Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21838, for Simeon Ingraham, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Ingraham, Simon

NUMBER
S.21838

CONTENTS
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Let 9 mar: 35 Hon T. Burgess [Burges]
" " " " Pens Agent
" 9 July "36 D. J. Pearce
" 6 Decr. 1839 to Hon. J L Tillinghast

6746
Rhode Island
Simeon Ingraham
of Providence in the State of R.I.
who was a pri in the [blank] commanded
by Captain ----- of the Regt commanded
by  [illegible] Durgee [Durkee] in the Cont.
line for 7 mo. 12 days
Inc from $23.33

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 24. Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9- day of March 35
and Hon. T. Burgess [Burges]
Providence, R.I.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 35 98.64
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Septr  12.33
$110.97
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by N Rice - Clerk,
Book P Vol. 3 Page 117.
E  2 115.

Let to T. Burgess [Burges]
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79
Simeon Ingraham
F

18892

found on Rolls
of Russels Regt
6 mo aug '79

admd
7 mo pri
23.33
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Rhode-Island District, sc.
County of Providence
On this 20th day of August A. D. 1832  personally appeared in open Court, being a ["special" crossed out] District Court of the United States within and for said District, now in session- Simeon Ingraham a resident of Providence in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged 83 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 Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, viz.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he was born in the Town of Bristol in this State April 24. 1749 That his birth is recorded in the Town records in said Bristol, that he resided in Plainfield in the State of Connecticut when called into service that he has resided in said Providence ever since the War and now resides therein, and the applicant further State, that in the spring of the year 1779 he enlisted as a volunteer private in a company the name of whose Captain he does not now recollect but was attached to a regiment commanded by Col. Durgie [Durkee] of the Continental line of Connecticut troops. Major Troop [Throop] was major, he enlisted for eight or nine months and served until his time expired and was then honorably discharged he had a written discharge but has since lost it, and the applicant further states that he served for one month more in a company of Grenadiers commanded by Zephaniah Andrews and was stationed at Pawtuxet during said month, he was therefrom honorably discharged, he has no documentary evidence of his service but the testimony of Benaiah Sweet and Benjamin Wheaton relating thereto accompanies this declaration 
and the applicant further states that he served as a volunteer in a Company commanded by Capt. Nicholas Power That in a skirmish with some boats which landed men on the eastern shore of this State the party with whom was detached succeeded in taking some prisoners he thinks five. He was appointed to command the guard to bring the prisoners to Providence and said prisoners were safely brought and lodged in the jail in said Providence this term of service was for one month which time he faithfully served out which was in the month of September or October 1775 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
Simeon Ingraham-
attest B Cowell
We, [blank] a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and [blank] residing in [blank] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
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month of [illegible]
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
Simeon Ingraham- 
Attest B Cowell 
We, [blank] a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and [blank] residing in

I Benajah [Benaiah] Sweet of Providence [illegible] 
years old & upwards on oath do testify & say that during the revolutionary war I was a drafted soldier in Col Durges [Durkee's] regiment of the Connecticut line I was drafted for six months & served untill [until] my time expired this was I think in 1779 I think it was in the Spring of the year that I was drafted- And I further testify that I well knew Simeon Ingraham of said Providence who was a soldier in said regiment- also he belonged to it the same time I did and I never knew any thing but that he served untill [until] his enlistment expired - 
Benaiah Sweet
July 11 1832 
Personally appeared before me the above named Beniah [Benaiah] Sweet & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed & I further certify that said Deponent is well Known to me & is a credible witness in the premises[?]- 
Benja Cowell 
Commission[?] Dist Court for RI Dist.
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I Benjamin Wheaton of Providence in the State of Rhode Island aged 75 years sworn according to Law depose and say That during the revolutionary war I served for one month in a Company of Grenadiers commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Andrews This was in the Spring of the year 1777 we were stationed at Pawtuxet in this State. During the whole of said month Simeon Ingraham at the time and now well known to me served in said Company 
Benjamin Wheaton 
August 20th 1832
 Sworn to in open Court 
B Cowell Clk 

