Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42625, Paul Bonnel, Penn
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SERVICE
Penn. 

Bonnel, Paul

NUMBER
S. 42625

19 U.S. Inf. War of 1812       
CONTENTS

Old War Inv. File 1426 &   
Wt. No. 1058-320-12      All papers in this 
                                             jacket
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15.814 R
Paul Bonnel
of ___ in the state of ____
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Butler of the Pennsyl'a
line, for the term of 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
 on the 12 of March 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Nov 1819
and sent to Danl Millikin
Hamilton Butler Co Ohio

Arrears from/or Mar 1819
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4[Sept] 45.16
5 20/31
$45.16
$22.58
B[illegible]

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
in an'l all  48.
 $70.38

Continued

Notification sent Sept. 11 1820 to Sam’ll
Millikin Esq Hamilton, Ohio
d. Aug 26, 1820
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Warrant No. 1058
320 Acres
WAR OF 1812.

Act Dec. 10" 1814

Warrant: Elizabeth Cadwell and 
and other heirs of

Soldier Paul Bonnel
Private

Service 17" Infantry

Nature of claim  Bounty Land
Double
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Paul Bonnel
private
Pennsylvania line
Spring 1782- war

Paul Bonnel is
already a pensioner
he must return his
former Certificate to the
War Dept. before he
can be placed on the
Roll under the act of
the 18th March 1818
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State of Ohio
Butler County

Before the subscriber
Daniel Milliken an associate judge
of the court of Common pleas for
the County of Butler in the seventh
circuit in the State of Ohio Personally
appeared Paul Bonnel on the [blank] day
of March in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and nineteen who
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration for the 
 purpose of obtaining a pension under 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. That he was fifty six years of age on the seventh day of November last. That some time during the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty two (the day or month he does not recollect) at Philadelphia. He enlisted to serve as a private soldier during the existence of the war between the United States and great Brittain in a company of light horse. He does not recollect the name of the Captain. He does not recollect whether a colonel was appointed to command the regiment. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania line. During the spring in which he was enlisted, he was marched under the command of
Lieutenant Jones from Philadelphia, to Carlisle where they remained at the barracks. He was under the command whilst he remained at Carlisle of Colonel Butler afterwards General Butler who was killed in St Clairs defeat
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the said Bonel remained at Carlisle
from the time that he arrived there as aforesaid untill the enemy fell. When he marched under the command of Colonel Butler to Lancaster of Pennsylvania where he was employed in guarding the British Prisoners untill the terminus of the Revolutionary war. He believes that
Colonel Butler commanded the whole
of the troops employed as a guard at
Lancaster during the time that he
was employed as a soldier in the aforesaid
guard. The said Bonnel further declares
under oath that some time in July
as this declarant believes of the year
seventeen hundred and eighty three
at Lancaster he was honorably
discharged, at which time he received
five months pay. The said Bonnel
delivered his written discharge and
other documents relative to his services to
his father. His father is now dead and
he knows not what has become of
the aforesaid papers.  The said Bonel
further declares that he believes he
was discharged by Colonel Butler
but is not certain.  That the aforesaid
services were performed during
the Revolutionary war against the common
enemy & on the continental establishment.
That from old age & infirmities & from his reduced circumstances in life he absolutely stands in need of assistance of his country for support.. That he has no further evidence within his power of having persons who can [testify] to his said services. 
Paul Bonnel

Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this 12th day
of March AD 1819
Sam'l Millikin
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State of Ohio
Butler County
I do hereby certify
that from the aforesaid declaration
I am satisfied that the said Paul Bonnel did serve as a private soldier during the revolutionary war in the Pennsylvania line on the continental establishment against
the common enemy upwards of one
year I do also certify that I am well acquainted with the circumstances in life of the said Paul and from my knowledge of his circumstances 
I do hereby certify that from received circumstances in life he absolutely and in need of the assistance of his country for support. Given under my hand this
12th day of Feby 1819
Sam'l Millikin

