Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40243, for Osborn Parsons, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Parsons, Osborn S. 40243
B.L.Wt. 1089-100
CONTENTS
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New York Roll.
1026
Osborn Parsons
Capt Hoyt
Private
Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of June 1818,
and sent to the Hon. R Riker
New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 19 /30 $37.06
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
5 years
Bradley
City of Co of New York
1888 July 19 - S.F Cary - history - Proof
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Osborn Parson
Soldier
Bradley's Rgt
Conneciticut line
Osbourn Parsons
enlisted Pryor's compy
April 6 '77 for War, Col.
Philip B. Bradley's Regt
Admd
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State of New-York, SS.
Printed by E. CONRAD, Frankfort-street.
To the Hon. Richard Riker
Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the
Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a
Court of Record of the State of New York.
The Declaration under Oath of Osborn Parsons
formerly a Soldier engaged in the Service of the United States
during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of
the City and County of New-York respectfully shewith,
THAT the said Osborn Parsons as soldier sometime in the
month of April 1778 in Captain Samuel Hoyts Company
in Col Phillip B. Bradley's, Regiment from the State of
Connecticut in One of the Regiments upon the Continental
Establishment for and during the war, and actually served in the
Revolutionary Service fighting against the Common Enemy
of my County untill Peace in the year 1783 and received an
honorably discharge but I have lost my discharge In the course of the
war I was in a Battle at James Town in Virginia commanded by
the Marquis De Lafayette and was at the siege of York Town and the
taking of Lord Cornwallis, beside a number small skirmishes
I wish further to state that I am now about 55 years of age
And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Osborn Parson
is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New-York, and is by reason
of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for
support
Therefore the said Osborn Parson
conceives himself
entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An
Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests
your Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the
Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the
premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts
above set forth, the said Osborn Parson
refers to Isaac Keeler
formally an Officer in the Connecticut Line of the Army
City and County of New-York, ss.
Osborn Parson
of the City and County of New-York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by
him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Osborn Parsons
Sworn beofre me this Sixteenth
day of April 1818
R Riker
Recorder of the
City of New York
City and County of New-York, ss.
Isaac Keeler
of the City of New York aforesaid being sworn, saith, that he was well
acquainted with the applicant Osborn Parson and that I served as
an Officer in the Connecticut Line under the continental Establish
my first commission was in Jan 1777 and continued to the end of the
war and from conversing with the said Clament I recognise his fetures
and I do fully believe that he served in Colo. Bradleys Regiment
for I well knew his Captain and knew him to have been on the
Continental Establishment in said Colo. Bradleys Regiment, but that
near the close of the war he was transfered to Colo Swifts Regt from
Connecticut who was on the said Continent Establishment 
Isaac Keeler
Sworn before me this Sixteenth }
day of April 1818 }
R Riker
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City and State of NEW YORK, SS.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Sixteenth
day of April in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
before
me Richard Riker Recorder of
the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of
New York, which is a Court of Record, personally appeared
the aforesaid Osborn Parson
who being by me duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated
in the foregoing Declaration and having produced the Testimony of Isaac Keeler
Esquir who was an Officer in the Revolutionary service who is well
know by me to be a Respetable Citizen of the City of New York
WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Osborn Parson
did serve in the service of the United States under the Continental Establishment
in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months
and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said
applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the
Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony
in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the
Secretary of the Department of War.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the said Court, in the
City of NEW YORK, this Sixteenth day
of April in the Year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and Eighty
R Riker
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Osborn Parsons
Petitioner
Filed 22d April 1824
Danl Pano
S. F. Hunt Esqr
Cincinnati Ohio
Clerk's fees $1.25
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State of Ohio }
Court of Common Pleas for the
Hamilton County } Term of
On this 22d day of April 1824 personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of Records
for said County expressly made to by the Laws of this
State Osborn Parsons aged sixty two years resident in
said County who being duly sworn according to Law doth
on his oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the provisions of the acts of Congress
of the 18th March 1818 & 1st May 1820 and 1st March 1823 &
declares that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows
That he the said Osborn Parsons enlisted for the term of
