Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15354, John Alvord, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Conn
Alvord, John 
NUMBER S. 15354
carded
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my Discharge
from the
Graning
John Alvord
Conn.
of 15304
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Fairfield County ss. Fairfield Octr 6th 1788  Whereas application is made to me by John Alvord a Serjeant [Sargeant] in the 8th Company of Militia in the 6th Regiment in Connecticut for a discharge of his sd Office as Sargt of Company I have heard his reasons & considered of the matter & judge them sufficient & think
he may be discharged from any further service in sd Compy & I do hereby Discharge him accordingly as the Officers of sd Compy are to regulate the same & govern [illegible]
agreeable to this Discharge
Elijah Abel Lt Col Comdt of ye 6 Regt
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29.829.
Connecticut
John Alvord
Fairfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a private & Sergt in the company commanded by Captain Hill
of the Regiment commanded by Col Dimon in the Connecticut line for four months as Sergeant and six months as private  [  ]scribed on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency at the rate of 40 Dollars _ Cents per annum, to
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of March A.D. 1835- and sent to Hon. G. Tomlinson present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Sept 1835. 20.00 = $180.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by C. W. Kelso Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 3 Page 1.
[written vertically]
March 9th 1835 Pens. Certificate to Hon. G. Tomlinson
March 6th date? to J. Dodd Esq Agent &c Hartford Conn
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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss

On this 18th day of November AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court before a special Court of Probate holden at Fairfield in & for the Probate District of Fairfield in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut and now sitting John Alvord a resident of Fairfield in sd County & State aged Eighty three years who being first served according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz
That from his best recollections and belief he commenced his June
in the Revolutionary war in the year 1776 and that he then belonged to a
Militia company in the Parish of Greenfield in  sd Fairfield in the County and State aforesaid commanded by Capt Ebenezer Hill but who the Col of the Regt was he dont remember. that he recollects he served on a tour of duty to Stanford and Greenwich towns in sd County in sd Compy under sd Capt Hill and according to his best recollections in 1776, and that he continued
in service of sd Tour of duty not less than one month
the Declarant further says that in 1777 he recollects of  serving in the
guard of the sea coast of sd Fairfield stationed at Greens farms in sd Fairfield drafted from sd Hills company but dont recollect the
Col of the Regt and was on duty when the Enemy landed in 1777 and
marched up to and burnt Danbury in sd County and of being in an 
engagement with them on their return and he says he confidently believes he served in guard as aforesaid for not less the three months but does not recollect the officer of the guard under whom he served
the declarant further says that he served as a drafted person
from sd Capt Hills company and he confidently believes in 1778 stationed at Greens farms in sd Fairfield and for a term as he confidently believes not less than three months at this time Col Dimon was Col of the Regt the sd service consisted in guarding the sea coast- and he further says that he knows that he served as a drafted person from sd Hill Compy Col Dimons Regt in guarding the sea coast of sd Farfield Stationed at Mill River and as he confidently believes in
the same year 1778 and for a term not less than three months but who the officers of the guard were he cannot remember nor does he remember the officers of the guard when he served at Greens farms aforesaid
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And the Declarant further says that in 1779 he served in sd Capt Hills compy Col Dimons Regt at the time sd Fairfield was burnt in that year in July under Genl Tryon, recollects of staying out all night near Capt Ezekial Hulls about two miles north of the meeting house and next morning marched down within half a mile of the sd meeting house and was fired upon by the enemy and that one of the company to which Declarant belonged viz John Goodsell was killed
near him and that he immediately after marched to Norwalk in sd
County to which place the enemy had proceeded & which town they then burnt and was in duty there in sd Hills compy at that time recollects of being fired upon by the enemy and that a ball went between his legs and ntered the ground and he says that he confidently believes he served in the aforesaid tours of duty at Fairfield and Norwalk for at least one week
and the Declarant further says that immediately after sd Fairfield was burnt by the enemy he was drafted from sd Hills Compy Col Dimons Regt and stationed at Fairfield Green at an old ship under Ensign Chauncey Downs in guard of Coast of Fairfield and he confidently believes he served at that time not less than six months
and the declarant further says that he also served in guard of coast of Fairfield stationed at Black Rock in sd Fairfield as a Sergeant taken from sd Hill Compy Col Dimons Regt and
had the charge of the guard at that place and is confident he served at that time as a sergeant aforesaid not less than six months and he believes from his best recollections and feels confident that it was in 1780
and the declarant says that he knows that he served many other times then what he has stated but that his memory has greatly failed him so that he cannot describe his other services, and that from old age and loss of memory he cannot positively tell all the service he performed in the war
of the Revolution, nor give any more material description of his service
than already stated, but confidently believes from his best recollections that all his services including the time
he served as a sergeant which he performed during the war aforesaid
embraced a period of at least two years. And the Declarant says
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that during his services aforesaid he was precluded from attending to his
private business that his time was devoted to his duties as a soldier and that he was in actual duty or in quarters
that he has no written discharge or Documentary evidence of his so services that he does not recollect he ever received a written warrant as a sergeant if so it has long since been
lost by time or accident as well as any
other written evidence if he ever received any
that he always served in embodied
corps maintained by public authority that he has procured and herewith forwarded the best evidence that he can in support of his claim and that he always served as a private soldier
and as a Sergeant that he was born in Fairfield in the County of Fairfield 
State of Connecticut in the year 1750
where he resided when called into service and where he has resided ever
since has a record of his age in his family bible and no other was called into service in the manner before Stated. He is known to Joseph Hyde. Aaron Sherwood Ebenezer Banks Esq
William Sherwood Esq and others of the most respectable inhabitants in the neighborhood where he resides
who can testify to their belief of his services as a soldier of the
Revolution and to his character for truth. That the old Clergyman of
the Parish to which he belongs and who knows his general reputation
as a soldier of the revolution is now
dead that there is no clergyman with whom he is acquainted who
can testify to his reputation as such, that he is well acquainted with
Thomas F Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the certificate hereunto annexed that he has only been settled as a minister or clergyman about five years in a neighboring parish and that
consequence of the distance he lives from declarant he has had no opportunity of knowing the Declarant reputation as a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where Declarant resides and the sd John Alvord hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and
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declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid before David Hill Judge of the Court of  Probate for the District office
s/ John Alvord

