Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15610, for James Ransom, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.    
Ransom, James    
NUMBER
S. 15610
                                            carded
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Connecticut 22.522
James Ransom
of New [unk] in the State of Connt who was a private in the Co commanded by Captain Harris of the Regt commanded by Col Troop in the Connt line for six months.

23.180
Inscribed on the Roll of Connect. at the rate of 20 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Sep. 1833 and sent to Henry M Waite, Lyme, Ct.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833  50.00
Semi-annl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34  10.00
                                 --------------------
                                           $60.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7th, 1832}

Recorded by Wm R Palmer Clerk.
Book E, Vol. three, Page 38

letter to J. Dodd Pagt. & S.H. Parsons, Nov 11 1834-
Letter to P Hale 28 June 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from the 4 Sept 1836 to the 4 Sept 1837-agent notified 10 Sept 1838
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James Ransom's
Application for a Pension

Terms of service 6 months
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State of Connecticut
County of New London
Probate District of Lyme} ss. Lyne

On this 11 day of March AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Lyme in the county of New London and state of Connecticut, now sitting, James Ransom a resident of the town of Salem in the county of New London and state of Connecticut, aged 71 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.

That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated-

1. As near as I can now recollect in the latter part of the month of December 1776, I enlisted as a private into Captain Nathaniel Harris' company, in Colonel Ryan Thorp's regiment for the term of two months and continued to serve in said company the whole period of two months. My father James Ransom, then of Colchester in said and said county, was a Lieutenant of said company, and the principle reason why I enlisted at that time, viz. that I might serve as my father's waiter; and I served the two months in that capacity. Nathaniel Foot of said Colchester was the Ensign of said Company- Elijah Treadway, Clark Mc Carty and Bliss Ransom all of said Colchester were sergeants in said company. My father and myself and the whole company belonged to said Colchester. The company was ordered out by authority of the State of Connecticut
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for the defense of what was the city of New London, and continued to serve in said city the whole two months- The head quarters of our company was at a house near the Long Bridge, then so called, in New London- our company was marched from Colchester to New London and there served their tour of two months . My father had been an officer at Roxbury the first year of the war, and served there about seven months. He was at that time a first Lieutenant, and General Henry Champion now of Colchester, was the second Lieutenant of Capt Well's company, in the Regiment command I think, but am not positive, by Colonel Wyllys. In the second year of the war, my father was a Lieutenant of a company at New York and in the absence of Capt Jones had the command of the company I should think as much as three months .I believe that General Spencer had command of the brigade to which my father belonged. After his return from New York he went with the Militia company commanded by Capt Harris and took me with him as his waiter. I was then about fifteen years old. All the officers of the company are dead and I do not recollect a single member of our company now living. I have made enquiries and cannot find a single one now living. Solomon Scovel of said Colchester was living at the time when the law was passed and I went to see him upon the subject, but he was absent from home. Before I had an opportunity of going again he died. His son
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I believe obtains his pension- [unk] for that service with others I am unable to say. I am therefore unable to obtain any evidence of this term of service. I was discharged at the end of the two months by Captain Harris at New London, with the rest of the company.

At the time when New London was burnt, I belonged to a company of Militia commanded by Captain Jones in Colonel Throops Regiment, shortly after the burning of New London, which was on the 6th day of September 1781, I was drafted to serve a period of two months at New London. I was a private when I was drafted and served the two months in Captain Joshua Raymond's company in Colonel John Perkin's Regiment. I believe Colonel Elias Worthington of Colchester had the command of the Regiment and was the superior officer but Colonel Gershen has command of the garrison at New London- Bliss Raman of Colchester was a sergeant of the company, Thomas Galez of East Haddam was another sergeant, Joshua Raymond had the command of our company, and whether he was at that a captain or only a Lieutenant, I am unable to say. I joined the company at New London as near as I can now recollect on the month of November 1781, not am unable to state the day of the month. The town of New London had been burnt up, and the Jarez stationed there were small. All the officers of the company
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are dead and I cannot upon enquiry said that a single member of the company is now living. I was discharged at the end of the two months by Captain Raymond at New London. The company was served out nu authority of the State of Connecticut for the defense of New London. We were stationed and served at Fort Trumbull in New London.  I was in actual service as a private in said company the whole two months and was discharged in the month of January 1782. I know of no living witness of this service.