I Paul Bonnel do hereby release all
my right to interest to a pension which
which was granted to me by J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War on the 15th day of September A.D. 1818 said pension was granted in conformity with the waw of the United State of the 30th day of April A.D. 1816 for a wound received by me whilst a private
in the company of Captain A Edwards
of the 19th regiment. The said Paul is
inscribed on the pension list roll of the
Ohio agency which commenced on the
29th day January one thousand eight
hundred and sixteen. I do hereby release
the aforesaid pension provided a pension
shall be granted in the above declaration
& certificate otherwise the pension
received to continue.
Paul Bonnel (seal)
Dan'l Milliken (testl)
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The State of Ohio Butler County
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common pleas
of the County of Butler aforesaid do certify that Daniel Millikin Esquire before whom the Deposition & Certificate within stated 
was taken was at the time of the thereof one of the associate Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and Official Seal at Hamilton the
Twenty Ninth day of March One thousand
eight hundred and Nineteen
John Reily
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Paul Bonnel
No 1058
Double Bounty
P17 Inf [Juy?]
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Hon James Shields
The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
Paul Bonnel deceased.
Be it remembered that at a Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid holden at Hamilton on the     day of March, in the term
of March, One thousand eight hundred and thirty before the Honorable George J. Smith Esquire President and his associates Judges of our said Court of Common Pleas.
Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Elizabeth Caldwell, late Elizabeth Bonnel, Johannah Line, late Johannah Bonnell Jane Hawthorn late Jane Bonnel, Rachel Jewel late Rachel Bonnel Mary Easton late Mary Bonnel, Eli P. Bonnel, and William Morton and Mariah Hart the son and daughter of Abigail Morton, late Abigail Bonnel are the son and daughters, and Grandson and Grand daughter and heirs at law in fee to Paul Bonnel late a
Soldier in the regiment of        in the late war between the United States and Great Britain.
A true copy taken from the Record.
In Testimony whereof I John Reily Clerk of the
said Court of Common pleas have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton the thirteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
John Reily
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Double Bounty
To all whom it may concern:
In conformity with the General Order of the 4th March, 1815.
KNOW YE, That Paul Bonnel a Soldier
of the Seventeenth regiment of Infantry 
who was enlisted on the First day of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen to serve during the war, is hereby honorably discharged from the army of the United States, having served out the full period of his enlistment, without joining any regiment or corps. 
Said Paul Bonnel was born in the State of New Jersey, - in the         of      is about forty four years of age six feet      inches high, Light complexion, Blue eyes, Sandy hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a Sawyer.
Given at certificate this 18th day of April 1815.
George Tod
Leuit. Colonel

Superintending the recruiting service for the 17th regiment of July
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Paul Bonnell has received his
monthly pay to the date of his discharge
and the ballance of fifty dollars the
first part of his Bounty
[?] D No. 162
Geo Williamson
Asst Paym'r for
Jas Taylor D. P. [U] 

Dist Pay Office
Newport NY
Apl 24, 1815
Jas Taylor D.
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Paul Bonnel enlisted for 18 months in the 19th Regt Infantry, was discharged 26th April 1814, term of service having expired, was wounded 4th May 1813 at the Siege of Fort Meigs
Reenlisted on the 1st Feby 1815 in the 17th Regt for the War, and was honorably discharged on the 18th April 1815 Application was originally made by Bonnel in 1816 for his Bounty Land, and the case was ordered to be suspended by the
Secretary of War, upon the following grounds.

1st, that he became an Invalid Pensioner under the Act of 1816 from which circumstance, it was inferred that he could not have been an able-bodied man at the time of his second enlistment

2. That his discharge from his first enlistment stated his age as 51 years and that he entered himself under his second enlistment, as 44 years of age
It further appears that he was a Revolutionary Soldier, and upon that ground relinquished his Invalid Pension of $4 per month, and had himself placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners, under the Act of 1818 at $8 per month
Application is now received by the Hon James Shields in behalf of the heirs of said Bonnel, for land, under the Act of Decemr 1814 allowing double bounty
See decision of the ┃
Secretary of War
over
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P. Bonnel is to be considered "an able-bodied man. He
was re - examined & monitored regularly, which could not & would not have been the case if he had not been "able bodied" nothing appears to the contrary so far
for it, he has recd in honorable discharge. I considered him entitled equally to the act of the 10 of December 1814
J. H. Eaton
22 Apl 1830
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[Bifold paper]