after the investigation of the matter & after putting the questions prescribed by the War Department  
And the sd Court hereby declares its opinion that the above named applicant John Alvord was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the sd Court further certifies that Thomas F Davis who has subscribed the certificate hereunto annexed is a clergyman resident in the town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield in sd State
and that Joseph Hyde who has also subscribed a certificate hereunto annexed and resident of sd Fairfield is a person of high standing in society and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit, and the court further certifies that the
Applicant possesses an unquestionable character for truth, and also that the characters of the Deponents whose Depositions are hereunto annexed by Hyatt
Banks Sturges Ogden and Joseph Banks are good and that their statements may be relied upon and the sd Court further certifies that Jeremiah Sturges before whom the Deposition of Sturges Ogden was taken & sworn and that Thomas Robinson before whom the Deposition of Hyatt Banks and Joseph Banks and the certificate of Levi Down Joseph Perry & others were taken and sworn to are now and for one year past have been justices of the Peace for sd Fairfield County duly commissioned & acting as such, that sd Jeremiah Sturges was a  Justice of the Peace for sd Fairfield County on the 18th day of July 1832 when the deposition of Sturges Ogden annexed hereunto was taken s/ David Hill Justice of Probate
I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield, State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the above Declaration of John Alvord was taken subscribed and sworn to before sd Court, and I further certify that David Hill whose own proper signature known to me to be genuine is affixed thereunto as the Judge of sd Court is now and for more than one year has been duly commissioned & acting as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
David Hill Jr Clerk
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Feb. 27
Hon G Tomlinson
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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss
On this 31st day of January AD 1835 personally appeared in open Court before a special Court of Probate holden at Fairfield in for the Probate District of Fairfield in the County & State aforsd and now sitting, John Alvord a resident of Fairfield
in the District County and State aforsd aged now Eighty four years who being first sworn according to law doth on
his oath make the following Declaration explanatory of an original Declaration by him made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
and now on file at the Pension Office War Department
In his original declaration the Declarant claimed to have served in the revolutionary War as a Sergeant, stationed at Black Rock on the coast of Fairfield and had charge of a guard with regard to said service the Declarant now says that he is confident that he performed the same
at the time and for the period stated in his original Declaration and that from his best recollections, he did
not serve as sergeant and commandant of a post but only as a
Sergt of a Guard belonging to a Capts
command or under a commandant of a post there being a number of men stationed at different places on the coast under the charge of different officers and all under the commandant of the post, and the declarant says that from his extreme old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot positively tell who the commandant of the post was, but
from reflection he believes that it was Capt Thos Nash and he recollects that during the time he was in that particular service he arrested two men belonging to the guard for misconduct and put them under
guard for a time, and that further says
that these services claimed in his original Declaration to have been performed by him as a drafted person from Capt Wills Compy in the guard of the Coast of Fairfield as a private
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were truly stated, but he does not recollect whether the particular officers under whose immediate command he served were commandants of posts or of detached guards that is to say guards at different places on the coast and all under a commandant of a post
Nor does he recollect any other officer then stated in his original declaration under whom he served
as a private but is confident of having served at the times and for the periods and under the officers stated
in his original Declaration, and that the corps in which he served were called into service by public Authority
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid  s/ John Alford
before David Hill Judge of Probate for the District aforesaid
And the said Court hereby again declares its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states David Will Judge of Probate