I Stephen A Aplin of Providence in the State of Rhode Island &c now aged 70 years and sworn according to Law depose and say that I have known Simeon Ingraham ever since the revolutionary war, During the last thirty or forty years last past I have frequently heard him say that during a service of one month on the eastern shore of this State in the revolutionary war he had command of a guard for the purpose of bringing some prisoners to Providence which a party of men to which he was attached had taken who were plundering the inhabitants of provisions He always stated that he lodged said prisoners in jail in Providence 
Stephen A. Aplin 
August 20 1832 Sworn to in open Court 
B Cowell Clk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Stephen A. Aplin Benjamin Wheaton & Benaiah Sweet who have ["who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, residing in the and that" crossed out] testified for the sd. Applicant ["who also signed the  above is a resident in the" crossed out] are resident as they state & are- ["and is a" crossed out] credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I BENJAMIN COWELL, Clerk of said District Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Simeon Ingraham for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 19 day of November 1832 
Benjamin Cowell Clk
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Revolution

21838
INVALID.

File No. 21,838
Simeon Ingraham
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 202
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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inform Hon. T. Burges that his letter was not recd. until this morning- direct to him at Providence RI.
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See letter 12 July 1833 to Hon T Burgess [Burges] do 27 Decr 1833

6746 Rhode Island
Simeon Ingraham
of Providence in the State of R Island who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain -------- of the Regt commanded by Col Durgee [Durkee] in the Connecticut line for 7 months
7 mo 12 day should have been allowed instead see lett 27 Decr 1833 to T. Burgess [Burges]

Inscribed on the Roll of R Island at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day March, 1831.
1 33
$24.[ilegible]
24.66
Certificate of Pension issued 8 the day of Mar
1833- and sent to Hon T Burgess [Burges]
Providence RI

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $46.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 11.66
$58.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 3 Page 117
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Simeon Ingraham
for increase of Pension.
T315.
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To the Honorable Joel R. Poinsett 
Secretary of War. 
The undersigned, a citizen of Providence, R.I. having been engaged in active service in the Revolutionary war on the part of the U. States, represents that he was ninety years of age on the 24. day of April of the present year, and that a pension of twenty four dollars a year has been granted him, which he considers an inadequate compensation for the length of time he was engaged in the public service. At the commencement of the war, he was a member of a volunteer Grenadier company in said Providence under Capt. Jonathan Arnold and continued as such more than five years, under the military instruction of him and Major Box, then an experienced officer, and was always ready during said period to defend against any invasions of the enemy. He enlisted as a soldier, but at what period he does not recollect. He was for a long time at Stony Point, at a time when a chain was put across the North river to prevent the passage of the enemy's naval forces. He performed a term of service under Majors Throop and Durgee [Durkee] in the army at West point, and while in the service, assisted in building a fort at Fox point in Providence, and being a carpenter by trade, was very useful in erecting barracks, and other defences constituted partly of wood. In the construction of these works, a large quantity of his own timber and plank was taken, for which and his
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labour, he received an inconsiderable recompense. When Bristol was attacked by Capt. James Wallace ["Cornwallis" crossed out], the undersigned was detached by Esek Hopkins, then commanding the troops at Providence, at the head of a guard of Six or eight soldiers, and ordered to repair to Bristol ferry as a watch, where he captured a boat, with about six men on board, and having provisions for the British fleet, and brought the men to Providence and lodged them in prison. 
At his return from service in other places, to his home, he became a member of a volunteer company called the Civil guards, which continued for three months, at all times ready to repel attacks of the enemy He has no written documents or memoranda to refresh his memory, and his recollection of dates and names of officers is imperfect; but his general recollection ["of" crossed out] is good, and he is confident that he was actually employed as a soldier during the revolutionary war for a much longer term of time than that for which he receives a pension, and is entitled to an increased compensation. He adds that he received a written discharge from Gen. Washington (now lost) at Morristown, and was allowed eighteen dollars, a month for his services, the order for which he received in paper money. 
Simeon Ingraham - 

