Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15140, Samuel George, N.H.
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SERVICE
N.H.

George, Samuel

NUMBER
S.15140

CONTENTS
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Duplicate certificate issued 15.Nov.1843 and delivered to N.H. Sylvester Esq. Present Letters to Hon. E. Burke 17.Jany 1844.

See letter March 21 1834 to the Hon. H. Hubbard.

Paid at the Treasury under this Acts of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March to 4th Sep 1842. Agt notified 11.April 1844.

2795.
New Hampshire

Samuel George 1st of Sullivan in the State of N. H. who was a Private on the company commanded by Captain [left blank] of the regt commanded by Col. Nichols in the N.H. line for 6 Mos 25 Days.

Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. at the rate of 22 Dollars 78 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Dec 1832 and the Hon H Hubbard H of Reps

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $34.17
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 33 17.39
$45.56

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by  I. Ft Jrs Blair Clerk 
Book D Vol 1 Page 154.
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Samuel George -

In Roll of Capt Kidders Company as having serving in Roll of Capt 3 mos. & 15 days  [illegible] Company as having served 
3 mos and 5 days
----
6 " and 25 days

A. [illegible]

$22.78.

H. Hubbard
[illegible]
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

State of New-Hampshire,
County of Sullivan
ss.

On this 28th day August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the Court of Probate, now sitting, Samuel George a resident of Wendell in the County of Sullivan and State of N.H. aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain 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.

That on the 1st of July 1780 he enlisted in Capt Kidders' company Colonel Nichol's regiment for the term of three months. He marched directly to West Point, where he remained until the end of his enlistment. He continued there one month after the end of his enlistment, as the Militia were requested to stay until the arrival of the Continental Troops. His company was in the N.H. Militia. Declarant further states that in the 1st August 1783, he enlisted for nine months in Capt Webster's company (the company was not attached to any regiments) up into what was then called the Coos Country and was employed in reconnorking and scouting [illegible] during the whole time. He remained there one month after his [document cut off].

Declarant was born in Amesbury in Massachusetts in 1763. Has no record of his age. Where he joined the service he lived in Weare N.H. & for the last thirty years has lived in Wendell. He entered the service as a volunteer. He never received any written discharge. He has no documentary evidence of his services. He knows of no one who can testify to them except Joshua Atwood whose deposition [document cut off].
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Declarant was born in Amesbury in Massachusetts in 1763. Has no record of his age. Where he joined the service he lived in Weare N.H. & for the last thirty years has lived in Wendell. He entered the service as a volunteer. He never received any written discharge. He has no documentary evidence of his services. He knows of no one who can testify to them except Joshua Atwood whose deposition accompanies this declaration. He is known to Samuel Rogers and Christopher Gardner who can testify to his character & to their beliefs in his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

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

Samuel Rogers

Frederick A Sumner Judge of Probate

We, Samuel Rogers residing in Wendell and Jack [illegible and crossed out] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel
who has subscribed and sworn to the above obligation; that we believe him to be 69
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where the resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the
day year aforesaid

Samuel Rogers
Frederick A Sumner 
Judge of Probate

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 certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel 
Rogers who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in Wendell
and that Chris Gardner, who has also signed the same is a resident in Wendell and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

Frederick A. Sumner, Judge of Probate.
I, Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel George for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 28th day of August 1837
Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of Probate
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15.140
INVALID.

File No. 15.140
Samuel George
Rw. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 139

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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This Pensioners certificate was burned in Senator
Hubbards office agreeably to his certificate.

[illegible] on Duplicate for H. H. Sylvester
G. M. C.
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House of Representatives
Jan 12th 1844

Sir,

I enclose a power of Atter
my authorising me to receive the pension due to  Samuel George of Wendell, N.H. from the 4th of March 1842 to 4th March 1843. After all examination of the papers, if you find
no pension due, you will do me
the favor, to send me a draft [illegible] for the amount.

Very respectfully
Nora Oct Servant
Edmund Burke
J. L. Edwards Esq
Govt of Pension
[illegible]
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Hon H Hubbard
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Mr. Edward, 

1. I wish to be informed what
the situation of Daniel Colby's
application is. He applied for a
pension under the [illegible] of June 1832
and there has not been any decision
of his case upon [illegible] which I have presented. 

2. I [illegible] the case of Samuel George reexamined. I think there has been a mistake in computing the period of service. Will you answer the inquiries [illegible]?
H. Hubbard
March 17, 1834
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Saml George 1st

New cert. for
H.H. Sylvester
Present
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I Henry H. Sylvester do hereby certify
that some time in the Spring of 1842
I lodged in the Pension Office the necessary
certificate and papers of Samuel George
a [illegible] of NH to enable him to obtain a duplicate pension certificate [illegible] of one which had been destroyed by the burning of the Office of [illegible] Hubbard of N.H. and that a new certificate [illegible] thereupon, and which certificate [illegible] having been issued for $80 instead of $23.

Nov 15 1843
H. H. Sylvester
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George

Payment to be made at Concord by John George
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of
New Hampshire

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book D Vol. 1.
Page 157 by F. S. Evans, Clerk

H. H. Sylvester Esq
Present
Oct [illegible]1843

To be returned to Washington
immediately, to be rectified $22.78 [illegible]
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Duplicate

WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
3,405

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel George of the State of New Hampshire who was a private in the Army of the
Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ----- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. [illegible] in lieu of one dated 20th December 1832, [illegible] has been destroyed.

Given at the War Office of the United States
this eighteenth day of May one thousand eight
hundred and forty two.

John
[corner of document has been torn off and only the first name of the signer is available.]

Examined and
Countersigned.
J L Edw [corner torn off of document]
Com

Mutilated when I carded claim Jany 4, 1907
V.L.M.
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Joshua Atwood
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I Joshua Atwood of Antrim in the County of
Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire depose & say
that in the year 1780 I resided in W[illegible] in the County of Hillsborough & State aforesaid, that the Militia being called upon I entered the service of the United States in July 1780 that I served three months in Captain Kidders Company in Colo. Nichols Regt. In 1783 I again entered the service of the United States and served nine months in Captain Witestins Company. I further depose and say that 
that Samuel George of Wendell in the County
of Sullivan & State aforesaid and served in the same Companies and was in the same [illegible] with me during the whole of the above
named terms as a private. 

Joshua Atwood

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County SS July 5, 1832
Sworn & subscribed the day & the year last aforesaid Before me
Franklin Pierce, Just. Peace
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I, Benjamin B. French, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Franklin Pierce is a Justice of the Peace, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his genuine.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 28th day of August 1832.

R.B. French
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GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Feb'y 1st 1844.

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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Samuel George a Pensioner on the Roll of the Concord, N.H. Agency, at the rate of Twenty two Dollars and 78 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1842. 

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the COMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME George, Southy GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 11278
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED November 29, 1790
to John Robins, Adm

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.