Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 520, Lemuel Bissell, Conn.
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Conn.

W. 520
B.L.Wt 26.639-160-55

Bissell, Lemuel 
Bissell, Sally
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49.254  AA March 3/55   
                   April 7/55
     
Sally Bissell, widow of 
Lemuel Bissell, Private

Capt.
Col.

Ent
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War of Revolution

W:160   May 16/56

Signature

J.H. Charlton
East Windsor Hill                 
Conn.

J.H. Charlton Sept. 17, 1855

Vol. B1-140
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320.2
Connecticut pg. 33

Lemuel Bissell
of East Windsor in the state of Connecticut
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Capt. Wood of the regiment commanded
by Major Humphery in the Connecticut 
line of Militia for 14 months.

Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 46 dollars 66 cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day Sep
1832 and sent to D.H. Parsons, Hartford Conn.

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $69.99
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 $23.33
$93.32

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Eras. D. Bullock ,
Clerk Book D. Vol. 11 Pg. 33
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1855 May 23, Jesse Charlton
E. Martin, Oct 26/58

1.933
Connecticut
Sally Bissell
Widow of Lemuel Bissell
Who served in the Revolutionary
Conn
War, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
46 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
3rd February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 
14th day of Sept ‘53
And sent to 
J.M. Charlton 
East Windsor Hill
Connt:

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 54 Vol. A
Febry 3, ’53 
E.2.3-4
1832
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No 1047

July 29, 1832
Pensions Office
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Declaration of Lemuel Bissell of East Windsor in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of Connecticut
Probate District of Hartford {As: Hartford}

On this 25th day of July 1832 before the Probate Court for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford, being a court of Record, having, by law, a Seal and Clerk, personally appeared Lemuel Bissell a resident of East Windsor in the said County of Hartford, aged sixty-nine years, who being duly sworn according to the law, doth in his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he the said Lemuel Bissell was drafted in the Connecticut Militia at East Windsor in the year 1780 about the middle of summer for a time of three months in Captain Booth's company that he served at or near New London a considerable portion of the time for which he was drafted, but the precise time he does not distinctly recollect. John Wood, whose affidavit is hereto annexed was orderly Sergeant in this company during said Bissell's term of service. And the document further declares that he entered the service of the United
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States in the State Book of Connecticut at East Windsor, about the first day of March 1781, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Granger of Suffield in the brigade commanded by General Waterbury of Greenwich Connecticut.  One Humphery was Major of the Sergeant and continued to serve with his Lance Corporal until about first part of March 1782, when regiment was disbanded at Stamford in the State of Connecticut. 
Ashbell Manem of East Hartford and Jonathan Clark of East Windsor served in the same company during this whole period of service: Their affidavit wit is hereto annexed. And the said Lemuel Bissell in reply to certain interrogation performed by the Court further declares 
1st. That he was born at East Windsor Nov. 13, 1762. 
2nd. That he has no record of his age.
3rd. That at the time of entering the service ever since, he has resided in East Windsor.
4th. That he was Drafted to go to New London 3 months & was enlisted for three years' service as set forth in the preceding declaration.
5th. The [illegible] Books were at the white ream but the names of the Regent officers is not now now familiar to the service of the deponent
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6th. That he never received any written discharge, but was disbanded by discharging his musket in the air, in the presence of General Waterbury.
7th. That he is generally known in his neighborhood and can produce many respectable men in his town to testify that his character for veracity is unquestionable, and that they believe he served in the revolutionary war. 
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Signed Lemuel Bissell
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 certifies that it appeared to them that Ashbel Manen and Jonathan Clark and John Wood whose affidavits are hereto annexed are known of veracity and that their statements are entitled to credit.
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I William Whitman a Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Bissell for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 25th day of July 1832.
Signed
William Whitman, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford
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Declaration,

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed February 3rd, 1853, and of any other act with which it may be connected.

State of Connecticut, Hartford County S.S. 

