Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5,220, Alvan Bingham, Conn. N.H.
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81776 
service number
Conn Bingham Alvan W.5,220
N.H. Elizabeth
Contents
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8443
20783 Chic Dead
Alvan Bingham Paid at his treasury under
of Atheus in the state of Ohio the acts of the b. afrie 1838
who was a boful. r Peni. in the cowfy commanded from 4 March to 4. Sept 1840
by captain pannuele of the regr commanded agt holified 17. June 1841
by ceo. Elmew in the N. Mdcuelepeleiu
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fnocribed on the roll of Chis
at the late of 56 Dollars Costs for Annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of June 
1839 and sunth hm. mr smith 
fall
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Alvan Bingham - revolutionary
filed october 13th 1832
H. Bounty Elk 
20783
claim of serg his application 
aomel
3 mo. corfe
13/2 pre
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State of Ohio 
Athens County} sct.
On this 13. day of October 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the President and the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Alvan Bingham, Esquire, a resident of Athens Township in the county aforesaid, aged 77 years, 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service as herein stated, That is to say, That he the said Alvan Bingham in the year 1776, being then in the service and employment of Doctor Eleazar Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, at Hanover in the State of N Hampshire, uncle to the Deponent, did, in the latter part of March of 1776, inlist into the company of Captain Jehiel Parmele (Parmelee/Parmly) of New Haven, Connecticut, for one year; that the deponent's inlistment was by Sergeant Clapp of said company, That his term of service is he thinks commenced on the 1st day of April 1776; he took up his march with the other recruits of said company down Connecticut river, on the said 1st day of April, to New Haven, and there joined Captain Parmele (Parmelee/Parmly) with the residue of his company, where they remained stationed at the State house in New haven, as a guard over the ordnance and other munitions of war there deposited until they heard of the declaration of Independence; That soon after, the deponent marched with said Company through Canaan and Sheffield to Albany, where they joined the Regiment which was commanded by Samuel Elmer of Sharon, State of  Connecticut. This was late in July 1776. That we tarried at Albany but a few days, during which the deponent was employed in small detachments in expeditions for capturing, guarding and bringing in Tories, until the regiment took up its march for the German Flats, where we arrived, as the Deponent believes, early in August, for it was about the season of roasting ears of corn. that here we remained two or three months, after which the company to which the deponent was attached, with three other companies, was sent to the relief of Col. Dayton's regiment at Fort Stanwix.  That there the Deponent remained in service, until April 1st 1777, when his term of service having expired he was honorably discharged, and received a certificate of discharge signed by the said Col. Elmer, who also allowed to be deponent about two weeks for his journey home. The deponent further states that while at Fort Stanwix he had a corporal's warrant for a considerable time, and performed the duty of an orderly sergeant for 3 months; and that his certificate of
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discharge aforesaid and his muster roll were in his possession for some time since the passage of the Pension Act in 1818. but have since been lost or accidentally mislaid. The Deponent further saith, that in the said REgiment Robert Cochran was major: that the names of the Captains in the Regiment have all escaped his recollection; except those of Captain Parmele (Parmelee/Parmly), and Satterly; that the 1st Lieutenant in Capt Capt Parmelee's company was Lyman Hitchcock of Newhaven or its neighborhood - and that the 2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant was of the name of Munsell of Newhaven. 
And the deponent further states that about the 1st of January 1778, being in Hanover, in the State of New Hampshire, employed in work on Dartmouth College, he enlisted into the company of Captain Taylor; the regiment was commanded, as the Deponent understood and believes, bu Col. Beedle (Bedel) who lived at or near Haverhill, in what was then called Lower Cohoss, the Lieutenant Col. of the Regiment was John Wheelock, afterward President of Dartmouth College. that the term of said inlistment was 3 months. That the Deponent, and others inlisted, including a number of the Indians belonging to Dartmouth College, were ordered to be in readiness for marching into Canada, on snowshoes. That the Deponent equipped himself at his own expense. that he did not receive the bounty which was paid to others who were inlisted with him, but waved that privilege, not standing in immediate need; and the Government funds being at that time very scarce. That for reason, not now recollected, and perhaps never known to the deponent, the company was never called out on the aforesaid expedition to Canada within the term of their said inlistment, but the deponent was occasionally employed by Lieutenant Col. Wheelock in conveying dispatches, orders, and letters on publick service to Col. Beedle (Bedel), a distance of 30 miles, and to other persons and places of intermediate distances. That these services were performed by the Deponent with his own horses, and at his own charge and expense. That at the expiration of the said three months, about the 1st of April 1778, the deponent returned from Hanover to Salisbury, his home; after a considerable time he again visited Hanover, and understood that the soldiers had received pay in addition to the bounty for the term of 3 months for which they inlisted as stated aforesaid; but such was the depreciated state of the continental money at that time, that the deponent did not feel himself to be justified in the trouble and expense of travelling to Haverhill, 30 miles distant, to receive what he supposed due to him. 
