Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,228, Lemuel Bishop, Vt.
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Lemuel Bishop (dec'd) of Bennington in the State of Vermont who was a Sergt in the Compy commanded by Captain Barney of the regt commanded by Co. Robinson in the Vt. and [obscured] line for 14 mo ['14' crossed out] da.
Rep'd 7 Octr '33

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 72 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Octr 1833 and Sent to S. Swift Manchester.
Arrears to the 4th day of [blank]
Semi-anl. allowance ending [blank]
115.32
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk.
Book E Vol. 3. Page 54
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State of Vermont
County of Bennington ss.} On this 9th day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared before me Myron Clark Judge of the Probate Court for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington in the State of Vermont, Lemuel Bishop a resident of Sunderland in said County of Bennington aged eighty five years, who by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend said Court & who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration im order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
That he was born in the Town of South Hampton on Long Island in the State of New York, on the 20th day of October AD. 1746. O.S. as 31st N. S. & he knows of no other record of ['any' crossed out] his age, the Record kept in the family excepted where he  lived until he was of age in the fall of the year 1767. after which he followed the seas into various placed & counties for about three years, still considering the said Town of Southampton as ['any' crossed out] his home, until on or about the fifth day of March AD. 1771 he removed to the Town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, where he resided until on or about the 11th day of May, 1778 when he removed to said Town of Sunderland where he has ever since remained - that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. 
That in the year 1770. he was a Sergeant in the Company then commanded by Capt. Thomas Barney, Lieut. Gid'n Ormsby & Lt. Col. Sam'l Robinson of the Vermont Militia, that in or about the month of March in the same year 1775. as he was ordered by his commanding officer, as Sergeant as aforesaid to take the command of a small party of men detached from the said Company to take & secure a number of Tories in the Towns of Arlington, Manchester & Dorset in said County of Bennington & that accordingly he provided to execute said order & perform said service & took about a dozen men, & was [illegible] in the said service in the whole about 3 or 4 weeks - that afterwards & soon after the army or troops under the command of Col. Ethan Allen had captured & taken, possession of the Fort at Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain he sent to said Manchester for more men & assistance, & in or about the latter part of the month ['May' crossed out] June according to personal recollection in the same year 1775. In with the rest of the Company under the command by Col. Moses Robinson. of the Vermont militia, volunteered their services & turned out at s'd Manchester marched to said Ticonderoga, where they were stationed 7 weeks, at the said Fort then under the command of the said Col. Allen. when they were dismissed or discharged by parol by the said Allen, & he returned to said Manchester, having been absent in the whole about two months as said service that in the year 1776. altho not embodied for much of the time the Country was in [illegible] & he was almost constantly engaged in watching & guarding against the Tories - that sometime on or about the later part of May 1777. according to his Last recollection, he with a part of his said Company under the command of Lieut. Eli Brownson & in the Regt. of Vermont Militia commanded by Col. Moses Robinson voluntarily turned out and at his Manchester upon a call
[margin note: Lemuel Bishop 18525]
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for men to go & defend the Fort at Ticonderoga - they marched from said Manchester to said Ticonderoga, where they were stationed two months when orders were issued upon the approach of the enemy, to evacuate said fort & leave there & accordingly he with the others left said fort & retreated to said Manchester, & from there continued his retreat with his family to Bennington ['& did not return again to said Manchester' crossed out] in said County of Bennington, where on or about the 16th day July in the same year 1777. & he enlisted for the term of six months into the Company of Vermont State Troops commanded by the Capt. Jesse Sawyer & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sam'l Herrick, (denominated the Green Mountain Rangers) when he was, on the day of the Bennington Battle so called on the 16th Augt. 1777. & his said Company & Regiment was engaged in said Battle, but he was prevented by reason of some sickness by His Measles, which broke out and upon him on that day - after which on or about the 25. day of August in the same year 1777. he with his said Company & Regt. marched from said Bennington through Arlington instead &  Manchester Castleton the towns in said County when they [illegible] to the landing on Lake George in the State of New York, where he with his said Company & Regiment had a severe engagement with a portion of Gen'l Burgoyne's Army on or about the 1st day of September of the same year 1777. in which they captured about 500 prisoners & took the Stores, Arms, Ammunition Provision, Clothing &c. of the enemy - from thence they marched to the mouth of said Lake George, where they attacked the Block house, & compelled the enemy stationed there to surrender in which attack he was engaged on or about the 2d day of the same September they then proceeded to the Fort of Ticonderoga, which they attacked & even [illegible] defeated, & [illegible] to Diamond Island in said Lake George, & atacked & had an engagement with the guard which were left to take charge of the money, Clothing ammunition &c belonging to the enemy which had been left & staid on the Island, or about the 10th day of same ['September' crossed out] & in which he was engaged, but they were obliged to continue without [illegible] - they then marched to Fort Anne - & from thence to Skenesborough, now Whitehall - & from thence to Pawlet in the State of Vermont where they lay about one week, when orders were sent from Gen'l Gates then stationed Saratoga to the said Col. Herrick to march with his Regiment to said Saratoga & assist in the capture of Gen'l Burgoyne & this army - they accordingly marched on