Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6470, for Hampton Lovegrove, Vermont
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Fairfax Decr 18th 1835

Dear Sir
When you was at my house last you informed
me soon after you got to Washington it would be proper for
me to write to you concerning another [portion] for my
pension as to the evidence. I had sent & requested you to
call on Mr Slade & Mr Hart as to validity of Mr Nathan
Eells of Cornwall both of these Gentlemen are personally
acquainted with him-- as to the deposition of Capt
Bessell, Phelps of Waitsfield & would wish you to call on Judge
Prentice. He is personally acquainted with him. As my
papers are in the Secretary’s office you will have recourse
to them. If the failure is on the account of more evidence, I
Conclude I can obtain more but it would be attend with
some trouble & expence-- but I understood from your
communication to me was on the account of my being so
young that the Secretary assumed I was under my master
or fathers care. I would wish to know whether a boy at
Sixteen years of age is not as much as under the care
of his master or father as at Eleven years of age. if I prove
I actually performed the service of my country why not
be paid for it as well as others that were 4 or 5 years older.
Suppose I went in Lieu of some other person that person was never paid. The deprecation of the Currency at that day is the reason
why these pensions are granted, in order that those who were in
the service of the Country should receive some compensation for their services-- was not a boy of Eleven years old sensible
of fatigue, hunger and thirst as one of riper years. I know by
experience that they are as sensible of pain as at more
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advanced age. I was hurt in one of my feet while in the
teaming service which caused me more pain than I ever
experienced before or since. I was lame the whole of the following winter & I am of the opinion the Government is as much under obligation to remunerate me as though I was older.
N B the deposition of Mr Phelps goes to show that in the year
1779 Samuel Northam who I was under was out in the teaming Service & had the care of a Company of teams and is placed (as he believes) on the pension list. This company of teams were
engaged for nine months but on account of the above hurt I
had to return home. Otherwise I should have remained the
full time out. I would suggest to you the propriety of
calling on N Swift & Mr S. Wait. Mr Swift knows my standing
in society. Mr Wait I have understood has very efficient
in procuring pensions - you will however act your own
discretion in the matter.
Respectfully yours
Hampton Lovegrove
I have wrote to Mr Wait
have the goodness to call on him
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H Lovegrove
Dec 30

Fairfax Vt.
Dec 19

free
Hon
Heman Allen
Representative
in Congress
Washington City D. C.
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Mr Sabin at the request of Mr Lovegrove this is sent you as it
may throw some light on the subject-- Shall be happy to
hear from you frequently
Very Respectfully yours
J. D. Farnsworth

H Lovegrove
Dec 30

Fairfax Vt.
Dec 19

free
Hon
Heman Allen
Representative
in Congress
Washington City D. C.
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6470
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Fairfax Decr 6, 1853

Hon’ble A. Sabin
Dear Sir at the request of the widow Lovegrove
I write you. Her age and [meritorious] situation you
know - The communication of the Pension agent admitted proof of three months service but alledges he was
to young that it must have been done under his parents
or guardian - he had no guardian, his parents died when
he was very young, and he went into the family of his
uncle by whose advice he went into the service of the U.S.
His uncle nor any other person received any thing for
It. He fully satisfied me of this fact in his lifetime. You have always known Mr L. for more than thirty years Post Master in this town; his veracity never doubted-- will not the pension agent view
and reverse the former decision, the widow in advanced age
is truly needy and deserving, as you know. She has hopes
that by your attention to the premises a favorable result
may be effected. Proof of her marriage &c will be furnished
when needful. I shall be obliged by your early attention to
the case and information of the result.
Very Respectfully
Yours, J. D. Farnsworth

This communication if you deem best may be shown
the Department
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J. Meacham M. C.

Hon J E Heath
Washington D.C.

Jan 25th 1853
Letter from J. D. Farnsworth rel.
to case of Mrs. Lovegrove
[Engaging]

Hon J. Meacham 
Vt. Reps
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2.9.774
Vermont
Hampton Lovegrove
Rejected

Ans’d Hon H. Allen
Mar. 6 1834
do to Hon G. P. Marsh
Feb 27 1846

Hon. J. Meacham May 30 1853
Hon A Sabine 4th Jany 1854
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S
Hampton Lovegrove
Vt rej’d  32

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[crossed out-’Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.’]

REJECTED

6470
P.O .
Hampton Lovegrove
Service;
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions

Rejected

Hon. H. Allen
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Sir: Enclosed are the papers of
Hampton Lovegrove Esq for
pension. I hope his declaration
will be rec’d as it [desirously] should
be as coming from an upright worthy man.
H. Allen
March 3,  34

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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papers deliv’d to
Hon Herman
Allen H. R.
Jany 9 1837
See  receipt in
Comm’r Room
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Washington Feb 24 1846

Sir
I am requested to ask
for copies of the papers of Hampton
Lovegrove of Fairfax Vermont, (who
applied for a pension In revolutionary 
services ‘eight or nine years since’ as he says)
on the day in order that the
same may be laid before Congress
I am, sir, respectfully yours
Geo P Marsh

Col J L Edwards
Comm of Pension
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Fairfax Jany 21, 153
Hon James Meacham
Sir, Mrs Lovegrove requests me to
ask you to call at the Pension office and learn
if practicable what prevented her late Husband
from obtaining a pension, that if practicable it
may be remedied by further evidence.
Excuse the trouble we give you.
Very Respectfully yours
J. D. Farnsworth

If the above information can be
[insistently] given I should be happy to
transmit it to the Enquirer
J. Meacham

Hon J. E. Heath
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H Allen
Letter to 
Senator [Swift]
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Washington March 3. 1834
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
Accompanying the
declaration of Hampton
Lovegrove I send you this letter, by which I certify that 
have been with acquainted with H. Lovegrove
for the last thirty one years. I lived untill 1828 within 
six miles of him & have occasion frequently to see him.

I know him to be a man of strict integrity &
moral honesty & has always been
considered as such as far as he has been known, is a man of [universal] intelligence, has held the office of town Clerk of Fairfax for many years & has been held in the 
highest respect & esteem by all his
neighbors & townsmen. 
Herman Allen

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with
the above named Lovegrove, for about
twenty years, and fully concur in the opinions
expressed by W. Allen in the above letter.
E Swift
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Lovejoy, Abner
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 4601
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Oct. 7, 1789
to Benj. Tallmadge -

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.