Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,836, Samuel Vance, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Vance, Samuel
NUMBER
10.836
CONTENTS
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The State of Ohio  }
Clinton County  }  ss
On this day the twenty fifth of June personally appeared in open Court before George J. Smith Esquire presiding Judge and Jas Davis, Aaron Sewell & Jesse Hughes associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas now sitting in the County of Clinton, Samuel Vance, a resident of the Township of Chester in the aforesaid County of Clinton and State of Ohio, aged seventy two years the 18th of June instant, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832
That he entered the sirvice of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
In the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, agreeable to the best of this declarants rec collection, and he believes it to be in the month of September, his father was given the case and Superintendence of the store houses or ware houses at Otter Point in Harford County, State of Maryland. He, the father of this declarant was under the im mediate command of Colonel Richard Dellum or Dullum. This declarant states that he then was between sixteen and seventeen years old, and was also, at the before mentioned period, made subject to the command of the said Colonel Dallum but this was with this declarants father consent as he believes - he further states, that during one year tour untill the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy nine, he was employed in salting and packing beef and pork as for the army of this United States, and also in guarding the storehouses or warehouses belonging to the U.S. at Otter's Point aforesaid, the British during a part of which time laying in Chesapeak Bay, which made it at
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[handwritten]
all times necessary to guard well, the public stores at Otter point, in the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy nine, if declarants memory serves him rightly, he was ordered from tter point aforesaid to Bush Town in the same neighbourhood, and commanded by said Colonel Dellum, to clear the public arms, then being there, in a state of disorder in this duty he was engaged five months, having no one to assist him but a younger brother. In the
following fall towit seventeen hundred and Eighty, agreeable to the best of declarants recollection, he was ordered by the same Colonel Dellum, to take up arms to prevent the British, who was then lying in Chesapeak
Bay from proceeding up said Bay - he was there attached to the company of Captain McCornus and proceeded to a point [illegible] Packs Island, but he [illegible] that Captain McCornus, did not at this time take
the command in person of his own company
but that the same was commanded by his
orderly Sargent, here they prevented the British soldiers from landing, one attempt having been made so to do-- but declarant was in no engagement with them, as they the British turned and went away, on seeing that they were about to be fired upon by the company to which declarant was then attached. He served in this way about one month, he is inclined to the belief that
it was somewhat over a month, and was
then discharged, a belief being prevailed
that there was no further necessity for their
service in this way. He states he served
as before stated, in the public service, during the revolutionary war, eighteen months, and
that during said time, he did not serve under
any private contract, now did he ever recive
any pay or even the promise of any, for his services aforesaid. During the above period of Eighteen months - he held himself liable at all times
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[handwritten]
to be called into active service, in the character
of what were denominated at that time "minute men:" ^ and so did he [illegible] himself liable to be called out up to the war effort^  and was during said time under the1
immediate command of said Colonel Dellum. 
He states that he was born in Bucks County
Pennsylvania on the Eighteenth day of June seventeen hundred and sixty two - that he has a written record of his age now in his Bible and other Books in his possession - he was living in Harford County Maryland when he was called in to the public service as aforesaid he lived in the same County and state for many years after the revolutionary war, after which about the year Eighteen hundred and nine
be removed to western Pennsylvania, and settled in Green County in said State, from reliance in or about the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen he migrated to Ohio and has resided for about thirteen years in the neighborhood in which he now lives, and which is above stated He does not know precisely the manner in which he was ordered or called into service, except as he has before stated; they called it drafting, but
they were drafted for no definite period, but for such time only as they were needed. He states that he has no documentary evidence of his services as aforesaid, and that he knows of no one living by whom he could prove his services as aforesaid. He states that there is not a resident Clergiman  immediately in his neighbourhood; but that he is know
to Caleb Lucas senr & John Chapman both respectable and upright man of his neighborhood, who can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his service as herein before stated
he states that he received no written discharge
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity, except the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the year of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the 25th
day of June
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one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Samuel Vance

Isaiah Morris - Clerk

We Caleb Lucas Senr.& John Chapman residing in the County of Clinton in the State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Vance who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Caleb Lucas
John Chapman

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the 25th day of June 1834.

Isaiah Morris - clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Caleb Lucas Senr. and John Chapman who has signed the proceeding certificate are residents in the count of Clinton and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By the Court
George J Smith - Pres. Judge

I, Isaiah Morris, Clerk of the court of common pleas within and for the count of Clinton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Vance for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of June AD 1834.

