Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2311-100, Joseph Westland, Conn.
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Conn
Westland, Joseph
B.L.Wt. 2311-100
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D. R. Tilden

ans'd May 3d 47

Joseph Westland - Conn't line

Warr't No 2311.   iss'd 30th March 1843
 
Rev

Rev. War 

Recd March 29th / 47
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Navinia O. Mar 23 / 47

Sir

You did me the honor to inform me last winter that the heirs of Joseph Wesland were entitled to bounty land in right of the Revolutionary services of their father. I am requested to make
enquiry of you the amount of land to which they are entitled and where the same will be located - I will be greatly obliged to you for this information.

I am very truly
Your obt servt.

Danl. R. Tilden

Comm of Bounty Land
office
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Joseph Westland
No 2311.



sent to Mr. Eli Taintor
Lee
Mass.
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Litchfield Probate Office August 19th 1840

I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that Sally Loomis, Wife of Reuben Loomis, Catharine Moses,
William Westland, Josiah Westland, Grove Westland and Candace Hayden, wife of Canfield Hayden are the Heirs and only
heirs at law in fee to Joseph Westland deceased who was a soldier
in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut line, in Swift Second Infantry.

Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this
Nineteenth day of August 1840.
Ralph G Camp, Judge of Probate
for Litchfield District

The above form will answer for the following States, viz:
Judge of Probate:
Maine,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
Vermont.

Surrogate:
New York,
New Jersey.

Ordinary:
South Carolina
Georgia.
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State of Connecticut }
County & Town of Litchfield }ss, 

I, Francis Bacon Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield aforesaid hereby certify that Ralph G. Camp Esq. is at the date hereof Judge of said Court & that the signature to the annexed certificate is genuine & is
in his hand writing -

In testimony whereof I have subscribed my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of August A. D. 1840.

Francis Bacon - Clerk [signature]
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Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.

State of Connecticut }
Town & County of Litchfield }ss

I Candace Hayden, heir at law of Joseph Westland Dec'd, wife of Canfield Hayden do, upon oath, testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that my Father Joseph Westland did enlist in 1778, for the term of during the war, and served in the Regiment No. 1 and under the command of Colonel Swift 2nd Infantry of the Connecticut line, and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the War.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Joseph Westland Dec'd as a soldier in the Continental army on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore, 

Know all men by these presents, that we Canfield and Candace Hayden aforesaid to hereby constitute and appoint Eli Tainton of of [illegible] County of [illegible] and town of Lee 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 & appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest, 
Canfield Hayden [signature]
Candace Hayden [signature]


Personly appeared the above named Canfield & Candace Hayden subscribed to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be their free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned, and made oath to the same.

Attest,
Jonathan Buel Justice of the Peace
Litchfield August 18th 1840


In testimony that the above written Jonathan Buel was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of Connecticut 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 Litchfield
this 19th day of August 1840.

Geo C. Woodruff, Assistant Clerk of the County
Court of Litchfield County, State of Connecticut
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[Left side of page]
Hon. D.R. Tilden
[illegible] as to Bounty Land
of Jos Westland of
the Revolution

Recd 2 Jany 47
Ans? same day

[illegible] Gordon

Respectfully referred to
Pension office for answer
as to Bounty Land & Mr.
Tilden so informed

3rd Aud's Office
2 Jany 46
P.H.

Recd Jany 5th 1847

[Right side of page]
Hon. D.R. Tilden
ans'd Jany 14th 47

Joseph Westland Conn't line

sent Regulations
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Washington Dec 31. 1846

Sir

Will you do me the honor to inform me within the heirs of Joseph Westland are entitled to bounty land.  Westland was a solder of the Revolution, and I am informed, entered the army in 1777 in the 1st Reg Connecticut line and served during the war. At the close of the war he was serving in the 2d Reg. Connecticut line
(Swifts Reg)

I am very truly
Your obt svt
Dan R Tilden [signature]


Hon Peter Hagner
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13.611
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January 9th 1847
Hon. Danl R. Tilden

Encloses a letter from Wm
Quimby in reference to the
claim of the heirs of Joseph
Westland for revolutionary
services-

R

Reply referred to the Pension
Office - Jan. 10 1847
Jany. 9. 1847
Mr. Noune
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Washington Jan 9 1847

Sir 

Will you do me the honor to inform me, whether the heirs of Westand [Westland] referred to in the enclosed letter from Mr Quimby are entitled to bounty land

Very Truly Your
Obt Sert
Danl. R. Tilden


James H Peper
Act Commisioner


The warrant has yet issued for the County land due in right of Joseph Westland, who was a soldier of the Connecticut line.

The above is a mistake, a Warrant has been issued, See New Series W. 2311, dated 30th March 1843
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13.611

William Quimby
Dec 18/46
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Hudson Dec 18. 1846

Hon. D.R. Tilden

Dear Sir

Mr William Westland wishes to obtain some information from the War or Pension Office respecting the claim the heirs of his father may have on government for revolutionary
services and I would be much obliged to
you to call upon the proper Department
for the information and write me the
result of your inquiries

Joseph Westland entered the army in January
1777 in the 1st Regiment Connecticut line, as a private, served during the war and at the
close of it was in the 2d Regiment (Swifts)
Connecticut line.

Were soldiers with such services entitled to any Bounty Lands, and if so, how much and where located?  and any other information that may be useful to the heirs in prosecuting
their claims

Write me as soon as you get any information
upon the subject

I remain yours &c
William Quimby
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I Sampson Cuff of the Town of Otis County
of Berkshire State of Massachusetts
on my oath depose and say that I lived
at Windsor Connecticut at the time of the Revolutionary War and I enlisted into Col Swifts Regiment for three years and was well
acquainted with Joseph Westland of Windsor
who was then a soldier in the same Regiment
with myself and that I then understood and
verily believe that he enlisted during the
War and that he was discharged when the during the war men were discharged and that I was well acquainted with him at Windsor Conn't after the close of the war
Sampson Cuff X his mark

Berkshire ss  Otis December 30th 1840
Personally appeared Sampson Cuff of the
Town of Otis and made solemn oath according to his best recollections of the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed

Before me Elam P Norton Justice of the Peace [signature]

And I further certify that said Sampson Cuff is respected as a person of truth and veracity
and that his affidavit is entitled to credit.

Elam P. Norton Just of the Peace [signature]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Berkshire, CC
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that Elam P. Norton Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper  hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Norton and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three -
Charles Sedgwick Clerk.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Westland, Robert   GRADE Private   LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 6653  ACREAGE 100  ISSUED Dec. 14, 1789
to Richard Platt, Assignee

*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.