Afterward, at Salisbury aforesaid, in 1779, as the Deponent believes, some time in August or 1st September he was drafted into the company commanded by Roger Moore who had lately returned from England where he had been carried a prisoner with Col. Ethan Allen, for the term of one month, that the company proceeded immediately from Salisbury through Sharon to Horseneck; where a part of the regular day, the deponent was ordered out on the road to New York 7 miles to the enemy's lines as a guard; that soon after the company was ordered to Fairfield, and the day following our arrival at Fairfield we were ordered to Green's farms; and the deponent was called out with a Corporal's commanded to go out 4 miles and join the Town guard, which was under the command of Lieutenant Burnet. Here I served out
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my term and returned home having been absent some what more than one month.
That afterward living in said Salisbury, the deponent was again drafted, the day month or year it is out of his power to state, in the company of Captain Burrell of Canaan, of which Luke Camp of Salisbury was Ensign. The company proceeded after a short time to Suffield Connecticut, for the purpose of guarding a part of Burgoyne's company in the discharge of said duty returned with said troops of Burgoyne's army, through Salisbury, having performed full two weeks service in said company, and there employed and engaged Silas Bingham as a substitute to proceed with said troops to the Line of the State of New York, which service, as the deponent was informed and believes, the said Silas Bingham faithfully performed, and as he verily believes was occupied in said service ten or twelve days. And the Deponent declares that to the best of his judgment and remembrance, he did faithfully serve his country under the inlistments and engagements before stated for the full term of seventeen months exclusive of the ten or twelve days service performed by Silas Bingham as the deponent's substitute.
That after his period of service last aforesaid, the Deponent lived in Salisbury aforesaid until 1783 when he removed to Rutland County Vermont, from whence in June 1796 he came to Ohio to the HockHocking river then Washington County now Athens county, where has since lived devoted principally to the business of farming; having been called from time to time to the discharge of the duties of various offices of publick trust. 
That the deponent was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, December 20 1754. That he offers to the Court a paper which he verily believes to be a true copy of the Record of the date of his birth transcribed from the original entry in his father's family Bible 25 or 30 years ago - The record of his baptism, he believes may be found in the register of the Congregational Society of Salisbury of which the Rev'd Jonathan Lee was paster in 1754. 
That the deponent never received, to his knowledge and recollection any other written discharge or dismission except that herein before mentioned, which he is unable now to produce, it being lost or mislaid and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, except Achsah Evarts, whose deposition is herewith submitted, who can testify to his service having any positive knowledge thereof. 
And 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 agency of any State. 
/s/Alvan Bingham
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
in open Court /s/Henry Bartlett Clerk
We Robert G. Wilson, Doctor of Divinity President of the Ohio University, a clergyman residing in the County of Athens aforesaid, and John Brown, residing in the same County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Alvan Bingham, late a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, who has subscribed and sworn
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to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 77 years of age; that he is reputed and believed where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
/s/Robert G. Wilson D.D.
/s/John Brown
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
/s/Henry Bartlett 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 certify that it appears to them that Robert G. Wilson Doctor of Divinity, President of the Ohio University, is a Clergyman resident in Athens County aforesaid, and that General John Brown, who has also signed the same, is a resident of said County, and that their statement is entitled to full credit. 
I Henry Bartlett Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Alvan Bingham for a Pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this thirteenth day of October A.D. 1832. 
/s/Henry Bartlett Clerk
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N.H. rolls No 20.783
Alvan Bingham
adm'd
36.6 x3=109.8 11
13' 40
Hon'l Mr. Vinton 
Gallipolis Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Alvan Bingham County of Athens in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years,|Months,|Days.)|Rank. As a|Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.Gen.|]
In 1776 Mar.|(1| - | - )|*Private|Col. Elmer, Capt. Parmele (Parmelee/Parmly)|
 " 78 June|( - |3| - )|d'o|Col. Beedle (Bedel), Capt. Taylor|
 " 79 Aug't|( - |1| - )|drafted|Col. Allen, Capt. Moore|
after this|( - | - |13)|d'o|Capt. Burrell|
[end of columns]
5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hanover N.H. Salisbury
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Deposition & tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Regular
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
*rec'd Corp'l warrant & acted as Serg't 3 mos
/s/Levin Belt
Examining Clerk.
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State of Ohio.
Hocking County ss.} On this twenty fourth day of July A.D. 1844, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said Hocking County, Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham, a resident of Starr Township in said Hocking County, (late of Athens County.) aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath,, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled, "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows," and March 3rd 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War". That she is the widow of Alvan Bingham who was a Corporal & Private in the Revolutionary Army, and late a pensioner of the United States t the rate of fifty six dollars per annum, and died February 11, 1841.
She further declares that she was married to said Alvan Bingham on the fifth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one that her husband, the aforesaid Alvan Bingham died on the 11th day of February 1841, as aforesaid, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz. at the time above state. 
/s/X her mark Elizabeth Bingham
Sworn & subscribed, before me, on the day and year above written. And I certify that the said Elizabeth Bingham is a credible person; and further that from age & bodily infirmity she cannot attend in open Court. 
/s/David Johnson 