Shortly after this service and as near as I can now recollect, on the first of [unk[ 1782, the militia were again ordered out to New London. Captain Jinez company to which I belonged was among the number ordered out in service there. After our arrival at New London, a portion of the militia was detached to remain there and assist in building a fort upon the Miller Hill near the city of New London. It was supposed that a fort there would command fort Trumbull in care if should be taken by the enemy. A portion of the militia was relative for that purpose and to act as a guard for that part of the state of Connecticut. I was at that time drafted for the time of two months & served there the two months in Captain Martin Kellogg's company in the re-
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giment commanded I think by Colonel Elias Worthington, Joshua Morgan of Colchester and Daniel Morgan were two of the sergeants of the company. Our company served there according to my best recollection in the months of April & May of the year 1782, and I well recollect that I served there at that time two months. The officers and all the members of said company that I can recollect are dead and I know of no living witness of this service.

I was born in the town of Colchester in said county of New London, on the 17th day of November 1761. My age is recorded I believe in the records of the said town of Colchester. I lived in the town of Colchester from the time of my birth until I was 24 years old, and then removed into the town of Lyme, where I continued to reside until about ten years ago, when that part of Lyme in whhich I resided with parts in the towns of Colchester and Montville  & more turned into a new town by the name of Salem. I continued to live in said Salem until about two years ago when having lost my wife, I went to Stafford in the county of [unk] and state of New York
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and there resided for [unk] with my children last fall & returned to Salem aforesaid where we not live. I lived in Colchester aforesaid during the whole of the revolutionary war and at the [unk] [unk] when I entered the service of my Country as above mentioned, I served in the whole six months as a private  and for that service I claim a pension, and I enlisted and served & was drafted. At each period I served two months. I was never in any battle nor did I serve with any officers or body of men of the United States army & I never received any written discharge and have no documentary evidence of my service. I was never marched through any places except  Colchester to New London, & I have made diligent enquiry for witnesses of my service and can find none and knows of no one who can testify to my service. I believe there is but one person in Salem who served in the militia during the Revolutionary War and that herein did not serve with one. I recollect no other officers than there I have named. I am known to nearly all the inhabitants of the town of Lyme, Colchester, and Salem, particularly General Henry Chambine, Hon Chas J Wandy, & Henry Perkins Esq who can all testify to my character for veracity and the belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not ont he pension roll of the agency of any state.

James Ransom

Sworn to and subscribed the say and year aforesaid.

We Eli Hyde a clergyman residing in the town of Salem in the county of New London and state of Connecticut, and Vince Stoddard residing in the same town of Salem hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Ransom who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 71 years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution , and that we concur in that opinion.

Eli Hyde
Vince Stoddard

Sworn and subscribed the say & year aforesaid.

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 t appears to them that Eli Hyde who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Salem aforesaid, and that Vince Stoddard who has also singed the same is a resident in the same town of Salem.
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and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Joel Loomis Judge of sd Court

I Joshua R Warren Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Lyme do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Ransom for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 11th day of March AD 1833.

Joshua R Warren Clerk
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23180
22522
James Ransom
Ct.
adm. 6 months
$20.00




Henry M Waite
Lyme
Ct.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rule; and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (this: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigations of your claim.

A STATEMENT, showing the Service of James Ransom on New London Co Ct.

Period when the service was rendered: enlisted Dec '76
Duration of claimant's service: 2 months
Rank of claimant:  as waiter
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served: Capt Harris
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers: Col Throop
Battles in which the applicant was engaged:
Country through which he marched: Stuby
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at present period: 71 Colchester Ct.
Evidence by which the declarants supported: Trady.

Period when the service was rendered: [unk] '81
Duration of the claimant's service: 2 months
Rank of claimant: "
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served: Capt Ransom
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers: Col Deshon
Battles in which the applicant was engaged:
Country through which he marched: "
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at present period: 
Evidence by which the declarants supported:

Period when the service was rendered: drafted Apl '82
Duration of the claimant's service: 2 months
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served: Capt Kellogg
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers: Col Worthington
Battles in which the applicant was engaged:
Country through which he marched:
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at present period: "
Evidence by which the declarants supported:

I am respectfully, your obedient servant,

J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian spies

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicants resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of}
County of } ss.

On this    day of    personally appeared (a) before     A.B. a resident (b)of    in the county of    and State, Territory or District of    aged (c)    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 the year (d)     , with    and served in the    (e) regiment of the    line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. *This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that f the Agency in the State of     
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                of the Court of                 do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application os                   for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this   day of   &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof iin his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person.

