Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Samuel Hempstead, Navy Conn. Residence In 1794
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Conn residence in 1794
Navy
CONTENTS
[Black star shaped stamp] Hempstead, Samuel
NUMBER
Dis.
No papers
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 Oct. 18, 1906
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Hempstead Samil
His name appears on a list of applicants for
invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, Class 9,
page 141.
Rank: 1st Lieutenant Marines
Frigate Deane, Captain Nicholson
Disability: Wounded in the hip by a musket
ball (which still remain there) while on furlough
when and where disabled September, 1781, New London
Residence: New London
To what pension entitled; One-half
Remarks: His account was settled in the year 1787 by the late commissioner for the marine department, and a certificate issued for the balance found due to him.
Evidence incomplete, viz: 1st, No evidence of his being wounded while in the line of his duty. 2d, The report of the examining physicians
is not upon oath, 3d, No evidence of three freeholders of the existence of his disability for the first two years after leaving the service