Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38496, Israel Angell, Continental R.I.
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Continental
R.I. 

Angell, Israel

Number S. 48396
(in brackets:)
B.L.W.T. 7_500_Col.
issued Apr. 20 1790_
no papers
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(2941)
Rhode_Island.

Israel Angell, Col. 
Rhode_Island line_
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary W(ar)

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode_Island at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to comme(nce)
the 31. of March, 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 24. of Sept: 181(illegible, paper destroyed)
and sent to the pensioner at Smithfield, Providence Co, R.I.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.........$:103.31
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4 March    120-
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5 mo. (numerals are written as 1 over 31 and 4 over 30) 1/31 & 4/30..1819          $:223.31

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act (illegible)}
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Notification sent November 24 1820 to 
Benjamin Cowell, Providence, R.I.
STO.H.P. Raszell Mar 9.1857-
Same Sept. 9. 1857
Hon. S. J. W. Toba, Feb 11/1859
(The above three lines of text were bracketed on the right with a notation, following)
See Act. 1828 = book form - No. 145-
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David Howell, Esq;
Judge,
Providence, Rh: Isl.(small "d" above the period)
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Israel Angell, Col. (small "o" above the period)
Rhode - Island line,
Revolutionary Claim.
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The Services of this applicant is admitted.
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(Note: To the left of the above writing is a vertically spelled word "Correct".)

The judge is desired to certify, under the Seal of the Court, that he is satisfied either from his own knowledge, on the testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, known and certified, by the judge to be such, that the claimant is in reduced circumstances, and needs the support of his country.
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I Israel Angell of Smithfield in the District of Rhode Island on oath do declare and say that in the month of May or June, when the troops first marched to Boston I was appointed a Major in the regiment commanded by Col. {Daniel} Hitchcock in the continental army of the United States in the Rhode Island line- in which service I continued until after the death of Col. Hitchcock 1777, when I was appointed as Colonel and took the command of the (unknown) regiment in which (unknown) and capacity - I continued until the last arrangement of the army in the year 1790 - when I resigned. I was at the Battle of Red Bank and (unknown) for (unknown), P (unknown), Lee. I further declare that my misfortunes have been numerous and each that I am now reduced to indigent circumstances according to the provisions of the (uninown) of Congress (unknown) March 18th 1818. And (line written below inserted at this point) I herewith offer my commissions stand in need of the (unknown) of my country for support. 
Israel Angell
Rhode Island District March 31. 1818
Sworn to before David Howell, District Judge.
To the Hon. John. C. Calhoun Secretary at (unknown) Rhode Island District In Providence this 31 day of March 1818 - the signatures of the Judge and the Seal of the District Court of the Unived States for said District are hereto affixed. 
Witness Benjamin Cowell, 
(Unknown) R I District
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Rhode Island District. Providence 21 August 1818
I certify that Col. Israel Angell, this applicant is well known to me: and that he has been reduced to the (unknown) of supporting himself for many years (unknown) by his personal (unknown); and that he needs the (unknown) of his Country for support. He is also seven seven years old and infirm.
David Howell, Dist Judge
I certify the above to be (unknown) hand writing of David Howell, Judge of the District Court of the United States for said District - and that the seal of said Court is hereto affixed -
Benjamin Cowell
Clk of said Court
(written vertically in the right side margin are the word:
I [unknown] Agreed
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David Howell, Esq;
Judge,
Providence, Rh: Isl. (small "d" above the period)
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Israel Angell, Col. (small "o" above the period)
Rhode - Island line,
Revolutionary Claim.
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The Service of this applicant is admitted.
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(The underlined word "Correct" is written vertically to the left of the above verbage.)
The judge is desired to certify, under the Seal of the Court, that he is satisifed either from his own knowledge, on the testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, known and certified by the judge to be such, that the claimant is in reduced (word underlined) circumstances, and needs the support of his country.
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Israel Angelll
2.941
March 1819
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Providence, sc.  District Court, Special Term, October 9th, A.D. 1820
On this nineth day of October 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said District - Isreal Angell - aged 80 years, residing in the town of Smithfield in said County of (unknown) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: he served upwards of six years as an officer in Col Hitchcocks Regiment (unknown) the Regiment commanded by myself of the Rhode Island Line, that he made a previous declaration on the 30th day of March 1818 and that he received a certificate for a pension, being No. 2,941. 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 whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring 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 eigtheenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; that I have not, not has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Isreal Angell
A SCHEDULE of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Israel Angell vis one old horse 20 years old, one small cow, one dozen old chairs, some without bottoms, three old chests, three old tables, nine pewter dishes, some crockery ware, three iron pots, one pair iron dogs, one old horse waggon (sic). And this declarant saith that he is a cooper by trade, but is now so old and infirm, and being partially blind he can do but very little work that he is almost helpless in consequence of inward disease being afflicted with the gravel, that he has a wife aged 61 years who is a weakly woman and one son aged 12 years, that he has had 17 children, but none live with him except the above one - that his children are all poor, and  should his pension not be continued he must become a pauper, that what little property he has, has been dispersed to pay his just debts, since his first declaration.
Isreal Angell
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State of Iowa,
Buchanan County (unknown)

