Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17776, Simeon Wheeler, Conn.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Wheeler, Simeon

NUMBER
S. 17776

carded
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CONTENTS
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Indiana 7831 Madison
Simeon Wheeler
of Trumbull the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Sanford of the --- commanded by --- in the Contl. Mila. line for six months

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio (illegible) at the rate of 20Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of April 1833 and sent to R. P. Spaulding, Warren, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  40--
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33  10--
No death date  $50.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 8  Page 132.

(right side)
Cer to Pen Agent 18 March 18(paper bent - illegible) To Madison Indiana from 4th March 1840. 12 April 1841. Notification to O. Wylle Door Village Indiana

Letter yo J. C. Sea & 3d Auditor 21 June 1841.

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sep 1840. Agt notified 13 July 1841.
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State of Ohio Trumbull County SS
On this second day of October AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Warren within and for said County of Trumbull Simeon Wheeler a resident of Brookfield Township in the County of Trumbull, State of Ohio aforesaid aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

I was born in the Town of Cheshire in the County of New Haven & State of Connecticut on the tenth of January 1761.When I entered the service I lived in the town of Woodbridge in the same County. In the spring of 1777 I was drafted in the Connecticut Militia in a company commanded by Capt. Raymond Sanford of Woodbridge, we were marched to New Haven and remained there one month when I was dismissed and returned home. The following summer I was drafted for two months and was again marched to New Haven under Capt. Basil Munson, remained there and at Fort Haven on garrison duty until the time was up, when I was again dismissed. 

At the time the British came into New Haven I was called out
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In the summer of 1778 I went out for one month as a substitute for Eldred Hotchkiss (I think was the name) and served out the time.

The same summer and shortly afterwards I was drafted for one month more and was stationed a part of the time at Oyster River on Long Island Sound - served out the whole time - In addition to the foregoing I was subject to draft during the whole continuance of the War and was frequently called out on alarms for a few days at a time. I was called to Stratford & Fairfield when those places were burned by the British - I have no hesitation in saying that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, putting the different times together, for a period of six months at least - I have no documentary evidence. My sister Ann Hummason of Vienna Trumbull County Ohio recollects that I was out in the service during the Revolution. Simeon Wheeler

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
George Parsons Clk

Interrogatories put by order of the Court - 
Quest 1. When, and in what year were you born?
Ans - In Cheshire Connecticut - on the 12th Jan. 1761.

Quest 2d. Have you any record of your age; & if so, where is it?
Ans - I have no record, nothing more than information from my parents.

Quest 3d. Where were you living when called into the service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
Ans - In what was then called Bethany now Woodbridge New Haven, County, Connecticut - Since, I have lived in Farmington Connecticut - and the last 29
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or 30 years in Vienna & Brookfield Township Trumbull County Ohio - I now live in Brookfield.

Quest 4th. How were you called into the service, were you drafted, were you a volunteer or a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Ans - I was drafted except during the months when I was a substitute. I think that during the months I was a substitute for Eldad Hotskiss of Woodbridge - but of his name I am not certain.

Quest 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served &c.
Ans - I think the name of our Col. was Tallmadge, but my memory is so poor that I am unwilling to attempt to state the names of others.

Quest 6th. Did you ever receive a discharg from the service; and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans - Never - whenever my time was out I was verbally dismissed. I served one month as orderly sergeant in place of Medad Hotskiss who went on board a privatteer.

7th. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood , and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans - Samuel Hutchins - Solomon Paine -Esqr Cone - Hon. Judge Hayes - & many others -
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No.  17139  - 
Simeon Wheeler:  Trumbull County
Ohio
No. 7, 831.
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Admitted for 6 months from
1777 ---  $20.00

Rufus P. Spalding
Warren, Trumbull Co., 
Ohio
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July 9, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL

Mrs. Julia S. Vandivort
Cape Girardeau
Missouri

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim,  S.17776, that Simeon Wheeler was born January 10, 1761,  in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut.

While residing in Bethany (later Woodbridge), New Haven County, Connecticut, he enlisted in the spring of 1777,  and served during the years 1777 and 1778,  between six and nine months as private and orderly sergeant in Captains Raymond Sanford's and Basil Munson's Connecticut Companies; after this service, he was a minuteman to the close of the Revolution and was frequently called into active service on short tours on alarms a days at a time, exact length of active service not shown;  he was at New Haven when it was attacked by the British and at the burning of Stratford and Fairfield.  [Written in margin -  Arranged by Mrs Finch]

After the Revolution, he lived in Farmington, Connecticut, and in Vienna and Brookfield Townships, Trumbull County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2,  1832, while residing in Trumbull County, Ohio.

In 1845, he was residing in Cool Spring Township, Laporte County, Indiana.

Children are referred to, their names and the name his wife are not given.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to Timothy Baldwin.