On this 5th day of April 1853, personally declared, before the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor, in Hartford County, I state aforesaid, Mrs. Sally Bissell, a resident of South Windsor in said District aged eighty seven years, who being 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 February 3rd, 1853,
For that, Lemuel Bissell of said South Windsor was a pensioner of the United States under the Connecticut Agency, under the act of June 7th, 1832; at the rate of forty side dollars & sixty side cents pr. annum.
And she further declares, that she was married to the said Lemuel Bissell, by the Reverend David McClure DD. pastor of the first Congregational Church of East Windsor, aforsaid; on the 25th day of April 1804; viz, Eightteen hundred four; or 49 years in April 1853. When she was married she was thirty eight years old. She has no record of her marriage; but she
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is made certain of the time by this fact that she was married two years, two years & two months after her sister Clarissa May, whose marraige is recorded, under date of Feb 25, 1802, in the Church Records of East Windsor, Conn. She further declares & says, that her said husband, the said Lemuel Bissell, died in South Windsor, Conn, on the 13th day of September 1847; or 5 years ago last September, and that she remains his widow, having never again married.
Signed
Sally Bissell

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first named and she further declared that she never before applied for a pension before me. 
Signed 
W. Barns, Judge

I Henry Prase Jr Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of East Windsor a foresaid do hereby certify that the Hon. William Barns is sole Judge of said Court; and that the signature to his certificate is in his hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I do herent subscribe my  name, &  the Seals of said Court on day and year first named. 
Signed
Henry Prase Jr Clerk
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State of Connecticut, Hartford County S.S.

On this 5th day of April 1853, personally appeared, before me William Barns, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of East Windsor, in said County, Jesse Charlton, a resident of South Windsor, in said County, a credible witness; being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says: That he has been acquainted with Lemuel Bissel, his wife Sally Bissell, for fifty years, That he remembers when they were married; They lived in his immediate neighborhood. They were married & kept house as much as five years, I think, believe, before I was married. My own marriage was in Nov. 1809, and is so recorded. The said Lemuel Bissell, the husband of the said Sally Bissell, was a revolutionary pensioner, & I have made out his papers to draw his pension several times before his death. He died in South Windsor, September 13th 1847. I was present at his funeral, it is recorded in the Church Records of said South Windsor, as of that date: and the said Sally Bissell still remains his widow & has never again married. Attest Jesse Charlton. Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first named April was interlined before signing.
Signed
Wm. Barns Judge
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State of Connecticut Hartford County S.S.

On this 1st day of March 1853, Before me Jesse Charlton, Notary Public for said County authorised by law to administer oaths & take deposisions tho^o said State; personally appeared, Mary Smith a resident of said South Windsor, a credible person, to me well known; who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following statement, that her age is Eighty three years: that she is well acquainted with Widow Sally Bissell, of said South Windsor. That she was present at her marriage with the late Lemuel Bissell a soldier of the Revolution, they were married by the Rev Doct David McClure, about forty nine years ago. I remember that my sister Mays oldest daughter, Betsy, was about one year old, & she is now in her 50th year. The said Lemuel Bissell died five years ago last fall; I was present at his funeral, & his Widow the said Sally Bissell, still remains his Widow having never again married. 

Signed
Mary Smith

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first named Attest Jesse Charlton notary Public

Signed
Wm. Barns Judge
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 In testimony whereof I do hereunto affise my Seal of Office at said South Windsor on the day & year first named.

Attest Jesse Charlton
Notary Public
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State of Connecticut,
Hartford County, Ss South Windsor.
On this 13th day of June 1853: personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a resident of said South Windsor a Notary Public duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths & take depositions throughout said State.
Increase Clapp, a resident of said town; who being duly sworn, deposes & says.
That his age is Seventy years
That in the year 1804 he removed from Tolland Connecticut, to East Windsor, which then contained what is now the Town of East Windsor, & South Windsor. That I soon became acquainted with Lemuel Bissell then of said East Windsor, the same who was a pensioner for several years before his death. The said Bissell was then living with the present widow, Sally Bissell, formerly Sally Smith as her Husband. When I first commenced house keeping in 1807, I lived in a part her mothers house, & have been well acquainted with the said Lemuel and Sally Bissell down to the time of his death. He died in this town in 1847. I attended his funeral, I know him to have been a Revolutionary Pensioner & that the said Sally Bissell is still living & remains his widow
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The said Lemuel Bissell was universally respected as one of our best men.

