Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46378, Castle Dains, Res. At Eul, Litchfield Conn. N.Y. Res. In 1829
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Service 

Dains, Castle.                             S.46378
Davis OT                                   BLWt 1508-100
res at enl. Litchfield Conn-N.Y. res []   May 13, 1829
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Cert No. 934
Revy. 46318
Name: Castle Dains
Rank: Sergt. Comp'y Averys
Reg't Col Warner

Rate per month, and Date of Commencement 

$80
Aug 17. 2829
Allowed Act 1828
Died Nov. 12 1842 (AB)
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Mch - 12- 1902
Mr. D.W. Harrison
Flink Urich

1927 Apr 16 Hist to Hon Earl L Michener
1929 June 19 Hist to Mrs. L. H King []
1939 Feb 7 - Hist to Ms. Sabrina Palmer Lamb
(Ltr in Clue of Ephraim Dains. W. 4937- MLB
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No. 1508
Castle Dains
Pri
N. Ham
[] to Jos: Watson D.C.

The warrant in this case is granted upon the certificate from the Treasury Department that the applicant was entitled to claim money under the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution"" passed Sepem of 1827-8- and the opinion of the Secretary of War that such certificate ought to be received as evidence of applicants title to bounty land.
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(Copy)
Revolutionary Claims

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution." approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department
17 April 1829

Sir: 
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Private of Infantry in the Continental Line.  The amount which may be due accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.

I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
(Signed) S.D. Ingham

Mr. Castle Dains

Col Warners Regiment

True copy for Dickins Treasury Department 15 May 1829.
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State of New York}
County of Yates}

I, Castle Dains aged seventy nine years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I enlisted for the term of "doing the war", and served in the regiment No. not recollected under the command of Colonel Warner of the New Hampshire line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the same regiment, commanded by Colonel Warner
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Castle Dains aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Matson of Washington City to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest,                            Castle his mark X Dains
Sworn & subscribed this 4th May 1829, Hon., Abram Wagener, 

I Lemon Canfield aged thirty three years, to, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Castle Dains who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest             Lemon Canfield

Sworn and subscribed before me this
4th May 1829
Hon. Abraham Wagener JP

Before me, Abraham Wagener one of the Justices of the Peace of Yates County personally appeared the above named Castle Dains subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed ; and likewise, personally appeared Lemon Canfield who hat subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well know to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed this fourth day of May 1829

Abraham Wagener Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the abovewritten Abraham Wagener was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of New York at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Penn. Yan this sixth day of May, 1829
A.H. Bennett, C. Clerk &c.
This law expires 3d March 1827.
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                     1554
No. Original payment 934

Revolutionary Claims.
Allowed}
Act 1828}

            TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
                        23 March 1829

Castle Dains of Jerusalem in the County of Yates in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain Averys 's company, in Col Warner's regiment of the _ - line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778 ; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary
FA Dickins

No record LDS


Treasury Department.
23d March 1829

[] 
It further appears that Castle Dains or Davis is not now on the pension list of any ---- agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826

The name of Castle Dains or Davis cannot be found among those of either the New Hampshire or Connecticut line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued.
Peter Hagner And
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Castle Dains of Jerusalem in the County of Yates in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the revolution for an during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a sergeant with Captain Avery's Company in Colonel E [] Warners regiment and I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States
Caslte Dains
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th Augst 1828
S L. Elsworth
First Judge Yates County
Before me Samuel S. Ellsworth first Judge of Yates County Courts in the State of New York personally appeared on this First day of October, Jonathan Davis and Ephraim Dains of the said County of Yates both to me personally known who severally did make oath that Castle Dains by whom whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed and know by one of the deponents Dains to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in the manner as is in said declaration stated.  Witness my hand this first day of October 1828 and Ephraim Dains Swears this Castle Dains was reputed generally to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in manner as set forth 
Jonathan Dains swears that he knew he the intestation one of the deponents Johathan Dains.  Ellsworth

I Abraham H. Beauto Clerk of the County of Yates in the State of New York do Certify that Samuel S. Ellsworth before whose foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time first Judge of the County Court of the said county and duly empowered to administer oaths In testimony whereof I have unto affixed by hand and the seal of the said court this day of 1828.
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Jonathan Dains of the town of Jerusalem County, Yates and State of New York being duly sworn deposith and saith that he is a brother of Castle Dains who subscribed the above declaration and that this deponent during the revolutionary war enlisted in the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut in the immediate neighborhood of his said broker Castle Dains, and that the said Castle left his family and enlisted during the war as a private in the revolutionary army and that he continued absent from home and as this deponent was informed in actual service in said army until the close of the revolutionary war when he returned home beering a regular discharge signed by Gen. Isreal Putnam.
Jonathan L. Dains
Sworn & subscribed before me
this 26th of august 1828
SS Ellsworth
First Judge of}
Yates County}

Castle Dains of Jerusalem Yates County and State of New York being sworn says that he enlisted and served during the war of the revolution and that at its termination he secured a regular discharge from Gen. Isreal Putnam which discharge has by accident become lost so that it is now out of the possession and power of the deponent.

