Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 639-100, for Thomas Keeler, Connecticut
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Keeler, Thomas

B.L.Wt. 639-100

CONTENTS
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               No. 639

          Thomas Keeler
                 Private
2d Regt. Connt. Line, Revoly. Army

   NB Assigned to James M. Keen.

Warrant issued to James M. Keen
as Assignee of Thomas Keeler  send and Date
the 5th Nov. 1814 and [illegible] is the
Honble Wm. Irving, on the 19th of the same month.


Deposited by the Honble Wm. Irving
Noted on Bl: 3d Octr. 1814.
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       Mr. Jeremiah Keeler

              North Salem

                      Westchester County
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                           Clairmark 10th April 1810.

Sir:
   I take this opportunity to send a few lines by the Bearer James W. Keen to inform you that myself & family as well as your children in ... are well. send request to you to have the goodness to deliver up to the said M Keen my discharge from the army at the Close of the late revolutionary war. The Discharge is a printed blank filled up & signed George Washington & was left in a certain Chest of Drawers then in the possession of my mother -
  Your affectionate Brother    Thomas Keeler

Witness Wm, Rowley
Samuel Rowley

North Salem   April 17th 1810 then called on 
Jeremiah Keeler who searched for [last word inserted] the above mentioned Discharge but could not find it - Having got Lost among the old papers that belonged to the family since the decease of Keeler's mother -
                            James McKeen
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Know all Men by these present that I Thomas Keeler of the Town of Clannack in the County of Columbia and State of New York Taylor for & in Consideration of the  sum of Seventy five Dollars current money received to my full satisfaction of James McKeen of the City of New York, do give grand [illegible] all assign & confirm into the said James McKeen his heirs and assigned forever all the right title interest and demand    both in law and Equity which I have to the bounty Land arrears of pay & every thing  else that is now due & ever granted to me by the United States for my service as a soldier in the second Connecticut Regiment during the late revolutionary war against great Britain.  To have and to hold the above granted Land & arrears of pay with the Opportuness unto the said James McKeen his heirs and assignees forever for his own proper use and Benefit. And the said Thomas Keeler covenants with the said James McKeen that he will hereafter make such further Conveyance in Assurance of the Law and arrears of pay hereby interested to be granted  or Conveyed as the said James McKeen or his Counsel shall reasonably advise or require.

And I do hereby appoint the said James McKeen my true and lawful Attorney for me with person of Substitution and in my name to demand ask  [illegible word] pitition [sic] recover and receive from the war Office of the United States or from any other person or Body politic for his own proper use and Benefit for which Land I hereby  appoint [last word inserted] to be issued in the name of my said attorney to which I am entitles for my services as a soldier during the said war & having actually served the United States in pursuance of and Enlistment for that purpose  to the End thereof in the Second Connecticut Regiment.  Hereby irrevocably notifying and confirming  whatsoever my said attorney or his Substitutes shall lawfully do or Cause to be done in & about the premises by virtue of these presents. 
[Next word illegible] whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in Clannack aforesaid this tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ten   The word appoint [underlined] first enterlined [sic] 
                       [Signed] Thomas Keeler
Sealed and delivered
In Presence of'
John J. Miller
John P. Mesick

Columbia 
County}     I John J. Sullivan one of the Justices of the Peace of said County do hereby certify that on the eleventh day of April the year one thousand eight hundred and ten before me came Thomas Keeler and acknowledged that he had signed  sealed and delivered the foregoing Deed - and [illegible word] of Attorney to be his deliberate act and deed and that he executed the same with [next three words illegible] for the purpose therein mentioned.
           [Signed] John J. Miller Justice of Peace

I hereby Certify that Thomas Keeler who signed the above Deeds and Power of Attorney has been Personally known to me for sixteen years and I verily believe him to be the Soldier he represents himself to be   dated 1st April 1810
  [Signed]  John J. Miller Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Columbia}  I do hereby certify that John J. Miller, who hath certified the Execution of the within Instrument by Thomas Keeler is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Columbia. I witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Please of the County Aforesaid this Twelfth day of April 1810.

