Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20965, Archibald Dean, Continental
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Continental

Dean, Archibald
or Deane, Ashbel
Rachel

NUMBER
W. 20965

CONTENTS
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Vermont. -     4,281
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Rachel Dean, widow of Archibald Dean, who was a pensioner under the Act of      and who died on the 5th May 1833, [a]t Vergennes in the State of Vermont who was a Matross in the Compy commanded [b]y Captain Walkers of the Regt. commanded [b]y Lamb  in the N.York, line for 2 years
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[illegible]inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier [a]t the rate of 100 Dollars. ---  Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Sept. '39, and sent to and Stephen Haigh[t] Burlington, Vt.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept.   ---   $350.00
Semi=annual allowance ending.       50.00
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                                                          $400.00
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{Act of July 7, 1838}

 Recorded by R Burdin.   Clerk
Book A  Vol. 2. ----   Page 37
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V  5397 -
Rachel Dean
Feb
Act. 7 July 38
admd
2 yrs Matross
100$

No deductions

Stephen Haight [signature]
Burlington Vt
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State of Vermont
City of Vergenness
On this 8th day of May A.D. 1839 personally appeared before the Hon. City Court now sitting in the City of Vergenness within +[and] for said City, in Addison County Vermont Rachel Dean of Monkton in the County of Addison  +[and] state of Vermont aged sixiy seven [insert] years [end of insert] the 31st. day of [cross out} May [end of cross out] December A.D. 1838 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay +[and] pensions to certain widows" --- that she is the widow of Ashbel Dean (otherwise called Archibald Dean) late of Monkton aforesaid, deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in the New York Line -- that she understood from him +[and] verily believes the same, that he served in Capt. Walkers Company of New York Artillery, +[and] that afterwords (the precise time does not remember) he again enlisted into the United States service New York Line, in a Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Machin, Col. John Lambs, Regiment of Artillery, during the War +[and] served until he was honorably discharged, +[and] she fully believes that he served more than two years. --  She has frequently heard her husband aforesaid that he was a soldier doing his duty at the Capture of Lord Cornwallis, +[and] at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, +[and] at several other places which she cannot now specify, all of which she verily believes to be true. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Ashbel or Archibald Dean, at Monkton on the 20th day of November A.D. 1787 by the Hon. Abel Thompson Judge of the Addison County Court [insert] since deceased [end of insert] --- that her husband the said Dean died at Monkton aforesaid on the 5th day of May A.D. 1833 +[and] that she is now +[and] has remained a widow of the said Dean since his decease as aforesaid.

Rachl Dean [signature]
 
Sworn to +[and] subscribed in open Court this 8th day of May A.D. 1839
Attest
Viller Lawrence.Mayor
John Thompson Sam Willson Aldermen
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5397
State of Vermont
City of Vergennes ss.

I, Arzah C. Dean of Monkton in the County of Addison + [and] state of Vermont aged 43 years being first duly sworn do depose + [and] say that I am the son of Ashbel (otherwise called Archibald) Dean late of Monkton aforesaid, deceased, + [and] his widow Rachel Dean of Monkton aforesaid, that I have frequently heard my father say that he served in the Army of the Revolution under Capts. Walker + [and] Machin in the New York Artillery --- that he fought at the Battle of Eutaw Springs and Yorktown, + [and] other skirmishes during the war, which I fully believe, [and] that my father, the said Dean died at Monkton aforesaid on the 5th day of May A.D. 1823 + [and] that my mother the said Rachel  is now + [and] has remained a Widow of my father the said Ashbel or Archibald Dean since his decease as aforesaid.    

A,C, Dean [signature]

Sworn + [and] subscribed in open Court of the City [cross out] of Vergennes [end of cross out] Court now sitting at said City of Vergennes within aforesaid City this 8th day of May A.D. 1839.
Attest.
V. Lawrence. Mayor
John Thompson
Sam Willson
Ald ---


State of Vermont
City of Vergennes ss.
I G.W. Rogers Clerk of the City Court of the City of Vergennes state of Vermont hereby certify that Viller Lawrence holds the office of Mayor + [and] John Thompson + [and] Same. Willson the offices of first and third Aldermen within + [and] for said City + [and] that their signatures to the preceding Declaration + [and] affidavit are genuine.
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Monkton May 9th 1839
I hereby certify  that I have found the marriage of Ashbel Dean + [and] Rachel Barnum Recorded in Book first to wit Ashbel Dean + [and] Rachel Barnum both of Monkton was Lawfully joined together in Marriage the 20th Day of November 1787 by Abel Thompson Just.
I can further state that I have long known the above married Ashbel + [and] Rachel before the Deceased of the Ashbel + [and] it was well known that the sd Ashbel was a Revolutionary Soldier the truth of which is well known + [and] understood in this vicinity.
Lymon Smith [signature]
Town Clerk of Monkton
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I Lymon Smith Town Clerk of the Town of Monkton testify and say that I find on the records in my office the following record. Ashbel Dean and Rachel Barnum both of Monkton was lawfully Joined together in Marriage the 20th day of November 1787 by Abel Thompson Justice Peace. I further testify and say that I find the following record Harry Dean Son to Ashbel Dean + [and] Rachel Dean was born November 3rd 1788. Lewis Dean Son to Ashbel Dean and Rachel Dean was born the 4th Day of June 1789and further say not.
Lymon Smith [signature] Town Clerk of Monkton State of Vermont