I David Will Jr Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that the
forgoing contains the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of this explanatory application of John
Alvord for a pension in testimony  whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 31st day
of January AD 1835
David Hill Jr Clerk
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O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of John Alvord a soldier of the Revolutionary war,
you will please find below the desired information as contained in his
(or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1776
1777
1778
1779
1779
1780
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 mo
3 "
3 "
1 wk.
6 mos.
6 "
RANK.
Pvt.
Pvt
Serg.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Ebenezer Hill
COLONEL.
not remem
Dimon
STATE.
Conn
Battles engaged in, Present at the burning of Danbury & Fairfield,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Greenfield Conn
Date of application for pension,
Nov 18. 1833.
Residence at date of application, Fairfield Conn
Age at date of application b'dorn at Fairfield, Conn. 1750. 83
Remarks: This pen, was all

Very respectfully,
E.C.Sherwood, Esq
Southport, Conn
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P 15354
INVALID.
File No.15.354
John Alvord
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 7
Arrangement of 1870.
Mch 20/94 Hist to
E. C. Sherwood, Esq. Southport Conn
Lock Box A/C
Apr. 10. 1897. His to
Mr. John P. Town
128 Bowery, N.Y.

Feby 7, 1905. His
Jno. W. Remer N.Y.C
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I Thomas F Davis of the Town & County of Fairfield State of
Connecticut a clergyman settled and officiating as such the
Parish of Green farms in sd Fairfield do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Alvord of sd Fairfield an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that I believe him to be Eighty three years of age that I believe
him to be a man of strict integrity and to possess an unquestionable
character for truth and that he is generally so reputed and further that I believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that his statement may be relied upon,
s/ Th. F. Davis
I Joseph Hyde of the Town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut
having read the above certificate of Thomas F Davis do hereby
certify that I fully concur in the same and I further certify that the sd John Alvord is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that I concur in the same
s/ Joseph Hyde
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State of Connecticut
District of Fairfield ss Fairfield
The within certificates of Thomas F Davis and Joseph Hyde
were taken subscribed and sworn to this 18th day of November AD 1833 before
David Hill Justice of Probate for the
district aforesaid
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John Alvord
28.901
returned
Hon. G.
Tomlinson
Senate U.S
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss
We the Subscribers of the Town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Alvord of sd Fairfield an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he is a person of good standing in society and possesses an unquestionable character for truth
that we believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he is reputed to have been such, in the neighborhood where he resides

Levi Downs Joseph Perry
Jeremiah Sturges  Jonathan Buckley
William Sherwood Jr Joseph Wakeman
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Fairfield November 18th 1833
Personally appeared Levi Downs Joseph Perry Jeremiah Sturges
Jonathan Buckley, William Sherwood Jr and Joseph Wakeman
who have subscribed the above certificate and made solemn
oath to the truth of the same, and I hereby certify that they are all men of high respectability and of indisputable character for truth
Thomas Robinson Jus. Peace
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I Joseph Banks of the Town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut aged seventy seven years, being duly cautioned and sworn do testify and say that I am personally acquainted with the services in the Revolutionary War of John Alvord of sd Fairfield. I am knowing to the fact that he the sd John Alvord served as a private for three months in Guard of
the sea coast of Fairfield Stationed at Mill River in sd Fairfield under me. I there had charge as a Sergeant of
the Guard aforsd stationed as aforsd under Capt Thomas Nash of Col Simms Regt of State Troops and I believe in the fall of the year 1778 and I confidently believe that sd John Alvord served at various other times during the Revolutionary war but I cannot now positively state when he served nor how long at a time. and further the Deponent saith not
Dated at Fairfield this day of November AD 1833
s/ Joseph Banks
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
Fairfield the _ day of November 1833 The Deposition of Joseph Banks above written & subscribed
by him was taken subscribed and sworn to before the Subscriber and I hereby certify that the sd Joseph Banks is of good standing in society and possesses an unquestionable
character for truth
s/ Thomas Robinson Just Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss
I Hyatt Banks of the Town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut aged sixty nine years, Do testify and
say that I have personal knowledge that John Alvord o  Fairfield served some time during the War of the Revolution as a Sergeant of a Guard
on the sea coast of sd town of Fairfield he being
at that time a Sergeant in Capt Ebenezer Hills Company of Militia in Col. Dimons Regiment but how long he served in the capa ty of Sergeant of the guard I cannot tell nor can I tell in what year it was, but confidently believe it was either in the year 1779 or 1780. The reason why I recollect
that he served  s a sergeant is, that my brother Elijah Banks now dead was in service under Alvord at the time in guarding the sea coast of sd
Fairfield and that I frequently visited him while under sd Alvord and further the Deponent saith not Dated at Fairfield this 19th day of June 1833
s/ HyattBanks

