Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 24441-160-55, Benadam Gallup, Conn.
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Service 
Conn.

Gallup, Benadam
            Mary

Number 

B.L. Wt. 24441-160.55
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1915 July 9 Hist to
Mrs Chas. E. Barber
Central Village Conn

Vol. G. 7.

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No 24441 iss Apl 29/56
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165.608 Act Mar 3/38
June 9/55

Mary Gallup
widow
Benadam Gallup
[crossed out "Cap Titus Bailey Col. Smith"]

A: Mil
Ent 1778

Revolutionary War } Connecticut
W:160 Ac. Apl 24/56
Conn. [illegible]       

Rev. W.
S. A. Maine
Conn
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State of Connecticut     | 
Windham County          |   [illegible] Sterling

On this 9th day of April AD One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Fifty Five personally appeared before
me a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid 
Mary Gallup aged 80. years a resident of Sterling in the
County of Windham and the State of Connecticut, and 
being first duly sworn according to law Declares that she
is the widow of Benadam Gallup who was a private in 
the war of the Revolution and served as such in the 
Connecticut Militia.  She is unable to give a full + detailed
statement of her said husband's service  but from the best
of her present recollection of her said husbands statements
made to her after marriage he, her said husband, did not
render Six Months service in the war of the Revolution,
but served a Tour of duty to R.I. under Capt Titus Bailey
in Colo. Smith's Regiment  {struck out} of Two Months in 1778
and soon after returning home from this tour of duty
he was again ordered out in same Company + Regt. & went to vicinity of Tower Hill in RI + from there  
was ordered to New Haven in Connecticut.  The length
of this tour of duty she is not able to distinctly state but
thinks some one + a half months or more.  That her said
husband also as she verily believes rendered one other 
Tour of duty but the precise term of time he was out
she is unable to state, neither is she able to give a further
or more particular statement of her said husband's service
than as aforesaid stated. That her said husband served as  
a private soldier in Capt Titus Bailey, company in Colo Smiths
Regiment in the War of the Revolution more than 
Fourteen day to  [illegible] Two months at least in his 
first tour of duty as will more fully appear by 
the proof hereinto annexed + hereinafter refered 
to in this Declaration.  That her said husband was
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at the end of each tour of duty honorably discharged
from the service & return home, that if he ever had a
written discharge it is now lost
She further states that she was married to the said
Benadam Galley in Sterling in the County of Windham have
and State of Connecticut on the 22d day of
September Anno Domini 1811
by one
John Wylie a Justice of the Peace and that her name
before her said Marriage was Mary Wilson, that
her said husband died at Sterling aforesaid on
the 29th day of March 1850 and that she is now
a widow. And prays that the certificate thereof
may be sent for her to S. A Mann Esqr
Pendleton Hill Port Office New London County
Connecticut
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining
the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the
act approved March 3d 1855
Mary Gallup
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We Nathaniel Gallop and Sally Gallup Resident of
Sterling in the State of Connecticut upon our oath declare
that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged
by Mary Gallup in our presence; and that we believe
from the appearance and statement of the applicant
that she is the Identical person she represents
herself to be
Nathaniel Gallup
Sally Gallup
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written: and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Wm. C. Stanton Notary Public

Windham County Ss.
Sterling April 9th AD 1855}
This certifies that Benadam Gallup and Miss Mary Wilson both of Sterling in the county of Windham were joined in marriage at Sterling on the 22nd day of September AD 1811. By
John Wylie Justice of the Peace
I also certify that Benadam Gallup died March 29th 1850 at Sterling aged eighty nine years as appears of record.
Archibald Douglas Town Clerk

Windham County Ss. Sterling April 9 1855
I hereby certify that Archibald Douglass Esq who has subscribed the above certificate is clerk of the town of Sterling aforesaid & appears before me on the day & year aforesaid written & made oath tot he truth of the certificate as above subscribed to & by him.
Attest Wm. C. Stanton Notary Public
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I Samuel Gallup of Sterling in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged 94 years, being duly cautioned and sworn do on oath depose and say, that during the war of the Revolution I resided in the town of Voluntown, the north part having been since set off as a separate town ship & named Sterling.
That I was drafted & ordered out on a tour of duty to Rhode Island in the time of the Revolutionary War and from the best of my present recollection sometime in the latter part of the season of haying in the year 1779 and joined a company of drafted militia at Sterling Hill under command of Capt Titus Bailey, do not recollect the name of Lieutenant, Benjamin Dow was Ensign and Peter [illegible] was one of the sergeants.