I Daniel Collins of Monkton County of Addison and State of Vermont Testify and say that I have been acquainted with Ashbel Dean + [and] Rachel Dean for more than fifty years and know that they lived together as husband and wife untill the death of the said Ashbel + [and] I further say that the widow is now living + [and] further say not.
Daniel Collins [signature]

I Stephen Haight of Burlington County of Chittenden and State of Vermont testify and say that I have known Ashbel Dean + [and] Rachel Dean for more than forty years and know that they always lived together as husband + [and] wife untill his death + [and] further say that the widow is now living and further say not
Stephen Haight [signature]

State of Vermont
Addison County ss.
Monkton September 9 1839
these personally appeared    the above named. Lymon Smith.   Daniel Collins + [and] Stephen Haight + [and] made Sollemn oath to the Trueth of their affidavits.
Before me.    Stoddard Hallis [signature] Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that there is no more of my family in existance  ---- that there never was any family record kept.  by my Husband or myself or any other person -- except what is kept in the Town Clerks office.
Rachel Deane [signature]

 State of Vermont
Addison County ss
Monkton 9 September 1839 then personally appeared the above named Rachel Dean + [and] made Solemn oath to the Trueth of the above Certificate.
Before me. Stoddard Hollis [signature] Justice Peace


State of Vermont
Addison County ss
I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the Said County of Addison do hereby certify that Stoddard Hollis before whom the foregoing affidavits of Lymon Smith, Daniel Collens, Stephen Haight + [and] Rachel Deane [insert] were made [end of insert] was at the time a Justice of the Peace for Said County, and I believe his name Severally Subscribed to the foregoing certificates is his own Signature. In testimony whereof I have herewith Set my hand, and affixed the Seal of Said Court this 11th day of September 1839.
Saml. Swift [signature] Clerk
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[printed or type written form to which written entries were made]

[illegible writing], received [illegible writing]
for a statement of the military history of Archibald or Ashbel Dean or Deane a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired [CM] information as contained in [cross out] his ( or [end of cross out] his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.    W.20965

[table with 6 columns and 7 rows with printed or typed column headers under which written entries were made]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. check mark
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 2 years
RANK. [no entry]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. Robert Walker    Thomas Machin
COLONEL. John Lamb
STATE. V Continental Artillery

Battles engaged in, Eutaw Springs + [and] Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, check mark
Date of application for pension, by widow: May 8 1839. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Monkton, Addison Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, born Dec 31, 1771
Remarks: Soldier married Rachel Barnum Nov. 20 [cross out] 1789 [end of cross out] 1787 at Monkton, Vt. where he died May 5, 1823, age not stated.
Children: Harry B. Nov. 3, 1788; Lewis B. June 4, 1789; + [and] Arzah B. ae 43 years in 1839 and a resident of Monkton Vt.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856
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MARYANNA
FOX POINT
May 19, 1914

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Have you any record of service in the Revolution of Moses Dean and Ashbel Dean, said to have enlisted from New Jersey and to have served six years each?

They were father and son,
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and are said to have enlisted when Ashbel, the son, was a young boy.

They were great great and great grandfathers, respectively, to me, and I am very anxious to learn all that I can of them.

Hoping to be found with an early reply in this matter and thanking you for whatever you can do for me, I am very truly yours,
(Mrs. M. C.) Emma P. Moore
310 Montgomery Bldg
Milwaukee, Wis
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Rvy
WIDOW, &c.

[illegible] le No. 20,965
Rachel Dean
Widow of Archibald Dean
Matross Rev. War

Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. A, Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1913.6 rpt his History. to Mrs. M.C. Moore
Letter in S.23353. Solomon Palmer. M.13 [illegible]
1914. May 27: hist. to Mrs. M.C. Moore
M.R.H.
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V 3397

For S. Haigtht, July 27th  '39

Act. 7. July 38
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I Johnson Finney of Monkton County of Addison  and State of Vermont do testify and say that I have lived in Monkton aforesaid for the last forty nine years in the Immediate Neighbor hood of Archibald Dean until his Death which took place on the 5th day of May A.D. [cross out] 18[illegible]3 [end of cross out] Eighteen hundred and twenty three was well acquainted with him in his life time and have frequently heard him in conversation with my father and others who was in the Revolutionary war relate circumstances of the war which took place while he was in the army and always understood that he belonged to the army of the United States in the revolutionary war and did survive therein   was and am still well acquainted with his wife Rachel Dean who is now his widow and lives in the neighborhood where I reside and where he Died
Dated Monkton April 24th AD 1839
Johnson Finney

 State of Vermont
Addison County ss
Then personally appeared the above named Johnson Finney and made oath to the above affidavit.
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of April 1839.
Before me
Isaiah Scott [signature] Justice Peace.