   [Signed]   Marshall Jenkins Junr Clerk of'  
                         the County of Columbia

Seal
affixed
here
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Authorization from Jas. McKeen,
as assignee of Thomas Keeler,
for delivery of a Land Wrt. -
to the honble Wm. Irving  /ak C./
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To his honor the Secretary of the War Department

Sir

    The Documents containing an application in behalf of myself the assignee of Thomas Keeler, for a land warrant are already before you.  Please to deliver the warrant to the honorable Wm Irving member of congress from the City of New York and his receipt therefore shall be in full discharge of the war department for the same
             New York 21st October 1814
                                     Your st
                                             Jas McKeen
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I Certify that it appears by the Register of the Connecticut Line in the office that Thomas Keeler inlisted [sic]  Colo. Philip B. Bradley's Regiment on the 8 June 1777 for the War

              Dept of War
               Sects. Office
                  March 11.1812
                     {Signature illegible]
                             Commissioner
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State of New York Js.
   Osborn Parsons of the City of New York distiller being duly sworn saith that he this Deponent was sometime about the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight inlisted [sic] as a soldier in Col. Philip B. Bradley's Regiment of the Connecticut Line to serve for and during the revolutionary war: and that he continued to serve until the End of said War, and was honorably discharged from the Second regiment of the said line commanded by Colonel Swift in or about the month of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. And further that Thomas Keeler who executed the annexed instrument in writing before John J. Miller Esquire was also inlisted in said Bradley's Regiment some time before this Deponent for the war only and did serve to the End thereof and was also honorably discharged from the said Second Regiment at the same time with this deponent
                          [Signed]  Osborn Parsons

Sworn this 10 - Sept -
1814 before
Jos. Ogden H of Peace
_____
Recorder of [illegible]
City of New York__
I certify that Osborn Parsons above named is a person [?]  of credit
Sep. 10. 1814
   {Signed]  Jos. Ogden  H of Records
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City of New York Js   Walter Butler of the City of New York Porter & Gardiner [sic] being duly sworn saithe that he this deponent was enlisted to serve for and during the revolutionary war in the Connecticut Line of the army of the united [sic] States and was honorably discharged from the second Regiment of the same line Commanded by Col. Swift some time in the month of June 1783  And the deponent further saith that Thomas Keeler who executed the annexed instrument in writing before John J. Miller Esquire was also inlisted [sic] in the Connecticut Line of the said army to serve for and during the said war in Col Philip B Bradley's Regiment and was also honorably discharged from the said second Regiment of the said Line Commanded by Col Swift about the sale time that this deponent was discharged
                       [Signed]  Walter Butler

Sworn and Subscribed to
this tenth day of September
1814 before me
    [Signed] Stephen Burdett Assistant Justice of the Peace in and for the City of New York

I do hereby certify that Walter Butler the above deponent is a credible witness & that his testimony may be relied on
  {Signed] Stephen Burdett Assistant Justice etc
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City and County of New York St: I certify that the affidavit of Osborn Parsons hereto annexed is certified in the proper handwriting of Josiah Ogden Hoffman Records of he City of New York and that the affidavit of Walter Butler also hereto annexed is certified in the proper handwriting of Stephen Budell Esquire Assistant Justice of the Peace for the fourth ward of said city New York 12 September 1814.

John W. Mulligan, Clerk of the City
County of New York
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AW [handwritten]
Rev. War Section.

Sept. 11, 1983

Mrs. M. C. Coleman, 
1710 S. State St.
Syracuse, N. Y.

Madam:
I have to advise, you that one hundred acres of bounty land was allowed to James McKeen as assignee, on account of the services of Thomas Keeler, and served as a private, from June4 8, 1777, to June 1783, in the Second Connecticut Regiment. In 1810 Thomas Keeler was a resident of Claverack, Columbia County, N. Y., and referred to his family, but did not give their names. The dates and place of his birth and death are not on record. It does not appear that pension was claimed on account of his above noted services.

Respectfully,
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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Dear Sir:

Is the name of Thomas Keeler, born April 8th., 1762 at Ridgefield, Ct. and who "enlisted in the was of the Rev. at the age of 14, and served through till the army was disbanded at Newburg: lived in Spencertown Col. Co., N.Y. till the War of 1812 when he again went into service but died on his way home in 1814" on your pension records?

If so, may I have the names and dates of his family?

Yours very truly,
(Mrs) Minnie C. Coleman.
1710 So. State St. Syracuse, N.Y.
July 28th, 1923
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Thos. Keeler assignment [illegible] of his Bounty Lands [illegible]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM 51

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans Administration Archives
NAME Keeler, Thomas [handwritten]
GRADE Private [handwritten]

WARRANT NUMBER 845
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Apr. 27, 1798 
to Abraham Bell, assignee [handwritten]

*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.