On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1856 the Judge of the County Court in and for said county and in open court, personally appeared 
Mehetibel Wilkinson, aged fifty six years, a resident of said county, and being duly sworn according to law makes declaration to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress of June 7 1832, and to obtain the benefit of other acts, and upon her oath states,
That she was born in Johnson in the State of Rhode Island thirty first day of January A.D. 1800, that her father's name was Israel (sic) Angell, that he died May A.D. 1832 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, aged ninety two years; that he left no widow, but left fifteen children, including said deponent; that said children were named as follows:
Mary Angell, Elisabeth Angell, Sarah Angell, Asa Angell, Abner Angell, Israel Angell, Naomi Angell, Ruth Angell, Stephen Angell, Oliver Angell, Luther Angell, Susan Angell
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Mehetabel Angell, Henry Angell, Israel Angell

(two lines of text have been crossed out)

that several of said children have since died, but that so far as the (the deponent) knows (word crossed out) those of them named below, to writ:
Ruth Angell, Oliver Angell, Luther Angell, Susan Angell, Mehetabel Angell, Henry Angell and (unknown) Angell.
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are living; also that said Israel Angell served in the Revolution war; that as deponent believes he while living at or near Providence Rhode Island became in May 1775 a member of the Army of observation in Rhode Island and was Major of a Regiment therein over which Nathaniel Greene Jr. was Brigadier General, and served afterwards, as an officer, in what Regiment or under what officers deponent cannot state, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel and so served in
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the American Army in the Revolution, more than two years.
She further states that she has heard her ^said father and others speak of said service & has no doubt that the said Israel Angell performed the same, and believes that he was so in the Military service in behalf of the Americans Seven years during said war; also that his residence during a part of said time was Johnston Rhode Island; and that the has in her possession and will of necessary forward to the Commissioner of Pensions an original certificate as follows:
I hereby certify that Mr William B Wilkinson of Cumberland, son of William W Wilkinson and Miss Mehetabel W Angell of Smithfield daughter of Col Israel Angell were lawfully joined together in marriage on the A. 29th day of December A D 1822 at Smithfield aforesaid by me the Subscriber
Thomas Mann C.J.C.C. Pleas
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She further states that the does not recollect or know of the said Israel Angell drawing a pension from the United States, and believes that he did not. She also states that she has never received any pension money, annuity or bounty of any kind from the United States, nor made other application therefor.
In behalf of herself and her surviving brothers & sisters aforesaid the makes
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the foregoing declaration. And she believes that the Army Rolls in Washington will show the service of her said father as aforesaid.- 
Mehetabel Wilkinson 
Attest Oliver H. P. Roszell 
County Judge 

And the said court, which is a court ^of record [written above the line] expressly so declared by the laws of the State of Iowa, does hereby declare its opinion that the foregoing declaration of Wilkinson is true, and having seen the certificate of Generals Washington & Knox Refers to in said declaration to further declare its belief that said certificate is true and genuine - Attest OHP Roszell County Judge

