Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13147, Reuben Gilbert, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Gilbert, Reuben

NUMBER
S.13147

carded

CONTENTS
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27762

New York

Reuben Gilbert
of Livingston in the State of New York
who was a private in the com commanded 
by Captain, Anthony of the regt commanded
by _______ in the * ______
line for Eight months

27762
* Mass. Line.
Records completed. Jany 13/06. ss

Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of Marck, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Nov
1834 and Sent to J. G. Grover Springwater

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 34                  93.31
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 35 13.33

                                                                ______
                                                             $106.64
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

by Danl. Boyd Clerk.
E2   Vol. 4    Page 26
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State of New York
Livingston County ss

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County in the town of Springwater Reubin Gilbert who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he served in the revolutionary war with an embodied corps called into service by Compliant Authority that he was in the field or in garrison of which he has a distinct recollection a period not less than Eight months as a private soldier and for such service he claims a pension  
Reuben Gilbert

Sworn & subscribed this 22nd Day of May 1833 before me
Alvah Southworth Just Peace

State of New York
Livingston County} ss   I certify that Alvah Southworth before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof a legally authorized Justice of the Peace of said county.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name to the jurat of the said affidavit is his own proper hand writing & signature

Witness my hand and Seal of office at Geneseo this 13th day of June 1833
Chauncy R. Bond Clerk of 
Livingston County -
By S. G. Haven Dep Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832

State of New York}  
County of Livingston} ss

On this 28th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and general sessions of the Peace of said County now sitting Reubin Gilbert a resident of the town of Springwater in the County of Livingston in the State of New York Aged 76 years the 18th day of August last 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 dated June 7th 1832.  That in the month of April 1775 he volunteered his service to go out when an alarm just previous to the Battle of Lexington and marched immediately to Lexington was there in Captain Ithamar White's company.  from Lexington was marched to Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts near Boston there he enlisted in the month of April 1775 for Eight months & that his officers were Ensign Allen Lieutenant David Brewer Jun. (son of the (illegible) Chaplain John Packhard Maj Donaldson Lieutenant Col Rufus Putman Col David Brewer.  And that during the summer Col Brewer was discharged in consequence of sending Eight of his men to work on his farm  And in the mean time made regular returns of them as if in camp after this Col Rufus Putman took command was at Roxbury at the time of Bunker Hill Battle and remained at Roxbury the most of the time during the term of his enlistment & served out the period of his enlistment of Eight months & was duly discharged at Roxbury the 1st Day of January 1776 and that at the time he entered the service he resided in the town of Brookfield in the County of Worster in the State of Massachusetts & that the whole term in which he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war was eight months except some short tours on alarms  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 & year aforesaid in Open Court  S.G. Haven Dep Clk
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We Alvah Southworth Justice of the Peace & Salmon G. Grover residing in the town of Springwater in the County of Livingston in the State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reubin Gilbert who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy Six 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 subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court   S.G. Haven Dep Ck

Alvah Southworth
Salmon G. Grover

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations 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 Alvah Southworth is a Justice of the peace as states and that he and Salmon G. Grover reside in Conesus in said county and that their statement is entitled to credit - 

I Chauncey Bonds Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Session of the Peace of Livingston County in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reubin Gilbert for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of the said Court This 18 day of September 1832
Chauncey R. Bond Clerk
by S.G. Haven Dep clerk
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State of New York}
Levingston County} ss

On this 18th day of July AD 1836 personally appeared Thomas Gilbert of the town of Bristol, in the County of Ontario in the 73rd year of his age who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Reubin Gilbert of the town of Springwater is his brother and that in the year 1775 the said Reubin Gilbert then a resident of the town of Brookfield County of Woster (Worcester) in Massachusetts State volunteered as a Minute Man and that in the month of April he was called out when an alarm & went into the service in the Revolutionary War in Captain John Packhards company and that this deponant (deponent) understood that the said Reubin Gilbert was first called out at the Battle of Lexington and that in the month of July following this deponant (deponent) enlisted in the Continental Service & saw his brother the said Reubin Gilbert, in the army at Rocksbury (Roxbury) & knew that he the said Reubin continued in the service for the term of Eight months & that this deponant (deponent) has a distinct recollection of the services of his brother Reubin & is perfectly confident that the above statement is substantially true  
Thomas Gilbert