Signed
Increase Clapp

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first named & I certify that the said deponent is a credible man & a man well known to the Commissioner of Pensions

Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
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I Jesse Charlton Notary Public of South Windsor in Conn.
Do certify that I went to the Town Clerks Office in the Town of East Windsor to obtain from him a certificate of the marriage of Lemuel Bissell & Sally Smith, both of said East Windsor if any entry could be found of it in any record Book in said office. I found him on a journey to the State of Ohio, & he had left no sub clerk to give any certificates. June 11, 1853
I then & there carefully examined said records myself, but could find no entry of the marriage of Lemuel Bissell & Sally Smith, under any date. And I further certify, That the Marriage records of said Town, before 1820, are very imperfect, & that probably not one tenth part of the marriages solemnized in said town before 1820 were recorded in the Town or Parrish records of said Town.

In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affuse my seal.

Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
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State of Connecticut, Hartford County S.S.
On this 13th day of June 1853. Frederic W Grant, a resident of South Windsor in said Hartford County, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of said Town, & by law authorized to administer oaths & take depositions thro said State, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says
That he is a native of the Town of South Windsor formerly a part of East Windsor in said county that his age is Fifty five years & six months.
That Lemuel Bissell late a pensioner of the United States, lived with his Father, the late Colonel Roswell Grant, many years. That his earliest recollection the said Lemuel Bissell, was a member of his said fathers family & he was much respected therein. That he was a member of the Congregational Church in this Town, that he well remembered the time when he left the service of his said father and married Miss Sally Smith of said East Windsor & commenced house keeping in his own house 
That he was then a small boy, not more than six or seven years old. I well remember when he obtained his pension under the Act
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of AD 1832. He continued to live with his said Wife, the said Sally Bissell, formerly Sally Smith, in the same house, to the end of his days; in my immediate neighborhood. And that he died on the 13th day of September 1847, at the age of Eighty Seven years. I have this day examined his monument in the grave yard and the date last given, agreed with that on his monument. I was present at his funeral and well know that the present Sally Bissell is the identical person who lived with him as his wife down to the time of his death & that she still remains his widow.

Signed
Frederick W. Grant

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written and I certify that the deponent is a resident of said South Windsor & one of the most respectable inhabitants thereof & a credible witness.

And I further certify that before the signing of the forgoing deposition the following words were interlined Viz. “Smith” and “Father”

Attest Jesse Charlton 
Notary Public
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Left side:

No. 914
Sally Bissell
Widow of Lemuel
Ct.

Let. to. J.H. Charlton
June 6/53

Act Feby 3/53

Right side:

Lemuel Bissell
East Windsor, Conn

Application for a pension
under the Act of 1832

Please reply to
Samuel H. Parsons
Hartford Connt

14 months
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49.254.
Elozior Moore
[illegible]
[stamp] EASTWINDSORHILL [illegible] APR [illegible]
FREE
Comm L.P. Waldo 
Commissioner
Washington D C
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Left side:

Lemuel Bissell, Act of June 1832 $46.66/anum.
Died 13th Sept. 1847 Paid to his death.

Illegible signature

Right side:

Pension Office
Sept. 10, 1853

Sir, 

Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, and if in your [illegible] the date of his death.

[illegible] respectfully

[illegible signatures]

(See other side)
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East Windsor Hill Conn, May 24th 1853
Hon. L.P.Walder, Sir, yours of the 7th May 
1855 being directed to South Windsor office did 
not reach me till the 24th and 
I immediately applied to Mr. Pouler at the 
Pension Office in Hartford, & his letter I return
to you together with your own.
I have no doubt he gives the right explanar
that it was on another document
mistakenly, or carelessly, perhaps with 
Mrs. Sally Bissells application for Bounty 
Land.

I remain Sir respectfully yours,

J.H. Charlton
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49.254
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East Windsor Hill Ct
April 5/55


Hon. L.P. Walder
Sir,
Herenth please find the application of [illegible]
Moore & Widow Sally Bissell of South
Windsor Ct. for Bounty Land 
under act March 3, 1855 and [illegible]
Very Much Yours

J.H. Charlton
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Brief in the case of Sally Bissell, widow of Lemuel Bissell
Hartford County and State of Connecticut
Act 3rd February 1853

Claim(“original”, or “for increase”)

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under
The act of June 7, 1832

Found evidence of marriage
certified to be credible.