"during the war" in the month of April in the year 1778
in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded
by Capt Samuel Hoyt in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Phillip Burr Bradly in the Line of the
State of Connecticut or Continental Establishment
and that he continued to serve in the same Corps
and subsequently in Captain Chapman & Taylors
Companies of Colonel Herman Swifts Regiment Connecticut 
Line from this Regiment he was drafted
into the light Infantry and served in Col Gernots
or Ternots Regiment of Infantry under the Marquis
De La Fayette in Virginia and at the Siege of
York Town after which he returned to the Northwards 
and again Joined Swifts Regiment from which
he was honorably discharged in the Spring of 1783
near West Point That his Original Declaration was
dated on the 16th day of April 1818 that he has received
a Pension certificate given at the War Office of the
United States on the 13th day of June 1818 which
said certificate of numbered 1026 And in pursuance
of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear
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that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the
18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my
property or any part thereof with interest thereby so
to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not nor has any person in trust for me any property
or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I
any income other than what is contained in this
Declaration which is by me subscribed And I do
further declare under oath that I am a distiller by occupation 
that I own no real Estate or personal property
save my wearing apparel and that I am not a
House Holder or renter of any house or tenement or lands
I have a wife Living aged about forty five years but no
children who are defendant dependant on me for
support I further declare that in consequence of my old
age and indigent circumstances I stand in need of the
assistance of my country for support
I am at this time Justly indebted to the persons
hereafter named in the following sums of money that is
it say
To Colonel Owens - $50.00
" James Jones - 14.00
" Joseph House - 10.00
" David Barnes on which a Judgt }
" is obtained against me }- 24.00
" E. Fox - 30.00
"James Kibbey - 10.00
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I have several debts of long standing are to me some
for Persons who are dead and their estates insolvent and
the debts from persons who are now living who are insolvent
from whom I have no rational prospect or hope of
ever recovering a single cent I consider these claims
as worth nothing and further I declare not
Osborn Parsons
Sworn to and Subscribed }
in open Court this 22 day }
of April 1824 }
Danl Pano }
clerk
State of Ohio } ss.
Hamilton County ]
I Daniel Pano Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said
County of Hamilton Do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original declaration 
of Osborn Parsons and applicant for a pension on
file in my office and I do further certify that upon
consideration it is ordered by said court that the
Clerk do certify that the court are satisfied the
facts therein stated are true
In testimony whereof I have
have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cincinnati
this 14th day of May Anus Domini 1824
Danl Pano
Clk
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State of Ohio } Court of Common Pleas
Hamilton County } Ss for the Term of August 1824
On the first day of September A.D.
1824 personally appeared in open Court being a
Court of Record for the said County expressly
made so by the Laws of this State Osborn Parsons
aged fifty two years resident in said County who on
his solemn Oath declares in reply to certain questions 
which are proposed to him to deliver in
relation to the disposal of his property in a letter dated 
War Department Pension Office 16th July 1824
signed by J. L. Edwards and addressed to Samuel
Hunt Esqr of Cincinnati. In reply thereto
he [illegible] and saith that some two or three
years previous to the year 1818 he possessed considerable 
Property in the City and State of New York
but that from a variety of causes and more especially
in consequence of the failure of a Mercantile House
in the City of New York by which he sustained a
considerable loss his property was seized upon by
his creditors and he was obliged to take the benefit
of the insolvent Law. This Deponent further
saith that subsequently the Law of Congress of
the 18th of March 1818 was passed to which a
liberal and benifiecent constructions was given (as it
did not) subject the Old Soldier to the humiliation of
making an exhibition of his poverty, he was
willing and did avail himself of the benefit of the
provisions of it. by the act of Congress of the first
of May 1820 it was agreed that all those who were
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then on the pension list for revolutionary services or
who should thereafter apply for it should exhibit a
Schedule of their property under oath before some
Court of Record and the value thereof be decided
on by the Court in order that the Department might
Judge whether the situation of the applicant was
such that he needed of sustance of his country for
Support; to that requisition this Deponent did not
at that time yield not because he was rich or
had property of much value but because he will
frankly express it he then felt to proud to beg and
did believe that he could get a comfortable living
without the Pension besides at that time he had
several claim of long standing which he did expect
recollect but more recently and the passage of the
act of the 1st March 1823 Deponent has discovered
that the Estates of those persons against whom his
demand existed are insolvent and he has not [illegible]
neither had he on the twenty second day of April
last the day on which he made his declaration and
Schedule a rational hope or prospect of recovering
those demands or any part of them.
