Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,755, for Daniel Shed, [Blank]
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(3—1776)

Shed, Daniel

SERVICE
[blank]

NUMBER
S. 37,755.

CONTENTS
This Envelope Includes
FINALY PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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W. 254
16254

Indiana
R

Daniel Shed
of Dearborn County in the state of Indiana
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel [illegible] of the New Hampshire
line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 2d. of October, 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th Decr 1819
and sent to Hon Mr Hendricks
[illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 1820 $40.77
Semi-anl [illegible] ending
5 mo. 3/30.
$40.77

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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AGENTS OFFICE, CORYDON, Septr, 6th 1822

Received of Thomas Posey, Agent forty — Dollars
and fifty — Cents, being for [illegible] month and
two days. Pension due [illegible]
from the 2 October, 1817 to. the 4 March [illegible]

40 55/100 Dolls.

Signed duplicate Receipts.
John Whitemer Attorney for 
Lucy Shed admnr of the estate of, Daniel Shed dec
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Daniel Shed
evidence of Claim
to a pension —
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The State of Indiana
Dearborn County } Set.

On this 2nd day of October 1819, before me the subscriber and the Associate Judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court personally appears Daniel She, aged Seventy years last April resident 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 Daniel Shed enlisted in Brookline formerly called Rabi in the State of New Hampshire

That he first attached to the company commanded by Captain Fry that he first Col. by whom he was commanded was Col Baldwin. That he was afterwards commanded by another Col. whose name he does not recollect That the date of his enlistment was the Spring of 1778 That he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States for more than one year Then next [illegible] when he was discharged from service at West Point —

That he was in the battles of Bunker Hill & Bennington & that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his [illegible] of his said services and the said Daniel Shed further states that he was at other things engaged in the servie of the United States during the revolutionary war

Daniel Shed

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
John Livingston A.D. D.C
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I John Livingston Associate Judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Daniel Shed did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy - that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his county for support & I now transmit the proceedings and testimony [illegible] & had before me to the secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress 

John Livingston AJ D C.C.

2nd of October 1819


State of Indiana
Dearborn County } sct

I, James Dill Clerk of the Dearborn Circuit Court do hereby certify that John Livingston Esquire before whom t he foregoing affidavit of Daniel Shad was taken (and who has certified the same) was at the date thereof and now is an associate Judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court in and for said County of Dearborn and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed. the seal of said Court at Lawrenceburgh this 4th day of October AD 1819.

James Dill Clerk
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Know all men by these Present that I Lucy Shed administratrix of all [illegible] goods chattels and credits which were of Daniel Shed Late [illegible] pensioner of the United States doo hereby construct and appoint John [illegible] of the State of Indiana my true and lawful attorney for men and in my name as administratrix of said Daniel Shed decd to receive [illegible] the Pension agent at Corydon and the [illegible] of [illegible] husband from the 2nd day of 1819 until [illegible] 10th day of April 1820 the day on which my said husband [illegible] witness my hand and seal this 9th day of July 1822

Lucy Shed

Witness
Henry Smith
Jonas [illegible]



State of Indiana
Ripley County } Set

Be it known that on the 9th day of July 1822 Before me [illegible] Justice of Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Lucy Shed & administratrix of [illegible] and [illegible] good chattel credit and effects of Daniel Shed above signed  and hereunto se[illegible]t my hand and seal this day and year last [illegible]

John Livingtston JP [illegible]



State of Indiana
Ripley County } Set

Be it remembered that on the 9th Day of July [illegible] before me John Livingston Justice of Peace [illegible] the [illegible] herself appears Lucy Shed administratrix of [illegible] above named [illegible] signed on the [illegible]

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year last subscribed

John Livingston JP [illegible]


State of Indiana
Ripley County } Set

Be it remembered that on the 9th day of July 1822 before me, John Livingston Justice of Peace [illegible] the  afore [illegible] said personally appears Lucy Shed administratrix of [illegible] her [illegible] above named [illegible] said late of [illegible] 
[illegible] The [illegible]

[illegible] of which the following is a copy to wit 
[illegible] certify that in conformity with the law of. the [illegible]
Daniel Shed a Private in the Army of the Revolution inscribed on the Pension Rolls of the Indiana Agency at the rate of [illegible] months is [illegible] October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen given at the [illegible]
said husband inlisted [illegible] during the Revolutionary War that she is a [illegible] Pension and that has [illegible] April 10th

Lucy Shed

Subscribed to before me a Justice of the Peace
9th [illegible] 1822
John Livingston [illegible]
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State of Indiana
Ripley County } Sct

I Conrad Overtness Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court in the third Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana do hereby certify that John Lindsay Esq before whom the within [illegible] were taken and [illegible] and at that time and [illegible] Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts of such given under my hand and seal of office at Versailles
this 6th day of August AD 1822
Conrad Overtness Clerk RCC


FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
A F/eel


December 10, 1929



Mabel A. Genung, M.D.
P.O. Box 1105
San Francisco, California

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.36755, it appears that Daniel Shed was born in April, 1749, place not stated.

He enlisted in Brookline, New Hampshire, in the spring of 1778, and served more than one year in Captain Frye's Company, Colonel Baldwin's New Hampshire Regiment.

He also stated that he was in the battles of Bunker Hill and Bennington, no details of this service given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2, 1819, at which time he was living in Dearborn County, Indiana.

There are no data as to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Daniel She, S.36755, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:

Daniel Shed, Certificate No.16254, issued December 13, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced October 9, 1819, Act of March 18, 1818, Indianan Agency.