Hon. S. F. Vinton
HR
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State of Ohio
Hocking Co. ss.} On This twenty fourth day of July AD. 1844 personally apeared before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said Hocking co - Mrs. Amanda Bartlett; daugter of Elizabeth Bingham, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the folowing declaration that the record cut from the family Bible and annexed to this document is authentic as she believes and that it has ['always' crossed out] been in the family ever since her remembrance and that this record was coppied from an old worn out bible by her Brother Alvan Bingham more than twenty years ago by the direction of her father
/s/David Johnson

The State of Ohio Hocking County ss
I Charles W. James clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that David Johnson Esqr before whom the foregoing affadavit was made is an acting associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that to all his acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given.
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 27th day of July 1844
/s/C. W. James Clerk
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[margin note: Elizabeth Bingham]
State of Ohio Athens County ss
Before me A. G. Brown a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, personally came Henry Bartlett, of said County, (whom I certify to be a credible person,) who being duly sworn according to Law,, deposes and says, that he has been well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Hon. Alvan Bingham late of said Athens County, deceased, for forty six years past, that he knows her to be a credible & highly respectable person, that he also knew the said Alvan Bingham from the year 1798 to the time of his death, that the said Alvan and Elizabeth Bingham were reputed to be husband and wife, and that he believes they were lawfully married prior to the first of January 1794, and at the time stated by her in her declaration, that he was also acquainted with the children of said Alvan & Elizabeth Bingham, and believes, from his recollection of their apparent ages at the period of his early acquaintance with the family, that the annexed Family Records, which he believes to be in the hand writing of Alvan Bingham Jr. deceased, ['only' crossed out] son of said Alvan Bingham contains a true statement of the birth of the children of the said Alvan & Elizabeth Bingham
/s/Henry Bartlett
Sworn & subscribed before me this 27th day of November 1844}
/s/A. G. Brown J.P. 