Isaiah Morris - Clerk
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Deposition of 
E. Vance
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The State of Ohio  }
Clinton County }  ss
Personally appeard before me Isaiah Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County aforesaid E. Vance who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he has been for many years intimately acquainted with Samuel Vance who has yesterday made out an application for a pension for services rendered in the revolutionary war, at otter point & in the State of Maryland - That he is fully satisfied as to the truth of the facts set forth in said application - that he has, many years ago, at various times, heard the said Samuel Vance, relate the substance of the facts set forth in said declaration - and describing the manner in which he subsisted on the rations, to which he was entitled in his then situation - that he has frequently seen the record of said Samuel's age and that he believes him to be of the age that he he has stated himself to be. Deponent states further that he heard the said Samuel say, since the making out of his said declaration for a pension, that he was enroled under a Captain Wm. Bradford in the State of Maryland, and held himself in readiness to be marched out at any time as occasion might require , long previous to his having been attached to the company of Captain McCornus, as he has stated in his declaration; and that his chief duty was to guard the store houses at Otter Point, previous to that time - Deponant believes that it would be impossible to prove by disinterested persons, at this late period, the particular services of the said Samuel, that he rendered his country in the revolution and that he Samuel, has been remarkab[ly]
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careful not to state or attempt to state any fact of which he had not a distinct reccollection - the said Samuel is frail, and his memory much impaired but what he has stated in his declaration, deponent believes to be, as he has heard him state frequently the substance of the same many years ago-
E. Vance

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 26th day of June A.D. 1834
Isaiah Morris Clerk
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J N T [??]
O. W. and N. Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., August, 1833
Sir
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Samuel Vance, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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[Table with colunns]
[c-1] DATES OF ENLISTMENT.
[c-2] LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[c-3] RANK,
[over c-4 &c- 5] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
[c-4] CAPTAIN.
[c-5] COLONEL.
[c-6] STATE.

[entries by line]
[c-1] Sept 1778
[c-2] 12 mo
[c-3] Pri
[c-4] Bradford
[c-5] Richard Dollum
[c-6] Md

[c-1] fall 1779
[c-2] 
[c-3] " [pri]
[c-4] (Packing beef and pork)
[c-5] do [Richard Dollum]
[c-6] " [Md]

[c-1]  " [fall] 1780
[c-2] 1 mo
[c-3] " [pri]
[c-4] Alarm
[c-5] do [Richard Dollum]
[c-6] " [Md]

Very doubtful Service, at any rate not 6 mos military to entitle him to pension

Battles engaged in, not Stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Harford Co Md
Date of application for pension, June 1834
Residence at date of application, Chester Clinton Co Ohio
Age at date of application, June 18. 1762 in Bucks Co Penn
Remarks: Moved to Attars or Alter Point Hartford where his father appd Superintendent
of Stone hands at labor in civil or military capacity - In 1839 in Connorsville Fayette Co Indn -  2 others there named Samuel Vance
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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[left side]
1873
Augt, 18  

Brainard Rorison - for his
information sent a brief as within
[illegible]

10836
P. O.  Samuel Vance
Service:
Enlisted:  , 18  .
Discharged:  ,  18.
Application filed:  , 18.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.      Contract.
Cert. of Dis.       Searched for   ,    18.
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In answer to your request relative to Saml Vance a Revy Soldier  Your are advised  that no one of this name is on record as a pensioner who with the date [illegible] can be identified as the one of your enquiry.

It is stated for your information that a Saml Vance applied for pension in 1834 from Chester Clinton Co Ohio who was born in Buck Co. Par, & in 1778 appear at Athens or Atlers Point in Harford C Md with his father who was appd Superintendant of Stone hands at labor in a Civil or Military capacity.  In 1839 the Son was in Connerville Fayette Co. Ind A letter from Eli Vance giving direction about P O address.  States that two others named Saml Vance resided in Same County.

The [?? Conf ] you allude to must nave it.
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Samuel Vance
Indiana
did not serve in military capacity
Rejected
See let 29 March 18[?? 3 ]9
Eli Vance  
10836
Act 7 June 1832
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[Letterhead]
Fort Wayne Electric Co.
Continued, Page _ Date _
Fort Wayne, Ind. June 24, 1893.
Hon. William Louchran,
Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Thanking you for your favor of June 19th, I beg to return the papers herewith, and to say-the christian name of the widow of Samuel [middle initial inserted] C. Vance was Mary Morris Lawrence, granddaughter of General Arthur Sinclair, and at the remotest time we know of Captain Vance and his wife lived at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, which was named after her father.
If the above information is not sufficient for the purpose of identification and you will kindly advise me, I can perhaps procure further facts in connection with the above.
Yours truly,
Brainard Robison
Dic. B.R.-C.
Enclo.
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[printed letterhead]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., [typed] June 19, 1893. 