That we marched from the above named place under Capt Bailey to Tower Hill in state of R. I. & were continued in service on this tour of duty in that vicinity for the term of about three or four weeks or more. 

That Benadam Gallup, now deceased & formerly of this town who resided not far from me, being in same society; I was well acquainted with. & That the aforesaid Benedam Gallup was in the aforesaid company during the aforesaid tour of duty and served in said company as a Private soldier; and that he also rendered other service in Revolutionary War; That the aforesaid Benadam Gallup married Mary Wilson for his second wife. That Benadam Gallup aforesaid is now dead, and that Mary Gallup now of Sterling aforesaid is his widow. That I never knew any other Benadam Gallup in Voluntown or Sterling or in this vicinity than the Benadam Gallup aforesaid described & who was the husband of the aforesaid widow Mary Gallup.
Samuel Gallup X his mark

Signed by Mark in presence of
Nathaniel Gallup
Daniel A. Gallup
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Windham County Ss. Sterling April 9 1855
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber Samuel Gallup who has subscribed to the foregoing deposition by his mark & who is well known to the subscriber as a witness whose testimony is entitled to full credit and belief  and made oath tot he truth of the same.
Attest
Wm. C. Stanton Justice of the Peace
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I Nathaniel Gallup of Sterling in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged about fifty seven years on oath do depose and say that I am son of Benadam Gallup, late of said Sterling deceased. I was brought up and always resided in the same home with him from my earliest recollection to the time of his death. That I was well acquainted with my fathers hand writing. That the record attached hereunto & signed or purporting to be by Benadam Gallup, Joseph Huston, Amos Cole, Benjamin Williams and Henry Bennett. I believe to be genuine & my father's name therein is in his own hand writing & his true signature.
That the deposition of Benjamin Williams hereto annexed was taken at the request & by direction of my father in his lifetime with a view of making application for a pension & he was unable to prove six months service & he therefore never made any application.
I have when a boy repeatedly heard my father tell of his service as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. That Mary Gallup who signed the foregoing declaration in my presence I know to be the widow of my father Benadam Gallup deceased, and was my fathers second wife. & I do know that the Mary Gallup aforesaid described is the widow of the identical Benadam Gallup who is described in this deposition & the deposition of Benjamin Williams & who is described in the foregoing declaration &c.
Nathaniel Gallup

Windham County Ss. Sterling, april 9 1855
Personally appeared Nathaniel Gallup Esq subscriber to the above deposition & who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the same before me.
Wm. C. Stanton Justice of the Peace
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I Daniel Windsor of Sterling in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged about 60 years on oath do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Benadam Gallup, late of Sterling deceased & lived near neighbor to him. That I was well acquainted with said Gallups hand writing, and I have formerly heard him in his life time tell of his service as a soldier in Revolution.
I verily believe the name of Benadam Gallup as subscribed to the foregoing receipt for pay paid for service in a two months tour of duty to be in said Benadam Gallup own hand writing. That Mary Gallup of the town of Sterling who is now present & who subscribed to the foregoing declaration or application for bounty land, I do know to be the widow of the aforesaid Benadam Gallup, deceased.
D. W. Windsor

Windham County Ss. Sterling April 9th 1855
Personally appeared Daniel W. Windsor who has subscribed the above deposition and who is a credible witness & made oath tot he truth of the same before me.
Wm. C. Stanton Justice of the Peace
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Rev. War Section

July 9, 1915.

Mrs. Charles E. Barber,
Central Village, Conn.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 30th ultimo, you are advised that a careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land filed on account of the Revolutionary War services of George Dorrance.
The records of this Bureau show that Benadam Gallup served as a Private from July 1, 1778, in Captain Joseph Cutler's company, Colonel Smith's Connecticut Regiment, for two months, and from March 1779, in Captain Titus Bailey's Connecticut company for three or four weeks.
He married at Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut, September 22, 1811, Miss Mary Wilson, they were both residents of said place. She was his second wife, name of first is not stated.
He died at Sterling, Connecticut, March 29, 1850, aged eighty-nine years. His son Nathaniel was fifty-seven years old in 1855.
His widow Mary was allowed 160 acres of bounty land, Warrant No. 24,441, on an application executed April 9, 1855, at which date she was eighty years old and lived in Sterling, Connecticut.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner

Letter in W. F. 26032
Isaac Gallup
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Gallup, Benadam
conn. BLWT 24441.160.55