I Edward Brewer Clerk of the County Court of Buchanan County, Iowa, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said of
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court in the matter of the application of Mehetabel Wilkinson Wilkinson [sic] for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 28th day of March A.D. 1856 Edward Brewer 
by George W. Bemis Clerk Deputy
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Certificate
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I hereby to Certify that Mr. William B. Wilkinson of Cumberland son of William Wilkinson and Miss Mehetabel W Angell of Smithfield daughter of Col Israel Angell were lawfully joined together in marriage on the 29th day of December AD 1822 at Smithfield aforesaid by me the Subscriber.
Thomas Mann C of C C Pleas
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Ca Rev. War Section. 
April 21, 1920.
Mr. Eben Putnam, 
Wellesley Farms, Mass. 
Sir: 
In reply to your letter of the 19" instant, you are advised that from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Survivor File No. 38, 483, it appears that Israel Angell was commissioned on May 8, 1775, Major of the regiment to be raised in Providence County, Rhode Island, for the Army of Observation. On January 1, 1776, he was commissioned Major of the Eleventh Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Daniel Hitchcock, in the Army of the United Colonies. And on January 13, 1777, he was commissioned Colonel of a regiment from the State of Rhode Island, in the Army of the United States. The three original commissions above noted are on file in said claim. He participated in the battles of Princeton, Red Bank, and Mud Fort and he continued in the service until the arrangement of the army provided by the Resolves of Congress of the 3” and 21” of October 1780, was carried into effect, under which he was reduced, at which period he was Colonel of the Second Rhode Island Regiment of the Line.
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In 1820 he was a resident of Smithfield, Providence Co., Rhode Island, aged eighty years and stated that he was a cooper by trade, that his wife was sixty-one years old and that he had had seventeen children, the only one then living at home, being a son aged twelve years, names not stated. 
He was allowed pension and bounty land on account of his services and he died in May 1832 at Smithfield, Rhode Island. He left no widow but the following fifteen children survived him: Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Asa, Abner, Israel, Noami, Ruth Stephen, Oliver, Luther, Henry and Isaac Angell, Susan Patten and Mehetabel W. who was born January 31, 1800 in Johnson, Rhode Island and married at Smithfield, Rhode Island, December 29, 1822, William B. son of William W. Wilkinson of Cumberland. She resided in Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1858. 
The names of his other two children are not stated. 
Very respectfully, 
G M Satlzgaber
Commissioner.
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38496
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 38,496
Israel Angell
Colonel Rev War
Act: 18 March 18”
Index:- Vol. D, Page 13
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Feby 12” 1878 J.B Pit R.I. informed that can be allowed.
1920 Apr. 21. History to Mr. Eben Putnam. aw
1920. Apr 30 Photocopies mailed to Mrs. Franklyn H. Lovell c/o Mr. Eben Putnam Wellesley Farms Mass aw
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Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.
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^Col Israel Angell
R.I. - [illegible] 18 Mch 1818
ad., act 1828
No 145 - book

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INDEPENDENCE Iowa 2 SEP

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Comm'r of Pensions
Washington
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia North Caroline, and South Carolina, to, Israel Angell Esquire 
We reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Major of the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel Daniel Hitchcock in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Major by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Major. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you [illegible] receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress. 
By Order of the Congress 
John Hancock President

Attest of Chas Thomson [illegible]
January the 1st 1776
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By the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the English Colony of RHODE ISLAND, and PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, in New England, in America. 
To Israel Angell Greeting. 
WHEREAS for the Preservation of the Rights and Liberties of His Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, in this Colony and America, the aforesaid GENERAL ASSEMBLY have ordered Fifteen Hundred men to be enlisted, and embodied into an Army of Observation, and have appointed you, the said Israel Angell Major of the Regiment to be raised in the County of Providence - You are therefore hereby, in His Majesty's Name, GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, &c. Authorized, empowered, and commissioned, to have, take, and exercise, the Office of Major of and over the Regiment aforesaid; and to command, guide and conduct the fame, or any part thereof. And in Case of an Invasion or Assault of a common Enemy, to infest or disturb this or any other of His Majesty's Colonies in America, you are to alarm and gather together the Regiment under your Command, or any Part thereof, as you shall deem sufficient , and therewith, to the utmost of your Skill and Ability, you are to Resist, Expel, Kill and Destroy them, in order to preserve the Interest of His Majesty, and His good Subjects, in these Parts. You are also to follow such Instructions, Directions and Orders as shall from time to Time be given forth, either by the GENERAL ASSEMBLY or your superior Officers. And for your so doing this Commission shall be your sufficient Warrant. 
By virtue of an Act of the said GENERAL ASSEMBLY, I Henry Ward Esq. Secretary of the said Colony, have hereunto set my Hand, and the public seal of the said Colony, this Eighth Day of May A.D. 1775 and in the Fifteenth year of his said Majesty's Reign. 
Henry Ward
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IN CONGRESS. 
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO
Israel Angell Esq 