[left side of fold]
James Ramsey
1058 DB
Hamilton O
14 Octo

Paul Bonnel's
Heirs

Answered
Nov 19 1834

[right side of fold]
Oct 20
Respectfully referred to Bounty Land Office

Pension Office
Nov 19 1834
Free

Mr. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.
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Hamilton Oct 12th 1834

J L Edwards
Dr Sir
I addressed you some time ago
on the subject of warrant issued to a Soldier of
the name of Paul Bonnel. In reply you
stated that the name of Paul Bonnel appeared
on file but that it would be necessary to
form you what Regiment he belonged to
and in whose name the warrant was issued.
In reply I have to say that the warrant was
issued to Elizabeth Caldwell & other heirs at
law of Paul Bonnel, dec’d. The
Regiment he belonged to I am unable to
Ascertain. Be good enough to inform me for what
number of acres the warrant was issued  - in
what State the warrant is to be located - 
and of what character the warrant is.
I wish to know whether it is one of those
warrants that can be changed into Land
Scrip or not. Your immediate attention
to this will much oblige me, as I have
some Idea of purchasing this warrant
from the heirs - being married to his
Grandchild myself. 
Your obt srvt
James Ramsey
Land Warrant No. 1058 Double Bounty
issued 22 April 1830- notif. given to 
the Hon Jas Shield
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

August 9, 1929

Mrs. Walter Kerr
Aurora
Indiana

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.42625, it appears that Paul Bonnel was born November 7, 1762, in the State of New Jersey.
He enlisted in Philadelphia in the spring of 1782, and was a private in Captain Christie's Company, Colonel Richard Butler's Pennsylvania Regiment and served until
in July, 1783.
He also served as a private in Captain A. Edwards' Company, 19th United States Infantry, was wounded by a musket ball through the frontal bone of his head, May 4,
1813, at the siege of Fort Meigs. He was discharged April 26, 1814, having served eighteen months. He re-enlisted February 1, 1815, in the 17th Regiment of United States
Infantry, and was discharged April 18, 1815.
He was allowed pension for disability resulting from the above mentioned wound.
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He relinquished the above pension and was allowed pension for his services in the War of the Revolution on his application executed March 12, 1819, while residing in Butler County, Ohio. He died August 26, 1820. In 1830, the following children survived him: Elizabeth Caldwell, Johannah Line, Jane Hawthorn, Rachel Jewel, Mary Easton and Eli P. Bonnel. The soldier's daughter, Abigail, who married Morton, died prior to March 13, 1830, leaving the following children: William Morton and Mariah Jart. Warrant No. 1058 for three hundred and twenty acres of bounty land was issued April 22, 1830, to Elizabeth Caldwell and other heirs of Paul Bonnel. In 1834, James Ramsey stated that he was married to the soldier's grandchild. He did not give her name nor is the name of soldier's wife stated. Very truly yours, EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
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War 1812 
INVALID. 
File No 1426 
Paul Bonnel 
Priv. 19th. U.S. Infantry
Act: Apl 24. 1816 
Index: -- Vol. A Page 36 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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42625 INVALID. Revy File No. 42625
 Paul Bonnell Pri Rev War --- Act: 18 March 18 Index: -- Vol [E or S?]. , Page 53 (Arrangement of 1870.)
May 9 -99 Mrs Jane Collins Keokuk Ia
 1929, Aug. 9. Hist to Mrs Walter Kerr awf
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Discharge sent to
Action of Bounty Lands
6th Novr 1818
returned 24th Nov. 1818

Ohio
Paul Bonnel,
private
Captain A. Edward's company of the
19th Regt U.S. Infantry
Ratio of disability, One half-
Time of [closing testimony] 29 January 1816

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio 
at 4 dollars per month, to commence on the
29th January, 1816.

Certificate of pension issued the 15 of Sept 1818
and sent to the Pensioner at Hamilton, Ohio.--

Arrears to 4th Mar 1816-- 1 6/31 mo.  $4.77
Semi-anl all’ce ending 4 Sept 1816  24.
$28.77
Act 24th April, 1818
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Paul Bonnell

a new case

an 18 month man Dischd for Disability - placed on the Pension List at half Pension - afterw'd. Enlisted in the Regular Army on the 1st of Feb 1815 for the War - by which he claims double Bty Land.
The Scty does not ad't [admit?] this but orders it ret'd - and will not review until better explan'n is given in Support of it.  Evidence retd of [Cmr ??]
Nov 21 1818

Care of Jas Heaton
Hamilton Ohio
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Payable on the 4th March & 4th of Sept in each year by the Pres’t. B’n B’k. U.S. Agent for paying U.S. Pensioners, Chilicothe, Ohio.

