Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,604, Robert Bryant, N. H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N. H. [New Hampshire]
Bryant, Robert
Johanna
NUMBER
W.15,604
CONTENTS
[BLANK]
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[crossed out: Vermont] New Hampshire - Portsmouth
1292
Johanna Bryant widow of Robert Bryant, decd sho died in the month of November, 1830 of Orleans Co in the State of Vermont, who was a pri. & ensign in the [BLANK] commanded by Captain [crossed out: Conn], of the Regt. commanded by Col. Stikney in [crossed out: the] Connecticut [crossed out: line] for 1 mo. 29 dys Ensign 4 mos 9 dys private
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont / Burling
at the rate of 34 Dollars [BLANK] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of August 1851 and sent to Stephan Shearman, Greensboro, N. Hamp.
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 = 20 4:00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 6 Sept. " - 17:00
$221:00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3.}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 34

[illegible] Cer & letter to D. Gale 23. Aug 1838.
Cer to Pen Agt 30th May 1839.
Letter to D. Gale 3d June 1839.
To Portsmouth N. H from 4th March 1838, 13. June 1839. Noteification sent to D. Gale Esq Gilmanton N. H
Letter to D. Gale 21. Feb 1840.
" to 3d Aud's 23 Feby 1841.

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 11th April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 4 March 1840, the day of her death. Agt notified 22 March 1841.
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2295.
Joanna Bryant widow of Robert
Rolls - 
Capt. Moody - 76. pri 8.13.4
Taylor - 77. Ensign 1 mo 29 dy
Admd.
1 m. 29 ds Ensign
4 mo 9 ds pri
[crossed out: 24] $34
no deduction
Stephen Shearman
Greensboro N.H.
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2295.
Joanna Bryant widow of Robert
Rolls -
Capt. Moody - 76. pri 8.13.4
Taylor - 77. Ensign 1 mo 29 dy
Admd.
1 m. 29 ds Ensign
4 mo 9 ds pri
[crossed out: 24] $34
no deduction
Stephen Shearman
Greensboro N.H.
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State of Vermont 
Orleans County SS.
On this 5 day of July 1837 personally appeared
before Alvah R. French Johanna Bryant a resident of Greensboro in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged ninety 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 act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Robert Bryant who was an orderly Sergent in the Continental service from July 1st 1776 to January 10th 1777 who performed service by marching from Meredith N.H. to New York and of the command of Capt John Modie [Moodie], of Gilmanton in Col Baldwins Regement I think, he again entered the service as an Ensign in Capt Chas Tailors Company in Col Stickneys Regiment the first of July 1777 and marched for Benington and was in the Batle of Bennington and he returned home the last days of October 1777 She further declares that she has no documentary evidence in her possession relative to the above service of her Husband. She further declares that she was married to the sd Robert Bryant on the 15th day of December 1765 that her husband the sd Robert Bryant died in the month of November 1830 and she has remained a widow ever since his death as will more fully appear by reference to the proof with annexed
Johanna Bryant, her mark
Witness Geo. H Paige

Sworn to and subscribed at Greensborough in Orleans County on the day and year above written
Before Alvah R. French Judge of Orleans County Court I also certify that the above named Joanna Bryant who subscribed the above declaration, from age and infirmaty is wholly unable to attend on any court for the purpose of making her declaration which is the reason for taking the same at her
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Residence in the Town of Greensborough in said Orleans County
Alva R. French Sr Judge of Orleans County Court
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State of Vermont,
Orleans County Clerks Office
Irasburgh July 8th 1837
I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify that Alvah R French is a Judge of the County Court, and Ezra Hinman a Justice of Peace, in and for said County of Orleans, duly commissioned and sworn, their commissions were dated on the 15th day of November AD 1836 and will expire on the last day of Nov. 1837 - and that their names subscribed to the within certificates are their own hand writing
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Court aforesaid, the day & year above written
Samuel C Crafts Clerk
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
Holland July 5th 1837
Be it remembered that on this 5th day of July 1837 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said Orleans County Robert Brant of Holland aforesaid to me personally known and whom I certify is a credible and respectible witness and being first duly sworn according to law on his oath depose and says that [crossed out: that] his Mother Joanna Bryant has in his family most of the time since the death of his father Robert Bryant and is now a widow and has been ever since the death of her husband. further the deponent saith not
Robert Bryant

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned
Before me Ezra Hillman Justice of Peace
John McIley
John Bryant
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I John Bryant of Meredith in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, the son of Robert Bryant late of said Meridith a Soldier and an Officer of the Revolutionary War, aged seventy years the fifteenth day of October next coming, depose and say, that I well recollect that Robert Bryant my said Father enlisted as a Sergeant the first of July 1776, for four or five [crossed out: years] months in Captain John Moody's Company in Col. Baldwin's Regiment I think, and marched from Meredith for New York, and he returned home to Meredith in the month of January following. He again entered the service as an Ensign in Captain Chase Taylors Company in Col. Stickneys Regiment the first of July 1777, and marched for Bennington and was in the Battle at Bennington and he returned home in the month of September following. And further say, that the said Robert Bryant my father died the twenty third day of November 1830.
John Bryant

