Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39445, John Dibble, Conn. Continental
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(S-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Dibble, John

NUMBER
S.39445
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3806
New York
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To
Vermont
John Dibble,          4
Capt Smith private
Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 10th of April, 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of Oct 1818.
and sent to Lemuel H. Wicker Esq.
Ticonderoga, N.Y.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4 mos. 20/?0  38.66
Semi-an. all'cd ending 4th Mar 1819           48.00
$86.66

Dibble (scratched out)
{Revolutionary claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

3 years 1776 Bradley
Continental
(corner torn off) nown (3 illegible words)

second column
Dgur
Transferred to Vermont 1 yr
Apl. 1828, from 2d March 
1828 and notification sent 
to Sam'l Swift, Esq Middlebury 
Vermont
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let to C. Fenton, March 23, 1837
Lanier S Dd Comptroller 4 May
1838

Died Aug, 39, 1835
(see letter within)
_________________________
Paid t the Treasury under
the Act of the 6 April
1838 from 4 March 1835
to 30 August 1835_Agebt
Modified 28 July 1838
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lower left bottom 278893
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State of New York}
Essex County Ss}
On this tenth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex personally appears John Dibble the fourth in aged sixty two years Resident in Crown Point in the County & State Aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" That he the said John Dibble the fourth enlisted in the United States Service on the Continental establishment on the first day of March 1776 at Cornwall in Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Smith & Colonel Bradley's Regiment of the Connecticut line - that he enlisted for the term of nine months, that he continued to serve in said Corps. or in the service of the United States until he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington on York Island on the 16th day of November following being in the same year 1776 - that he was taken to New York & there kept in close confinement in New Bridwell for the term of six weeks & three days being discharged on the first day of January 1777 then discharged by the British on parole until lawfully exchanged - don't know whether he was ever exchanged or not - that he listed again at Fishkill in the month of June in the year 1778 for the term of eighteen month in the quarter Masters department command by Captain David Ellmore - Under Colonel Hay that he continued to serve in said Corps until the month of June in the year 1779 when he was discharged from service at Fishkill in the State of New York that he was in the Battle at Fort Washinton in the year 1776 and was there taken prisoner as aforesaid - that he was in no other general engagement - but in several skirmishes - And that he is in reduced circumstance in life & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services & relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him the U.S.
John Dibble 4
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Ebenezer Douglass Judge as aforesaid
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State of New York}
Essex County SS}
I the said Ebenezer Douglass one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Dibble the fourth did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy: and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had taken before me, to the secretary  for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Given under my hand & the Seal of the Court
this tenth day of April 1818
Ebenezer Douglass {one of the Judges of Essex County Common Pleas}


vertical writing at the bottom of the page

John Dibble
10 April


**refers to the Clerks Certificate
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State of New York
County of [?] Is. On this lively sixth day of October 1820 [?]-
ally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common [?] for the bounty of open in the [?] state & being also a court of record for the
said county John Dibble, aged sixty three years resident in
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I owe to different persons in the whole about one hundred & fifty dollars. I further swear that by occupation, I am a farmer, but owing to lameness occasioned by a fever [unk] on the leg & a general disability of body, I am utterly unable to labor on a farm & in the intervals in which I am free from pain & sickness, I have continued to support my family partially while I had one by making baskets.

I have no family for which I provide. Living with one of my sons I am supported by the joint means of his charity & my own exertions. These however owing to my infirmities are both few & feeble.

John Dibble

Sworn to & declared on the 26th Sept 1820 before me

Thos. Stower Clerk

I Thomas Stower Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the aforesaid County of Essex in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the aforesaid Court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is fifteen dollars & no more & further that the said Court is a Court of record having the power of fine & imprisonment. In witness whereof I hereto set my hand & affix the seal of the said Court on this twenty sixth day of September 1820.

Thos. Stower Clerk
By Ashley Pond Dep.
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John Dibbles
application for
a Transfer
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss.}  On this 3d of April AD 1828, before me, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Addison, personally appeared John Dibble, now residing in Cornwall in said County, who on his oath declares, that he is the same person, who formerly belonged to the company commanded in 1776 by Captain Simon Smith, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley, of the Connecticut line in the service of the United States, and who belonged to the Quartermaster department under the command of Colonel Udney Hay, Deputy Quartermaster General, for two years & a half in the years 1778, 1779, & 1780; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York; from whence he lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Vermont, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of Vermont were that he had no family or property in the State of New York; that his children, who have all left him & provide for themselves, live in the said State of Vermont, and he wished to reside with or near them.

John Dibble

Sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid.

John Simmons Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss.}  At Middleburg in said County on this 3d day of August 1828, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Addison personally appeared Lucas Dibble of Crownpoint in said County, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he well knows John Dibble, described in the preceding declaration, and who subscribed & made oath to the same, and that he is the same person subscribed therein, and no other than the identical John Dibble, to whom the said pension was granted, that he was knowing that the said John Dibble applied for a pension, and saw his pension certificate when he received it, and has frequently seen it in his possession, and has known, that he has regularly received his pension from that time, that at the time he received his pension certificate, he lived at Crownpoint in the State of New York, and received it at Ticonderoga, from a an of the name of Wicker, whom he had employed as agent to procure his pension.