I Joseph M. Dana, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Athens in the State of Ohio hereby certify, that A. G. Brown is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, at Athens, this 27th day of November, A.D. 1844. 
/s/Joseph M. Dana, Clerk by Dan'l S. Dana his Depu'y
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5560
Ohio Cincinnati
Elizabeth Bingham a widow of Alvan Bingham N.H. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Pri & Corp'l Ending 30 Decr 1848
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 56 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Decr 1850 and sent to A. G. Brown Athens Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848,, Page ['310' crossed out] 333. Vol. 4
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[678]
FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
Alvan Bingham Born December 20th 1754
Elizabeth Bingham born January 23d 1762
Elizabeth Bingham born January 11th AD 1782
Samuel Bingham born November 5th 1783
Lucy Bingham Born October 25th 1785
Alvan Bingham Born January 5th AD 1788
Nancy Bingham Born June 29th 1790
Electa Bingham Born April 9th AD 1794
Hannah Bingham Born March 8th AD 1796
BIRTHS.
Amanda Bingham Born July 19th AD 1798
Sophia Bingham Born January 1st AD 1801
Julia Bingham Born June 30th AD 1803
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Elizabeth Bingham
ad act 43 Ohio - 6479
Charged to Col. Niles Aug. 2d 1850 -
not returned to files
[illegible] 13/50
['Anderson' crossed out]
A. G. Brown
Athens, Ohio
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State of Ohio, Athens County, ss.} Be it known, that before me, Henry G. Brown, a Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared, A. G. Brown, and made oath in due form of law, that he is Administrator of Elizabeth Bingham, the identical person who drew a Pension  under the act of 3.d. March, 1840, and subsequent Acts, on account of the Revolutionary service of her husband, Alvan Bingham, deceased, at the rate of fifty six (56) dollars per annum; that he now makes this Affidavit for the purpose of obtaining the arrears of Pension due to the said Elizabeth Bingham from the 4th day of March, 1848, to the 30th day of December 1848. being the day of her death under the provisions of the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d day of December, 1848, being the day of her death, under the provisions of the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d day of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; for the benefit of the children of the said deceased Widow. 
/s/A. G. Brown
Sworn & subscribed before me, this 22d. day of February, 1850, as witness my hand & Seal of Office}
H. T. Brown Notary Public 

State of Ohio, Athens County, ss. 
I Joseph M. Dana Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Alvan Bingham, late of said County deceased, was a Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of Fifty six dollars per annum; that she was formerly a resident of said Athens County, and died in Hocking County in said State of Ohio, on the 30th Day of December, in the year, 1848 - and that she left three children surviving her, whose names are, Hannah Morton wife of Dr. Richard Morton of Kentucky, Amanda Bartlett wife of Sylvanus Bartlett of said Hocking County and Sophia Hunt wife of Rev. John Hunt of Franklin County, Ohio. 
And I further certify, that at the April Term, 1848, of said Court of Common Pleas, A. G. Brown, of said Athens County, was duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of the said Elizabeth Bingham, and is legally authorized to act as such. 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, at Athens, in said County this 22nd day of February A.D. 1850 - 
/s/J. M. Dana Clerk
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section. [initials: AWF own]

March 17, 1928

Mrs. William F. Williamson
3231 Asbury Ave
Evanston, Ill.

Madam;
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 5220, it appears that Alvan Bingham (son of Jabez Bingham) was born December 30, 1754 in Salisbury, Connecticut.
While residing at Hanover, New Hampshire, with his uncle, Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, he enlisted in March 1776 and served one year as private corporal and orderly sergeant in Captain Jehiel Parmelee's Company, Colonel Samuel Elmore's Connecticut Regiment; and enlisted March 1, 1778 and served three months in Captain Taylor's Company, Colonel Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment.
Soon after this he returned to his father's home in Salisbury, Connecticut, and enlisted in August or September 1779 and served one month in Captain Roger Moore's Connecticut Company; and later served two weeks
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[typewritten letter]
in Captain Burrell's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 13, 1832, while a resident of Athens Township, Athens County, Ohio. He died February 11, 1841.
He married March 5, 1781, Elizabeth, who was born January 23, 1762, place not stated.
She was allowed pension on her application executed July 24, 1844, while a resident of Starr Township, Hocking County, Ohio. She died there December 30, 1848.
Their children were
Elizabeth born January 11, 1782.
Samuel      "  November 5, 1783.
Lucy           "  October 25, 1785.
Alvan         "  January 5, 1788.
Nancy        "  June 29, 1790.
Electa         "  April 9, 1794.
Hannah      "  March 8, 1796.
Amanda     "  July 10, 1798.
Sophia       "  January 1, 1801. 
Julia  "  June 30, 1803. 
The following children survived their mother - Hannah, wife of Dr. Richard Morton of Kentucky; Amanda, wife of Sylvanus Bartlett of Hocking County, Ohio; and Sophia, wife of Reverend John Hunt of Franklin County, Ohio. 

Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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[verso]
Feb. 10. 98. Mrs. E. L. Sherwood Washington, D.C. (see Inv. 2076)
1928-Mch. 17 - Hist to Mrs. Wm. F. Williamson see her letter in George Williamson S.41346 awf

[recto]
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 5220 
Eliz'th Bingham Wid. Alvan Bingham
Corpl. Rev. War
Act: Feby. 2d/48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8916
Ohio
Elizabeth Bingham widow of Alvan Bingham who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 11 Feby: 1841 of Hocking Co in the State of Ohio who was a Pri & Cor in the Co commanded by Captain Parmell (Parmelee) of the reg commanded by Col. Elmore in the NH line for 13.2 mos Pri 3  "  Cor
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 56 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the ['4th day of March, 1836.' crossed out] Feby: 11th 1841. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 5" day of Decem 1844 and sent to Hon. S. F. Vinton, Ho Reps
Total amount, $[blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 383
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[verso]
let to Hon. S. F. Vinton Dec 23, 1846
2 Certs
1838 1843th} rep'd
Let to A. G. Brown Decr 13.56

[recto]
6477
Cincinnati Ohio
Elizabeth Bingham widow of Alvan Bingham who was a Private and Corporal in the NH Line. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 56 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Decem 1844 and sent to Hon. S. F. Vinton, House of Representatives
[Act of March 3, 1843. and June 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 201.
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Deposition of Achsah Everts (Evarts) in the matter of the Application of A. Bingham
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State of Ohio, Athens County sc. On this 13 day of October 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Athens, within and for the county of Athens aforesaid Achsah Evarts, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says. 
That in the year 1775 the deponent lived at Salisbury in the State of Connecticut, in the family of her father Jabez Bingham, she being then 15 years of age, and that Alvan Bingham, now petitioner for a pension, lived at home in said family  from the earliest remembrance of the deponent until some time in December 1775, when having arrived at 21 years of age, he left home, and went to Hanover in the State of New Hampshire, to live in the family of Eleazer Wheelock, his uncle, then President of Dartmouth College. that, some months after the departure of said Alvan, the deponent was informed, and it was generally understood in the said family, that he had inlisted in to the service of his country. 
That sometime in the summer following, in 1776. he came home to Salisbury, unexpectedly to his relatives, having permission, as he informed us, to turn off and pay a short visit to his family, the company to which he belonged passing near to Salisbury, on their march to the North. That he tarried with us one day only, during which the family was all busily engaged in repairing and arranging his clothing. That the deponent afterward heard of said Alvan, she believes and is confident, by letters from him to his parents, as well as by other persons passing through Salisbury from the northern army, while he was at German Flats and Fort Stanwix. That said Alvan returned to Salisbury in the Spring of 1777. and the deponent well recollects that in emptying his pack, that her curiosity was excited by a book or roll which she found in it containing her said brother's handwriting, orders given to him as Sergeant. 
And the Deponant saith that the said Alvan afterwards engaged in the service of his county, and departed from his home in Salisbury, as she supposed to fulfil his said engagements, at two different times beside the times above mentioned, but the deponent has not a particular recollection as to the date or term of his said engagements. 
/s/Achsah Evarts
State of Ohio
Athens County ss} Court of Common Pleas October Term 1832
Sworn to in open Court /s/Henry Bartlett Clerk
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[handwritten letter]
Athens, Ohio Oct. 19, 1850

Dear Sir
In a line dated in August last, you say - A Report in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham will be made and forwarded in a few days - Since which I have received no communication on its subject - 
May I ask if the matter is yet disposed of? I am concerned as Administrator of Mrs. B. in behalf of her surviving children - 
Yours respectfully 
/s/A. G. Brown

Jas. L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Dec 22d 46.
Eliz Bingham Ohio NH 43
Hon. S. F. Vinton HR]
John L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Washington City, Decr. 21st 1846. 