State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss
June 19th 1837
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year last above written
Before me, Daniel Gale Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a credible witness
Daniel Gale Jus. Peace
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March 4, 1938
Robert Bryant,W.15604
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. Florence E. Youngs
Beachwood
New Jersey

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Robert Bryant who served as an officer in the Revolutionary Army and was from New Hampshire.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.15604, based upon the military service of Robert Bryant.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Meredity, Stafford County, New Hampshire, he enlisted July 1, 1776, and served until January 10, 1777, as orderly sergeant in Captain John Moody's company in Colonel Baldwin's New Hampshire regiment. He entered the service July 1, 1777, as ensign in Captain Chase Taylor's company in Colonel Stickney's New Hampshire regiment, was in the battle of Bennington and served until sometime in September or October, 1777.
Robert Bryant died November 23, 1830.
He married December 25, 1765, at Newmarket, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Joanna Stevens.
As the widow of Robert Bryant, Joanna Bryant was allowed pension on her application executed July 8, 1837, at which time she was living in Greensboro, Orleans County, Vermont, aged ninety-two years.
She was living in Meredith, New Hampshire, in 1838, having moved there in the summer of that year. She died March 4, 1840.
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Robert and Joanna Bryant had a large family, three children, having been born before the Revolution, but the only names given were John who was born October 15, 1767, and was living in Meredith, New Hampshire, in 1837, and Robert who was living in Holland, Vermont, in 1837. There are no further data relative to the family of Robert Bryant.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Conn,
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15604
Johanna Bryant widow of Robert Bryant Pri Rev War
Act: July 4th 36
Index:-Vol. a, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870]

1915 Aug. 11: history to Mr. Geo. W. Burleigh. M.B.H
1938. Mar. 4 hist. to Mrs Florence E. Young M.C.S.
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State of New Hampshire
Stafford ss. I Ira A Eastman Register of Probate of said County hereby certify that the within named Daniel Gale who administered the oaths to the within named Enoch Carrier and Johanna Bryant was on the third day of December Anno Domini 1838 a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned within and for said County and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate of said county this sixth day of December A.D. 1838.
Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire, Strafford County ss
On this third day of December A.D. 1838, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Strafford, personal appeared Enoch Carrier who is known to me to be a credible witness, who on his oath, that he is well acquainted with Johanna Bryant of Meredith in said County of Strafford, the late Widow of Robert Bryant deceased, and that he has been acquainted with her more than thirty years, that she was brought from [crossed out: Meredith] the State of Vermont to Meredith aforesaid in the summer of the present year, and was put into the poor house in said said Meredith of which he has the sole charge of. And further say that the aforesaid Johanna Bryant, who has taken the oath hereto annexed is the person described in the affidavit
Enoch Carrier

Sworn and subscribed to, before me the day and year first above written.
Before me, Daniel Gale Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire, Strafford County Ss
On this third day of December A.D. 1838 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Strafford, personally appeared John Bryant of Meredith in said County of Strafford late of Greensborough [Greensboro] State of Vermont, and the widow of of Robert Bryant late of said Meredith deceased, who on her oath, declared that she is the same person who was placed on the Pension Roll of the Vermont Agency at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, from where she has lately removed. That she now resides in said Meredith in the State of New Hampshire, where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension there payable in future. The following are her reasons for removing from the State of Vermont to Meredith New Hampshire, that she was destitute of property and was supported by the said Town of Greensborough, and the overseers of the poor of that Town conveyed her to the said Town of Meredith her former place of residence where I had resided more than sixty years.
Johanna Bryant, her mark

State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss December 3d 1838
Sworn and subscribed to, on the day and year above above written
Before me, Daniel Gale Justice Peace
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Greensboro July 10th 1837
Dear sir
Enclosed is the evidence in the case of Widow Joanna Bryant of Greensboro, for a Pension which I
conclude you will consider sufficient please give a return as soon as convenient
Respectfully Yours
Stephen Sherman

J. L. Edwards Sect of
Comm of Pensions
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[stamped: FREE]

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Mr Evans Aug 22

[stamped: STAFFORD N.H. AUG 17]
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County
Gilmanton Augt 16th 1838

Sir,
am requested to get the pension of the Widow Johanna Bryant, being the Widow of Robert Bryant, transferred from the State of Vermont to that of the State of New Hampshire so that she may draw her due at the next payment in the State of New Hampshire. Please forward the instructions for that purpose at Gilford Post Office N. Hampshire.
I am Respectfully yr
Obt. Servt
Daniel Gale