September the 21 AD 1779

[numerous tabulations in multiple directions]
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Voluntown, September 11th AD 1779
We the subscribers acknowledge that we have received of Ens. Benjamin Dow the sum first against our names which with what we have received is in full for our wages in the two months service in the year 1778 in Capt. Joseph Cullars Company in Col. Smiths Regiment.
Benadam Gallup
L. S. 3. 0

Joseph Huston
Amos Cole
Benjamin Williams
Henry Bennett 

August 1 1780
John Vaughen had one year that belonged to the town and Col. Greenes Catridge Box
July 19th 1780 Isaac Campbell
had one gun of the towns
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24.441
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160 acres
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165.608 Act March /55
June /55

Mary Gallup
widow of 
Benadam Gallup
CT Militia
Revolutionary War
Original Brief Enclosed
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I Benjamin Williams of Plainfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged 76 years last May, old soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1831, after being duly cautioned and sworn do depose and say, 
That from my birth until 1834 I always lived in that part of Voluntown which is now Sterling, when I moved to Plainfield where I now live at this time.
That in 1778 I belonged to a company of CT Militia commanded by Capt Frink and that about the last of June I volunteered to do a tour of duty as a private soldier under Capt Cutler of Killing for two months.
That on or about the 1st day of July of said year I joined the said company under the command of Capt. Cutler at Plainfield CT. Lt. Pierce - orderly Sergeant was Card - from Plainfield we were marched to West Haven in CT and was there stationed for about two weeks (Maj. Backem chief in command) and was here engaged in keeping guard. Then were ordered to Rhode Island. We were immediately marched to Plainfield CT and arrived at Ebenezer Gatons (where we quartered) on Monday and there remained until Friday of the same week. Then marched to Providence R. I. to India point so called, to Deer Park so called in Trenton and from there we crossed on to the Island of Newport and there remained about 3 weeks in keeping guard and digging entrenchments. There was a cannonading kept up during a part of the time. We here remained until the battle commenced which according to the best of my recollection was on Saturday and on Sunday knight [night] we embarked in boats and left the Island and crossed over to Deer Park (so called) in Trenton. We there remained two or three days and then marched to Providence R. I. and remained 3 or 4 days and was then ordered to New London and immediately marched as far as Coventry R. I. and there quartered for the knight [night] then ordered back to Providence R. I. and remained two or
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three day, then were dismissed and returned home which according to the best of my recollection on or about the 1st or 2nd day of Sept having served at least two months during this Tour.  That during this Tour while on the island at the time of the august storm almost every tent was blown down.  That in this Tour while at RI I do not recollect what Col commanded the Regiment.
     That I am well acquainted with Benadam Gallup of Sterling County & state aforesaid and have been well acquainted with him even since 1778 that he joined the company at Plainfield at the same time that I did under Capt Cutler and was Dismissed at the same time that I was at said Providence.  That Benadam Gallup who served with me as aforesaid stated and was with me during the whole of this Tour I believe the said Gallup to be a man about my age. 
     [signed] Benjamin Williams

State of Connecticut  )
Windham County      )  Plainfield Nov 23 1837
Personally appeared Benjamin Williams signer to the foregoing affidavit who is known to the subscriber from general report as a witness whose testimony is entitled to full credit and belief and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
     Wm C Stanton, Justice of Peace

I  Daniel Keigwin of Voluntown a Magistrate for the County of Windham, aged 60 years do in my official capacity certify and say that I have been acquainted with Benj. Williams signer of the foregoing affidavit for 20 years and that his character as to truth and veracity is good and that his statements as a witness are entitled to full credit and belief.
[signed] Daniel Keigwin Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Windham County 
Thomas Gray













     Thomas Gray, Clerk
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT  )
Windham County              ) ss.

I, Thomas Gray, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, that William [illegible] is and since the 20th day of June, [illegible] hath been a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Windham, in said State, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds, and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths; to take affidavits and depositions out of courts, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.  And I do also further certify, that [illegible] is, and since the 20 day of [illegible] A.D. [illegible] hath been a NOTARY PUBLIC, within and for the STATE OF CONNECTICUT, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to administer Oaths and take depositions in any case in which a Justice of the Peace might administer or take the same, and also to take the acknowledgement of deeds.  
     And I further Certify that I believe the foregoing signature of the said [illegible] to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at [illegible] this 17th [illegible] in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and [crossed out: Forty] Fifty-Five.

[signed] Thomas Gray, Clerk
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