(If for increase:)

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
J.H. Charlton Esq
East Windsor Hill
Hartford Co.
Cont”

Examining Clerk
[illegible signature]
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Left side:

1922 Mar 29 Tombstone data to
Hon. Geo. P.  McLean, ([illegible]
Justus Reed) M814,)

Right side:

WIDOW, &c.
Revy
File No. 520
Sally Bissell,
Widow,
Lemuel Bissell
Pri. Rev. War.
Act Feb 3, 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hartford May 26, 1833

Sir,

       Forms of this date with enclosures was received too late to answer by return mail - Mrs. Bissells pension was paid to you on the 30th March & the voucher forwarded in the Agents Quarterly afc 5th May- the receipt of the afc acknowledged by the 3rd Audit on the 8th May- the paper referred to by the Com of Pensions in the letter to you cannot be the one on which payment was made here- if there had been any defect in the voucher, the Agent would have been notified by the 3rd Audit or when the examination of the Agents afc was completed-
	May not the paper have been a draft made by you to draw her pension here and not used, and by accident placed among your applications for bounty land sent to the Pension Office, if so I should not trouble myself further with it- 
	Our last quarters afc has been audited and in a few days we shall know the result if anything is wrong about it relating to this pension I will immediately inform you.

Respectfully,
[illegible]
Henry Fowler

J.H. Charlton Esq
Postmaster
Winsor Hill
Conn.
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Sally Bissell
Pension
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Pension Office
May 7, 1855

Sir,

A paper, defective & incomplete (being without the pensioner’s signature) apparently intended for Mrs. Sally Bissells pension vouchers, for the semi annual payment to 4 March 1855, has been received at this office.

I advise you of its reception here (Your name being endorsed) that if she has not been paid, she may have the vouchers correctly prepared, & transmitted to the agency at Hartford Ct.

Yrs Respy

LP Waleto Jr.

For Commt.

Mr. James Charlton
South Windsor
Connt.
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East Windsor Hill Hartford Co. Ct.
Apr 7, 1853

Hon. L.P. Waleto

Sir, 

I herewith send the application of Widow Sally Bissell of South Windsor, for a pension under Act of Feb 3, 1853

Respy Your Oft Svt

J.H. Charlton
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East Windsor hill Conn June 14th 1853
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, Yours of the 6th instant in relation to the application of Sally Bissell Widow of Lemuel Bissell of South Windsor Ct a Pensioner under act of Feb. 1832, for a Pension under act of Feb 1853, was duly received & its requirements have been complied with. As the Commissioner is acquainted with the witnesses he will judge of their credibility & their means of knowledge in the premises, will the examining clerk please show the papers to the Commissioner if he himself has any remaining doubt in the case.

With much respect

Your Oft Svt

JH Charlton

Sept 6, 1853
The papers were prepared as dated June 14th 1853 but accidentally mislaid until today. JHC
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Affidavit of
John Wood
in service of
Lemuel Bissell
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford } SS East Windsor

On this 24th day of July 1832 before me there subscribed a Justice of the Peace for the county of Hartford in the state aforesaid personally appeared John Wood of East Windsor in said county aged 90 years a person of veracity and made solemn oath that he is well acquainted with Lemuel Bissell now residing in said East Windsor an applicant for a pension under the Pension Act of June 7th 1832 and that he served with me in the revolutionary war the year I do not recollect in the Connecticut Militia that said Bissell was drafted for a time of three months that we were stationed at New London in this state the company to which we belonged was commanded the first part of the time by Capt. Joseph Booth of Enfield and the latter part of the time by Capt. David Johnson of Windsor both of Hartford county aforesaid that I was Orderly Sergeant of said company that the Regiment to which our company belonged was commanded by Col. Willis of Hartford and that we were discharged at Norwich.

       His
John X Wood
      Mark

Sworn & Subscribed this
24th day of July 1832

Before me
Chr B. Haskill Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut} SS Hartford
Hartford County

I Samuel H. Parsons a Notary Public for the County of Hartford do hereby certify that Eli B. Haskell Esq before whom the within affidavit was executed is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hartford, and I believe that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand and Office
Seal this 29th day of August
1832. Samuel H. Parsons
Notary Public
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Affidavits
Ashbel Warren &
Jonathan Clark
re
Lemuel Bissell
1 year
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State of Connecticut}SS:Hartford
County of Hartford

