Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12214, Benjamin Bissel, Conn.
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SERVICE   Conn.
Bissel, Benjamin
NUMBER   S. 12214
carded
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Vermont  No 28.199 
Benjamin Bissel 
of Addison Co in the State of Vermont who was a  private in the Compy commanded  by Captain --   of the Regt command by Col. Mason in the Connecticut line for six months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 20 Dollars -  Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Apl 1834 and S. Haight, Present 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834.    60.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 10 1834   10.00
$70.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 3 Page 55.
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State of Connecticut 
New London County 
Probate  Court District of Lebanon } Ss.  On this 14th day of December AD 1833 Personally appeared before the  Court of Probate in and for and said District Present Denison Wattles Judge  - holding said Court Benjamin Bennet of said District aged seventy two years on the 10th day of February next who having been duly sworn deposes and says that during the Revolutionary war he resided in that part of the town of Lebanon  then in the County of Windham  State of Connecticut formerly known and called Lebanon Crank since incorporated a town by the name of Columbia and amended to Tolland County that he was born, and brought up in said Lebanon Crank now Columbia - there was well acquainted with Benjamin Bissel who was born and brought up in said Lebanon Crank near this deponent and who now resides as this deponent believes in the town of Windham County of Addison and State of Vermont that on or about the first of June 1781 at said Lebanon Crank said Bissell together with this deponent and one other by the name Benjamin Wood now of Cincinnati Ohio were enlisted into the Continental Service by a recruiting officer whose name he has forgotten for the term of six months.  That they went to White Plains near New York by the way of Hartford and Danbury in Connecticut that that at White Plains this Deponent joined the Connecticut Line, Butler Regiment, 4th Company and thinks it was commanded by Captain Ten Eyck, that said Bissell there united with same Line Butlers Regiment and he thinks Porters company that they tarried some time at the Plains then marched to Peekskill on the North River
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that he does not recollect seen said Bissell after arriving at Peekskill till he saw him at the Highland Hills (so called) opposite West Point on the North River where said Bissel was discharged on the 18 of December 1781, but did not desert as this deponent understood was but [unreadable]  and returned to Connecticut where this deponent saw him in said Lebanon Crank but short time after this deponent having been discharged about a week after Bissell - that this deponent saw said Bissel in said Lebanon sometime Last September and knew him to be the same identical person above described as having enlisted as aforesaid with this deponent and understood from him that he resided in the town of Shoreham county of Addison and State of Vermont.  
Benjamin Bennet
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
The above named deponent was duly sworn and subscribed the foregoing deposition and [unreadable] to the Court and believed to be a man of truth and veracity 
I John Wattles Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do certify that the foregoing deposition duly taken sworn and subscribed before in the presence of said Court 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office and of said Court this 14 day of December 1833 
Attest John Wattles Clerk
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State of Vermont
Addison County Ss}  On this 11th day of January AD 1834. Personally appeared before me Silas H Jenison one of the Judges of Addison County Court Benjamin Bissel a resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Sixty Eight years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the [unreadable] declaration in addition to the declaration by him made before Addison County Court on the day of July 1832 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 that on the first day of June 1781 according to the best of his the said Benjaman Bissel recollection at a place called Lebanon Crank in the County of Windham and the Connecticut he enlisted into the Continental Service as a common Soldier for the term of six months under a recruiting in by the name of Bunson who was  a Lieutenant in the United States service and was mustered within the space of five or six days by Colo Mason at Lebanon - after his enlistment as aforesaid and that the time of two weeks from his enlistment he marched from Lebanon Crank aforesaid to the White Plains  near New York passing on his march through Hartford & Danbury and that on his arrival  at the White Plains he the said Benjamin Bissel joined Col Potters Company of Infantry in Colo Butler’s Regiment of the 4th Connecticut line, that he then continued to him in said company & regiment for term of one month during to the best of his recollection and then marched with said Company & Regiment to Peekskill so called in the State of New York and there remained two or three months, and from there, to Gallows Hill and from thence to the Highland Hills where he continued to serve in the company & Regiment.
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aforesaid until he was honorably discharged on the 18th day of December AD 1781, and that he received a written discharge signed by Colo Butler which discharge he has forwarded to the war department with his first declaration for a Pension in July 1832 as aforesaid.  Then immediately on his receiving his said discharge he marched home to Lebanon Crank aforesaid then he carried with him his said discharge and has ever since receiving said discharge had the same in his house until he forwarded the same to the war department as aforesaid and that he is the identical  Benjamin Bissel  who received the aforesaid discharge from Col Butler -  that he never did desert the Service of his Country but faithfully served the term of his said enlistment as aforesaid and that on his return home from the Service he drew rations from the Military stores and drew pay in his Service in part at Hartford in Connecticut in August 1782. That he the said Benjamin Bissel has no record of his age but has always been informed and verily believes that he was born at Lebanon Crank aforesaid on the 6th  day July 1764, that he lived in Lebanon Crank until Jany 1793 which time he moved from Lebanon Crank aforesaid said to Shoreham aforesaid where he has resided ever since  - from where the company to which the said Bissel belong at t Gallows hill there was a Soldier desserted from his Company by the name of Mitchel according to the Best of his recollection and that the residence of said Mitchel was then as the Benjamin Bissel then rendered at Horseneck. And the said Benjamin Bissel feather that according to his best recollection there was a
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soldier in the same Regiment with him of the name Benjamin Bissel and from the town of Lebanon Crank in Connecticut some years older than him the said Benjamin Bissel.