[typed upper left corner]
O. W. & N. DIV.
F. S.

[round stamp]
U S Pension Office
D
Jun
26
1893

[rectangular stamp]
RECEIVED
Jun 24 1893
Refer'd  [blank] FOr attention
Ads'd 2d By BIC

[typed]
Sir: --
In answer to your letter asking for the military history of Samuel C. Vance in the Revolutionary war, you are requested to furnish for purposes of identification, his place of residence
before and after the war and also the Christian name of his widow if one survived him.
[handwriting] Mary Morris Lawrence Vance
Please return all papers with your reply.
Very respectfully,
[signed] Wm Lochren
Commissioner.


Brainard Rorison, Esq.,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
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[handwritten]

V Gardner
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[printed letterhead]
Fort Wayne Electric Co.
Slattery Induction System of Incandescent Lighting
Wood Arc Light System

Branch Offices
115 Broadway New York, 85 Dearborn St Chicago
Philadelphia, PA. Pittsburngh, PA. San Francisco, CAL.
New Orleans, LA. Dallas, TX Buffalo, N.Y. Portland, Ore. Mexico City, Mexico. Toronto, Canada. Havana, Cuba

Main Office & Factory
Fort Wayne, Ind.

[etching of factory with below title]
Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
[typed body of letter]

Fort Wayne, Ind  May 11, 1893

Hon. Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: - 
I beg to enclose you herewith a letter addressed to the Secretary of War, which was returned by the Chief of the office with the accompanying memorandum. Will you kindly give me the information asked for, and very greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
[signed] Brainard Rorison

Dic. B.R. - C.
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[left page]
[date stamp] May 8 1893  365104
VRV

Fort Wayne, Ind.
May 6. 1893.

Samuel C. Vance
Rev. War.

Brainard Rorison states that
he has three commission issued to
the officer, and requests record of
service.

[right page]
[date stamp contiaining]
U S PENSION OFFICE 
MAY 16 1893
[end stamp]

Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, May 8 1893.
Respectfully returned to:
Mr. Brainard Rorison,
Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Application for information
concerning the service of soldiers
of the Revolutionary war should be
addressed to the Commissioner of
Pensions, Washington, D. C., in
whose office the records of said
war are filed.

[stamp containing]
OLD WAR AND NAVY 
MAY 18 1893
FILES
[end stamp] 

BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
H F Ainsworth
Colonel, U. S. Army, Chief of Office.
Per
(300a)
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[printed letterhead]
Fort Wayne Electric Co.
Slattery Induction System of Incandescent Lighting
Wood Arc Light System

Branch Offices 
115 Broadway New York, 85 Dearborn St Chicago
Philadelphia, PA.  Pittsburngh, PA. San Francisco, CAL.
New Orleans, LA. Dallas, TX Buffalo, N.Y. Portland, Ore. Mexico City, Mexico. Toronto, Canada. Havana, Cuba

Main Office & Factory
Fort Wayne, Ind.

[etching of factory with below title]
Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
[typed body of letter]
Fort Wayne, Ind  May 6, 1983. 

Honorable Secretary of War,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-

Will you kindly refer the following to your chief of the Record Department?
We have in our possession three commissions to Samuel C. Vance, two of them signed by George Washington and one by John Adams.
The first is dated March 19th, 1791 and "registered in the War office August 18, 1791." The second is dated March 19th, 1793 and the
third October 1st, 1798. I am anxious to know if there is any record showing service of the said Samuel C. Vance in the Revolutionary War.
Will you kindly advise how I can obtain this information,
and greatly oblige,

Yours truly,
[signed] Brainard Rorison
Fort Wayne Ind

Dic. B. R. -C.
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Connersville March 18th 1839
To the Hon. the commissioner of
Pensions of the Unitd States
Dr. Sir: by looking over the files of applications for pensions in your office, you will find one from Samuel Vance, a resident at the time of its date, of Clinton Co. State of Ohio, but now a resident of Fayette Co Indiana. he wishes you to examine the papers filed and inform him whether there is any prospect of obtaining a small rem uneration for past services as he now most needs such and if it can be righteously obtained, being now old and infirm. you can write to the subscriber of this letter or to Samuel Vance himself directed to Connersville Indiana.
If you direct to Samuel Vance add "Senr." as there are two others of the same name here.
Yours very Respectfully
Eli Vance
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Wilmington Clinton County Ohio 26 June 1834
Dr Sir
I write to inform you, that any com munication, which you may feel free to make upon the subject of the application of Samuel Vance, for a pension, herein enclosed, may be directed to Isaiah Morris Esquire Clerk of the Court at this place-
I am [illegible]
E. Vance

Hon J L Edwards
Com of Pensions