Very Truly yours

A. D.  HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

Date of death not on AB
sol's sister Ann Hummason lived in Vienna, Trumbull Co.  O.  in 1832
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This page has nothing on it except a black square.
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77  Capt Basil Munson    } 4 mo pri
minuteman                      } 5  "  Sergt
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O. W. & N. DIV.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,

Washington, D. C. ______________ 189____ 

Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of indentification, as much as possible of the information call for below. 
Wm Lochren
Commissioner.
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Full name of soldier:
Simeon Wheeler
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Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Connecticut
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Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Ohio  
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Date of death (as near as possible):
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Christian name of widow:
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Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Yes
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Remarks:
Was a Marine and prisoner on Ja - March
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Your name and address;
John L Morrison
Box 434 H. R. 
Wash.  DC

2338b2m
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SECOND DEPUTY
JUL 13 1896
COMMISSIONER.

OLD WAR & NAVY.
JUL 13 1896
FILES.
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P       17776
INVALID.
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File No. 17, 776
Simeon Wheeler
Pri  Rev  War
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Act :  June 7"  32
Index :--- Vol.   1,  Page  405

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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July 14 '96 sold pension
 to Jno L Morrison  LWB

[   ] --
[  ]3 Feb. 19 - hist to S. A. Stewart   EW
1924 Dec. 20  Tombstone
data to L. M. Geer   aw
[   ] - July 9 - Hist. to Mrs 
Julia S. Vandivort  - EES
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PITTSBURGH
MAR
23 
Pa.
FREE

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Mar 27, 1841
[   ] Evans
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Merchants & Manufacturers Bank
Pittsburgh    March 22d 1841

Sir

In compliance with your favor of the 18th   I beg leave to inform you that Simeon Wheeler, Pens. under the Act of 7 June 1832 at Twenty [  ] per annum, was last paid up to the 6th day of March 1840.

I am, very respectfully 
Your obt Servt.
Frdk [  ] Earl 
for the Pens. Agent

JL Edwars Dsq.
Commissioner of Pens.
Washington
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Declaration of
Simeon Wheeler.
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of Capt. Vails Co. guards Connecticut 
Militia 1781 - 

Sincerely
Julia S. Vandivort -
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stampd env
Rev. Sect
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Laporte, Indiana,
January 17, 1923

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

 Dear Sir:

I am desirous of obtaining from your records if possible the military service record  in the War of the Revolution (1775 - 1783) of two Revolutionary soldiers who lie buried in this county.  They are as follows:

Abijah Bigelow, - understood to be a native of Waltham, Mass. to have made his home late in life at Brooklyn, Conn. and in 1836 at the age of 80 to have removed with his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Williams, to Laporte County, Indiana, where his death occurred in 1848 at Michigan City.

Simeon Wheeler, - understood to have been a native of Connecticut, and to have come from that State to Laporte County, Indiana, in the year 1835.  He probably served with Connecticut troops.

If you will be good enough to inform me what your records reveal as to the military service record of these two patriots, I will greatly appreciate it.

Very truly,
S. A. Stewart

Stamped envelope enclosed 

PENSION
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JAN
U.  20  S.
1923
OFFICE
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON

IN REPLY REFER TO  QM 293 A-C
December 19, 1924

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

In order that a headstone may be provided for the grave of the decedent  appearing below, The Quartermaster General requests that the correct military service and the spelling of the name be supplied this office from the records of the Pension Bureau:

Simeon Wheeler,
Rev. War, Conn. Troops
Rec's pension at the time of publication
of 6th Census U. S. - 1840

Very truly yours, 
R P Harbold
R. P. HARBOLD,
Major,  Q.M.C.,
Assistant. 

PENSION
H
DEC
U.  20  S.
1924
OFFICE
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 24th, 1841

Sir:

Under the act of 6th of April, 1838, entitled  "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"  Simeon Wheeler, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Ind: Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and ------------- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept 1840.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Dec. 23, 1924.

R. P. Harbold, Major,  Q. M. C.
Office of Quartermaster General, U. S. A.
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

I have to advise you, that Simeon Wheeler was born Jan. 10, 1761, in Cheshire, Conn. and served during 1777 and 1776 for six months as private and orderly sergeant in Captains Raymond Sanford and Basil Munson's Companies of Conn. Troops,
He was allowed pension on Ctf. 7831.  In 1840 he was living in La Porte Co., Ind.  Date of death not on record.

Respectfully,
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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Door Village   Feb 20th 1841

P Hagner Esq.

Sir
Mr S Wheeler has left with me his Pension papers and transfer wishing me to forward to you (for the transfer and also the amount due him which has remained over eight months.  Will you please write me what, what he will have to do.  Whether he must draw for it all at Indiana or part at the War Department. 
Orrin Wyllis

Peter Hagner  Esq

Direct your letter to me at
Door Village, LaPorte Co. In  Postmaster
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from
O Wyllis P. M.

to  Peter Hagner Esq.
Treasurer's office   3d Auditor's office 
Washington City
 or J. L. Edwards

Door Village
Feb 20th