State of Vermont
Addison County ss
I, George W. Rogers, Clerk of Vergennes City Court do hereby certify that Isaiah Scott who has affixed his name to the above affidavit is a Magistrate duly qualified and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 26 th day of April AD. 1839
Geo. W Rogers  Clerk

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[this is an addressed letter]

Col. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

[bottom left corner is a round stamped 'sent from and date seal'. Around inner edge of seal is 'BURLINGTON Vt' and in the center is 'SEP 14']

[top right corner is stamped the word 'FREE']

[along the left side written from bottom to top is  'Sept 18, Vt. Addlproof Rachel Dean,']
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[this is an addressed letter]  

Col. J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C  

[bottom left corner is a round stamped 'sent from and date seal'. Around inner edge of seal is 'BURLINGTON Vt' and in the center is 'SEP 14']  

[top right corner is stamped the word 'FREE']  

[along the left side written from bottom to top is 'Sept 18, Vt. Addlproof Rachel Dean,']
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Burlington 13th September 1839

Sir
I herewith inclose sundry affidavits in the case of Rachel Dean of Monkton Vermont
If I understand your letter to me of July 27 you do not consider a record of Marriage in the Town Clerks Office to be sufficient to establish the marriage of the applicant. I have therefore sent you all the evidence to be found in the Town and I hope it may prove satisfactory
I am your Obdt Servt 
S. Haight
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Vt 5397
7 July 1838
Rachel Dean
wid: of Ashbel

S. Haight
Capitol.
May 15
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I, Eli Nichols of Middlebury in the County of Addison + [and] State of Vermont. of lawful age, testify + [and] say that I served, during the War of the Revolution in Capt. Robert Walker's Company in the 2nd Regiment of New York Artillery [insert] Col. Lamb + [and] Gn Knox +[and] Busa[illegible]e [end of insert] for the space of one year, and that during said year's service, Archibald or Ashbel Dean, (also many years afterward I knew lived in Monkton, Vermont,) served in the same company with me and was one of my messmates. After said years service [illegible cross out] Dean +[and] mysilf served together , according to my best recollection. in the same Company of Artillery, during the war and even at Yorktown at the taking of Lord Cornwallis; I well recollect that he served with me a number of years, but whether in the same Company of Artillery or some other company. I cannot certainly recollect.
Eli Nicols [signature]

State of Vermont
Addison County ss
Middlebury April 3rd 1839
 Personally appeared Eli Nicols the signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath that the same is true. And I certify that said Eli Nicols is a credible person.
E D Barber, Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Anderson County.]SS

i Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Anderson  aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward D Barber, whose signature is attached to the within certificate, was at the date of said certificate a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Anderson duly commissioned and qualified as such and his said signature is genuine.
. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
3d day of April A D 1839


Saml Swift
Clerk
(note - no seal shown)
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State of New York
Franklin County
Town of Constable} ss

Personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the County of Franklin Lois Wyman who being duly
Sworn according to law doth depose and say
that she was present at the marriage of Archibald Dean to Rachel Barnum which marriage took place in the Town of Monkton in the State of Vermont On the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven, that this deponent was at the time the said marriage was solemnised aged fourteen years and seven months further this deponent saith not

Lois Wyman ( signature)

Subscribed and sworn before
me this 26th day of
March AD 1839

Henry H Hawkins Justice of the Peace -

I the undersigned do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Lois Wyman the above named deponent that she sustains a good moral character and that her statements are entitled to full credit and to the truth of which I am fully satisfied-

Henry H Hawkins
Constable March 26th 1839-
Justice of the peace


State of New York
Franklin County}ss

 J. Uriah D. Meeker clerk of the County
 of Franklin do hereby certify that
Henry H. Hawkins Esqr whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and before whom the above affidavit was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Elected and sworn
that I am well acquainted with the hand
writing of said Justice and verily believe
his signature to the said Certificate is genuine
 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County the 1st day of April 1839

.U. D Meeker  Clk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name--- Dean, Ashbell (aka's Archibald, Achbel)
Grade---  Private
Line---  Lamb's Artillery (New York)

Warrant Number--- 7089
Acreage---  100
ISSUED--- April 27, 1792  to Timothy Benedict, assigned


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.