State of Connecticut County of
Fairfield ss Fairfield 
June 19th 1833. The Deposition of Hyatt Banks was subscribed
& sworn to before the subscriber and I s/ certify that sd Wyatt Banks is of good standing in society & possesses an unquestionable character for truth
s/ Thomas Robinson Jus Peace
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I Sturges Ogden of the Town and County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Aged Seventy years being duly cautioned and Sworn do testify and say that I am personally knowing to the service of John Alvord of said Fairfield in the Revolutionary War, he the said John Alvord, served with me on a tour of duty of six months as Guard of the Sea Coast of the Town of Fairfield, we were stationed at an old Shop on Fairfield Green, Ensign Chauncey Down
had the particular charge of the Guard, but who was Captain of the Compy or Col of the Regt I don't recollect but it was in the season
immediately after the Town of Fairfield was burnt in the year 1779.
And the Shop we were stationd at was saved from being burnt by the enemy in order to save the Dwelling House of an Old Tory & we were dischaased late in the winter of the same year, and I believe he the said John Alvord served during the Revolutionary war on guard of
the Court of Fairfield a good  any other times but have no particular Recollection, of the time or times or who he served under, and further the deponent saith not Dated at Firfield this 18th day of July 1832
s/ Sturges Ogden
State of Connecticut County of
Fairfield ss  Fairfield.
July 18th 1832, the foregoing Deposition of Sturges Ogden was taken subscribed and Sworn to before me s/ Jeremiah Sturges J.P

State of Connecticut
Fairfield July 18. 1832 I Certify that the above Deponant Sturges Ogden 
is a man of Good Standing
in Society & of truth & veracity undisputed
s/ Jeremiah Sturges J P
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I William Jennings of the Town & County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy one years
being duly cautioned and sworn do depose and say that I am knowing to the services of John Alvord of said Fairfield in the Revolutionary War. In the year 1780. my father Jeremiah
Jenning who has been dead about six years, was drafted from a militia company in sd Fairfield to serve in guard of the sea coast stationed at Black Rock in said Fairfield, I have perfect recollection that I served in that year for my sd father as a substitute for him for the full term of four months at said Black Rock under John Alvord of sd Fairfield who was the Sergeant of the guard I recollect that when I commenced my sd service as a substitute for my sd father under sd Alvord, he the sd
Alvord had the charge of the Guard as the Sergeant thereof and at the expiration of said four months service he still had the charge as such and commanded the same 
And I do further depose and say that it was sometimes the case that during the war of the Revolution persons were drafted from the militia to serve in Guard of the sea coast for as long term as six months I recollect that my father the aforesaid Jeremiah Jennings was drafted from the militia for six months to live in guard at Mill River in sd Fairfield during the war of
the Revolution and that I served for him as a substitute for the said six months. And further the Deponent
saith not Dated at Fairfield this 11th day of March 1834
s/ William Jennings
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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Fairfield March 11th 1834
Personally appeared William Jennings who has subscribed
the within Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth
of the same and I hereby certify that said Williams Jennings possesses an unquestionable character for truth
s/ Thomas Robinson Jus Peace
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$40 per an
Hon. G. Tomlinson
present
28.901  29.829
Connecticut
John Alvord