Castle Dains
Sworn & subscribed
before me this 26th August 1828
SS Ellsworth
First Judge Yates}
County}
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                   February 7, 1939

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Mrs. Sabria Palmer Lamb  Castle Dains, S.46378
14555 Woodmont Road   Ephraim Dains, W. 4937
Detroit, Michigan              BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

The records of Castle Dains and Ephraim Dains are furnished you herein as found in the claims for pension and bounty land on file based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

Castle Dains
S. 46378

The data which follow in regard to Castle Dains were obtained from the claims on file under S. 46378, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Castle Dains and names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Litchfield County, Connecticut, Castle Dains enlisted sometime in 1776, for the Revolutionary War, and served to the close thereof, at which time he was a sergeant in Captain Avery's company, Colonel Elizur Warner's regiment.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed August 26, 1828, while residing in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, with post office at Penn Yan, same county, aged seventy-eight years.

Castle Dains was granted one hundred acres of bounty land, also, on account of his service int he Revolution, on Warrant No. 1509, issued May 13, 1829, while living in Yates County, New York.  He died November 12, 1842.

It is not stated whether the soldier was married.

In 1828, Castle Dains' brother, Jonathan Dains, was a resident of Jerusalem, New York.  In the same year, one Ephraim Dains testified
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in Yates County, New York, in behalf of the soldier, Castle, but did not designate the relationship.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name and address of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Castle Dains, certificate #934, issued August 17, 1829, rate $80 per annum, Act 1828.

If you desire information relative to location of the land granted to Castle Dains, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance.

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Ephraim Dains
W.  4937

The data which follows in regard to Ephraim Dains were obtained from the claims on file under W. 4937, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Ephraim Dains was born July 4, 1752, place of birth not state, nor were names of his parents given.

As early as June 1778, Ephraim Dains was a private in Captain Hoogland's company, Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Regiment of Calvary; he served, also, in Captain Webb's company, in the same regiment, continued in service until about June 4, 1783, when he was discharged.  He enlisted in Litchfield, Connecticut.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed May 28, 1818, while a resident of Jerusalem, Ontario County, New York.  In July 1832, he had moved to Wayne County, Michigan, because he desired to live near his children who had moved to that territory.  He died July 7, 1836, in Redford, Wayne County, Michigan.

Ephraim Dains married December 15, 1789, in Hudson, New York, or in Coxhackie, Greene County, New York, Irene Stedman or Stedmund who was born January 3, 1771; she was the daughter of Edmund Stedman or Stedmund.

Irene Dains, as widow of Ephraim Dains, was allowed pension on her application executed November 8, 1838, while a resident of Redford, Michigan.  She was allowed bounty land, also, for service of her husband in the Revolutionary War.  She made her application April 29, 1855,
at which time she was living in Wayne County, Michigan.

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The following names of children of Ephraim Dains and his wife, Irene, are shown in the claim:

Henry Dains, born November 25, 1791
Ira         " "             February 2, 1793
Orpha  "  "             May 16, 1796
Samuel  "  "           March 2, 1799
Irene   "   "             September 6, 1802
Margaret  "  "        August 6, 1805
Ephraim   "  "         April 6, 1808
Catharine  "  "        December 29, 1813

Ephraim Dains, the soldier, had brothers, Castle and Jonathan Dains, living in Jerusalem, New Your, in 1819.

One Samuel Dains made affidavit in 1839, in Wayne County, Michigan, that Ephraim Dains died July 7, 1836.  One Abigail Shaw in 1839, a resident of Chester, Warren County, New York, state that she was present at the marriage of Ephraim Dains and Irene Stedman.  Ephraim Dains and Judson Dains were residents of Redford, Michigan, in 1855.  No relationship of any of these persons named in this paragraph to the soldier's family is shown.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of Irene Dains, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:  Irene Dains, certificate # 2784, issued January 4, 1849, rate $96.20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act February 2, 1848, Michigan Agency.

If you desire information in regard to location of the bounty land which was granted on account of service for Ephraim Dains in the Revolutionary War, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the following data: Bounty Land Warrant No. 16128, for 160 acres, Act of March 3, 1855.