Lucas Dibble

Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year aforesaid and I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness.

John Simmons Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss.}  I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that John Simmons, who has subscribed the preceding certificate, subjoined to the foregoing affidavits of John Dibble and Lucas Dibble is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Addison, that full faith & credit are to be given to his acts & attestations as such; and that his name there subscribed is his own signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Middlebury this 3d day of April 1828.

Saml Swift Clerk &c
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Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, The held [?] of John Dribble
deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Bellairs Falls Agency, at the rate of - eight Dollars ,,-,,-
per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1835
to the 30th of August, 1835-
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
[?]
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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January 14, 1935.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mrs. Hugh Cassety                           BA-J/ady
Napoleon                                         John Dibble
Ohio                                                  S.39445

Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letter relative to John Dibble, Israel Litchfield, and a soldier with
surname Stillson, all of the Revolutionary War.

   Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

   A careful search of the records fails to show
such a claim on file on account of the services of Israel Litchfield, all spellings of the surname searched.

   As a means of identifying the record of a soldier of the Revolutionary War with surname Stillson, the full name of the soldier is essential and as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow. 

   The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, s.39445, based upon the military service of John Dibble in that war.

   The date and place of birth and the names of the parents  of John Dibble are not shown.

   He enlisted March 1, 1776 in Cornwall, Connecticut, served in Captain Simeon Smith's Company, Colonel Bradley's Connecticut Regiment; was in several skirmishes and in the battle of Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, when he was taken prisoner, [carried to] held in close confinement to New Bridewell, New York, [and] until paroled on January 1, 1777. He enlisted in April or June 1778, served as
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teamster in the Quartermaster Department in Captain David Elmore's Company and under Colonel Udney Hay, Deputy Quartermaster General; length of service two and one half years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818 at which time he was about sixty-two years old and a resident of Crown Point, Essex County, New York. He was then called John Dibble, 4".

About April 1828 he moved from New York State to Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont, to reside near his children, no names designated.

The names of soldier's wife is not given.

Soldier died August 30, 1835 in Crown Point, New York, leaving no widow, but five children; one child living in Lewis, Essex County, New York, two children living in Crown Point, New York, and two children living in Bloomfield, Michigan, no names designated.

In 1828 one Lucas Dibble was living in Cornwall, Vermont, his age or relationship to soldier not stated. There are no further family data.

This is the record of the only John Dibble, all spellings of the surname searched, of Cornwall, Connecticut, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this Office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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John Dibble
Crownpoint
Essex Co
NY
3806
Oct '18
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Crownpoint NY
Jan 23                   free

Com J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Wasington
D.C.

Jno Dibble
New York
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Crown Point January 23d 1837

Sir

I have been employed by the heirs of John Dibble deceased to obtain for them the arrears of his pension, he having left no widow. I made the necessary proof before the Essex Common Pleas New York at their September Term in 1835, by two competent and credible witnesses in open Court & State of New York deceased was a pensioner &c & the identical person named in an original certificate, given at the War Office &c & dated Oct 21, 1818, the he died in Crown Point August 30, 1835, left no widow but left five children, one living in Lewis in said County of Essex, two in said Crown Point, and two in Bloomfield in Michigan, obtained the Power of Atty from [unk] Nov 12, 1835 of two the 15th day of April 1836. Nov 24, 1835 I wrote to the Postmaster residing in Bloomfield Michigan requesting him to obtain the signatures of the two there to a Power to obtain the arrears of their father's pension and stated fully what was necessary to be done and set money sufficient to repay all expenses. I received no news from them until Jany 21, 1836 when E. S. Parker the Post master wrote me that they rather decline siguary the Power, they are very ignorant persons and could not understand the reasons why it was necessary to sign it. Sometime in June or July I received their power dated the 2d May 1836. The Powers were made to John C Hammond of this town, and as the original certificate was made payable generally of the
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"New York Agency, Mr Hammond called at the Albany Agency and the agent stated to him he
would pay it but could not find^ Dibbles name on
the Rolls the H. then went to New York City &
there he received the same answer & found
Dibble's name have been transferred to the Vermont
agency e "f" remember) Now Sir these are the main facts in this case. If it is consistent with the
rules and regulations of the Pension office we should
be extremely glad to have John Dibble's name transferred
to the Pension List Roll of the [word "Albany' crossed out] New York Agency as the
the papers are made but in that form and it will not up
what is due to get them attend to Vermont as some
of the childrens name gave the Said    knows when, and
they would understand the reason of signing
second part -and if the time has expired in
which we should have applied for the pression [pension] we
say it has been entirely on account of the delay of
those in Michigan - they are all ignorant people &
most of them unable to write their names -if it
should be necessary or can make affidavit
these facts- we  therefore pray your Honor
order the arrears paid  Respectfully yours &c
C. Fenton

