Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10987, for Peter Sippell, Rhode Island
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Service                                                    Number
R.e.l                   Sippell, Peter                S10987

                                                               borded
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Peter Sippel of Oneida in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Westcott of the Reg. commanded by Col. Elliot in the Current line* for 1 Yr. Matross
*R.I. Line May 13/35
Records corrected
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 50 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July 1833 and writte B.P. Johnson
Revue
Arrears to the 4th of March $100
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 25
died Aug 6, 1841
see Agency Book $125
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Ge. C Stiles Clerk
Book E, Vol. 3 Page 78
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Peter Sippell
Oneida Co. N.Y.
B P Johnson
Agent. Rome.
Aomd
12 mo.Matross
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New York
Oneida County on this 25th day of July 1832 before me personally appeared Peter Sipple of Boonville in said county aged seventy four 74 years who being duly sworn does depose and say in order to obtain the provisions of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted on the 4th March 1779 in Rhode Island in a company of artillery commanded by Capt. Gideon Westcot in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Ellis for one year and continued to serve until March 4 1780 when he was discharged at Newport Rhode Island as will more fully appear by his papers on file at war office-
He hereby relinquishes all claims to a pension or annuity except the present and that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.
Peter Sippell
Oneida County on this 25th day of July 1832 before me personally appeared the above named Peter Sipple to me know as a man of credibility, truth and veracity and made oath to the foregoing declaration.
Lorin Miller Justice of the Peace
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Clerks Office Oneida County
I George Brown clerk of the county of Oneida do hereby certify that Lorin Miller before whom the written affidavit purports to have been taken, was on the day of the date of the same_a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and sworn and authorized to take affidavits and that the signature "Lorin Miller" I believe to be in the proper hand writing of the said Justice.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 30th day of July 1832
Geo. Brown Clerk
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To
Peter Sipple
Pensioner of N.Y.
Law of 1832
from
Arad Joy NY
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State of New York COUNTY of Oneida ss. William Sippell being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a son of Peter Sippell deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, who was an applicant for a pension from the State of New York for service at the Rhode Island lines that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th day of August 1853 and I do hereby certify that the said William Sippell is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by him as being directly interested in said claim.
Allen Seymour
Justice of the Peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I William Sippell son of Peter Sippell deceased deceased, to whom a pension was probably due who was an applicant for a pension from the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint Arad Joy of Ovid, N.Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
Witness my hand and seal, this 25th day of August 1853.
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF 
William Sippell
State of New York
County of Oneida. 
Be it known that on the 25th of August 1853 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared William Sippell above named and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be his act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
Allen Seymour
Justice of the Peace
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of ___, received___ for a statement of the military history of Peter Sippell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[column headings ] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED - CAPTAIN. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. - COLONEL. | STATE.
Mar 4 1779 | 1 yr | Matross | Gideon Westcott | Robert Elliot's Art | of R.I.
Battles engage in, ___
Residence of soldier at enlistment enl at Providence RI
Date of application for pension, Apr 2 1819 His al was al
Residence at date of application, Oneida NY
Age at date of application, 60 date place of birth not stated
Remarks: Soldier Aug 6, 1841 place not stated
Sons, Peter & William no other family data.
Respectfully, 
6-2856  Commissioner.
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Pension Department
Washington D.C.
Did a man by the name of Peter Sipple (Sippel ?) ever draw a pension for service in the Revolutionary War?
I do not know where he was born but it was, I think, either New York State or Connecticut.
I shall appreciate any information you
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[left side] can you suggest any other place where I might receive information?
[right side] may be able to give me in regard to his regiment, length of service and place of enlistment. Also if you possess any information regarding his birth or death I shall be glad to get it.
Thanking you for this service I am,
Yours truly
Mrs. E.R. Burkhart
Hawkeye, Iowa
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U. Off War & Navy
Feb 20 1903
Mr Wall
Dear Sir
There is a chapter of the D.A.R. in this town and I would like to become a member can I do so. My Great Grandfather Peter Sippell was in the war of the Revolution joined the army I think in Rhode Island early in the war and was on the pension list until the time
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of his death which I understand was in the year 1841
I have been given your address as the one who could tell me what will be necessary for me to know. May I trespass upon your time to that extent.
Yours
Miss Medora Adeline Sippell
Boonville
Oneida Co 
N.Y.
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One 2 of stamp read Revo. Sec
Stamp ret Revl
Aw
Hawkeye, Ia. Dec 5th '16
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir, 
Have you any information concerning Peter Sippel and his family, that I might use on an application blank to join the Daughters of the American Revolution?
