Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19164, Samuel Wiswall, Vt.
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SERVICE/  / NUMBER
Vt./ Wiswall, Samuel/ S. 19164
/  / carded
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3948
Vermont
Samuel Wiswall
of Windham Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Fisk of the Reg commanded
by Col. Fletcher in the Vermont
line for Private 8 mo $26.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of January
1833 and P. White Putney, V.t.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 - $39.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Mar 1837 13.33

$53.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk
Book D Vol. 4 Page 92
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No. 1533
Vermont
Suspended
Objs No. 16
P. White
Putney, Vt
26. Oct 32

P-10
Suspd. 4. Dec '32
Obj. 11, 12, 14, 16
Admitted 5 Jan. 33
Private 8 mo.
$26.66
P. White
Putney Vt.

P126.
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Brief in the case of Samuel Wiswall
Townsher, Windham Co in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
70 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period.
Sept. In 1778
Feby. 1782
Duration of Service.
Years Months Days.
2
6
8
Rank.
As a
Volunteer
Enlisted Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Safford, Maj Whitcomb
Capt Jonah Fish, Lt M. Johnson
Col. Fletcher, Geo Enos
Vermont Troops
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Townshead, Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By living witnesses -
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
they are not
I certify
that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned
Robe Fowler
Examining Clerk.
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Wiswall, Samuel
Windham County Vt
Samuel Wiswall Serv for Pensions August 4 1832
No 1533
Please to make return to P White
Putney Vt
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STATE OF VERMONT County of Windham ss. [] of [] At a Probate Court M[] at Townshend in com[] and District  on the [] of August AD 1832 [] a court of [] Seal [] clerk
Presiding Hon Peter R Taft Judge
On this seventh day of August A. D. 1832 - Personally appeared in open Court, Before the said Probate Court, within and or said District now sitting Samuel Wiswall a resident of the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged seventy 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 provision made by the Act of congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he served in the war of the Revolution as follows- about the first of September 1778 he volunteered and went a private service in the company of Capt. Safford and went to Rutland Vermont and joined a corps under major Whitcomb, Commandant and was stationed there to guard our frontier, and assisted in building a fort there that served [] two months and there was relieved by another man who came and took his place was then called the Vermont troops. And afterwards in the month of February 1782 he enlisted for the term of ten months in the company commanded by Capt Josiah Fisk and Lieut Moses Johnson and about the first of April next after went to Castleton on the West side of the Green Mountain and joined a Corps under the command of Lieut.  Col. Samuel Fletcher Commandant Brigadier Gen Amos was there a part of the time where he stayed and served with the troops in guarding and frontier, till first of September when one Amos Gray took his place and he came home to Townshynd Vt & returned again the first of October and remained till late in November when he was discharged at Castleton making in all six months and a few  days over according to his best recollection the last mentioned enlistment . The last mentioned service was with the Vermont troops.
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. To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers, upon his said oath, as follows: 
1.  Born in Worcester Mass in the year 1761
2. knew no record of his age it may be recorded at said Worcester
3. that he has lived in said Townshend since the Revolutionary War broke out
4. he has already []
5. already []
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6. did not
7. Joseph Dunton Amos Gray Saml Wiswall
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Peter R. Taft Judge
We Joseph Dunton, residing in the town of Townshend in said County and Amos Gray of Townshend in said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Wiswall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribe, the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Dunton
Amos Gray
Peter R. Saft Judge
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 Joseph Dunton who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said town of Townshend and that Amos Gray who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Townshend in said county, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit with that there is no other clergyman in said County of Townshend except one occasionally there. 
Peter R. Taft, Judge
I am Regis C. Clerk & Register of the Probate Court, withing and for the District of Westminster aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Wiswall; for a a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this sixth
day of August A.D. 1832
A. Teyer
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COPY.

L.M.H. June 29, 1906.

Mr. B. P. Benton,
Delaware, Ohio.