Deponent further saith that all the property
he has disposed of since the 18th
day of March
1818 to the best of his knowledge recollection and
belief were two silver watches the one
for about
the sum of ten Dollars and the other for about
twenty five Dollars which money was appreciated
for paying his board in Cincinnati and
further he saith not
Osborn Parsons
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Sworn and Subscribed }
in Open Court day 1st }
of September 1824 }
Danl Pano }
clk C P }
The State of Ohio }
Hamilton County } Ss
.Daniel Pano Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing Declaration & schedule exhibited by Osborn
Parsons are truly copied from the Records of said Court
and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court
that the total amount in value of the property in said schedule
is thirty five Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of our said Court
of Common Pleas at Cincinnati this 6th day of October
AD. 1824
Danl Pano Clerk
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State of Ohio }
City of Cincinnati } Ss
I, Osborn Parsons of the City of
Cincinnati in the State of Ohio
aged sixty two years a citizen of the U. States do
upon oath testify and declare, that in the year
One thousand eight hundred and seventy eight
I enlisted in the army of the Revolution against the
common enemy of my country for the term of
"During the war" and served in the company commanded
by Capt Samuel Hoyt in the Regiment commanded
by Col. Phillip Burr. Bradley of the Connecticut
Line, on the continental Establishment. I was afterwards 
transferred to Capt. Chapmans & Taylors Companies of Col. Herman Swifts Regt 2nd, of the Connecticut 
line, and that I continued in the service
aforesaid until the close of the war in seventeen
hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly
discharged from the Regiment commanded, by
Colonel Swift
My discharge is now worn out lost or mislaid
so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above
Statement, I further declare, that I have other received
a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on
the part of the United States, but that I have
never located, the same, or ever assigned or transfered,
my claim to that gratuity in any manner, whatsoever 
but that I retained, the same, until it was entirely
worn out, and destroyed, by carrying it in my
packett, therefore know all men by these presents
that I the aforesaid Osborn, Parsons do hereby constitute 
and appoint Samuel F. Hunt of the City of Cincinnati, 
in the State of Ohio, 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, or of such other person as is duly authorized
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to issue and deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity
of Land, due to me as aforesaid and to sign a receipt
or acquittance, therefore, and my said attorney is here
by fully authorized and empowered to constitute
and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys
under him for the special purposes above expressed
Osborn Parsons {seal}
Signed in presence of } 
Isaac G. Burnet }
Eliphalet Allen, aged sixty two years a citizen
of the United States, do upon oath declare that I have
been long acquainted with Osborn, Parsons 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 that he did perform the military Service, therein 
Stated
Eliphalet Allen
State of Ohio }
City of Cincinnati } Before me Isaac, G. Burnet Mayor
of the City aforesaid personally came
the above named Osborn Parsons
and in my presence acknowledged, the power of attorney
thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed. And
likewise personally appeared Eliphalet Allen, who
has subscribed the above certificate of identity
both to me well known to be men of respectability
and truth and made solemn oath to the truth
of the depositions, by them respectively subscribed
this 21st day of April Eighteen hundred
and twenty four
In. Testimony of all which
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I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the official Seal of the
said City on the day and date first
above written
Isaac G Burnet, Mayor
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State of New-York
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, SS
I, BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk
of the City and County of New- York
and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
in and for the said City and County,
Do hereby certify, That Richard Riker, Esq.
before whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his
name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said
Affidavits were made, and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City 
of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the
Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn.
And further that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New-York; 
and that the signature of R. RIKER subscribed to the said Certificate is
the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty fourth
day of April 1818
Benj Harris
Clerk
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(For sections of Bounty Land)
Free
The Honble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Cincinnati April
23rd 1824 - S.
F. Hunt enclosing
declaration of
Osborn Parsons of
the Connecticut line
Swifts Regt
June 9th 1824 wrote
to him - 2 person - that
the claim is good & when
he shall substitute someone
to call at this office &
sign a rect for it
it would be delivd
[illegible] No 1089
May 5th 1824
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Cincinnati April
23rd 1824 - S.