The following is practically all the information I have. Peter Sippell was born in 1757 (I don't know where) he
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joined Elliotts Rhode Island regiment of artillery in 1779(?) and served one year as matross. some time after, he moved to some town or village in Oneida County New York. There is a record for a pension made out to him in 1833 for £26 4s 11d.
Can you give me any additional information? I would like his wifes name and any dates you may have concerning her, where he was from, when and where he died. The 
[stamp U.S. Pension Office Dec 7 1916]
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number of children they had and in fact I could use any information you might have concerning Peter Sippel or his family.
The information I already have I received from the State Record Commissioner at Rhode Island.
Thanking you very much for this favor and hoping you have some information I can use, I am yours truly
Mrs. E.R. Burkhart
Hawkeye, Iowa
[stamp U.S. Pension Office Dec 7 1916]
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[left side]
Rev War
10.987
INVALID.
File No. 10.987 Sippell.
Peter Sippell
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:-Vol. A, Page 224
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[right side]
Feb 28-1903
Miss Medora A. Sipp.
Boonville NY
1916 Dec 26 Hist to Mrs E.R. Burkhart AW
1919 Mar 18 Mrs E.R. Burkhart reqd record not sent twice to anyone AW.
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Mar. 18, 1912
Mrs. E. R. Burkhart,
Hawkeye, Iowa.
Madam:
In reply to your letter which was received on the 10" instant you are advised that you were furnished the history of the only soldier named Peter Sippell (under any spelling of that name) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, under date of Dec. 26, 1916.
It is not the practice of the Bureau to send the same report twice to any person, owing to the lack of clerical force available for such purposes.
Very repectfully,
E.C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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Peter Sipple
N York
no papers in file
now
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Rome July 28th 1832
Hon. S. Cass
Enclosed are the papers of Peter Sippell conformed to the directions of Mr Edwards as contained in his letter dated 17 July 1832.
Mr Sippell desires his pension payable at Br Bank Utica
Returns are most respectfully requested to the subscriber.
I am most Respectfully
Your very obt Sevt
B. P. Johnson
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Peter Sippell
private
Colonel Ellis's or Eliots
Regt
1779 1 year
There was no Rhode Island regiment commanded by Colo. Ellis & if it was in Elliotts Rh. I regt 79 & 80 only that has some a doubt whether that regiment was then on Continental establishment has lately arisen.
Name unaccounted were made at the War Department
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State of New York
Oneida County Personally appeared before me Thomas H Hamilton a judge in and for the County of Oneida and State of New York Peter Sippell aged sixty years and upwards and a resident of the said County and an applicant under the act of Congress of 18th March 1818 who being duly sworn did say that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of a pittance from his country for support _ that he never had any pension allowed him by the laws of the United States _ that he served as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy for one year _ that he enlisted on the fourth day of March 1779 in the state of Rhode Island into a company of Artillery commanded by Capt Gideon Wescott in Col. Ellis or Eliot Regt (does not know whether the Col name was Ellis or Eliot) enlisted for one year in the town of Providence and was marched from there to Warren and was detached from there and marched to Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island after the enemy evacuated the Island was marched and took possession of the Island _ and was there stationed until the 4th March 1780 when he received a writen discharge (since lost) and that he has no other evidence of his servis in his power beyond what is now offered
Peter Sippell
Sworn this 2nd day of April
A.D. 1819 before me
Thomas H Hamilton Judge
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State of New York
Oneida County ss Peter Sippell Jr found duly sworn saith that he knows the above named applicant Peter Sippell and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity and that he this deponent fully believes the matters set forth in the above affidavit to be true
Peter Sippell Jr
Sworn the 2d day of April
AD 1819 before me
State of New York
Oneida County ss Before me came Elias Jackson know to me as a man who sustains a fair character for truth and veracity who being duly sworn did say that he saw Peter Sippell at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1779 and that the said Peter Sipple the above applicant was then a Soldier in the Company of artillery commanded by Capt Gideon Westcott in Col Eliotts Regt.
Elias Jackson
Sworn the 2d day of April
AD 1819 before me
TH Hamilton Judge
I certify that Peter Sippell Peter Sippell Jr and Elias Jackson the above deponents are know to me and that they are men of truth and veracity.
TH Hamilton Judge
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To the Hon John C Calhoun Secretary of War
State of New York
Oneida County ss I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Peter Sippell (the above applicant under the act of Congress of 18th March 1818) is in indigent circumstances and that he served in the War of the Revolution as stated in the foregoing affidavit herewith transmitted to the Department of War - Dated April 2d 1819
Thomas H Hamilton Judge
Clerks Office 
Oneida County ss I certify that Thomas H. Hamilton was a Judge in and for the County of Oneida at the time of making the above affidavit and certificate as appears from the Commission and Roll of Oaths on file in this office, and that his signature to the same I verily believe to be of his own proper hand writing. Witness the Seal of said County the third day of April 1819. 