To the Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
P.S.
I can refer you to no one in Washington to enquire of me
unless the Hon A.T. Judson or C.F. Chestnut Esq
shall happen to be in W. with the member from this County  Hon John Palmer I have no present acquaintance
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W. and N. Division.    3-525,
Mo
[illegible]39445
Rev War

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history
John Dibble (the 4th), a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
will find below the desired information as contained in his [words "or his
widow's" lined through]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
|DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.|
|Ent Cornwall, Conn Mch. 1. 1776|
|Nov 16, 1776|
| blank|
|Enl at Fishkill June 1778|

|LENGTH OF
SERVICE.|
|blank|
| taken pris at Ft. Wash. confined in New Bridewell untill Jany1,77-|
|blank|
|2 1/2 yrs.|

|RANK.|
|blank|
|blank|
|blank|
|Teamster|

|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.|

|CAPTAIN.|
|Simeon Smith|
|blank|
|blank|
|David Elmore  QM Dept.|

|COLONEL.|
|Bradley|
|blank|
|blank|
|Udney Hay|

|STATE.|
|Conn-|

Battles engaged in, Ft. Washington
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark]
Date of application for pension, apl. 10,1818 allomet.
Residence at date of application, Crownpoint, Essex Co. NY. 1828 Addison Co.Vt.
Age at date of application, 62
Remarks: [blank]

Very respectfully,
[blank]
20581bm11 - 05

Commissioner.
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Napoleon, Ohio
Dec. 18, 1934.

W. S. Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,

Gentlemen
Will you please inform me if these men served in the Revolutionary War and drew pensions
.
1 Sergt. John Dibble, born 1700, died 1782, was    
   an early settler in Cornwall, Ct.  He fought
   in the French and Indian War, but do not
   know if he was in the Revolutionary War
   He would serve from Connecticut.

2. Israel Litchfield, from probably Litchfield    
    County, Cornwall  Conn.  Do not know his 
     dates of birth a  death.

3. Was there a soldier named Stillson,
    served in the Revolutionary War?
   He was also probably from Cornwall
   any way from Connecticut
   all the information you can give me about
   these men will be gratefully received.

Thanking you I am
Very Truly Yours,
(Mrs Hugh. Mannie J Cassety
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Cong

Hon. Henry Allen Cooper
ST of R

Dear Mr. Cooper -

In reply to your letter dated the 12th, instant and received on the 13th
I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary War pension records
show only two soldiers by the name of
John Dibble, both of whom served in the
Connecticut troops.

From the papers in claim Survivors
File#15097, it appears that John Dibble was
born December 23, 1759 at Stanford, Connecticut, and served as a private as follows

From June 1776 under Captain Silvanus Brown, Colonel Silliman 6 months.

Winter of 1777 under Captain Jesse Bell, 4 months.

June 24, 1777 as a waiter to Captain Reuben Scofield, Colonel Enos, 8 months

In 1778 under Captain Jesse Bell, 1 year and 6 month 

1780 under Captain Slawson, 9 months; 

April 1782 under Captain Jesse Bell, 6 months

He was allowed pension on an application
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executed August 11, 1832 at which time he
was a resident of Darien, Fairfield County,
Connecticut 

from the papers in claim Survivor File
39445 it appears that John Dibble (who calls
himself " the fourth ") enlisted at Cornwall
Connecticut March 1, 1776 in Captain Simeon Smith company, Colonel Bradley's regiment; on November 16, 1776 he was captured at Fort Washington on York Island and confined in 
The Bridewell Prison, until January 1, 1777; and that he afterwards enlisted at Fishkill, New York in June 1778 as a Teamster under Captain David Elmore, Colonel Udney Hay in the Quartermaster Department and served two and one half years.

He was allowed a pension on an
application executed April 10, 1818 at which
time he was a resident of Crownpoint
Essex County, New York

In 1828 he resided in Addison County Vermont, and was 72 years of age.
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A careful search of the records of this
(Illegible) fails to show a claim filed on
Revolutionary War
account of the services of
Isaac Blakely -

Very resp

Comm
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Anadarko, Okla. Dec. 4, 1901,
The Honorable
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir,
I should like to obtain
the Revolutionary war record of Captain Joseph Walker who raised a company in part and Sadsbury township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Vol. XIV Colonial Records,
P 631, is the following order of Council
Phila, Pa. Feb. 1, 1786

The Comptroller General's report
upon the account of Captain
Joseph Walker of Lancaster Co
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Militia for pay of his company was
read and approved 

Also please give one the war record of Captain John Dibble of Conn.  I am told
that he was capt. and present when Burgoyne surrendered his home was in Woodbridge
a suburb of New Haven, Conn.

Thanking you for these records
I am, respectfully yours,
Annette Ross Haine
(Mrs. Chas. R.)
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39445
INVALID
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File No. 39445

John Dibble

Pri Rev War

Act: 18  March 18

Index: -- Vol. (?) Page 129

(Arrangement of 1870.)


January 13-1902
Mrs. Annette Ross Hame
Anadarko, OK

1906 Dec. 14 Hist. to Hon-
H.A. Cooper letter in S.F
15097 John Dibble,

(?)1935 Jan. 14 Hist. to Mrs.
Hugh Cassity .D.