Sir:-

In reply to your communication dated the 23rd instant, received on the 28th, you are advised that from the papers in claim, Survivor's File, No. 19,164, it appears that Samuel Wiswall was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1761, volunteered September 1, 1778, as Private in Captain Safford's company, Maj. Whitcomb's Corps of Vermont troops, and served two months; enlisted in February 1781, in Captain Josiah Fish's company, Col. Samuel Fletcher's regiment Vermont troops and served six months and a few days.

He was allowed pension on an application executed August 7, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Townshend, Windham county, Vermont, where he had lived since the commencement of the Revolutionary War.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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The affidavit of Joel Knight of Dummerston in the county of Windham and State of Vermont aged Seventy years and upwards who testifies and says that he was a musician in a company commanded by Capt Josiah Fish and Lieut Moses Johnson and Samuel Fletcher then of [illegible] in said state was colony of said regiment that he listed into said company some time in the month of March 1781 and that he served ten months in said Company and was stationed at Castleton which was then on the frontier of Vermont and that he was well acquainted with Samuel Wissel of Townshend in said Vermont and that the said Wissel served in said company as a private most of the aforesaid time - he further says that he was not interested in what he has above stated.
Joel Knight

State of Vermont
Windham County/SS
Townshend July 25 1832 When the said Joel Knight personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subsended contained the whole truth + nothing but the truth. I further say that the connection of the said Joel Knight for truth is good and in my opinion has no intent in what he has testified.
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerks Office
New Fane August 13. A.D. 1832
I certify that Asa Knight, Esquire,
is one of the Justices of the Peace
within and for the County of Windham
aforesaid, and that the within is his signature
in testimony
whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of said County Court on the
day and year above written
James Elliot, Clerk.
The affidavit of Joel Knight
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19164
INVALID.
File No. 19 164
Samuel Wiswall
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 3
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 422
{Arrangement of 1870.}
1906 June 29. History to
B. P. Benton - c
1912 Dec. 26. Alice W. Wood
1914 Feb. 28. To Mrs. E. C. Hills
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I Amos Gray of Townshend in the County of 
of Windham and State of Vermont  
aged 71 - who testify and say that
in the year 1781 I was knowing the
Samuel Wiswall then and now of said
Townshend and early in the spring of that
year entered into the service of the United States
in the Vermont State troops under
Capt Josiah Fish Leunt Allan Johnson 
& Col. Samuel Fletcher that same we
usual services as he understood
till late in the autumn excepting 
one month in September as he thinks
that this deponent took his place
August 7 1832
Amos Gray
State of Vermont
Windham County Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of August AD 1832
Before me Chas Keyse 2nd Justice of the frm
I certify that said Gray is a man of truth & veracity whose testimony full faith & credit ought to be given. 
Chas Keyes 2nd Justice of the Peace
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Ames Grange Affidavit
in favor of Samuel Wiswall
State of Vermont
District of Westminster
Windham County }
I Asa Keyes Clerk & Register of
the Probate Court in for said
that certify that Asa Keyes
who has certified the within oath the
Amos Gray, was on the 7th day of
August 1882 & still is a Justice of the
peace and for said County and seals
qualified in said capacity so not [ ]
there I well know his hand writing
that the within signature purporting
to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand & the said of said Probate
court this 20th day of December
A D 1892
Asa Keyes [ ]
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The affidavit of Asa Dutton, aged seventy one years, of Dummerston in
the County of Windham and State of Vermont, who testifies and says that in
the summer of 1778 he was a revolutionary soldier in the company commanded by Capt.
Safford in the Regiment commanded by Major or Col. Whitcomb and was stationed at
Rutland Vt. in the Vermont troops, and that he was well acquainted with Samuel Wiswall [ ]
of Townsend in the County aforesaid, who was a soldier and him in the same
company & Regiment, and frequently was with said Wiswall, but does not recollect
how long said Wiswall was there, but according to his best recollection he must
have been the
nearly there months
Ansa Dutton
State of Vermont
Windham County ⎬ Augt 10th 1832 Subscribed & sworn to
Before me Phineas White Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that the above named Asa Dutton
is a man of undoubted truth veracity Phineas White Justice of Peace
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Asa Dutton
Affidavit in favor
of Saml Wiswall