Sworn & subscribed before me
the day & year that above written
Alvah Southworth Just peace

Justice Certificate on the back of this deposition
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State of New York
Livingston County ss

I Chauncey R. Bond Clerk of the said county certify that Alvah Southworth before whom this written affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a legally authorized Justice of the Peace of said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name to the jurat of the said affidavit is his own proper hand writing and signature

Witness my hand and Seal of office at Geneseo this 13th day of June 1833
C.R. Bond Clerk
By S.G. Haven Dep Clerk

This may certify that I am partially acquainted with Thomas Gilbert the written named deponant (deponent) and have been for a number of years and should not hesitate to give my opinion that he is a credible witness having been acquainted with two of his Brothers intimately who now reside in this town who are entitled to implicit confidence in that respect on of when is the applicant Reubin Gilbert herein named
Alvah Southworth Just peace
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Mrs. K. B. Randoplh (Randolph),
305 South Fifteenth St.,
St. Joseph, Missouri.

Madam:

In response to a personal request on the first instant, you are advised that the papers in the claim of Reuben Gilbert, Survivor's File No. 13,147 Rev. War, show that he was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1832, at which time he resided at Springwater, Livingston County, New York, and stated that he was "seventy-six years of age the eighteenth of August last", and was a resident of Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, when he served in the Revolution as follows.

Volunteered just prior to the Lexington Alarm, in April 1775, in captain Ithamar Wright's company, Colonel David Brewer's regiment, and marched sixty miles to Lexington where they arrived two days after the battle; they then marched to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he enlisted for eight months in Captain John Packard's company, in the regiment commanded first by Colonel David Brewer and afterwards by Colonel Rufus Putnam, and continued under said officers until discharged from the service on January 1, 1776, at Roxbury, Mass.

Soldier's brother Thomas Gilbert of Bristol, Ontario County, New York, in the seventy-third year of his age in 1832, testified to Reuben's services.

There is no further family data on file in the claim.

Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev War

13147
INVALID.

File No. 13,147
Reuben Gilbert
Priv. Rev War

Act: June 7" 1832
Index: -   Vol. 1,     Page 142

[Arrangement of 1870]
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1918 Apl.2. Hist. to Mrs. K.B. Randolph. (c with a slash through it)

1927-Feb-25-Hist. to Mrs. Geo Hubbard, Jr. Mass

1937-May 24- Hist. to Mr. Gilbert Gusler - (illegible)
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Rev

Reuben Gilbert
New York
Suspended act 7 Jun '32

letter 6 nov. '33
to
S.G. Grov (Grover)
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Reubin Gilbert
14615

(check mark)

Rueben Gilbert (sideways)

(illegible) (sideways)

S.G. Grover Agent
Springwater Livingston
Co NY

Adm.
8 mo. pri
________
$26.66
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Secretary's Office, Decem. 8th 1833.

I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Reuben Gilbart (Gilbert), as a private, is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. John Packhard's Company, in Col David Brewer's Regt. where he is allowed from April 27th, to the first of August, 1775, for services and travel, three months and eleven (Ex'd. Mo.) days. _. ___     , ___  , ___  , ___ , ______ 3=11

Reuben Gilbert claims for further services under Capt. John Packhard, in '75, the rolls of which, are not found in this office, for 1775, after the1st of August.

Edward D Bangs. Secy
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free
Springwater NY
Oct 14                                                     

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Springwater Oct 14th 1834

Sir

I am aware that letters of enquiry on the subject of pensions are not generally welcomed with cheerfulness on account of the multiplicity of them thronging the department and many of them premature  For there is an apology the venerable fathers of the Revolution are now in the years of dotage and have become like children in a measure and it seems to be no sin to gratify their enquiries  I would therefore enquire in relation to Reubin Gilberts application he makes frequent calls and am as yet unable to communicate the result of his application to him and would thank you as early as convenient to make known to me the conclusion of the department in order that his mind may be relieved

Yours Very Respectfully
S.G. Grover

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
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NY - July 8,
free

Springwater NY
July 1

J.S. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Upside down at bottom of page:
Reuben Gilbert
(illegible)
(illegible)
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Springwater July 1st 1834