Providence ss. State of Rhode Island &c.
In Providence November 23rd 1839.
This day personally appeared Simeon Ingraham, Subscriber to the annexed Statement and under oath declared the same to be just and true. 
Before me day and year above written 
Saml Brown. Jus: Peace
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From a long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Simeon Ingraham, signer of the aforegoing statement, we certify that full credit ought to be given to his declarations, under oath or otherwise; as he sustains a character for honesty, integrity and veracity which is unimpeachable. 
Providence November 23, 1839, 
W.R. Danforth
Ephraim Bowen 
Richmond Bullock
N B. Crocker Rector at St. John's Church 
William Wilkinson
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on Roll Col. Russell's Regt enlisted 3 Augt 1779- discharged the 15 Jany 1780-
BLB
exd[?]
5 mos & 13 days

Hon T Burgess [Burges]
Providence
RI
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United States of America 
Rhode Island District Sc. 
County of Providence 
On this twenty fifth day of June A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court being a ["probate" crossed out] Court of Record in and for the City of Providence in said County & State held by the Honorable Thomas Burgess ["probate" crossed out] Judge, Simeon Ingraham a resident of said Providence aged eighty four 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 act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. Viz. 
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein Stated. That he enlisted he thinks for the term of nine months as a Soldier, under what Captain he does not now remember, in the early part of the year 1779, and faithfully served out his time, and received an honorable discharge. The regiment was commanded by Col. Durgee [Durkee], Major Throop was also an Officer in said Regiment, which was stationed on the highlands opposite Stoney [Stony] point ~ 
And the applicant further states, that a few days after his arrival at the highlands, General Washington who was there, ordered him to assist in building what was called the North redoubt, and a large Bomb proof fort, opposite Stoney [Stony] point, That he worked thereon for the space of six months as an Artificer under the immediate inspection of Genl. Washington, the applicant being at the time about twenty six years of age and having previously conducted business as a master Carpenter, at the time he was detached from his Company Genl. Washington [illegible] under[?] pay of eighteen
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dollars per month, which sum he received and also a discharge signed by Genl. Washington, which he has long since lost ~ 
and the applicant further states, that he afterwards served for one month under Capt. Andrews in Pawtuxet and one month on Rhode Island under Capt. Power 
And the applicant further states that in the month of August 1832, he made application for a pension before the Honorable Judge Pitman of the Rhode Island District Court, which pension has been granted him and his name is now inscribed on the pension roll of the Rhode Island agency. 
And the applicant further states that his reasons for making this application is because he now receives the sum of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per year only being as he understands the pay of a Common Soldier, whereas he believes he is justly entitled to receive the Same pay which he received as an Artificer in the Army, although he was told at the time of his first application to the contrary and in opposition to his own belief ~
And the applicant further states, that he was in the battle of Stoney [Stony] Point on the seventeenth day of July 1779 and entered the works of the British with fixed bayonet 
And the applicant further states that he knows of no person living who knows of his services as an artificer the army excepting Benaiah Sweet, whose deposition is herewith sent 
Simeon Ingraham 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrog[atories]
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[interrog]atories prescribed by the War Department, that the aforenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he States. and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Benaiah Sweet signer of the annexed deposition is a resident in the Town of Providence and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit 
I Allen O Peck clerk of the municipal Court of the City of Providence in said County & State exercising probate jurisdiction, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Simeon Ingraham for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this twenty Sixth day of June A.D. 1833 
Allen O Peck Clerk
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I Benaiah Sweet of Providence in the county of Providence in the State of Rhode Island aged seventy four years, on solemn Oath depose and say, That I served in the Revolutionary War, for the term of six months as a Soldier, in Colonel Durgees [Durkee's] Regiment, at the highlands opposite West Point and at Morristown in the year 1779. When I went to said highlands, I found Simeon Ingraham there, the same person for whom I gave a deposition some time in August last when he applied for a pension, He was a master Carpenter at the time and served as an Artificer in building the North ["and South" crossed out] redoubts and a large Bomb proof fort, for a Space of time to the best of my recollection, five or six months, and until we went into Winter quarters. I dont Know of a Single person now living except Mr. Ingraham, who was at said highlands at the time we were there. He has always lived in Said Providence ever since the war ~ 
Benaiah Sweet- 
Municipal Court of the City of Providence Exercising Probate Jurisdiction June 26 1833. Then personally appeared Benaiah Sweet in open Court and made oath to the aforegoing Deposition 
Attest Allen O. Peck Clerk
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Providence July 5th 1833 
Hon J L Edwards 
Sir 
I send you herewith the declaration of Simeon Ingraham of Providence It is, I believe, made in due form of law, & is forwarded to your Department, by my advice[?], for the purpose of obtaining an increase of Pension. He now receives twenty three dollars & thirty three cents. Six months of the lowest grade of service would have entitled him to this amt., but he served out his whole time under an enlistment for 9 months in the Continental army. He afterwards served one month at Pawtuxet & one month on R Island at Sullivans expedition. Reconing[?] [Reckoning?] this service as that of a common soldier he would be entitled to receive 11/24 of the yearly pay of a Private; but for 6 months of the time he belonged to the detachment of artificers at $18 per mo. For this he is entitled to receive 6/24 of the pay of such artificer being $216. So that he
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should receive as an artificer for 6 mo service $54 per ann; & as a private for 5 mo, $19.67 amounting to $73,67 per annum. Mr Ingraham told me, soon after my arrival home last spring, of the omission made in his first statement & the cause of it as he has now stated it in his new declaration. I know this man perfectly well & also his witness B Sweet; & do certify to you that they are both men of truth & their statements are entitled to full credit. Allen O Peck is the Clerk of the Municipal Court of this City & the papers are certified in his hand writing, & authenticated by the seal of that Court. I hope, therefore, that Mr Ingrahams pension will be increased according to the evidence herewith furnished 
I have the honor to be 
, Sir, 
with high respect 
Your 
Obt Sert
Tristam Burges
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T315. 3 Decr 2d.[?]
Decr 3. 1839.
Pension Office.