State of Vermont ⎬ 
Windham County
District of Westminster

ment
I Asa Keyes 2d Clerk & Register of the probate Court with 
for said District as certify that Phineas White
who has certified the within oath to Asa Dutton
soon on the 11th day of Aug 1882 still is a justice of the peace in & for said County legally qualified to act in said capacity & that I were
know his hand writing, that the signature
within purporting to be his is his genuine
signature - In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & seal of said Court
this 20th day of December AD 1832
Asa Keyes [ ]
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3 -- 082.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Rev. War
Application No. F 19, 164 
Certificate No. 3948
NAME OF SOLDIER.
Same Wiswall
Co. Revolution War
INFORMATION DESIRED.
Mr Bryant
Chef O.W. & N. DIV.
Mr Benton who
is Secretary to Hon R D Cole
desires some more
Revolutionary, war information. Can you have
a letter addressed to him as requested.
J L Davenport for Dep Comm

O.W. & N. DIV
JUN
28
1906
FILES
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PENSION OFFICE FEB 19 1914
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
Have you in your records,
the names of Thomas Ballard
Saratoga Dist. N.Y., Samuel Wiswell,
of New York, or Vermont, or possibly
New Hampshire, and the name of
John Swarthout? If so will you
please give me their war records.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. E. C. Hills
12 College Place
Colorado Springs
Feb. 15, 1914
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FIFTY - NINTH CONGRESS
EDWARD L. HAMILTON, MICH. CHAIRMAN.
ABRAHAM L. BRICK, IND.
ADIN S. CAPRON. R.I.
GEORGE W. SOUTHWICK, N. Y.
LLEWELYN POWERS, M.E.
AMES McKINNNEY, ILL.
RALPH D.COLE, OHIO
EDWIN W. HIGGINS, CONN.
JOHN M. REVNOLOS. PA.
FRANKS. KLEPPER, MO.
JOHN A. MOON. TENN.
CHARLES C. REID. ARK.
JAMES T. LLYOD, MO.
JACK BEAAL, TEX.
EDWIN Y. WESS. N. C.
AUGUSTUS O. STANLEY, KY.
BIRD S. McGUIRE, OKLA.
MARCUS A. SMITH. ARIZ.
WILLIAM H. ANDREWS, N. MEX.
JOHAN K. KALANIANAOLE, HAWAII
T.C. HANCE CLERK.

Committee on the Territories,
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
June 23rd, 1906.
Mr. Jacob Foster,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Foster: May I ask another favor of you in addition to the
several received at your hands during the session? Look up and write
me the record of Samuel Wiswall, a Revolutionary soldier from Vermont.
Address me at Delaware, Ohio.
with kindest regards, I remain,
Very truly yours,
B. P. Benton
Secretary.
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Ballston Spa. N. Y. Dec. 16, 1912
J. L. Davenport Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir:
Kindly send me copy of the pension papers of Samuel Wiswall or Wiswell.
He enlisted about 1780 and served under Nathaniel Blanchard in Colonel
Allens Regiment of Vermont.
Yours very truly
Alice W. Wood
II East High Street
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O. W. and N. Division
ISle.
Sur. File 19.164
Rev. Mar.

3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Samuel Wiswall, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's - THIS PORTION HAS BEEN CROSSED OFF) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENTS.
Sept. 1. 78
Feby. 81
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
2 mos.
6 mos.
RANK
Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Captain.
Safford
Josiah Fish
Colonel.
Maj. Whitcomb
Col. Sanil Fletcher
STATE
Vt.
Vt.
Battles engaged in, _____________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Townshend, Vt
Date of application for pension, Aug 7 1832: his claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Townshend, Windham Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, B. Worcester Mass 1761
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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