We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Colonel of a Regiment from the State of Rhode Island. to take rank from the Thirteenth day of January 1777 Seventy Seven 
in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Colonel by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as a Colonel And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated [crossed out: at] the 5th January 1776
By Order of the CONGRESS, 
Henry Laurens, PRESIDENT
ATTEST Chas Thomson [illegible]
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an 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 1828. I Israel Angell of Smithfield in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3rd and 21st of October 1780 was carried into effect and that I was reduced under that arrangement, at which period I was Colonel in the second Regiment of the Rhode-Island Line.
And I also declare that I afterwards received Certificates (commonly called Commutation certificates), for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22d of March 1783, instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780
And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a Pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826, the sum of Four hundred & eighty dollars paid to me by the Agent for paying Pensions in the State of Rhode Island- 
Witness my hand this Sixteenth Day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Israel Angell
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Before me, William H Smith- a Justice of the Peace in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, personally appeared ^Hon of John S. Dexter Esquire and Samuel McClellan Esquire of the said County, who did severally make oath that Israel Angell, by whom the foregoing Declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated- 
Witness my hand this sixteenth day of June in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.-William H Smith 
Justice of the Peace 

I William H. Smith -- Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court -- within and for the County of Providence in the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, do hereby certify that William H Smith -- before whom the foregoing Affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace & duly empowered to administer Oaths -- 
JD
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Sixteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. 
William H. Smith Clerk.
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Providence June 16th 1828.
Sir,
Inclosed is my application for the benefit of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution”, unaccompanied however by any military Commission. This deficiency has been occasioned by the following circumstance; when application was made by me to the Department of War for the benefit of the Act of 3d March 1818, in compliance with the requisition of that Department, I forwarded thereto all my Commissions to the number of three or four, none of which have since been returned to me, and are now probably remaining with my application and the Evidence of my claim in that office- 
I am Sir, respectfully, 
Your obedient Servant
Israel Angell
Honourable Richard Rush
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P.S. I beg that it may not be considered either intrusive or impertinent in me to state that I am now in the eighty eighth year of my age?
Israel Angell
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Act - 1828 Settled at Treasury Consd with Invalid file #38.496
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No of orig Pay 145. [very faint 149 above line]
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
9 July 1828

Israel Angell of Smithfield in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island 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, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October 1780, was carried into effect under which he was reduced, at which period he was a Colonel in the second regiment of the Rhode Island 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 3d of March, 1826, Sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Rhode Island.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
10 July 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Israel Angell, Colonel in the Rhode Island line, amounting to Four thousand five Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Israel Angell is now on the pension list of the Rhode Island agency and has been since the 3 March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month. 
Peter Hagner Aud
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Indepence [Independence], Buchan Co.,
Iowa
February 17th 1857. [7 written over the 6]
To the Hon. Com. of Pensions: 
A declaration made by Mrs. Mehetibel Wilkinson of this place is herewith sent to obtain the benefit of provisions in behalf of children of deceased revolutionary soldiers. If anything more be necessary to perfect the declaration & obtain the benefit of it, please advise me fully.
If the army rolls show the services of Col Angell, as it is supposed they do, the other evidence may probably be obtained. The Secretary of State of the State of Rhode Island has given information that the rolls in his office showing Co. Angell's services have been forwarded to Washington. -- If the amount coming to Mrs. Wilkinson be [crossed out: illegible] too small to incur much additional & necessary expense, she will be glad to be so informed, & will in such case probably cease endeavors to get anything on this account 
Respectfully &c
O. H. P. Roszell
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(Copy)
State of Rhode Island &c 
Secretary's Office, Providence, August 15th AD 1855
Dear Sir:
Since writing you yesterday I have seen a gentleman who has for many years devoted his time to obtaining pensions. He informs me that he knew Col Israel Angell, and many years ago made inquiry at Washington regarding bounty lands that might be due him. He learned that Col Angell received his bounty between 50 & 60 years ago. He also states that the Colonel received a pension under the act of 1818 of $240 a year which he enjoyed until 1832. A new act was then passed by which his pension was increased to $600 a year, & he is under the impression that he
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received a portion of this increased rate a short time before he died.
Yours Respectfully,
(Signed) John R. Bartlett
Secretary of State.