Dec 3-

Simeon Ingraham
RI roll[?] 1832
for increase

Hon. J.L. Tillinghast
H.R.
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Washington Novr. 30. 1839 
Sir,
The inclosed application of my very ancient townsman, Simeon Ingraham, was forwarded to me by Mr. Danforth, Collector of the Port of Providence, whose name is signed at the end of the accompanying certificate, with the names of four other gentlemen of the highest respectability, all personally known to me; two of whom, Col. Bowen & Mr. Wilkinson, were actively & honorably engaged in the war of the Revolution. I beg leave to add my testimony to theirs with regard to the entire Credit due to the declarations of Mr. Ingraham & to his excellent character; at the same time most earnestly recommending his application to your favorable consideration & decision.
and am with high respect your obt sert
Joseph L. Tillinghast

Hon. Mr. Poinsett.
Secy of War
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At McLeods Washington March 7th 1835 
Hon James L Edwards 
Sir, 
I yesterday recd by mail the inclosed certificate. My health prevented my sending it immediately to you & I send it to day that I may receive a new one according to your letter to me dated Decr 27th 1833. I cannot now enter into any discussion concerning the correctness of Mr Ingrahams declaration; but I will say if there be one honest man on the pension or any other roll that man is Simeon Ingraham. If health permit I shall leave on monday next. Do let me have the certificate this day. With high respects truly your obt sert 
Tristam Burges
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Payment to be made
at Providence R.I.
by the Presd. U.S. Br. Bk.
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of 
Rhode Island

Recorded by Jno Cromwell
Clerk, in Book D Vol. 3
Page 117.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Simeon Ingraham of the State of Rhode Island who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army

is entitled to receive Twenty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 8th day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned. 
J L Edwards