John L. Edwards Esqr. Com'r of Pensions

Dear Sir
I have been written to, by a friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham, Widow of Alvan Bingham Deceased who states that some pension agent or solicitor of claims in this City has written to her, that she is entitled to a considerable sum of money beyond what she has received, and solicits from her the agency of transacting the business for her with your office - The writer of this letter desired me to examine into the case, and see if any facts or documents in her case were overlooked heretofore, which would entitle her to an addition to her pension - or whether by any law or resolution of Congress he would be entitled to a pension from the 4th of March 1836 to the death of her husband on the 11th of Feby 1841. that of the 23d of Jany. 1845 is particularly verified by the writer of the letter to me - 
I will thank you to re-examine her case, and inform me if she is entitled to an addition to her present pension; and
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[handwritten letter]
What proof if any will be required of her. She resides in Athens County, Ohio. 
I am, very respectfully Your Most Obt. Serv't
/s/Sam'l F. Vinton
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Burnham
Bingham
Hon: Vinton
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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps. Dec. 2d 1844

J. L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the applications of Elizabeth Bingham & Mehitable Burnham for Pensions - I will thank you to give to them an examination at your earliest convenience. 
Very respectfully Your Obt. Serv't
/s/Sam'l F. Vinton
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No. 11490
Elizabeth Bingham
Ohio.
act &. July 38
m 80 d 41. 
adm'd 
13/2 mo pri
3 mo Corp'l
56 from 11 Febry.
1841 the day of her husband's death. 
Also Act 3 March 43 & 44 $56 - 
no. act 1843 - 6757
  "  "  1844 - 307
Hon. S. F. Vinton
H.R.
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Com'r of Pensions
Elizabeth Bingham
Eliz. Bingham for arrears
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[handwritten letter]
Athens, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1850.

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send application for the arrear of Pension due to Elizabeth Bingham deceased, from 4th March 1848, to 30th Dec'r 1848, the day of her death, which, as Administrator on her Estate. I wish to draw forth benefit of her surviving children. The case being anomalous, on account of her not having received a certificate under the act of 2d Feb. 1848. 
I have not form for any guidance - Perhaps the application should have been made to another Department - If so please give it the proper direction. 
Respectfully 
/s/A. G. Brown

J. L. Edwards Esq., Com'r of Pensions
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To what time has Elizabeth Bingham, who was inscribed on the Ohio (Cincinnati) Roll Act June 17. 1844, at the rat of $56 per ann. been paid?
N.O.L. 
Ans. March 4, 1848.
Pension Office Aug, 13/50}
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[handwritten letter]
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dec. 24, 1850.

Dear Sir,
Your communication of the 13th inst. in relation to the case of Elizabeth Bingham died, was forwarded to me from Athens, and is before me.  
You say the Adm'r should file a Declaration under the Act of 2d Feb. 1848. shewing the date of her death, names of her surviving children &c. 
As such Administrator, I heretofore made a Declaration accompanied by a Certificate from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, of my appointment as such Administrator, as also of the date of Mrs. Bingham's death and the names of her surviving children, which I presume must be on file in your office. The Declaration may not have been precisely in form, but I presume contains all the substantial requisites - if otherwise, pleas return the papers to me, and I will endeavor to put them in form on my return home. I am at present detained in this City, in attendance as a Member of the Convention called to amend the Constitution of this State, on account of which I cannot refer to my papers at home. 
I trust you will consider the declaration already on file sufficient, without the necessity of amendment - 
Yours respectfully, 
/s/A. G. Brown

Hon. Jas. E. Heath
Com'r of Pensions
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
June 10th 1841.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Alvan Bingham, dec'd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Fifty Six Dollars ['and [blank] Cents' crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 4th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours, 
/s/Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Elizabeth Bingham, dec'd
Adm'd
Act 2 Feb 1848. 
$56 per annum
Com'g 4 March 1848 
End'g 30th Dec 1848
payable to A. G. Brown, Administrator for the benefit of 
Hannah Morton 
Amanda Bartlett &
Sophia Hunt, only surviving children.
Cincinnati Roll 
A. G. Brown
Athens Ohio
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41 Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
NAME Bingham (Bridgman), Benjamin GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts WARRANT NUMBER 3802 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 21, 1789 to Jonathan Cass, 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.