The declarant would not as a waiter be such due to the benefits of the act, enlisted & allowances and [unk] from the [unk] to perform that service, his [unk] his form and of military duty.
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3.
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts state I will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted: and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of the case.  
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State Troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services
6. (To a Soldier) Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
(To an Officer) Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Ccourt by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of th epeace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk  of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from diong so by reason of bodily infirmity; to which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance;
(b) The declarant must make his declarations in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) the declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot me had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c, a. b. who, being duly sworn, deposed and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of recollection, he served not less that the periods mentioned below,and in the following grades: - For --- year ----months, and ---days, I served as a ------. For -----months and -----days, I served as a -------; and for such service I claim a pension "
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. the use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia & e. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting of their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement and the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by empowered authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always requiredl
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) the Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has any seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any papers from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment , company, and the time to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
The notes from (a) to (j) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops.  The proof required by rule on note (i) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written and sent to the War Department with the declaration.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. James Ransom

[column headings]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | 
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | 
RANK. | 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. |
STATE. |
Dec 1776 | [?] mos. | [?] | Captain Nathaniel Harris, Captain Jones, Colonel Dyan Throop | Conn.
Nov 1781 | Jany 1782 | ~~ | Captain Joshua Raymond, Colonel Elias Worthington | ~~
Apr 1782 | 2 mos | ~~ | Captain Martin Kellogg, Colonel Elias Worthington | ~~

[illegible] first service soldier was a waiter for his father James Ransom who was Lieut of the company.

Battles engaged in, ~
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Colchester, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Mar 11, 1833, his clm was al.
Residence at date of application, Salem, Conn, [illegible]
Age at date of application, born in Colchester, New London Co, Conn Oct 17, 1761
Remarks: wife and children referred to, the 6 daughters [illegible] soldier [illegible] no names stated.
[illegible] length of the Rev War pension recorded [illegible] in the name of James Ranson that I have she was described above.
Very respectfully
Commissioner.
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15.610
Invalid
File No. 15,610
James Ransom
Pri. Rev. War
Act: June 7” 32
Index:-Vol. 1 , Page 310
[Arrangement of 1870)
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1907 Now is Hist to A E Person VLA
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The papers appear to have been executed on the 1st or 10th day of March 1834. [illegible]
The signatures of Chs. M. Randle Just of Peace & of James Ransom the Pension compare exactly as to ink &c with those on the other side dated 18th September 1834.
J. Dodd
3 Oct 1834

Farmer & Merchant Bank
Hartford CT
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Lynn July 17 AD 1833
Hon J.L. Edward
Sir
The papers of James Ransom are herewith returned, with the explanations required-
Respectfully
Yours &c
Henry M. Walter
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller’s Office
Sept. 3, 1830
Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” James Ransom, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and ____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at his Department, from the 4th of September. 1836 to the 4th Sept. 1837. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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Hartford Nov. 3, 1834
Sir
James Random, whose pension papers are enclosed resides in the State of New York about 400 miles from this City. He was transferred from the Connecticut to the New York agency to take effect from March 4 1834 and forwarded to me the enclosed power to draw his pension to last March. I presented the papers to Mr. Dodd, President of the Farmers + Merchant’s Bank in this City for payment which he declined, because the oath of fidelity was executed in March + the power in September 1834, and that the signatures of the Justice & of the pensioner in September compare as to ink with their signatures in March! 
The objections are considered untenable, in as much as the papers were executed (18 March 1834) after the pensions became due, + the regulations say nothing about signing with the same or different ink. I submit the papers to your inspection with the memorandum of Mr. Dodd and a letter from Mr. Pomeroy Hall, a very respectable gentleman, this State from whence the documents. The pensioner lives at a great distance & to obtain new papers would be attended with much inconvenience & expense. I hope therefore instructions will be given by you on the documents to pay the same without further delay, please return the papers to me or Mr. Pomeroy Hall, New Salem Cont.
Very respectfully
Yr obt st. Saml. H. Parsons

