos Ranney, under any spelling of the name.
   It is proper to add that the record of pensions issued prior to 1814 is incomplete, owing to the destruction of papers when the British burned Washington, in that year.

It is requested that you furnish any data in your
possession relative to the alleged pensioner, that will enable this Bureau to make further investigation in regard to him. Please quote the volume and page thereof, in which you have printed the affidavit found by you in Chatham, Connecticut.

                             Very respectfully,
                                [no signature]
                                  Commissioner
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3-871
Rev. War Section
           RECORD DIVISION [line crossed  OUT]
                  Department of the Interior
                     BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Briefed by  ...AW Mar.23 1915
Claim No.............
Certificate No ........
Claimant ................
Soldier ...... Amos Ranney
Service......
Additional Service....      Red.
a Rev. War pensioner from 
the town of Chatham Conn.
        (Middlesex County)
No claim..., State records......, 191...
No claim, combination records....., 191...

                  REMARKS:
No claim for any Amos under any spelling of names in the files.
None on Conn. Agency book...
None on Rejected books written or posted
     "     "      1828 & index.
    "      "    printed lists 1873 [illegible].
   "       "         "        "  1831 of Middlesex County
     "     "    Old War Inv. or wid. 2 letter 
                  combination for any war prior to 
                  1861 
Nothing on lists of private claims or his American State papers, and no affidavit by any Amos in the claim of any other Ranney. 

[NOTE: added vertically in left margin]  Nor does he appear on private list of 1820-