Very truly yours,

R. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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36755
Revy INVALID.

File No. 36,755
Daniel Shed
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 372

[Arrangement of 1870.]


1929 Dec. 10 First to Mabel A Genuny Acc
1936 - Feb. 20 : "   "  Mrs. W.B. Penurardsen Acc
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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48
16
  3.25
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67..25


III


31
24
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  711 
  9.11


48
24
2.75
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$74.75
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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arrears
Daniel Shed
$40.50



[illegible]
2nd In [illegible]
Box 2
Chalk 321
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Letter of Administration
Lucy Shed
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State of Indiana
Dearborn County } sch


The State of Indiana to wit who
Shall see the [illegible] presents

Whereas Daniel Shed late of the County of Dearborn in the State State of Indiana has lately decease Intestate as it is said saving whilst living And at the time of his death having good Character and Credits the administering and the final allowing the accounting thereof doth of right belong to the probate Court or court for the settlement of intestates stated in the said County of Dearborn and the said Court being willing that the same shall be well and faithfully administered according to law - Have Constituted and appointed and do by these presents Constitute and appoint Lucy Shed of the said County of Dearborn to be execu[illegible] all and singular the goods Chattel and Credits which were of the said deceased Daniel Shed - at the time of his death hereby with orizing and empowering the said Lucy Shed - to use for recover and receive all debts which to this said deceased at the time of his death were due, to pay all debts which the said [continued]
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[continued] deceased at the time of his death were due to pay all debts which the said deceased did justly owe so far forth as the assets of the said deceased will thereto contend or to law allow, and generally to do [illegible] and perform according to law all such acts as an administrator can or might or ought to so in or about the Settlement of said estate and to make a just and true account of his said administration as the law directs.

DEARBORN CIRCUIT COURT
[seal of court affixed]

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court a Lawrenceburgh this 14th day of June AD 1820

James Dell, Clk

PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
[stamp]
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Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will
be made on the 4th of March 
next, in [illegible] by the
[illegible]
[illegible]
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War Department

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United 
States, of the 18th March, 1818.

Daniel Shed late a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the Indiana
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com-
mence on the second day of [illegible] one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen [illegible]

GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this thirteenth day of
December one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.

C Vanderveter
Acting Secretary of War.
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
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H.25 H
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Proof of the
Decease of
Daniel Shed

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
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State of Indiana
Dearborn County } at Caesar Creek Township

Be it remembered that in the hereby [illegible] I say at August 1820 then before me John York one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Dearborn and State of Indiana personally  [Nathaniel Wright and Lenart B Huston] both of this county and state aforesaid on being duly sworn, saith of their [illegible] himself [illegible] home [illegible], that they [illegible] in, and attended at the funeral and [illegible] Daniel Shed late of this said County of Dearborn and Indiana [illegible] twelfth day of April in the present year - that they did [illegible], or [illegible] present at the death of the said Daniel Shed, but never gave reason to believe [illegible] [illegible] this life on the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 1820

Nathaniel Wright
Lenart B Huston

Sworn and subscribed to before me by the above named 
Nathaniel Wright
Lenart B Huston
this 23 day of August 1826

John York Jus Pe
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State of Indiana 
Dearborn County } [illegible]

I, James Dill Clerk of the Dearborn district Court in the State of Indiana do certify that John Lyons before whom the within named persons were sworn and subscribed [illegible] their depositions was at the time thereof and now is Justice of Peace [illegible] that the said County of Dearborn his [illegible] 

[seal affixed]
DEARBOR CIRCUIT COURT

In witness whereof 
I have hereunto 
affixed the seal of our Said Court 
he 30th of August 1826

James Dill Clerk



Proof of the 
Decease of
Daniel Shed


FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
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5230 S.E. Taggart Ct
Portland Ore.
Feb. 4, 1936


Veterans Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

May I have [illegible] the war record of my ancestor Daniel  Shead who served in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution.

Thank You I
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[I] am

Very truly
Mrs. W.B. Lenwarden
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P.O. Box 1105, San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 24, '29

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Will you please forward all information you have about Daniel Shedd (?) who applied for a pension Dearborn Co., Ind. in 1817.

His Revolutionary service was in New Hampshire. Have you the name of his wife or any of his children? Or his place of residence.

Thank you very much for  this information for the Genealogical Society of Calif. & to enable me to join the D.A.R.'s 

Mabel A. Genung, (M.D.)

(Mabel A. Genung)
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February 20, 1936

Daniel Shed-S.36755
BA-J/AWF



Mrs. W. B. Penwarden
5230 S. E. Taggart Court
Fortland, Oregon

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of your ancestor, Daniel Shead who served in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, War of the Revolution.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 36755, based upon the service of Daniel shed in the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the only Daniel Shed (surname searched under various spellings) who served with the New Hampshire troops, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Daniel Shed was born in the month of April, 1749, place not stated, nor are the names of his parents given.

He enlisted in Brookline "formerly called Rabi" in New Hamsphire, served in Captain Frye's company and in Colonel Baldwin's New Hampshire Regiment, was in the battles of Bunker Hill and Bennington, length of this service not stated. He enlisted in the spring of 1778, served are than one year in Captain Frye's Company, Colonel Scammell's New Hampshire Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2, 1819, at which time he was living [continued]
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in Dearborn County, Indiana.

The papers in this claim contain no reference to the family of the soldier, Daniel Shed.

If you desire information in regard to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Copptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following:

Daniel Shed
Certificate # 16254
Issued December 13, 1819
Date $8.00 per month
To commence October 2, 1819
Act of March 18, 1818
Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator