Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2036, John Anderson, Mass. N.H.
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Mass.
N. H.
Anderson, John
S2036

carded
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Ohio 2458
John Anderson
Clarke in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Reynolds of  the Regt commanded
by Col Read in the N. Hamp
.00line for 15 months from 1775
Subscribed on the roll of Ohio
at the rate of 50 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Nov. '32 and sent to C. Anthony, Springfield, Ohio
Arrears to 4th Sept 1832     $75.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '33  $25.00
$100
Recorded by Nathan Rice, Clerk
Book D, Vol 10 Page 27

Date of death not in AB
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John Anderson
Ohio 
No 4252
from 1775 private
15 months
$50
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Brief in the case of John Anderson of Clark County in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court
2. If before a Judge, des it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?  73 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form Period: In 1775
Duration of service:  Service not stated
Rank: Private 
Names General/Officers under whom he served: Sullivan, Major Seely
Period: Oct 1777
Duration of Service: until sometime in the spring
Rank: Private
Officers: Capt Moses Baker, Col Read and Capt Reynolds, New Hampshire troops
Period: Enlisting Oct 1778
Duration of Service: cannot state when [illegible]
Rank: Substitute for one [illegible]
Officers: Col Gerrish, Capt Greenwoods Company, Capt Oliver Taitum  Massachusetts Militia
5. In what battles was he engaged? Served in all [illegible] of 15 months.
6. Where did e reside when he entered the service:  Rockingham, New Hampshire
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  Defective in regard to period of service.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
S Sitle Examining Clerk
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No 4254
John Anderson
Declaration for a Pension
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The State of Ohio 
Clark County

On this twenty eighty day of July personally appeared in open court before the Count of Common Pleas of Clark County now in session John Anderson a resident of Clark County aforesaid aged seventy three 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 as a volunteer under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he entered the service in the Count of Rockingham in the state of New Hampshire under Captain Moses Baker, does not recollect the month of da of the month but it was in the latter part of the [illegible] or in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five.  Major [illegible] was the highest that he now recollects to have been at that time in command. There he remained some time but does not recollect how long thinks until December following stationed at Pucatawny or Portsmouth.  He thinks it was in December General Sullivan came to Pucatawny and   wintered as to take a [illegible] from that July event and to go to Winter Hill [illegible] accordingly joined the company of Captain Reynolds and marched to Winter Hill. His station in barracks was about three miles from the main army or the east side of Mystic River. He believes that the name of his Colonel was Read but is not certain.  Has remained at this station until about the last of February or first of March in seventeen hundred and seventy six. When he was dismissed and sent home, when he remarried, untill the latter part of October seventeen hundred and seventy seven when he enlisted, but he may have gone as a substitute his recollection is not [illegible] under Captain Greenwood of Newburg port in Massachusetts of the Massachusetts militia, Colonel Gerrish commanded.  He was marched to Winter Hill at which place and Prospect Hill he was employed guarding Burgoynes troops until some time in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy eight where he was discharged and went home. The year seventeen hundred and seventy eight he believes about the first of  October he enlisted under Captain Oliver
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[illegible] of Ornesberry, Massachusetts for a substitute for one  (blank) Dodge of Rowling in Massachusetts and marched to Watertown and spent the winter guarding what was called continental Storm.  Cannot state what time he was discharged, the Colonel was in Boston and remained there, does not recollect his name, he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can [illegible] who can testify to his service.  He served in all upward of 15 months.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his pension is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
John (his mark) Anderson
Benj Henkle, Dep Clerk

We, Saul Henkle , a [illegible] residing the County of Clark and John Craig residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Anderson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine 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,
Sworrn and subscribed the day and year aforeasid.
Saul Henkle
John Craig
Benj. Henkle, Dep Clerk

In answer to interrogation he states that he was born at a place called Candy in Rockingham County in the State of New Hampshire.  In the year seventeen hundred and fifty nine.  He has no record of his age. It had once been contained in a Bible which was given to a neighbor of his [illegible], he lived in Canada to a man whose house was burnt.
He was living in Rockingham County in New Hampshire when he was first called into the service, since that he has lived in Vermont about 13 or 14 years, about 18 or 19 years at St. Annan in Lower Canada, and from which last place he removed to the State of Ohio in the year 1815 and he has lived in Clark County in said state ever since.
He enlisted into the service twice and once he went as a substitute for one _______ Dodge as stated in the foregoing declaration which he recollects distinctly and once
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he was in the service either by enlistment or as a substitute and which he does not recollect as stated in his declaration.
He recollects General Sullivan, Col Poor afterwards Gen Poor [illegible] he had head was killed in fighting a duel with a Frenchman, Major Morrell, and Col Starke and his regiment.  There were several officers which he then knew but [illegible] knows he has forgotten.  He recollects no [illegible] of his services other than those already set forth in his declaration excepting this he recollects but on  Christmas night in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five some troops, he thinks two thousand were detailed to make an attack upon Bunker Hill then the possession of the [illegible] to go under the [illegible] of General Sullivan but [illegible] not being strong enough to [illegible] upon the attack was given up and not needed.
He never received a written discharge from the service. He is known to Paul Henkle, John Craig, George Humbleman, George Bfffenberger, Isaac Chamberlain, Maddox Fisher and Martin Springfield and is generally known [illegible].
John (his mark) Anderson
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court, July 28, 1882 
Benj Henkle Dep Clerk
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In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of July AD 1832.
Benjamin Henkle
Dep Clk
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January 14, 1937

John Anderson,, R. 192
John Anderson, S. 2026
RA-J/[illegible]

Mr. Allan W Reynolds
203 Kalamazoo National Bank Building
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of December 11, 1936 in which you furnish further information in regard to your ancestor, John Anderson, Revolutionary War soldier in whom you are interested, no claim for pension having been located in a former search of the records, with the data furnished by you at that time.
All your data have been used in another search of the records.  Two records have been found of soldiers of Vermont with the name John Anderson.   Both are furnished herein.  It is hoped that they will aid you somewhat in your research.
JOHN ANDERSON
S.192
The records show that John Anderson, recorded as of Rutland county, Vermont, applied for pension under the Act of March 18, 1818, for his services in the Revolutionary War; that his claim was not allowed because he did not serve nine months in the Continental Line under one period of enlistment.  That was the requirement of the pension law under which he applied for pension.  The decision in his case was sent to Honorable P. Adams, of New York state, United States House of Represenatives, on January 18, 1885, then in Washington, (A biographical congressional directory shows that Honorable [illegible] Adams, Representative from New York State, served in the nineteenth Congress from 1886 to 1887). The records show, further, that December 31, 1886 Honorable P. Adams of New York, then in Washington, called for all papers in the claim for pension of John Anderson for the purpose of presenting his claim to Congress.  The papers were sent to him, and were never returned to the War Department, then the location of pension claims.  In consequence of the release of these papers, this office, now custodian of Revolutionary War pension claims, has no statements, whatever, which were made by this John Anderson when he applied for pension. It is not shown when he lived in Vermont, or whether he lived in New York when he applied for pension.
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Reference has been made to an alphabetical List of Private Claims which were presented to the House of Representatives from the First to the thirty-first Congress and on that list the name of John Anderson has been found recorded with following citations: 
"John Anderson (N.Y.) Nature of claim - Pension - Nineteenth Congress, 1st session, Brought before the House by Petition,  Page of Journal, 126, referred to House Committee on Military Pensions, Report No. 164, Nature of report, Adverse".  Again:  "John Anderson (N.Y.) Nature of claim - Penson- Nineteenth Congress, 2nd session, Brought before the House by petition, Page of Journal 132, referred to House Committee on Military Pensions": not recorded that a report was made. Again: John Anderson (N,Y.) nature of claim - pension- twenty eighth Congress, 1st session, brought before the House by Petition, Page of Journal 272, referred to House Committee on Revolutionay Pensions" not recorded in this volume what action was taken.
Should you ever have access to those pages of the Journals of the House of Representatives, cited above, you might possibly obtain further information in regard to that John Anderson.
This office has no way to determine whether or not he was the same John Anderson for whom Honorable P. Adams had interceded.  This office has no other data in regard to either.
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John Anderson
S2036
The data which follow were obtained from a pension claim, S. 2036, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Anderson.
John Anderson was born in 1759 in 
Candia, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, the names of his patents are not given.
While a resident of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, John Anderson volunteered in the fall of 1775, served as private in Captains Moses Baker's and Runals' companies, Colonel Reid's New Hampshire regiment and was discharged in February or March, 1776 and returned home.  He  enlisted the latter part of October 1777, served as private in Captain Greenwood's company, Colonel Gerrish's Massachusetts regiment, engaged in guarding Burgoyne's troops until he was discharged in the spring of 1778.  He enlisted about October 1, 1778, served as private in Captain Oliver Titcomb's Massachusetts company, spent the winter guarding continental stores and was discharged after having served in all "upwards of fifteen months."
After the war, the soldier resided in Vermont thirteen or fourteen years; in "Saint Armans" (possibly meant for Sain Armand) in Lower Canada, eighteen or nineteen years and in 1815 moved to Clark County, Onio.
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John Anderson was allowed pension on his application executed July 28, 1832, while a resident of Clark County, Onio.
There are no family data shown in the claim.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension,  the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and site the following data:
John Anderson
Certificate #2658
Issued November 27, 1832
Rate $50 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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2036
Rev War
INVALID
File No. 2036
John Anderson
Prvot Rev War

Act June 7 1832
Index: Vol A, Page 8

1937 Jan 14- His to Allen W. Reynolds
(Rev ltr in chw RMV of John Anderson) LMLB
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Letter cancellation:  Spring
Jul 30

Addressed to :
Hon Sewis Cass
Secretary
Pension Office
Washington D.C. 

Notes on envelope:
Aug  1832
Pension Office
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Springfield July 28 1832
Sir,
I have the honor to endorse the declaration of John Anderson, a revolutionary soldier made for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.  Please to direct to me at this [illegible].
Very respectfully your [illegible]
C. Anthony

Hon. Secy of War
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Anderson which require further proof or explanation.
I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? n/a
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  [illegible]
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite s to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has nit been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she or they are persons of credibility?  Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? n/a
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  n/a
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed bby the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of 
them is not so answered?  Yes

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EXPLANATORY NOTES
* QUERE V.  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, deposeth 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 his recollection he served not less than 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."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs th  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.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he mut 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 line 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.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of Authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.