Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19057, for Oliver Rice, Massachusetts
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[on side]
[No 4?]
Oliver Rice
Act 182[?]
[ci?]
Ohio roll Lt $320
to 4 Mar 35
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40343

Revy   INVALID

No 40343

Oliver Rice
Lieut Rev War

ACT 18 March 18(18?)

Vol. 5 page 421

arrangement of 1870

Consolidated with D.W Inv. file  19:057
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OHO.
No. of Origin O Regional 461
Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department
Aug 9 1828
Oliver Rice, of Belpre, in the County of Nathington, in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1868. He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war at which period he was a lieutenant in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing [crossed out]dollars, paid to him by the agent in the state of The Third Auditor is required to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. By order of the secretary, A. Ouikind. 
Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
Aug 13 1828
It appears by the records in this office, the final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years of full pay to Lt Oliver Rice in the [illegible] line, amounting to Tiryteen hundred dollars. It further appears that Oliver Rice is not now on the pension list of [crossed out] the any agency, and has mist been since the 3 March 1826 [crossed out] at the rate of
Purstagmen And
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Belpre  July 17th 1828

Hon. Richard Rush  
D-r Sirs, I herewith enclose agreeably to request of the Treasury Department; my Commission as Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line of the Continental army and as further proof of my service I have also enclosed my Commission as an Ensign in the ninth Massachusetts Regiment  I would also observe that I acted and served as Sargent Major from March 1777, in Col Wessons Regiment up to the day of my Ensign Commission.  By reference to the loan office you will find that my name is enrolled as a pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1818 but that it was struck from the pension list after the Act  of May 1820
or rather I might say that I did not apply for a pension under that Act.  I would observe that my Commendation Certificate has been lost for many years.

Yours with much respect
Oliver Rice