Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38538, Benjamin Bell, Conn.
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(3—1776)

SERVICE.
Conn.

Bell, Benjamin

NUMBER S 38538

CONTENTS
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16.0[??]
Vermont

Benjamin Bell, of Grand-Isle Co in the state of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded [by] Colonel Burrill, of the Connectt. line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to comm[ence] the 7 of December, 181[9?]

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of May, [????] and sent to Benjamin Adam[s] judge, South-Haro, Verm[ont]

Arrears to 4th March, 1820. | $23.28
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. | 48
2 mos. 29/31. } 1820 } | $71.48

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.


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[Huri Ams.?] Mch: 10" 1845.
Mrs. E. B. Ladd. Mch: 17" "
" " " " May 2d. "
1882 Mary J Hox J S Robinson that all p[???] due, allowed & paid & widow of children not entitled. Bounty Land not entitle to prior to his death & act 1855 after soldier; death applies only to children under 21 years at date of act
1891
May 8 Mrs E B Ladd no pension due to or entitled by children Prior
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16.882.
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Fredericktown March 27
Mr Barrett
Dear Sir
Your much esteemed and friendly favor bearing date March 17th is before me and contents Examined for which I say many thanks.
With regard to the Pension of Benjamin Bell would ask if the Widdow [Widow] was not entitled to said Pension at jis Disease is through the evidence of the Pension & would be enabled to pay a tribute to my Departed Friends it would be truly a consolation being left with six Children to care for their demands daily increasing I find little or nothing to bestow for such purposes
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it has long been a [sconse] of pain for me to know that my Friends lie sleeping on the shores of Champl[???] with not even a marble slab to tell the name of a Revolutionary Soldier his Wife & Child

Will you please inform me if my Grand Father drew a Land [warrant?] if so where also [if?] my Grand Mother was not entitled to pay in the Pension She [received?] him some [Nine?] years

if you will investigate this matter it will Oblige

Mrs E. B. Ladd

[Josfer?] Barnett
Commissioner
Washington
D C

This letter Came to my Desk. this day.
May 2d. 65.

Boynton.
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Fredericktown Feb 20, 65
Abraham Lincoln
President U S
I suppose you think strange that a Woman should attempt to add her name to your list of Sorespondence [correspondence] I find in doing business I have better success in attending to it myself I employed R H Stephenson of Cincinati [Cincinnati] to investigate this Pension business my Grandfather Benjamin Bell was a Continental Soldier served seven years in the Revolutionary war He died April 1820 his Pension Certificate was forwarded to him about two months after his Death
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it was carefully laid away with some old papers until some six years ago it fell into the hands of my Brother Benjamin Bell & Brush of Fairfax Vermont they presented it for collection without the knowledge of the other Heirs which are three in number whatever has been paid over they have made no disposition with the other Heirs if the Heirs have no claim uppon the Bill I pray you and your Cabinet may appreciate money sufficient enough to Erect a monument or even a simple slab to the memory of a Soldier of the Revolution Enclosed you will find a line from Mr Woodard of Plattsburg N Y concerning the certificate I would like to know in regard to the Pension what can be done I would like to do something for my honored Grandfather 
Your Respect
Mrs E B Ladd
Fredericktown Ohio
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[stamp: shield surrounding the words "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mar 2 1865 PENSION OFFICE"

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions

[illegible]
Actg Chf Clk

Dept Interior
Mch 2/65.
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Fredericktown Ohio Apr 8th 1891

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

My Dear Sir

I received your communication calling for farther evidence relating to my claim My grandmother held my grandfathers Certificate while she lived. And again our house was plundered by the "British" to such an extent that we had nothing to use in the house not even enough to set the table. Took money clothing took all we had, I have been trying for thirty years to get redress without success I sincerely hope and trust you will put forth every effort to[w]ard me in my appeal. It is only just and right Hoping to hear from you I am respectfully

Mrs. E. B. Ladd

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There are four heirs. And three of us widows residing what this government owes Her ancestors

E. B. L. 
Fredericktown
Knox Co Ohio

U. B.

[I made? these reports?] to show you that my [grandfather?] established his claim and held his certificate and therefore my grandmother was entitled to what my grandfather's service demanded from the government, And not only to his pension but what she [ought?] to have [a pension?[ after his death.

I[f] this "Great Government" of ours persists in wronging or wrenching the proceeds of this claim from us, I am ready to Proclaim there is no justice in the serving of a land that my Ancestors struggled to keep to [???]

E. B. L.
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5497

Benjamin Bell, Grand-Isle co. Vermt. 7. Decembr. 1819.

Colo. Charles Burrills regimt. Connect. line one year Feby. 1776, to Feby. 1777.

Not found on rolls.

Services proved by the testimony on oath, certified by the judge, to be credible witnesses.

Admitted.