F. Hunt enclosing
declaration of
Osborn Parsons of
the Connecticut line
Swifts Regt
June 9th 1824 wrote
to him - 2 person - that
the claim is good & when
he shall substitute someone
to call at this office &
sign a rect for it
it would be delivd
[illegible] No 1089
May 5th 1824
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Saml F. Hunt 
Aug 2nd 1824
Osborn Parsons
Warrant No 10.89
Rev
6 Vol File 265
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Saml F. Hunt Esq
Department of War
Cincinnati Ohio
Section of County lands
Sir Augt 2nd 1824
Your letter of the 2nd also
was duly recd and would have been answd
earlier had it not required some time to
examine for a precedent in such cases -
having met with several - I now enclose
you Osborne Parsons Revolutionary Land
warrant - also your blank receipt, both
of which I hope you may safely receive
as respects the latter. I think you are too
much risque in sending it - I will
thank you to acknowledge the receipt of 
both immediately after you get them
Very respectfully &c
Wm M Stewart
I certify that I saw Mr Stewart
enclose a Land Warrant No 1089
for Osborne Parsons Aug 3d 1824 & directed as above
E. Stephens
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cause he was rich, or had
property of much value, but
because he was too proud to
be, and did believe he could
get a comfortable living with
the pension, and at that time
he had several claims of long
standing, which he did expect
to collect, but since the passage
of the Act of 1st of March, 1823 
he has discovered that the estates
of those on whom he had demands
are insolvent, and he
has not now, neither had he on
the 22d day of April 1824, the
day on which he made his declaration. 
The only property
disposed of by claimant is two
silver watches, one for $10, the
other for $25.- which money was
appropriated to paying his board
Claimant aged 73, labourer
infirm. wife aged 61. 2 children, 
one grown up
Cond & Tranfer Dec
23. 1824. & [illegible] to
Samuel F Hunt Esq
Samuel P
Cincinnati
Ohio.
last evidence 1st Sept. 1824
Sept '18
49.3
Original claim
Ohio
Osborn Parsons Private
served during the war from 1778
Schedule, dated 18th Augt 1824
A quarter section of Land
bought in, Dec. 1819, has paid
on the same - $80. -
old horse, - 10. -
Dray & harness. - 12. -
a few articles of furniture - 7.25
file Sept 1818 $109.25
In a schedule dated 22d
April 1824, claimant states that
he owes to sundry persons (names
iven,) $118. -
In an additional affidavit
Dated 1st Sept, 1824 claimant states
that two or three years previous to 1818,
he possessed considerable property in
the city & state of New York, but
from a variety of causes, but more
particularly in consequence of the
failure of a mercantile house in
the city of New York by which he
sustained a considerable loss, his property
was seized by his creditors and
he was obliged to take the benefit of
the insolvent law, he further states
that subsequently the law of Congress
of the 18th March, 1818 was passed &
as it did not subject the old
soldier to the humiliation of making 
an exhibition of his poverty,
he was willing and did avail himself 
of the benefit of that Law,
that he did not comply with the
act of 1st of May,1820, not be
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Cincinnati Augt. 20th 1824.
Sir
On my return home last evening after a
this absence in the Country. I found your
letter of the 2nd just in the Post office. And
agreeably to your request, I haste to answer
it without delay. Enclosed I found, Osborn
Parsons Revolutionary land warrant, and
also, my blank receipt, on reflection I
agree with you in opinion, that I run too
much
risk in sending the latter and in
future I shall decline it,
Very Respectfully Sir
your most obt servt
Saml F. Hunt
To Wm M. Stewart Esquire
Section of B. Lands
War Department,
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1089
Osborne Parsons
private of the
Connecticut line
Warrant issued
August 2nd 1824
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Honble H. R. Stom
enclosing documents
in the claim of the
heir of Capt
Kirtland-
The Commission of the General
[illegible] No 1085 Land Office
of the
U. S.
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Cincinnati, October 11th 1824
Sir
In obedience to the directions, contained in
your letter of the 16th of July last, I now enclose
to you, the additional declaration of Osborn
Parsons, from which may be discovered
the
amount of property, he has, disposed of since
the 18th day of March,1828, and the reasons
why he did not apply to be reinstated on
the Pension List Roll previous to the act of
Congress, of the 1st of March, 1823.
