Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37773, Archelaus Bissell, New York
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Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37773, Archelaus Bissell, New York
District of Connecticut.
On the 13th day of April AD 1824, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for Litchfield County, in the State of Connecticut, Archelaus Bissell, of the Town of Litchfield in the County aforesaid, aged sixty-six in years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, & of the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Bissell enlisted for the term of twelve months in the month of December 1775 in the Town & County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Col. Peter Van Schaick in the line of the State of New York on the Continental Establishment — that he marched to Fort George immediately & continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of the said term of twelve months, when his term having expired, he was discharged from said service at Litchfield aforesaid, that he was in the Battle, & has no other evidence now in his person of said services except the affidavit of the two persons hereto amended – 

And is pursuance of the Act of 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident & citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner  disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an  act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land  & naval service of the United State, in the revolutionary War, & offered the 18th of March 1818, that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or service  ___, constraints or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto amend & by me subscribed.

That my occupation is that of a harness maker, that I am not of ability to perform it but a small portion of the time, that my family consists of a wife, aged about seventy-two years in poor health – a feeble  crippled child, aged twenty-one years a female non compos mentis [not in control of one’s mind.]    —     Archelaus Bissell.