The Agent will be pleased to commence his payments to this pensioner, from the time he appears to have been paid to, by the former Agent for paying U.S. Pensioners.
War Dept Pension Office
15th Sept 1818
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 30th of April, 1816. - Paul Bonnel, late a private in the compy commanded by Capt A Edwards, of the 19th regiment U.S. Infantry - is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of four dollars, per month, to commence on the 29th day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this 15th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Something appears to be wrong in the 2d Enlistment of Paul Bonnel.

Feb 15th, 1816
Suspended by order of the Secretary of War

Mem. to consult the Secretary of War relative to the Claims of Paul Bonnel.

If the circumstances on which his Claim to Pension is founded, are correlectly stated by the different Witnesses, he certainly could never have passed inspection for an efficient Soldier on his Second Enlistment.
There is also a contradiction in the two Discharges, the first stating him 57 and the Second 44 years of age.
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Feb. 12th 1816

Sir
I enclose the papers of P. Bonnel
He wishes a land warrant, and pension.
If the papers are not sufficient you will
oblige me by giving the information.

Very respectfully yours
John McLean

Wm Cutting
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Schedule of Paul Bonnell
a Copy
No 15  3/4
Nov. 1819
Could Sep 11 1820
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The State of Ohio Butler County Ss
At a Special Court of Common pleas holden at Hamilton in the County of Butler and State of Ohio Before Daniel Millikin Henry Weaver and Robert Taylor Esquires associate Judges of the said Court of Common pleas the said Court of Common pleas being a Court of record for the said County of Butler expressly created a Court of Record by the laws and advances of the said State of Ohio on the seventeenth day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court Paul Bonnel aged fifty nine years resident in Fairfield Township in the said County of Butler who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: to wit he enlisted into the Regiment Commanded by Col Richard Butler Pennsylvania line and in the Company Commanded by Captain Christy and that he was discharged at Lancaster in Pennsylvania at the close of the revolution that his original application for a pension was about the Twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and his certificate of being placed on the pension Roll is numbered fifteen thousand eight hundred fourteen and I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any sort thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 other income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me
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Subscribed to wit not any goods or chattel whatever a few articles of wearing apparel excepted my occupation is a labourer when able to follow it but for many years have been and yet continue to be very infirm
Sworn and declared in open Court the day and year first above written before the Judges above named attest John Reily Clerk
[signed] Paul Bonnell x his mark

I John Reily clerk of the court of common pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is (no value set) dollars and  (blank space) cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty
[signed] John Reily Clerk of Butler Com pleas
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Paul Bonnel
Complains that
although he is on the
Pen F list a 4. pr mo.
not having certificate is
refused payment

Hamilton Ohio
13th May 1818        Free
---
The Honorable
Secretary at War.
Washington City.
Mail
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Hamilton, Ohio, May 9th 1818
The Honorable Secy of War.
Sir
 Although more than two years ago, I was placed on the Pension list of the Ohio Agency and Received my Pension (4 dollars per month) regularly of John Harmon Esq of Canesville up to the 4th of Sept. last. I write because I have never received, and consequently not able to send on a copy of my Certificate of my right to a Pension from the Secy of War the Pres of the office of Discount & Deposit of the Bank of the U.S. at Chillicothe refuses to send on my pension.
Be so good therefore as to transmit to me my Certificate
Yours
[signed] Paul Bonnel