J. L. Edwards Eqr

Sir

I herewith send further Testimony in the case of Reubin Gilbert for a pension agreeable to the Act of Congress passed June 4th 1832 as soon as investigated please communicate the result to me

Yours Vary Respectfully
S G Grover
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State of New York}
Livingston County} ss

On this 24th day of June 1834 personally appeared Reubin Gilbert who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration supplemental to his original application for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he is now in the 78 year of his age and that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war served as follows according to the best of his recollection that just previous to the Battle of Lexington in the month of April 1775 he was called into the service as a minute man in Captain Ethemere (Ithamar) Wrights Company & that at the time he resided in Brookfield in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts  it being 60 miles from Lexington & that he did not arive (arrive) at Lexington untill (until) two days after the battle and marched to Roxbury and there enlisted for eight months in Captain John Packhards Company in Col David Brewers Regt that he served in Col Brewers Regiment about Three months and then Col Brewer was discharged from the service for mal conduct & that Col Rufus Putnam took command of the regiment & that he continued in Col Putmans Regiment 'till the first of January 1776 and was discharged at Roxbury and that her remained in said service as above stated Eight months actually
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engaged wither in the field or garrison for which Serice he claims a pension
Reuben Gilbert

Sworn & subscribed the day 
and year (illegible) above written 
Before me
Alvah Southworth Just peace

I so hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent and do consider his testimony entitled to implicit confidence
Alvah Southworth Just peace

(upside down figures);
5.52
   54
3.64
_____
9"70

State of New York
Livingston County ss
I certify that Alvah Southworth Esqr. before whom the within affidafit (affidavit) purports to have been sworn to and also whose signature appears to the above certificate of credibilitly was at the date, thereof a legally authorized Justice of the Peace of said county. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurat of the said affidafit (affidavit), and to said certificate is his own proper hand writing and signature
Witness may hand and Seal of office this 28th day of June 1834
Chauncey R. Bond Clerk
of Livingston County - 
By S.G. Haven. Dep clerk
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State of New York}
Steuben County} ss

On this the 14th day of June 1834 personally appeared Thomas Gilbert who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is Brother to Reubin Gilbert of the town of Springwater in the Country of Livingston and that he well recollects that his Brother Reuben Gilbert was a soldier in the revolutionary War from the forepart of April 1775 to the first of January 1776 that his brother Reubin Gilbert served the above named period in Captain John Packhards Compnay, first three months under Col David Brewer and the remainder of the term under Col Reufus (Rufus) Putnam.  And that his Brother Reubin Gilbert was stationed at Roxbury and its vicinity during the time above stated.  And that this deponant (deponent) was out a part of the time in said campaign in 1775 and after that enlisted for and during the war has a destinct (distinct) recollection of the service of his Brother the said Reubin Gilbert in the revolutionary war and knows that he served Eight months as above stated and that this deponant (deponent) and his Brother Reubin Gilbert resided at the Commencement of the revolutionary in the town of Brookfield in the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts 
Thomas Gilbert

Sworn and subscribed the day and
year first above written - before me 
Paul C. Cook Justice Peace

I certify that I am personally and well acquainted with Thomas Gilbert the above named deponant (deponent) and that he is a credible witness   Paul C. Cook
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State of New York,}
County of Steuben} ss

I William H. Bull, clerk of the said county, do certify, that Paul C. Cook Esquire, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn and by whom the written certificate purports to have been signed, was, at the date of the said affidavit, one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.  Witness my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of June 1834

Wm. H. Bull clerk
in his absence by 
Howell Bull D.C.
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Personal enquiry.
APL. 1, 1918

Mrs. K.B. Randolph,
#305 South 15th St.,
St Joseph, Mo.

Send through

Mrs. W. G. Lancaster
#1116 Columbia Rd.
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Rev

C/o The Corrugated Box Co.
Ashtabula, Ohio
Jan., 8, 1927.

U.S. Commissioners of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

I have been trying to find the Revolutionary War record of Reuben Gilbert, - born at Roxbury, Mass, enlisted at Brookfield, Mass, and died at Springwater, N.Y.

The Massachusett (Massachusetts) records show two Reuben Gilberts
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who both served as privates and enlisted at about the same time.

It has always been handed down that our ancestor was at Valley Forge with Washington.  The Massachusett (Massachusetts) records show no reference of service at Valley Forge, however.