I also transmit to you a certified copy of the
declaration and schedule of property of James
Gray, an applicant for revolutionary pension
together, with the affidavits of John Kennedy &
William Dougherty, the proof of his service in
the case,
In relation to this applicant It may be
proper to state that he applied for the pension soon after the passage of the act of the 18th
March, 1818, but was rejected, for want of
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of evidence of service, as of alledged that his
name, could not be found on the Rolls of the
Regiment, in which he professed to have served
from which time until recently, he has not remembered
his application for pension, for want
of the evidence, none furnished, which he has
lately obtained from the State of Pennsylvania
whither he went in person to obtain it
Very Respectfully Sir
Your most obt sevt
Saml. F. Hunt
J. L. Edwards, Esqr
Pension Agent
War Department
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40243
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40.243
Osborn Parsons
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18"
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 382
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cincinnati July 2nd 1824 -
Sir
Your letter of the 9th Ultimo, came duly to hand, in
which you inform me, that it does not appear that a
warrant, has even been granted to Osborn Parsons
for his bounty Land for his services
in the revolutionary war, and that if I will
duly authorise, some one to present himself here
as my substituted attorney a warrant will be
issued, and delivered to him to this cause I can
have no reflection of the regulations of the office,
make it [illegible] necessary, but it was to [illegible]
the chance of making an agent, or attorney of some
person residing in your City, to receive the [illegible]
that the power of attorney, was executed directly to
me, for I do not know of any agent there whose
fee for doing this service, would be less than
three dollars and this Parsons is illy able to pay
and if it must be paid at all I must do it
out of my own pocket for him Besides it
occured to me that there would be no, objection
to binding the Warrant to me, on your having
my receipt in Blank. for it which you could
fill up as you, thought proper, and I was the
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more led to believe, this course, correct, inasmuch as I
have been in the habit of receiving sums of money
from some of the offices for the payment of Claims
for which no receipts were asked, until after the
money was remitted to me, I think, I transmitted
to you my blank receipt for the warrant I expected
to receive for Parsons with the power of attorney,
but of this I am not certain, and for fear I may
have omitted it I now send it to you which I
trust, you will think with me will answer the
purpose, I wish you to be assured Sir that I have no
disposition whatever to controvert or oppose any [illegible]
of your office, and that it is solely for the
reason, before mentioned, that urges me, now to insist
on the request, before named provided it is compatible
with such regulations Parsons is, to poor to pay the
charge, if it can be provided and I must confess that
I feel some reluctance, to pay it out of my pocket
for him
Very Respectfully Sir
Your most obt. Servant
Samuel Hunt atty for
Osborn Parsons
W. M. Stewart Esqr
Section of Bounty Land
War Department,
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Osborn Parsons in April 1818 of NY City aged 55 yrs

Enlisted in April 1778 record 1777 to war with Capt Hoyt Colo Bradley Cont Regt & [illegible] 1783
In battle at Jamestown under Genl Lay Fayette (July 6 1781) at Siege of Yorktown
& surrender of Cornwallis (Oct 19.1781) besides lesser Conflicts
He was in Col Swifts Cont regt He was in Colo Gentry by detachment in Lafayette Comd
after siege of Yorktown returned north & joined  Colo Swift
wife living in 1824 but did nown or rent atonement. He moved from NY to Ohio
& was in Cincinnati in & a short time prior  to 1824
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See letter to Samuel
F. Hunt 16 July 1824
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Cincinnati April 23d 1824
Sir
I herewith transmit to you the declaration
of Osborn Parsons formerly a soldier in Col.
Herman Swifts Regiment of the Connecticut
Line on Continental Establishment, which
he has made in order to obtain from the
United States the Bounty in Land which he
was promised, and which he now claims
by virtue of his services in the army of
the Revolution, together with authority from
him for me to receive such land warrant
as may issue in his favour and the affidavit 
of Elaphilet Allen, the proofs of his 
identity & Service Parsons served to the
close of the war and his name will be found
on the Roll of the army. He has been placed
on the Pension List, his certificate was numbered 1026, I state these facts, under the impression, that they may be useful in the investigation 
of his claim. I would be glad
to have your decision, or this case as early
as practicable, and would thank you to
apprise me of the result of your decision
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in a similar application of Henry Smith, which
I enclosed, in a letter addressed to the late Mr
Cutting on the 10th of March last
I am very Respectfully
Sir your most obt. Servant
Saml F. Hunt atty for
Osborn Parsons
To
The agent or
Chief Clerk in
the section of
Bounty Lands
War Department