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
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New Hampshire,
Secretary, Office Rev 27. Act/
the within named James Creighton is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rockingham duly qualified and his signature genuine.
In testimony whereof have hereto set the seal of the State
Ralph Metcalf Secretary
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I Gilman Johnson of New Market in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire depose and say, that I am the Town Clerk of New Market aforesaid elected in March last past and duly sworn according to law. And further say, that I have examined thoroughly the records of the said Town of New Market for the marriage record of Robert Bryant and Joanna Stevens and then no such record in said Town recorded.
Gilman Johnson
Town Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss
June 19th. 1837
Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and
year above written
Before me,
James B. Creighton Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named deponent is Town Clerk as above stated and is a credible witness.
James B. Creighton Jus. Peace
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James L Edwards Esq
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Neb 17. 1840
Mr Evans
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County
Gilmanton Feby. 10th. 1840
Sir
You will recollect that some time last summer the pension due Johanna Bryant the widow of Robert Bryant, was transferred from the Vermont Agency to that of New Hampshire. She last September gave me a power to draw the pension due her from the 4th of March 1838, to the 4th September 1839, the pension Agent [crossed out: Agent] at Portsmouth (Isaac Waldrow Esqr)
said his orders were not to pay a pension
after one year, that is no further back then the 4th September 1838, There will be two years pay due her on the 4th of March next. You are requested to send me instructions on or before the 4th of March next to Gilford Post Office how the whole due can be obtained.
I am Respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servant
Daniel Gale

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office June 22. 1837
The within named Daniel Gale is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Strafford duly qualified and his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof i have hereto set the Seal of the State.
Ralph Metcalf Seq of State
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 26th, 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 childn. of Johannah [Johanna] Bryant a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portsmouth, N.H. Agency, at the rate of Thirty four Dollars and [BLANK] Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been aid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838. to the 4th March 1840, the day of her death,
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pension,
Present.
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County
Gilmanton May 15th 1839
Sir,
I herewith return to you the case of Abigail Hunkins and six others I hope they will be satisfactory and that you will soon forward their Pension Certificates to me at Gilford P. O. - I have not received the transfer of the Pension of Johanna Bryant from the State of Vermont to the State of New Hampshire, it is a year last March since she has drawn her pension, her certificate has been in my possession about ten months, I hope I shall transfer [illegible] it soon, also Abigail Burley's and Hannah Gordons.
I am Respectfully
Yr. Obdt. Servt.
Daniel Gale

J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City
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Extract of a letter from Daniel Gale, Gilmanton, N.H. dated May 15. 1839.
"I have not received the transfer of the Pension of Joanna Bryant from the state of Vermont to the State of N Hampshire. It is a year last March since she has drawn her pension" &c &c.
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County
Gilmanton December 10th 1838.
Sir,
I herewith transmit to you the evidence in the case of Johnna Bryant the widow of Robert Bryant for the transfer of her pension from the State of Vermont to the State of New Hampshire. It is requested that the transfer be made to draw her pension from the 4th day of March 1838, [crossed out: as she has not drawn] in the State of New Hampshire, as she has not draw her pension since that time the 4th of March 1838, which will save cost to her.
I receive a pension certificate for Susannah Nichols the widow of George Nichols for forty dollars per annum which I think must be a mistake. I wrote George Nichols declaration for him at the time he procured a pension, he declared he enlisted for three years and served that term of time I think under one enlistment in the State of Rhode Island.
I wish you to return an answer at Gilford P. Office as soon as may be in both cases.
I am Respectfully
Yr Obt. Servt.
Daniel Gale

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Washington City
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[stamped: FREE]

J. L. Edwaards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[stamped: BURLINGTON VT JUN 5]

June 10
W. Evans
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Bank of Burlington
June 4. 1839.

JL Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions.

Sir,
Johanna Bryant, a pensioner on the roll of this agency, under the act of 4th July 1836, at $34 per annum, has been paid at this Office to the 4th of March 1838.
Respectfully,
E. T. Englesby Pres. [illegible]
W. F. Griswold
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington City

N.H. Dec 15
add: proof
[crossed out: Johanna Bryant]
W. Evans

[stamped: [illegible] N.H. DEC 30]
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I John R. Smith of Meredith in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy yours in January next coming, depose and say that I very well remember that Robert Bryant of said Merredith went in the army of the Revolution in the year 1776, and again in 1777, and went to Bennington and was in General Starks Battle, and that I lived about one mile from said Bryant untill thirty years after the close of the war. And further say, that Robert Bryant and Joanna [Johanna] Bryant had three children before the beginning of the Revolutionary war and that they were lawfully married I have no doubt as they lived together as man and wife and bright up a large family of children, and that I have known them from my childhood untill they moved to the State of Vermont, where I am informed the widow of the said Robert Bryant now resides.
John R. Smith