He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, and except the present & declares that his name is on the pension Roll of the agency of any State 
Benjamin Bissel
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Silas H. Jenison Judge of Addison County Court 
And the said Silas H Jenison do herby declare his opinion after investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories  presented by the war department that the [unreadable] applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and serveda s he States.
Silas H. Jenison Judge of Add. C. Court 
I  Silas H Jenison Judge of Addison County Court do hereby certify that the [unreadable] contains the signed proceedings  of the said Judge in the matter of the additional application of Benjamin Bissel for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 11th day of January AD 1834, 
Silas H. Jenison Judge Add. C. Court 
State of Vermont
Addison County SS} 
I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Silas H. Jenison, who has certified the foregoing proceedings, and before whom the foregoing affidavit Thomas Bissel was made, was at the time a Judge of the said Court, and his name Severally Subscribed thereto is his own signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 18th day of January 1834 
Saml Swift Clerk
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Benjamin Bissel
Connecticut
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Benjamin Bissell of the 4th Connt Regiment is heareby discharge from the service of the United States 
Zeb.  Butler Colonel
Connt Division
Given under my hand 
December 18 / 81 H. L. Butler
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B. Bissel
6 mo private
$20
S. Haight
Pres
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6 mo private
$20
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State of Vermont 
County of Addison Ss}  Be is known that  before me Silas H. Jenison one of the Judges of Addison County Court Personally appeared Thomas Bissell a resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison and state of Vermont aged Sixty four years who being duly sworn depose and say that he the said Thomas Bissell is the same identical Thomas Bissell  who made an affidavit in July 1832. which affidavit was as this deponent believes been forwarded  to the war department by Benjamin Bissell of Shoreham in his application for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, that he well recollects of the said Benjamin Bissell entering into the service of the United States on or about first day of June 1781 at Lebanon Crank in the state of Connecticut for the term of six month, and well  recollects of the said Benjamin Bissell [unreadable] from Lebanon Crank to Join the Army at White Plains – ant that he the said Thomas Bissell went with the said Benjamin Bissell about half a mile on the day he marched, which was on the Second [unreadable] in June according to the best of the recollection of the said Thomas Bissell.  And the said Thomas Bissell further says that the said Benjamin Bissell returned from the Army according to the best of the said Thomas Bissell’s Recollection in December 1781. And that was when he returned home he recollects that the said Benjamin Bissell brought with him a written discharge – and [unreadable] the said Benjamin Bissell who made his declaration for a pension in July 1832.  And also his said [unreadable] Declaration before Silas H. Jenison Judge of Addison County Court this 11th day of Jany 1834 is the same identical Benjamin Bissell that enlisted into the service of
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the United States in 1781 as aforesaid and that he the said Benjamin Bissell now resides in Shoreham aforesaid and further the said Thomas Bissell saith not.
Thomas Bissell
Sworn and subscribed before me this 11th day of January 1834 
Silas H. Jenison Judge 
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Thomas Bissell and that he is a credible witness.
Silas H. Jenison Judge of the Addison County Court
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Lebanon Ct. 183/4
Dec 16
Mr. Benjamin Bissell
Shoreham
Addison County
Vermont
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Declaration of
Benjamin Bissell
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Declaration The order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Vermont 
Addison County SS}  On the 3rd day July A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of Addison County Court in open court  Benjamin Bissel a resident of Shoreham in said county of Addison aged Sixty 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 7th 1832.   
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in June 1781 for six months and served in the fourth regiment of the Connecticut line - that he enlisted at Lebanon and was mustered by Col. Mason of Lebanon  that he joined the Army at White Plains Marched to Peekskill, from thence to Gallows Hill and Highland Huts where he was discharged and that the discharge [unreadable] the papers.   That he resided and enlisted in Lebanon Conn. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or  annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension all of the agency of any State 
Benjamin Bissel
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion in that the above named applicant was a
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revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the Court further certify that Thomas Bissell whose affidavit is herewith transmitted, is person of veracity and entitled to credit that said affidavit was sworn before a person having competent authority.
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Rev War 
12214 
OWN
INVALID. 
File No. 12,214 
Benjamin Bissel
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 1832 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 33 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Declaration of Benjamin Bissell
July 17 1832
Pension Office}
Benj’n Bissel
Capt Bradley May 1779 
3 years
Descerted 20 Nov 79
B. Bissel
Col Butler Rg 4 Jany 1781 [unreadable]  July 10 1781
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Addison County ss. 
I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application Benjamin Bissell for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 10th day of July A.D. 1832 
Edward D. Barber, Clerk
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I Thomas Bissell of Shoreham in the  County of Addison and State of Vermont of lawful age testify  and say that I am knowing that Benjamin Bissell of Shoreham an applicant for a pension at Lebanon Conn. enlisted as a soldier for six months in the war of the revolution in the Connecticut line and further the deponent says not 
Thomas Bissell 
Sworn to and subscribed Before me Dorastus Wooten  Justice Peace
Middlebury July 3d 1832