William P. Herrick Depy Clk
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State of New York
Oneida County ss Peter Sippel Junior being duly sworn deposes and says that he is son of the within named Peter Sipple and that said Peter Sipple is now alive and a resident of Boonville in the county of Oneida and further this deponent says not
Peter Sippell Jr
Oneida County ss on this 19th day of June 1832, before me personally appeared Peter Sippel Junior above
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185
Peter Sippel
private
Capt. Gideon Wescotts Co. Col Robert Elliots Regt Artillery
Rhode Island line
from 4 March 1779
to 4 March 1780
1 year
B.P. Johnson
Agent Rome
NY.
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named to me known, as a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the foregoing affidavit
B.P. Johnson
Court of Deeds
Clerks Office
Oneida County ss I George Brown Clerk of the County of Oneida do hereby certify that Benjamin P. Johnson before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken, was on the day of the date of the same a commissioner duly  appointed and sworn and authorized to take affidavits and that the signature "B.P. Johnson" is in the proper handwriting of the said commissioner.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 19th day of June AD 1832
George Brown Clerk
Joseph B Read Deputy Clerk
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I John Gonsolve of Providence in the County of Providence of lawful age and engaged arriving to here testify and say that I was a soldier in Captain Gideon Westcotts Company in the regiment of Artillery commanded by Col Robert Elliot in the revolutionary war in the Rhode Island lines and enlisted in said company on the fourth  day of March 1779 or before said time and continued in said company until the fourth day of March 1780 and that this deponent further saith at the time he belonged to said company from March 1779 until March 1780 that a man by the name of Peter Sippell who is now in my presence before the Judge who is taking down my deposition in writing who enlisted in said company in the month of March 1779 and continued to serve as a faithful soldier until the month of March 1780 when the time of his enlistment was out and he was honorably discharged. The company name I and Peter Sippell belonged to was upon the Contintental Establishment and further this deponent saith not
John Gonsolen
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State of Rhode Island  Providence SS
I Wheeler Martin Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Providence certify that John Gonsolve on this the 27 day of October 1819 came before me and made oath to the aforesaid deposition signed in my presence I also certify that I am well acquainted with John Gonsolve and have been acquainted with him for thirty years and he is a man who is to believed when under oath in this matter that he shall testify to. 
In testimony of the truth of which I have hereunto set my hand . Done at Providence
Oct 27 1879
Wheeler Martin CJCCP
State of Rhode Island  Providence
I William Givens Esquire of Providence in the county of Providence Clerk to Wheeler Martin Chiefs Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Providence do certify that Wheeler Martin Esquire is Chief Justice of aforesaid duly appointed Commissioner and sworn and writ the certificates on the above and leaf in his genuine hand writing In Testimony of the truth of which I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal. Done at Providence October 27 1819 Wm. Givens Clerk
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of Providence of lawful age and engaged according to here testify and say. That I was a soldier in Captain Gideon Westcotts Company in the regiment of Artillery Commanded by Col  Robert Elliot in the revolutionary war in the Rhode Island line and I listed in same Company on the fourth day of March 1779 and continued in the said company and regiment from March 1779 until March 1780 that this deponent further saith at the time he enlisted in said company that a man by the name of Peter Sippell who is now in my presence before the Judge who is taking down this deposition enlisted in said Company at the same time that is to say on the fourth day of March 1779 in the town of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and continued to serve in same company faithfully for one year it being the time of his enlistment until the fourth day of March 1780
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when he was honorably discharged by his Commanding officer in the Town of New Port the deponent further saith that said Company that this deponent and Peter Sippell belonged to was upon the Continental Establishment and that they were fed and clothed as such John [X his mark] Gross
Attest Wheeler Martin
State of Rhode Island & Providence ss
I Wheeler Martin Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence certify that John Gross on this the 27th day of October 1819 came before me and made oath to the aforesaid deposition signed in my presence and attested by me. I also certify that I am well acquainted with John Gross at this time and have been acquainted with him for a number of years and he is a man who is to believed when under oath, in all matters and things he shall testify to. In testimony of the truth of which I have caused my seal to be here unto affixed. Done at Providence October 27 1819.
Wheeler Martin
CJCCP.
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State of Rhode Island & Providence
I William Givens Esquire of Providence in the County of Providence Clerk to Wheeler Martin Chief Justice of the Court of Common Please for the County of Providence do hereby certify that Wheeler Martin Esquire is Chief Justice as aforesaid duly appointed Commissions and sworn and that the certificate signed by him on the annexed cert. is his genuine hand writing. In testimony of the truth of which I have caused my hand and seal affixed. Done at Providence October 27th 1819
Wm. Givens Clerk