State of New Hampshire
Stafford County
June 21st. 1837
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year last above written.
Before me, Daniel Gale Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that the above named John R. Smith is a person well known to me and is a man of truth and veracity
Daniel Gale Jus. Peace
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I Samuel Sibley of Meredith in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged eighty six years depose and say, that enlisted as a private in the war of the Revolution the first of July 1777, for three months in Capt. Chase Taylors Company in Colonel Stickneys Regiment New Hampshire line, and Robert Bryant of Meredith was the Ensign of the Company above mentioned and I marched from Meredith aforesaid with Ensign Robert Bryant to Bennington and was in the Battle at said Bennington and Ensign Bryant and I with others then returned home to Meredith I think the first of October 1777
Samuel Tilley, his mark

State New Hampshire
Strafford County ss
June 21st 1839
Sworn and subscribed, to on the day and year last above written.
Before me,
Daniel Gale Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named
deponent is a credible witness.
Daniel Gale Jus. Peace
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N21
Rev Sec

LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE WM. BURLEIGH
52 WALL STREET
NEW YORK

August 12, 1925

Dear Sir:--
Referring to your letter of August 11, W.15.604 [handwritten note: Robert Bryant Nr. 15604], Revolutionary War. Section, I write to acknowledge its receipt and to thank you for the same.
Will you be so good as to have the date in next to the last line verified wherein it says that "they had a large family, John born October 15, 1767." New Hampshire Vital Records have this as 1769, so that I should like to have your statement verified from the Pension Records, if convenient.
May I also ask if you have any data of the death of John Bryant, who received a pension on account of his services in the War of 1812, a record of which was sent out in the Bureau of Pensions F.W., Inv.F., 20.647, War of 1812. I suppose that there must be some memorandum in your office as to the date of his death and the consequent stopping of the payment of pension.
Trusting that this will not cause you any great inconvenience, and fully appreciating any trouble that you may take in the matter, particularly when I fully realize what a tremendous number of inquiries of this same character you must have, I remain
Yours very truly,
George W. Burleigh

Mr. E. C. Tieman
Acting Cmmissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C.
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Rev Sec H.

LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE WM. BURLEIGH
52 WALL STREET
NEW YORK

August 5, 1915.

Dear Sir:
Will you please advise me if you have any application for a pension on your lists in behalf of ROBERT BRYANT of Meredith, N. H, who fought in the War of the Revolution and served as Ensign in Capt. Charles Taylor's Company, of Col. Thomas Stickney's Regiment in Genl. Stark's Brigade.
Yours very truly,
George W Burleigh

Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C.

GWB/HC

[stamped: U.S. PENSION OFFICE D AUG 6 1915]
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MRS. FLORENCE E. YOUNGS
GENEALOGIST
BEACHWOOD, NEW JERSEY

February 18, 1938

Mr. A. D. Hiller, Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: Will you please send me at your earliest convenience a copy of the pension record of ROBERT BRYANT and officer in the Revolutionary Army from New Hapshire. I am particularly anxious to learn the date of his retirement from service in addition to any other fats you may have about him.
Thanking you for past courtesies, and for this present favor, I remain
Respectfully yours,
Florence E. Youngs
FEY:M

[stamped: RECEIVED FEB 19, 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV [illegible] 44]
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15.296.432.
163.171.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [BLANK], 19 [BLANK]

In reply to your request of [BLANK], received [BLANK] for a statement of the military history of Robert Bryant a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in [crossed out his (or] his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau W. 15604.

|| DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. || LENGTH OF SERVICE. || RANK || OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. || STATE. ||
|| July 1. 1776 || Jan 10. 1777 || Ordly Sge || John Moody | Baldwin. || N.H. ||
|| July 1. 1777 || Sept 1777 || Ensign || Chase Taylor | Stickney | [BLANK] ||

Battles engaged in, Bennington
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Meredity Stafford Co N.H
Date of application for pension, July 8, 1837. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Greensboro, Orleans Co. Vt: Meredith in 1838.
Age at date of application, 92 years.
Remarks: He married Dec. 25, 1765, at Newmarket, Rockingham Co., N.H. Joanna [Johanna] Stevens. He died Nov. 23, 1830; she died Mch 4. 1840. They had a large family, Robert John b Oct 15, 1767 only childrens names stated, there is no further family data on file.
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M.B.H.
Rev. War Section.

August 16, 1915.

Mr. George W. Burleigh,
52 Wall Street.
New York City.

Sir:
In response to your letter dated the twelfth instant, you are advised that among the papers in the claim of Robert Bryant, W. File No. 15,604, Rev. War, is an affidavit signed and sworn to on June 19, 1837, by John Bryant, who stated his age as "seventy years the fifteenth day of October next coming," from which the deduction is made that he was born October 15, 1767.
Very Respectfully,
C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.