or about the 16th day of October the same year 1777. to said Saratoga, & Lieut. Gideon Ormsby & himself were left behind at said Pawlet to guard & take charge of the House & provisions belonging to said Reg't. - & on the next day according to his present recollection Gen'l Burgoyne & his army surrendered to the American forces under Gen'l Gates. & the day after Col. Herrick & this Reg't returned to the Pawlet when they lay for some time, but how long he is unable to state, & until ordered consent to the said Col. Herrick from the head Quarters which even then at Castleton in said State of Vermont, for him to march there with his Regiment, which he did, or or about the 10th day of November in the same year 1777. when they were stationed, until his said term of service had expired, & he with his s'd Regiment were regularly discharged at said Castleton, & he returned to his home in said Manchester - that afterwards, in the fall of the year 1778 an alarm was produced in consequence of the treachery Genl Arnold being detested, & he received orders from Lieut. Whelpley of his said Company of Vermont militia to go with a dozen more under his command to Castleton & guard the lines - he accordingly even
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with said guard from said Manchester to said Castleton where they remained & were stationed for 7 or 8 weeks according to his orders & there returned with his s'd guard to said ['Manchester' crossed out] said Arlington & they were dismissed, he having been absent upon said service about two months in the whole afterwards, some time about the latter part of Nov'r of this same year 1778. he was again called upon & turned out at said Sunderland with his said Company of Vermont militia, under the command of Eli Brownson then a Lieut of said company, & marched once more from said Manchester to said Castleton about where they were stationed 7 or 8 weeks when they were dismissed by parol & he returned to said ['Manchester' crossed out] Sunderland having been absent upon said last expeditionals about two months - that some time on or about the 1st day of June in the years 1779. he turned out in company with Martin Powel Esq'r to go in pursuit of some Tories, who had taken & detained as Prisoners Jose'h Ormsby of said Manchester & Abner Blanchard of Arlington in the same County - & they pursued & overtook the said Tories, & brought them back to said Arlington, where they kept & guarded them for 7 or 8 days - that he was absent on said expedition & service from home, at least one fortnight that during all the expeditions & services above detailed & many other short tours of duty not distinctly stated he held the rank & did the duty, & acted throughout the whole in the capacity of a Sergeant - he also turned out at  several other times, & did other short tours of duty ['duty' crossed out] during the revolutionary war - that he has no documentary evidence to support his said statements - & that he knows of no living witnesses whom he can produce to prove his said services except a small part thereof, but thinks he shall be able to show by the testimony of Lieut. Elijah Burton of said Manchester, who has been a near neighbor to him for almost the whole time since he first removed to said town of Manchester, the whole of the greater part of his said services for the 1777. & a general knowledge or understanding of his other service above stated that the only Clergyman now residing in said Town of Sunderland is the Rev'd William Mark of the ['Baptist' crossed out] Methodist Church, & he is at present purported to be for sometime known about from said town, but he thinks that he shall be able to show by the Rev'd Abraham Brownson, a Clergyman of the said adjoining town of Manchester & many others respectable neighbors of that or this town, the general repute & understanding of his said services - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that he name is not om the pension Roll of the agency of any state.
/s/Lemuel Bishop
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid by & before Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court 
We Abraham Brownson a Clergyman, residing in the town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont & Horatio Chipman of said Sunderland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Bishop who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration - that we believe him to be 85 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
/s/A Bronson
/s/Horatio Chipman
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before /s/Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court
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And the said Judge doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states And the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that Abraham Brownson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in Manchester in said County of Bennington that Horatio Chipman who has also signed the same is a resident of Sunderland in said County & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit, Certified by me /s/Myron Clark Judge of the Probate Court - 
I Elijah Burton Burton of the Town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, aged 72. years, do certify, testify & say that I have been well acquainted with Lemuel Bishop who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration that in the summer and fall of the year 1777. I understand ['I know' crossed out] of his serving as a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Cpat. Jesse Sawyer in the Regiment of Vermont State Troops, called the Green mountain Rangers commanded by Col.Herrick altho I then belonged to a different Corps & Regiment that ['I said [illegible] in the service in said Regiment at Pawlet in the State of Vermont sometime  at the fore part of the month of Nov. of the same year 1777. & was present at the capture of Gen'l Burgoyne at Ticonderoga,' crossed out] in the fall of the year 1778 & fore part of 1778 served with the said Bishop at Castleton & am confident that he served then at the time three months, living as near neighbors to him this the whole of the revolutionary war & ever since, I have a general knowledge & understanding of his services through that war, & believe the statement thereof by him above made to be correct
/s/Elijah Burton
Sworn & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid, & I also hereby further certify that Elijah Burton who subscribed & swore to the foregoing Affidavit is a credible person to me well known, & that this statement is entitled to credit, by & before me
/s/Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court.
/s/Elijah Burton