meaning - Paul Bonnel
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Hamilton Jany 29th 1816
We the undersigned two Physicians
Legally [bound] do certify on honour
that Paul Bunnell has had the frontal
 bone of his head perforated (by a
Musket or Rifle Ball, as is said at Fort
Meigs). The bone has never closed. The
internal [ligaments] has partially filled
the Vacancy which injury has in
our opinion rendered him Uncapable
of performing Manual Labour.
Every time he attempts to labour it
produce inflamation which we have
attended him in.  Given under our
hands -
Dan’l Millikin MD
A. Slayback [M D]
Doctor Millikin is a respectable physician
of Doctor Slayback. I have no knowledge
personally, if I mistake not he was formerly
attached to the Army in the capacity of
Surgeon. 
John Mclean
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Know all men by these presents that I Paul Bonnell late
Soldier of the seventeenth Regiment of Infantry of the army of
the United States who was enlisted the with day of February
Eighteen hundred and fifteen to serve during the war, and
honorably discharged from the Army of the United States
on the Eighteenth day of April eighteen hundred, 1815,
as will more fully appear by my original discharge hereunto
annexed, have and by these presents do nominate and 
appoint the Honorable John McLean my true and
lawful attorney for me and in my name and in my
behalf to procure and receive from such officer, person
or persons as shall be legally authorised to grant
the same a warrant for the quantity of land to which
I am entitled for the services rendered by me as a
Soldier in the army of the United States in such case
made and provided and I do further empower
the said John McLean to do and perform all such
acts and things, and to give such a receipt or receipts
or execute such instrument or instruments in writing
as shall be required in an as full and ample a manner
as I could myself do were I personally present and I do
further empower him to constitute and appoint an attorney
under him for the said purposes, and also at pleasure to revoke the same, and I do further hereby ratify and confirm whatever my said Attorney or substitute shall lawfully do in the premises.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
Seal at Hamilton this thirtyeth day of January.
One thousand eight hundred and Sixteen.
Paul Bonell {seal}
Dan’l Millikin
Robt B. Millikin

State of Ohio Butler County ss Paul Bunnell being duly
sworn, doth depose and say, that he is the same person
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described in and who executed the above power of attorney
and that the same is his own free and voluntary act, for the
purposes mentioned therein.
Paul Bonnel
Sworn to and subscribed this thirtyeth day of January 1816
before me
James Heaton J.P.

The State of Ohio Butler County ss Daniel Milliken and
Robt B. Millikin being duly sworn depose and say that they and
each of them are personally acquainted with the above named Paul Bonnell, and well know him to be the person described in the above power of Attorney.
Dan Millikin
Robt B Millikin
Sworn to and subscribed before me this thirtyeth day of Jany
in the year 1816.
James Heaton J.P.

The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
 I certify that the above named
Daniel Millikin and Robt B. Millikin are credible
Witnesses, Dated at Hamilton this 30th
day of January, 1816.
James Heaton, J. P. {Seal}

I John Reily Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county
of Butler in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that James Heaton
before whom the above affidavits appear to have been taken is a
Justice of the peace, acting under the authority of this State and
that the above is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of the
said court of common pleas at Hamilton
this thirtieth day of January One
thousand eight hundred & Sixteen
John Reily
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Paul Bonnel
Private
Hon Mr McLean of Ohio
Act 30th April, 1816

March 13-1816
Red’d to the Committee on Pensions
Revolutionary Claims

[illegible] pension
allowed commencing
the 29th Jany 1816
4 Ap. 14 1816

McLean O.H. 23. [illegible]
March 21 1816

Hon Mr McLean of Ohio
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The State of Ohio Butler County Ss.
Be it remembered that on the 27th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixteenb, personally appeared before James Heaton one of the Justices of the peace in the county aforesaid Samuel Bayles of the same county of Butler who being duly sworn as the law already deposeth and saith that in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen in the month of Mar this deponent was at fort Meigs during the Seige of that fortress and that he knew then, and still knows, a certain Paul Bonnell a Soldier of either the 17th or 19th Regt of the Army of the U.S. and that on the fourth day of May during said Seige the said. Paul Bonnell was struck with a ball on the fore part of the head which ball struck or brokethrough his skull, at which time he was on duty in the Service of the United States, and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year first above written 
James Heaton J.O.
[signed] Samuel Bayles Lat Adjt 8th Regt 3d Detachd of Ohio Militia at Camp Heige