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of pensions
Washington
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Depositions
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I Henry M. Waite a Notary Public of the State of Connecticut residing in the County of New London in said State do hereby certify that 
Lebulen Brockway Junr Esq before whom the annexed deposition of Ebenezer Brockway was taken and William Marvin Esq. before where the deposition of Oliver Raymond Esqr was taken are both Justices of the Peace for the County of New London duly duly appointed commissioned and qualified, and were sent at the times when said depositions were taken-- and that the signatures to the certificates upon said depositions are in their
hand writing-
And I certify that Ebenezer Mackay the first named deponent is a reputable man of the town of Lynn in said County of New London  has been an elector of Frederick [illegible] President, a senator of the State of Connecticut, Judge of Probate - and that Oliver Raymond the other deponent is a respectable man. I a magistrate at the same time with at Lyme.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my official seal at Lyme in said County of New London
This 18th March AD 1883.
Henry M. Waite Notary Public
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I Eben Brokway of Lyme Salem in the County of New London and and State of Connecticut
on oath depose and say that for twenty years part I have been well acquainted with Mr James Ransom of Salem. He has ever been a man of respectability, and has sustained the
character of an honest upright man
In my opinion his deposition respecting
his services in the revolutionary War will be
entitled to full credit
Ebenezer Brockway


State of Connecticut 
New London County ⎬
Feby 26th 1833 personally appeared Eben Brockway and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing deposition before me. And I certify that the deponent is a credible person and reputable man in said to me
Zebulon Brockway Jr Justice of Peace
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I Oliver Raymond of Lyme in New London
County and State of Connecticut on oath depose and say that for twelve years last past have been well acquainted with Mr James Raysom of Salem, he has ever been a man of Respectability and has sustained the carrecter [character]  of an honest upright man
in my opinion his deposition respecting his service in the revolutionary war will be entitled to full credit and I do know that the Lieutenant he served under was one for he was my own natural brother
Oliver Raymond

State of Conneticut in Lyme Febuary 20th 1833
New London County
Personally appeared Oliver Raymond and
subscribed and made oath to the forgoing
deposition before me and I certify that the
deponant is a credible person and a respectable man in society and further that he is a Justice of peace for New London County and now in commission
Wm Maron Justice of the Peace
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1152 June 27 1832
---
Pension Office
Mr Evans

Salem let 21 June 
To the Hon Secretary
of War
City Washington
D. C
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Salem New London County Set
June 21st 1838
To the Hon Secretary of War.

Sir, will you have the goodness to
give your attention to the burthen, and
should it be satisfactory, give instruction
to the Agent at Hartford to pay the amt due
or otherwise give to Mr Ransom that which
will enable him to obtain it of the agent
at Hartford 
Please make returns either to Mr Ransom or me as soon as Convenient.
I am Very Respectfully
your obdt Servt
Pomeroy Hall
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I, James Ransom of Salem in the County of New London and state of Connecticut, now residing in Stafford in the County of Gennesee and state of New York, on oath depose and say, that at the time I enlisted into Captain Harris' company, as stated in my petition for a pension dated March 11, 1833, I was fifteen years of age and had just entered on my sixteenth year. I was not at that time compelled to do duty, but persons of my age sometimes enlisted. My father being a Lieutenant of the same company was our principal cause of my enlisting. The commissioned officers at that time all had waiters and I hoped that my father would be entitled to one under these circumstances. I enlisted as a private in said company for the term of two months. After I enlisted, I served as my fathers waiter, but drew pay as any other soldier in said company. I enlisted in the same manner and upon the same terms, and was liable to the same duty during the whole time as the other soldiers of the company and was liable to do duty in the ranks, or elsewhere as the officers might direct. I never received any written discharge, and have no documentary evidence of my service. I do not recollect the names of any other officers of the corps in which I served than those named in my application. And I know of no living witness of my service although I have made many enquiries, and must rely upon my own testimony. And the evidence I have furnished of my character in support of my claim to a pension. And I do further depose & say that I regularly answered to the call of the roll and was regularly mustered as often as the Regiment was called together and [illegible] precisely as the other private soldiers in said Reg.
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most were and was considered such. tho he was selected from the ranks to wait upon his said father.
James Ransom

Subscribed & sworn this 8th day of July 1830 before me.
Moses Saggart Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Genesee County Ss. I Timothy Fitch Clerk of said county certify that Moses Saggart before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken and made was at the date of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and seal of office this eighth day of July 1833.
Timothy Fitch Clerk
by B. Pringle Dept. Clerk
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27 Met Zuppes Dr
Buffalo, N.Y.
Nov 19, 1907

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir
I understand that Lt. James Ransom of New London, Conn. 78 yrs old was a pensioner according to reports in 1840.
Will you kindly send me a copy of such records as you may have? I wish to use it in application for membership in D. A. R.
Yours truly
Lillian H Persons
(Mrs Albert E. Parsons)
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U.S. Pension Office
Nov 20 1907
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Record Division

Nov 21 1907