State of Vermont
Bennington County ss. To all to whom these present Shall come or may concern - Greeting - I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court, within & for the County of Bennington, do hereby certify that the Hon'a Myron Clark whose signature appears to the foregoing Dec'r was at the date thereof & State is Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Manchester duly empowered & qualified by Law as such - & that his Signature is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have set my name & affidavit the Seal of our said County Court, at Manchester this 10th day of August AD. 1832 - /s/Henry Robinson
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16.525
Lemuel Bishop
Bennington Vermont

S. Swift - Esq.
Manchester Vt.
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, May 31 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the Service of Lemuel Bishop
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered.|Duration of the claimant's service.(Years.|Months.|Days.)|Rank of the claimant.|Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.|Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.|Proof by which the declaration is supported.|]
March 1775 "3 or 4 Weeks."|([blank]|[blank]|['24' crossed out][blank])|Sergt.|Capt Barney Col Robinson|85 years|Traditionary|
June 1775 - abt.|( - |2|[blank])| " |Capt Smith Col Robinson|Manchester Vermt|a Clergyman a Living Witness|
1776-Services not stated|([blank]|[blank]| - )| " |[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|
May 1777|([blank]|2|[blank])| " |Lt Bronsen Col Robinson|[blank]|[blank]|
16 July 1777|([blank]|6| - )| " |Capt Sawyer Col Herrick|[blank]|[blank]|
Fall 1778|([blank]|2|[blank])|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|
[illegible] 76 about last of Nov 1778|([blank]|2.|[blank)|[blank]|Lt Bronson|[blank]|[blank]|
1 June 1779|( - |[blank]|14.)|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|
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I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 

The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,' State troops," " militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits et the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION, 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} County of} ss. 
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers : 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ⇒This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a RevoIutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [blank] of office, this [blank] day of [blank]&c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be
attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute: And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.{To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer.{Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are  requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the, declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties. which the Court is herein requested to perform;
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he most assign a sufficient reason for not [margin note: Infirmity] conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making au affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith. that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below. and in the following grades:- For ____ year ____months, and ____days, I served as a ____ . For ____ months and ____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held; as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers, the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f]The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion or the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if he has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
⇒The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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admit with Act.
14 mos 14 ds
Sergeant 
cert. to Children
S. Swift Manchester
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State of Vermont
Bennington County ss.} I Myron Clark Judge of the Probate Court within & for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, do hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily proved & made [illegible] to said Court that Lemuel Bishop late of Sunderland in said Probate District died on the 8th day of October 1832. - that in his lifetime he had made application to be placed on the Pension Roll of the United States under the late law passed on the 7th day of June 1832. - that he left no Widow - that his Surviving children are Lemuel Bishop of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden, Chauncey L. Bishop, Alford Bishop, & Diana Bishop of Sunderland & Abigail Mead wife  of William Mead of Manchester, both in the County of Bennington & all in the State of Vermont - Alva Bishop of Covington in the County of Genesee & Lucretia Hills wife of Roger E. Hills of the Town & County of Chataugua & both in the State of New York, and William Bishop of Coneaut in the County of Ashtabula & State of Ohio [illegible] and they legal Heirs & Representatives of the said Lemuel Bishop deceased - Certified by Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Probate Court at Manchester this 2d day of October AD. 1833.
/s/Reuben H. Blackmer Register
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Revolutionary 
Suspended Claim
Lemuel Bishop
Vermont
AJ 32

Feb 1853
M Hapler
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Bennington COUNTY, SS.