                    Very truly yours
                    A.D. HILLER
                     Executive Assistant
                    to the Administrator

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I am well acquainted with SS Elsworth [Samuel Ellsworth] and know him to be first judge of Yates County in the district represented by me and know his name as written subscribed to be his signature - March 23 - [] 29
Dudley Marvin

I know Castle Dains personally but without an extended personal acquaintance be under in my district.  Seems intelligent his character is good and the family generally respectable.  I had conversation last autumn with several gentleman residing in his neighborhood it is fully believed by all in his neighborhood that he comes within the late [] said I know him to be a man among the last to wish to obtain money to which is not entitled by the very letter as well as the spirit of the law.
Dudley Marvin

Mr. Castle Dains
Penn Yan
Yates County
N.Y.
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#46.378
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   1534

Revolutionary Claims/

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
25 March 1829

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Castle Dains, under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be unformed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.  
L.D. Ingham

The Hon. the Secretary of War.

War Depart.
Bounty land office

The records of this office do not show that Castle Dains as a sergeant or private of the New Hampshire or Connecticut line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.

Robert Taylor

26 Mar 1829.
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{Stamp O. W. & N [] Jan 28 1902 RECEIVED}

Flint Mich.

Jan 21st 1902

Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

Please inform me if the name of Castle Dains appears on the pension list of Revolutionary soldiers, enrolled from the State of Connecticut, also the name of Simion Dains, who served in the war of 1812, enrolled from the State of New York.
Respectfully yours.
Mrs. D.W. Harrison
622 S. Fifth St. E. Fifth - St.
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EARL C. MICHENER           COMMITTEE ON
2d DIST. MICHIGAN         THE JUDICIARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES U.S.
Washington, D.C.

Adrian, Michigan
April 12, 1927

Hon. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Would you kindly give me a statement of the revolutionary services and family data contained in the pension application of Ephraim Dains (Danes), pensioner                      1818, residence New York, enlisted from Connecticut?

Also whether or not application was made for pension for revolutionary services by Castle Dains.  Born 1749, died 1843, aged 94 years, married Joanna Barman in Connecticut.

Thanking you for this information, 

I am

 Very truly yours, 

Earl C. Michener, M.C.

ECM.A
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Maude Wetmore King    Leonard Hammond King

Branchport, N. Y. {logo The beautiful Finger Lakes of Central NY Call you}   on Lake Keuka

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Designers of Personal Greeting Cards

June 16, 1929

Bureau of Pensions,
Department of Am. Revolution
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen 

Please send me the war record of Castle Dains who was in the Conn. Army int he war of the American Revolution.

Sincerely,
Maude W. King

(Mrs. L.H. King)

{Stamp REVOLUTIONARY & 182 WARS
SECTION JUN 19 1929
BUREAU OF PENSIONS}
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Rev. & 1812 Ward Section    MMHF


April 16, 1927

Honorable Earl C. Michener
Adrian, Michigan

My dear Mr. Michener:

In response to your letter of the 12th instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 4678 it appears that Castle Dains while a resident of Litchfield County, Connecticut enlisted in 1776 and served to the close of the Revolution at which time he was sergeant in Captain Avery's Company, Colonel Elezur Warner's Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 26, 1828 while a resident of Jerusalem, Yates County, New York aged seventy-eight years.

His brother Jonathan Dains was also living in Jerusalem, New. York in 1828.  There are no further data on file as to family.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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RE.&1812 Wars Section
ADY

June 19, 1929.

Mrs. L. H. King,
Branchport,
New York.

Madam:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 46378, it appears that Castle Dains while a resident of Litchfield County, Connecticut enlisted in 1776 and served to the close of the Revolution at which time he was sergeant in Captain Avery's Company, Colonel Elezur Warner's Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 26, 1828 while a resident of Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, aged seventy-eight years. {Penn Yan}

His broker Jonathan Dains was also living in Jerusalem, New York in 1828.  [] There are no further data on file as to family.

Respectfully,

Earl D. Church
Commissioner

Ag. Bk shows date of death Nov. 12, 1842
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February 7, 1939
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Castle Dains, S. 46378
Ephraim Dains, W. 4937
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Sabria Palmer Lamb
14555 Woodmont Road
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you requested the record of Henry Dains, and the records of his two sones, Castle and Ephraim Dains, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Henry Dains under any spelling.  Such claims are the source of data furnished by this office in regard to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.  Information in regard to military service might be obtained from the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.

Records have been found of only one Castle Dains and one Ephraim Dains, only, which are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES    Division of Veteran's Administration Archives
form VAM-51
12-5-41  

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


Name Dains, Ephraim Grade Private Line Connecticut

Warrant Number 5724  Acreage 100 Jan. 14, 1799 to Israel Stowall Jr. 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded int his 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.