Benjamin Adams, judge,
South-Haro, Vermt.
recd. 18. Decr. 1819.
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State of Vermont. Grand Isle County ss

On this 7th day of December AD 1819, before me the Subscriber Judge of County Court for the County aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin Bell aged sixty six years resident in Grand Isle in said County and State who being by me duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to Obtain the provisions made by the late 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 that he the said Benjamin Bell enlisted in [strikeout: Capt.] July 1775 in Capt. Nathaniel Tuttles Company in Col Webbs Regiment for the term of six months and did actually serve said term and in December following at Charlestown near Boston was discharged and returned home— And on or about the first day of February 1776 at Woodbury in the State of Connecticut he again enlisted in Capt Jerah [Swefts?] Company in Col Chester Burrells Regiment for the term of one year and that he continued to serve in said Regiment untill the month of February 1777 when he was discharged at Ticonderoga in the State of New York And that he afterwards as in the Battles of Suratoge [Saratoga]
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Suratogee at the taking of Burgoyne in October 1777 and at Norwalk in Connecticut when that tower was burned in the year 1777 and in several scurmishes at diferent places during the revolutionary War And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power for his said service

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid

Benjn Adams

I Benjamin Adams Judge of Grand Isle County Court as aforesaid do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Bell did serve in the Reovlution war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and laid before me to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress

Benjn Adams
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I Joseph Butler of South Hero in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont of the age of 79 years Testify and say that I belonged to Col Charles Burrells Regiment in the years of 1776 & 1777 and am well knowing that Benjamin Bell was a soldier in said Regiment and that he did serve agreeable to his the said Bells foregoing declaration as to his service in said Regiment

Joseph Butler


I Thomas Dickson of South Hero in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont of the age of 67 years Testify and Say that I belonged to Capt Jerah Swefts Company in Col Charles Burrells Regiment in the year 1776 & in 1777 and am well knowing that Benjamin Bell was a soldier in the same company and Regiment and that he did serve agreeable to this foregoing declaration as I returned with him to connecticut at the expiration of said service in February 1777

Thomas Dickson


State of Vermont
Grand Isle County ss

South Hero December 7th AD 1819 personally appeared Joseph Butler and Thomas Dickson and made solomn oath that the foregoing deposions by them subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the Truth Before me And I hereby Certify the said Joseph Butler and Thomas Dickson are credible Witnesses

Benjn Adams Judge of Grand Isle county court
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38538

INVALID
Revy

File No. 38538
Benjamin Bell
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18[??]
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 35

Arrangment of 1870


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April 27/81 Mrs Ladd that no allowance made.

July 12-1900
Mrs. E. B Ladd [Fate?]
inf'd no allowance for heirs for services or property lost.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
BUREAU OF ROLLS AND LIBRARY.

From Mrs. E. B. Ladd,
Fredericktown, Ohio.

Dated October 16th, 1899.

SUBJECT:
Revolutionary Pension

ACTION:
November 8, 1899.
Respectfully referred to the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions and the writer so informed.

Andrew H. Allen
Chief of Bureau.
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Fredericktown Ohio Apil 7 1881

Commissioners of Pensions

Dear Sir

[I have been pleading with the Pentioner?] in power for over 20 years to assist me in obtaining what rightfully belongs [to me] I will State the facts on the case as I have [been ?????]. My grandfather Benjamin Bell was a Revolutionary Soldier and the records in [?? show??] that his pension was granted him in his [?????] He died in 1820 and his widow in 1829
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(document too faded to transcribe properly - virtually no words legible)
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Mr Hamilton

Fredericktown, Ohio, Oct 16th 1899
Knox County.

Commissioner of Revolutionary Claims.

Dear Sir — were the [strikeout: soldiers] sailors pentioned for service done in the Revolutionary war Benjamin Bell my Grandfather was a seamen they captured a prize and my Grandfathers share in the prize consisted of a very nice [towel?] and a linen [lawn?] handkerchief one yard square and a gentlemans night cap.

My Grandmother kept them and I saw them.

Was there a pention allowed the sailors in Revolutionary war Will you please examine the record
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Great Grandfather was in the revolutionary war Samuel Allen and my Grandfather Bell I am a decendant of Ethan Allen My Mother's Father was in the revolutionary war

Yours with Respect

Mrs E. B. Ladd

Fredericktown
Ohio

Knox
Co.
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Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
March 15th 1865.

Sir,

In reply to your letter of 10th inst. I have to inform you that the pension of Benjamin Bell, Vermont roll Act 18 March 1818 was paid thro this office on the 6 August 1855 to R. W. Bates the Attorney for the Administrator of the deceased pensioner. The amount paid was $23.75/100

Very Respectfully
John Wilson
Auditor.

Joseph H. Barrett Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

W.D.C.
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Washington D.C. June 9. 1862.

Dear Madam,

Your letter has been recd. There is no law authorizing the Heir of Revy Soldiers to obtain land and there is no prospect that the Revolutionary Bill to which allusion was made, will pass until the rebellion shall have been put down.

I have not received any power from Judge Allen as [????] of Benj Bell,

Truly yours,
J. D. Woodward

Mrs E B Ladd.
Waterford,
Knox Co
Ohio