BE IT KNOWN, on this 28th day of December 1852, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Alfred Bishop a resident of Manchester in said County, and made oath according to law, that is a son of Lemuel Bishop who was a Soldier & officer in the Revolution & afterward a pensioner of the United States, that he believes his Father to have been entitled to a higher rate of pension
that he is directly interested as aforesaid, as a claimant, and makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining such increase of pension as may be due under any of the laws, regulations, or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted. The said affidavit further declares that he hereby constitutes and appoints Henry Robinson of Bennington Vt to be his Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim, with power of substitution, to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all things necessary and lawful in the premises, except drawing the money, which will be hereafter provided for. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, before me, /s/Alford Bishop
/s/Henry Kellogg Justice of the Peace.
I further certify that Alfred Bishop above named is a respectable resident of this County, and is, as I believe, directly interested in said claim, and acknowledge the above power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
/s/Henry Kellogg Justice of the Peace.

State of Vermont
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.} BENNINGTON, ss.
I, SAMUEL H. BLACKMER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bennington, being a court of record and having a seal as hereto attached, do certify that Henry Kellogg Esq. was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, &c. 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Bennington, in the County of Bennington, this 28th day of December Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two - 
/s/S. H. Blackmer CLERK.
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State of Vermont
Bennington County} By the authority vested in me by the within Power of Attorney, I hereby constitute + appoint H. E. Hassler Esq of Washington City my substitute and to act for me + in my [illegible] in all respects as though personally present - Given under my hand at Bennington this 3d day of January AD. 1853. /s/Henry Robinson 
Witness /s/T. S. Robinson
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Rev War 12228
INVALID [initials: own]

File No. 12,228
Lemuel Bishop Sergt. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 33
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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[handwritten letter]

Manchester Oct 2d. 1833.

To the Hon. J. S. Edwards Com'r &c.
Hon. Sir, I have procured & herewith transmit the Certificate of the Probate Court to prove the surviving Children & Heirs of Lem'l Bishop deceased, but whether in the mode & form required, I cannot say - The family are numerous & widely disperse, as you will perceive - and I would inquire, whether the small sum, comparatively, which will probably be allowed this family as the Pension of their dec'd father, cannot be drawn otherwise than by a Power of Attorney signed by all the Members of the family & certified, as doubtless it must be, by the County Clerks, with their respective seals of Office, in the several Counties where they respectively reside, as happen to be at the time, they are executed - That facts & circumstances in relation to the family are these - the Children have been dispensed from their paternal home for sev'l years, except one Son (Chauncey) & one Daughter (Diana) - they each received their little portion of their father's property as they respectively left & for a number of years past, the father had resided with, & been supported by his son, Chauncey - & it was his intention & acquiesced in by all the rest of the family, that what little property possessed at the time of his death, including his pension if obtained, should go to his son Chauncey, his (the father's) support having been attended with large expense for several years, he having been infirm & indeed bedridden for most of the time - & the son also himself is own in an infirm & sickly state & has been so for nearly a year past & confined  to his bed for most of the time, at great expense for medicine & medical assistance & withal, in a state of primary distress requiring aid - If a proof of these fact, will induce the granting the Certificate to him as designed by the father & all the family, or to an Adm'r to be appointed, I will procure & forward it on - If not, the Case of Isaac Farwell will present still greater difficulties, as will appear  more [illegible] when I [illegible] I rec'd last evening your [illegible] of the 27th Ult. calling for the orig'l Decl'n. of Sim'n LIttlefield - that, I heretofore forwarded, soon after the Decl'ns in the cases of John Frost & Wm. Duston were sent for, & will probably be found amongst the Papers of the Office
Very respectfully I am Hon'd Sir Yours &c. 
/s/S. Swift
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Revo.
Vermont
Suspended
Act 7 June 1832.
Lemuel Bishop
See letter to T. Swift Esq 
Manchester of 23 Sept 1833.