I can't tell which of these Reuben Gilberts is my ancestor but thought perhaps if he had a pension it was sent to him at
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Springwater, N.Y., and that would help to tell.

Yours truly,
Mrs. George Hubbard Jr.


Stamp reads:

PENSION 
R 
U.   JAN   S.
10
1927
OFFICE
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stamp reads:

RECEIVED
MAY 20 1937
3 more lines (illegible)

Chicago, Ill., May 19, 1937

Veterans Administration
Bureau of Revolutionary War Pensioners,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: -

My ancestor Reuben Gilbert served in the Revolutionary War and I presume was a minute man April 19, 1775 for some days.  He was in regiments commanded by Colonel Brewer and Colonel Putnam.

Reuben Gilbert was born in Brookfield, Mass. 1756 and died in 1840 at Springfield, New York.  Received a pension for his service, but was unable to locate it in the printed volumes of pensioners.

Will you kindly send me a copy of same if it is shown of record, which I hope is true.

Thanking you, and I might say am much in need of it, owing to the fact that I am joining the S.A.R. and their drive closes June 1, 1937.

Sincerely, 
Gilbert Gusler

Gilbert Gusler,
#30 N. LaSalle Street, Room 1325,
Chicago, Ill.
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In reply to your request of _____, received ______ for a statement of the military history of Reuben Gilbert a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this bureau.  
S.13,147

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 
Apl. 1775

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
8 mos.

RANK.
blank

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Ithamar Wright
COLONEL.
David Brewer

STATE.
Mass.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 
marched to Roxbury & there enl. (enlisted)
disch (discharged) Jany 1, 1776 at Roxbury

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
blank.

RANK.
blank

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Packard
COLONEL.
Rufus Putnum

STATE.
blank

Battles engaged in, blank
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Brookfield. 
    Worcester Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 28,1832. 
   His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Springwater, 
   Livingston Co., NY.
Age at date of application, born Aug. 18, 1756

Remarks: blank

1832
    76
______
1756

Respectfully,

Commissioner.


6-285C
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MMHF
Rev.&1812 Wars Section


February 25, 1927

Mrs. George Hubbard, Jr.,
% The Corrugated Box Co.,
Ashtabula, Ohio

Madam:

      I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 13147 it appears that Reuben Gilbert was born August 18, 1758.
    While a resident of Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts he volunteered on an alarm to Lexington in April 1775, just before the battle at that place, in Captain Ithamar Wright's Massachusetts Company, and arrived two days after the battle,  then marched to Roxbury where he enlisted in April 1775 and served as a private in Captain John Packhard's Company, Colonels David Brewer's and Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1776.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1832 while a resident of Springwater, Livingston County, New York.  
     It is not started whether he was ever married.
                                        Respectfully, 
Bro. Was, in
Rev -          
                                        Winfield Scott
                                        Commissioner.
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May 24,1937.


Mr. Gilbert Gusler                                       BA-J/ILL
30 North LaSalle Street, Room 1325          Reuben Gilbert
Chicago, Illinois.                                         S.  13147

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of your ancestor, Reuben Gilbert, of Massachusetts, who received a pension.

      The data given herein were found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 13147, based upon the service of Reuben Gilbert in that war.

      Reuben Gilbert was born August 18, 1856; the place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

   While a resident of Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he volunteered in April 1775, just prior to the Lexington Alarm, as a minute-man in Captain Ithamar Wright's Massachusetts company, marched to Lexington and arrived two days after the battle there, marched on to Roxbury, enlisted and served as private in Captain John Packard's company,  Colonels David Brewer's and Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts regiments and continued until January 1, 1776.
  
    Reuben Gilbert was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1832, at which time he resided in Springwater, Livingston County, New York.  The soldier made no reference to wife or children.

    Thomas Gilbert, the soldier's brother was a resident of Bristol, Ontario County, New York, in 1832, aged seventy-two years.

    In order to obtain the day of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you
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should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
           Reuben Gilbert
           Certificate  #27762
           Issued November 3, 1834
           Rate $26.66 per annum
           Commenced March 4, 1831.
           Act of June 7, 1832.
           New York Agency.

              Very truly yours,

               A. D. Hiller,
               Executive Assistant
               to the Administrator.





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