Thomas T. Dent, Esq.
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Copy of letter of 15 Aug. 1855 from Secy of State Providence, R.I.
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Copy 
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Secretary's Office, Providence x  August 14th 1855
Thomas Dent Esq 
Dear Sir: 
I have yours of the 6th inst making inquiry about the late Col Angell of the Revolutionary war.
On examining the records of this State I find that in May 1775 a corps was formed in this State called the Army of Observation, of which Nathaniel Greene Jr was the Brigadier General, and that Israel Angell of Providence was Major in the same Regiment. There are no rolls in this office to prove the service, all these having been sent to Washington many years ago.
 I also find in a book called
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the “Spirit of 1776 in Rhode Island” published in 1850, a list of the Rhode Island Army of Observation, wherein the name of Israel Angell also appears, and in which it farther states that “he was afterwards promoted to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army." Such being the case, you will find the evidence of his service in the army rolls in Washington.
It appears to me that if he died as late as 1832 be must have received a pension long before. It would therefore be well to look at the U.S. Pension lists to ascertain this fact.
Yours Respectfully
(Signed) John R Bartlett
Secretary of State.

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Copy of letter of
Aug 14, 1855 from 
Secy of State Providence
R.I.
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Cash $4.45 ^[checkmark] from Mrs. Franklyn H. Lovell,
c/o Mr Eben Putnam
Wellesley Farms, Mass., for certified copies of 28 pages from Rev War claim of Israel Angell, R.I. S.F.38496.

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No receipt desired
Copies Mailed Apr. 30. 1920 – dw.

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE A APR 27 1920

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Proctor Law
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3
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Finance Division
APR 27 1920
Chief of Rev War Section
Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. Franklyn H. Lovell [crossed out: draft No.] Cash [crossed out: for] $4, 45/100 requesting [crossed out: post office addresses] as per letter herewith

Law Div notif. that copies were mailed Apr. 30. 1920 - 

Very respectfully,
WN Campbell
Chief of Division
J.J.C.
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Date Apr. 28, 1920
Name Israel Angell  No. S38496
Rev War
Photographic copies wanted of 16 pieces, consisting of 28 pages.
Remarks: [null]
Exr. AE Wilson Chief, Rev War Section
Serial 1671 T.F. Dennis Law Clerk.
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File in claim & answer officially. 
Mr Putnam was at the Bureau about two weeks ago, and though I have no recollection of it, we must have told him there was no claim for Israel Angell. AW.

Wellesley Farms Mass
April 19 1920

My dear Miss Wilson 
Would you mind looking again for papers in pension case of Col Israel Angell of Rhode Island. 
He did not die until 1832, & I am informed that not only is there a pension case but several interesting letters & documents. I am told that either in the Pension Bureau or National Museum (!) are several letters written by him, framed. I know there is only one letter at the Library. I think all the documents must be at the Pension Bureau I would like some idea of what is on file in his case
Sincerely
Eben Putnam
Miss Wilson 
Pension Burean
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O. H. P. ROSZELL, 
GENERAL AGENT EXCHANGE OFFICE. 
INDEPENDENCE, BUCHANAN COUNTY, IOWA.
 Sept 1st 1857
Sir,
Yours in relation to the arrears of Pension due heirs of Col Angel of R I. an application of Mehetabel Wilkinson one of said heirs now surviving, is widow and I herewith enclose the Original Marriage that of said Mehetabel, Wilkinson
The heirs known to exist are Luther Angel, Isaac Angel. Oliver Angel, Susan Patten & the applicant, or rather these are the only heirs. whose death is not known then are widely scattered and it is different to show positively that they are either alive or not. Col Angel left no Widow - and the Administrator of the estate is believed to be dead.
Yours truly
O.H.P. Roszell

Comm Pensions 
Washington D C
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STATE OF IOWA, BUCHANAN COUNTY.}
Office of County Judge,
Independence-- 24th January 1859
Commissioner of Patents,
Sir: 
Will you please inform me what has ever been done in regard to the pension of Col. Israel Angel, deceased, of Rhode Island, whose heirs are in this County.
The papers required were sent to your office in the fall of 1857, & an administrator appointed as requested, by me as County Judge of this County, An early reply will much oblige, 
Yours Respectfully, 
Stephen J. W. Tabor
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12 - 5 - 41 
Division of Veteran' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Angell, James GRADE Pvt. Va. Artillery LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 11874 and 13996 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED October 31, 1792 to Francis Graves, assignee or Robert Means
*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.