Hon. G. Tomlinson
Senate
and Feby. 19 & Apl 9 1834
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Comptrollers Office
March 13th 1834
I Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public
Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify that the pay roll of Capt. Ebenezer Hills company coast guard, at Fairfield is charged to the United States upon the books of the pay
Table, under date March 6th 1780 & that no roll of it has been found, or evidence showing when, or how long it served
And that the pay roll of Capt.  Ebenezer Hill's company, militia, at Fairfield is also charged, under date July 12th 1781; & that no roll of this company has been found, or proof
where it served or how long It continued in service
s/ E Phelps
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY.
L. W. B. J. 15354,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
April 10, 1897.
Sir: Replying to your request for information concerning John Alvord,
a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an
application for pension on November 18, 1833, at which time he was 83
years of age and residing in Fairfield, Conn., and his pension was allowed for ten months' actual service as a private and sergeant in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hill and Col. Dimon. He enlisted at Greenfield, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Mr. John P. Townsend,
128 Bowery, N. Y. Ci
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[letterhead] THE BOWERY SAVINGS BANK 128 & 130 BOWERY
TELEPHONE 165 SPRING
JOHN P. TOWNSEND PRESIDENT.
NEW YORK. March 10th, 1897
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of knowing if you can inform me from records in your office if John Alvord was at any time a pensioner on the rolls on account of service in the war of the Revolution. The person I am asking about was John Alvord, born at Middletown, Conn. January 21, 1739, died at Chatteaugay, N. Y., year unknown. He
married Relief Crosby.
I am informed from the Adjutant General's Office of Hartford, Conn., that there was a John Alvord according to their records, and from said records it appears that Corporal John Alvord was in Capt. Jonathan Dimon's Company of Fairfield, May, 1775.
From miscellaneous rolls on page 662 appears the following: John
Alvord, a pensioner, aged ninety years. Census of Pensioners as returned under Act of 1840.
What I am desirous of knowing is if this John Alvord who
appears on the records in Hartford is the same John Alvord to whom
I have referred above. If you can give me any information, I will be
greatly obliged and pay any necessary expense.
Yours respectfully, 
s/ John P. Townsend
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[letterhead]THE BOWERY SAVINGS BANK. 128 & 130 BOWERY
TELEPHONE 165 SPRING
JOHN P. TOWNSEND PRESIDENT.
NEW YORK. March 29, 1897
To The
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
From the Adjutant General's Office at Hartford, Conn., I have received the following: On Page 616, Connecticut men in the Revolution, appears the following: "Corporal John Alvord in
Capt. Jonathan Dimon's Company of Fairfield, May 1775." From
Miscellaneous Rolls on Page 662, same book appears the following:
John Alvord, a pensioner, aged 90 years. Census of Pensioners as
returned under Act 1840."
I understand from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department that if a pension was granted on account of the soldier's service, it is possible that his military history can be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., who
is the custodian of pension records of all wars and whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department. Will you be good enough to have another search made for me to see if I can locate this pensioner as the John Alvord who was born at Middletown, Conn., Jan. 21, 1739, and died at Chatteaugay, New York. I will be very greatly obliged for any
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Commissioner of Pensions, Page 2.
information that you may be able to give me, and regret if I trouble you too much in this matter. I am
Very truly yours,
s/ John Townsend
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[printed letterhead]E. C. SHERWOOD. President. No.660.THE SOUTHPORT NATIONAL BANK
Southport, Ct Mch 5, 1894
Hon Wm Lochren
Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir
Will you please be so kind as to send me a statement of the military history
of John Alvord of Fairfield
Fairfield County Connecticut, as
contained in his application for
pension he was one of my
ancestors whose military history I
desire very much to obtain. Any
Expense in the matter I will cheerfully
pay
Respectfully Yours
EC Sherwood
Lock Box A
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JOHN W. REMER
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
69 WALL STREET
NEW YORK
TELEPHONE 1237 BROAD
.[stamp] OLD WAR 7 NAVY FEB 1 
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 1905.
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: -- Will you kindly give me the particulars of the application for pension of my ancestor, John Alvord, a Revolutionary Pensioner. His pension was granted I believe in 1840. He was a Corporal in Captain Dimon's company of Colonel Beebe's Regiment of Connecticut minute men
and volunteers. This regiment was raised at Fairfield, Connecticut, May 1775 of which place John Alvord was a resident.
I would like to know the date of his enlistment, what campaigns
he served in and any similar facts that the application may contain. Your favor in the matter will be appreciated.
Yours truly,
s/ John W. Remer
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51- 12 - 5 - 41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Alvord, John
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3611
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Aug. 15, 1796
to _ not shown _
See also, the file labeled
Alvord, John B. L. Warrant
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776 and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.