The State of Ohio Butler county SS
Be it remembered that on the 27th day of January 1816, Personally appeared before me James Heaton one of the Justices of the peace in said county James Mill Esquire, who being duly sworn as the law directs deposeth and saith, that on or about the 4th day of May 1813 at Fort Meigs at the time of the Seige of that Fort he knows that a certain Paul Bonnell a Soldier in 19th Regt of July of the U. States was wounded by a Musket or Rifle Ball in the head, which broke in his schull, the size of said bullet, and that at the time of said wound taking place, the same Soldier was on duty.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
James Heaton J.P.
[signed] James Mills late Col 5th Regt 3d Detacht of Ohio Militia at Camp Meigs
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By George Croghan Esq Lt. Colonel of the 2d Riflery
Regt in the service of the United States Commandant
of the Territory of Michigan and its dependencies.
These are to certify that Paul Bonnel a private in Capt A Edward’s Company of the 19th Regt of United States, Infantry [??] in the State of
New Jersey having under the Law of the United States
passed on the 5th day of April 1812, Enlisted for the
Term of Eighteen months and has faithfully served for that
period as appears by the Certificate of an Officer of his
Regt hereunto annexed. In consequence whereof he is hereby honorably discharged. And to prevent any improper
use being made of this discharge by its falling into other
hands the following is a description of the said Paul Bonnel - 
He is six feet high, fifty [one] years of age, blue eyes,
dark hair, Sandy Companion and by occupation a
Sawyer. Given under my hand and seal at 
Detroit this 26th day of April, 1814.

By the Colonel
Cha’s Larned
A A A Lieut

G Croghan Lt Col
Comd. [?]
[illegible]
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Rec’d of Jesse Hunt Dis’t Pay Master U. States Army
the full amt of Pay subs & [bounty] severance due me from the U. States.
Cincinnati June 4, 1814
Paul Bonnel

Lieut
Chas J Clarkson
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Paul Bonnel’s
Discharge
26th April 1814

the within person has drew
Six Complete rations here
at fort [McArthur] May 11 1814
Michael Walter
Lieut Com’d
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In the House of Representatives of the United States
March 23 1816.
On motion of M McLean (Ohio) Resolved, that the Committee on pensions and Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing Paul Bonnel who was wounded at Fort Meigs on the pension lists

Attest Tho Dougherty CHP
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James Ramsey
1058 D13

Paul Bonnell

required the number of
his Regt or the
names of his Heirs
at Law.
Aug 13- 1884

R’d Aug. 12th 1834
Ref’d to B’y. L’d Office Aug.12

Hamilton 6 Aug
Mr J L Edwards
Pension Office
Washington, D. C.
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Hamilton Ohio
Aug 4th 1834
Dr Sir
Desirous of obtaining information - 
I address you on the subject of a Warrant
issued from the war department in favor
of a soldier of the revolution & late wars
by name Paul Bonnell - The warrant [was]
has been mislaid or lost. I think he was a
soldier in Col Butler’s Regiments.
Will you be good enough to give me the
necessary instructions about reviving the
lost warrant. which was [to be] drawn
to be located in Michigan or Illinois
and was transfered to Arkansas (reserving
the right to holders to take scrip
for said warrant, if dissatisfied with
the change by Congress to Arkansas.
Very respectfully
Your obt srvt
James Ramsey

No 1058 Double B’y issued 22 April 1830
to Elizab’h Caldwell daughter & other heirs
of Paul Bonnell - [? 17 Jn C]
Notif. to Hon Jas Shield
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OWN
Keokuk, Iowa
Mar 20th

Com.  Pension Office
Dear Sir
I am desirous 
of knowing whether the name of
Paul Bonnel of the 2d & afterward of
the 4th Penn Reg. Revolution soldiers
appears on the roll of pensioners &
if you will kindly send me a
certificate of the same. I will
be greatly obliged.
Respectfully
Mrs. J A M Collins
614 Orlens N.
Keokuk, Iowa

[circle stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U S
MAR 22 1899
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[letterhead]
The Colonel Archibald Lochry Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution

[handwritten letter]
Aurora Indiana May 3 - 29

Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Will you please send me data in connection with pension papers of Paul Bonnell who drew pension for service as a Revolutionary Soldier? Would particularly like to have wife's name also childrens names. Do his papers state where he was born?

Sincerely
Mrs. Walter Kerr
Aurora 
Indiana
[stamped] U.S. Pension Office May 7 1929
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Name Bonnell, Benjamin
Grade Private
Line New Jersey
Warrant Number 8161
Acreage 100
Issued October 22, 1789 to Samuel Potter, William Valentine and Jonathan Valentine,
administrators of Obadiah Valentine, deceased, late 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.