Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1011, Clement Bonsall, Penn. Sea Service
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Service                                              Number

Penn.                 Bonsall, Clement     R.1011
Penn. Sea Service

Contents
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________Ex'r                      INVALID.

REJECTED

1011

P.O. Clement Bonsall
Service: __________________,18  .
Enlisted: _________________,18  .
Discharged: ______________,18  .
Application Filed: _________, 18  .
Alleges: ________________________
Re-enlisted: ____________________

Attorney: ____________________
P.O. __________________________
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Clement Bonsall

Rej'd as ship "Duke de lu Lan" was not a continental vessel.

1011

Fwd letter to App't 22 Jan 1821.
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17,686
Clement Bonsall
Sussex Co. Dela'e:

Francis Brown
agt
Georgetown, Delaw.
Red'd 5 Jan 1821.

Honorable Secretary of War
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Sussex County State of Delaware. 
On this sixteenth day of November in the year of one thousand eight hundred & twenty personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of the state of Delaware, at Georgetown in and for Sussex County being a Court of Record established by the Constitution and Law of said state, Clement Bonsall of Broadkill Hundred in the county aforesaid, aged seventy one years the 21st day of this month November who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declares or make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Clement Bonsall enlisted onboard the ship called the Duke de les Law belonging to the United States, under the Command of Captains John Greene and sailing masters John Rhoads, and Lyons and one Collins Lieutenants, on or about 1781, the day and month being forgotten in the City of Philadelphia. That said ship proceeded to the Havanna and returned in about five months. That the declarant enlisted as foresaid, as Carpenters Mate, when he was discharged from the said service in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania. That during the voyage to the Havanna as aforesaid, the aforesaid ship Duke de les Law was attacked by the British Frigates General and Weshada. During the fight for about one hour. The General draft to the [unreadable] of our ships and the British Frigate Quebec came up and started to attack which was [unreadable] by Commodore or Captain Barry the Alliance frigate. After which the United States, two ships charged the British for several hours, when it was declaired and we proceeded on our course. That we proceeded to Havanna and took onboard a large quantity of money, which Captain Barry took out of our ship and carried the same to Rhode Island, and I was informed that precious to declarant's enlisting aforesaid in the Continental Service this declarant joined the militia company of Captain Joseph Moulder in Philadelphia in 1776 and marched from there to Perth Amboy, when we engaged the British on Statten Island. Captain Moulder was of the Artillery that we marched from Perth Amboy to the Blazing Tavern, New Jersey. From thence we marched to Little Egg Harbor to protect the salt works and shipping. From thence to Perth Amboy again. From thence back to Philadelphia again when the declarant was taken sick. Declarant says that after he recovered he followed his trade as a carpenter until he went to Charlestown as hereafter mentioned and after that he enlisted as aforesaid on board the Duke de les Law. That declarant says he has no other evidence within in his power to obtain his services except his Own Oath.  And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 14 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by  Gift or any other manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within this provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, Contracts, debts due to me; nor have I any income whatever or any estate Real or Personal by which I can make any  - Schedule to Annex hereto that deponent for [unreadable] years has been maintained as a pauper in the Poor House subject to fits.  That he has a son now apprenticed to David Robins of this County who will be 21 in Feby next – That deponent has no wife and is entirely unable to work by reason of Rheumatic pains and debility. And deponant further says, that he made a declaration under the act of Congress passed in 1818 before the Honorable Judge Cooper, which he was informed by him was sent on to the War Office and has not been heard from. Deponent also declares that his [unreadable] was marked on board the Duke de les Law in the service aforesaid. That deponent before he enlisted on Board said Ship
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Charlestown as a hand on board a Casteel a sloop commanded by John Derry to carry flour and Cloathing to the America Prisoner there. That whilst in this service deponant got his left arm broke, at Ready Island which was set by the Doctor of the Privateer Brig Halker 
Clement Bonsall
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court on the day and year first above mentioned 
Attest 
Francis Brown Prothy 
It is the opinion of the Court that the aforesaid declarant Clement Bonsall has no Property Real or Personal.
The State of Delaware 
Sussex County to wit }
I Francis Brown Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware and for Sussex County, do hereby certify that the aforesaid oath and declaration truly copied from the Record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the declarant Clement Bonsall has no property Real or personal.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas there on the twenty eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty 
Francis Brown Prothy