Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,042, Medad Bostwick, Conn.
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SERVICE                                 NUMBER
Conn.      Bostwick, Medad  R 1042
                            Mary M.   B.L.W.34591-160-55

CONTENTS
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August 22, 1938

Mrs. Edna M. Helmholtz   BA-J/REL
4638 Clarendon Avenue  Medad Bostwick-R.1042
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Madam:

   Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revo-
lutionary War record of Medad Bostwick, R.1042, which record you re-
ceived in 1904, from Bureau of Pensions, Interior Department.
Your letter of August 2, was addressed to the War Department, this
city, and has been referred to the Veterans Administration which is
now custodian of Revolutionary War claims for pension and bounty
land, to which office you were referred previously by the War Depart-
ment.
   The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in Revo-
lutionary War pension claim,R.1042, based upon service of Medad Bost-
wick in the Revolutionary War.
   Medad Bostwick was born in 1760, in Danbury Township, Fairfield
County, Connecticut. The names of his parents are not shown.
   Medad Bostwick enlisted sometime in 1776, served as a fifer in
Captain Elizur Warner's Company, Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Connecti-
cut Regiment, was in the battle of Harlem Heights, where he was
wounded in the right shoulder, after which he was discharged, having served three months and five or six days.
   After the Revolution, he moved from Litchfield, Connecticut, to
New York State, where, he stated, he was "Surveyor of the revenue under J. Adams' admns. for six years;" he later moved to Pennsylvania, and in 1833, was living in Toby Township, Armstrong County, that state, where he died March 15, 1841.
   The soldier married October 1, 1818, in Harrison County, Ohio, Mary M. Craig. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
   Soldier's widow, Mary M., was allowed bounty land in full satis-
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faction for the service rendered by her husband, Medad Bostwick in
the Revolutionary War on her application executed May 24, 1855, at
which time she was a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and gave
her age as sixty years.
   In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the
land, cited above, you should address The Commissioner of the General
Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the following data: Bounty Land Warrant Number 23491-160-55.
   In 1894, Chauncey B. Bostwick, who resided at #118 Sheridan
Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stated that he was a son of Medad
Bostwick and his wife, Mary M. Bostwick. His age was not stated
and no names of any other children are designated.
   It was stated that soldier had several brothers who also served
in the Revolutionary War.
   IN 1834, Ebenezer Bostwick and Elizar Bostwick made joint affi-
davit in Portage County, Ohio, that they served in the Revolutionary
War, Ebenezer with Medad in same company and regiment: they gave no
relationship to each other or to the soldier, Medad Bostwick.
   In 1855, George and John Bostwick were residents of Portage County, Ohio, and one Edmund Bostwick was clerk of the court for
said Portage County: no relationship to the family was given.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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FEB 1 1904  Republic Iron & Steel Company
OPERATING DEPARTMENT
CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING,
WILLIAM I. SIMONTON Chicago.
MANAGER OF ROLLING HILLS January 27, 1904.

United States Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
   Will you kindly furnish me with the military history, or certificate
of service of MEDAD BOSTWICK, New Milford, Conn., who, according to the
Bostwick geneaology, edition of 1903, entered the service of the War of the Revolution as a fifer at the age of about seventeen.
Yours very truly,
A.D.Bosworth
#1110 Grove Ave., Evanston, Ill.
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OKLAHOMA CENTRAL BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
August 3, 1922.

Department of the Interior,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
Some time ago, about 1920, I sent for papers necessary
for me to make application to become a member of the
D. A. R's., which I have lost in moving from my former
home, 1306 N. Dale Avenue, this city, and I am writing
to request you to please send a copy of same, in order that I may make my application this next month-
September.
My ancestor who fought in the Revolution was Medad
Bostwick and I believe you will be able to find the
information for me by referring to back files on this
subject.
Please accept my thanks in advance, and believe me,
I am really sorry to put you to this trouble, but can-
not make my application to join without this data.
Yours truly,
Edna M. (Davis) McClure
812 N. Lindsay,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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4638 Clarendon Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

U. S. Dept. of The Interior
Bureau of Pensions,             #1042-Rej. Rev. War
(O. W. & N. Division)
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Being eligible for the Daughters of the American Revolution,
(per the attached, copy of which was given me many years ago),
I request your advice as to cost of authenticated record from
you for presentation with my application to membership in the
D. A. R., which I believe would be in order.
Upon receipt of this information I shall be pleased to forward
money of information desired at once, as instructed.
Yours truly.
Edna (Bostwick) Helmholtz
July 3, 1935.
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May 19, 1921.
Mrs. Edna M. McClure,
208-9 Grain Exchange Annex,
Bureau of Animal Industry,
Oklahoma, Okla.
Madam:
   In response to your letter dated April 28, 1921, you are advised that Medad Bostwick was born in 1760,, in
Danbury Township, Fairfield County, Connecticut, where he 
was drafted in July 1776, as a Fifer, under Captain Elizua
Warner in Colonel Benjamin Hinman's regiment. In the battle
of Harlem Heights he was wounded in the right shoulder. He
was discharged after having served three months and five or
six days.
   He stated that he was Surveyor of the Revenue in 
the state of New York under J. Adams' administration, for
six years.
   Medad Bostwick married in Morrison County, Ohio,
October 1, 1818, Mary M. Craig. He died in Armstrong Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1841, and she was allowed 160
acres of bounty land for his services, on her application
executed May 24, 1843, while a resident of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and sixty years of age.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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A,G, 201 Bostwick, Medad
(8-2-35) ORD  1st Ind.  GIS-mvc
War Department, A. G. O., August 9, 1928. - To the Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C. Attention: Miss Nevitt.
  1. Attention is invited to the letter of Mrs. Helmholtz who has
been informed of this reference by letter, a copy of which is herewith
inclosed.
E. T. Conley
Brigadier General,
Acting The Adjutant General.
By: R
1 Incl.
Copy of letter from AGO.
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Bostwick, Medad   August 9, 1935.
(8-2-35) ORD

Mrs. Edna M. Helmholtz
4638 Clarendon Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Madam:
   I have your letter of August 2, 1935, in which, with reference
to previous correspondence, you now state that the Revolutionary War
record of Medad Bostwick is on file in the Bureau of Pensions, Department
of the Interior, from correspondence you have had with that office in
1904, and ask that your letter be forwarded to the proper Department
for the record of the man in question.
   As the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, is now
known as the Veterans Administration, and in which office the pension records
of Revolutionary War soldiers are filed. I have this day forwarded your
letter to that office from which you will doubtless receive an early
response.
   If a land grant was ever issued on account of military service
the Veterans Administration would also have information on that subject,
or if a land grant was ever issued the General Land Office, this city.
many have information relative thereto.
Very truly yours,
E. T. Conley
Brigadier General,
Acting The Adjutant General.
By: R