On this 24th day of July 1832 before me the subscriber a Notary Public for the County of Hartford in the State aforesaid personally appeared Ashbel Warren of East Hartford aged 70 years and Jonathan Clark of East Windsor aged 69 years aforesaid County of Hartford both persons of veracity and made solemn oath that they are well acquainted with Lemuel Bissell now residing in said East Winsor an applicant a pension under the Pension Act of June 7, 1832, and that they served with him in the revolutionary war, for the term of one year from about the first of March 1781until on or about the first of March 1782 in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Granger in the brigade of state troops commanded by General Waterbury (the Col of the regiment recalls), that we were all mustered at Stamford in the State of Connecticut & were disbanded at Stamford - our company pitched their tents at a place called Farmers Hill about one mile from the village of Hartford from hence we were marched to Whiteplains
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and sometime afterwards returned mid winter quarter at Stamford, where we built a fort and were disbanded at said Stamford about the month of March 1782 at the expiration of one term of service the mode of disbanding was by discharging our muskets over the head of our General who placed himself in the center and gave the word of command/ Our General was Waterbury-

Sworn & Subscribed
this 24th day of July
1832, Before me 
Samuel H. Parsons
Notary Public

Signed 
Ashbel Warren
Jonathan Clark
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I, Frederic W. Grant of East Windsor in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Lemuel Bissell named in the preceding affidavits of Ashbel Warren & Jonathan Clark and know that he is a person of veracity, and generally respected in the neighborhood where he resides to have served in the manner which he states in his declaration and as set forth in the preceding affidavits.

Sworn & Subscribed
This 24th day of July 1832
Samuel H. Parsons
Notary Public
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[illegible]
14 mo private
$46.66

JH Parsons
Hartford
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State of Connecticut }SS Hartford
County of Hartford

On this 29th day of October 1832 before me the subscriber, a Notary Public for the county of Hartford, personally appeared Lemuel Bissell of East Windsor in the county aforesaid, and made oath that he is the same person named in a declaration taken before the Probate Court for the District of Hartford the 25th day of July Ad 1832.
That he served the United States in the war of the revolution as a private in a company commanded by Captains Booth & Johnson, and continued in the same for a period of at least two months.
That he again entered the service of the United States by enlisting into a company of Statehood commanded by Captain Samuel Granger in General Waterbury’s brigade - & served in said company as a private from March 1, 1781 until March 1, 1782  - a period of at least One Year - 
That the aggregate of his service as a soldier in the war of the revolution amount to at least 14 months and he would request that a pension may be granted him for that period.

Sworn and subscribed
to the 29th day of October
1832

Before me Samuel H Parsons Notary Public

Signed 
Lemuel Bissell
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Bissell who subscribed & made oath to the preceding affidavit in my presence and I know that he sustains a fair moral character and is the same person who appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Hartford on the 25th day of July 1832 and made oath to the declaration for a pension under the Act of 1832.

Witness my signature and 
official seal this 29th day of 
October 1832
Samuel H Parsons 
Notary Public
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Pension Office
July 29, 1832
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State of Connecticut}SS Hartford
County of Hartford

On this 24th day of July 1832 before me the subscriber a Notary Public for the County aforesaid personally appeared [illegible] Reverend Shubael Bartlett a Clergyman residing in said East Windsor & made oath that he is acquainted with Jonathan Clark and James Thompson and Lemuel Bissell, and Captain Ashbel Stiles all of said East Windsor and now applicants for pensions under the Act of June 7, 1832 and that they are persons of unquestionable veracity that he has been acquainted with the persons above named about 29 years and knows that they are reputed and believed in the neighborhood where they reside to have served in the revolutionary war.

Sworn & Subscribed
this 24th day of July
1832.
Before me
Samuel H Parsons
Notary Public

Signed
Shubael Bartlett
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Charlton written to concerning this document. Turns out to be immaterial.
See within

James Charlton
South Windsor
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United States of America.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Hartford County, ss South Windsor
Be it known, that before me Jesse Chariton in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law, to administer oaths, personally appeared, Sally Bissell and made oath in due form of law,that she is the identical person, named in an original certificate in her possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION
I Certify, that in conformity with the [illegible]
Sally Bissell                   Widow of Lemuel Bissell
who was a [illegible] in the Revolutionary War
is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of  [illegible]    Dollars, 
and [illegible] cents per annum, commencing on the [illegible] and continuing 
for life, unless she should again marry; in which case, the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the [illegible] Department of the Interior
one thousand eight hundred and [illegible] 
Examined and Countersigned [illegible]      Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Pensions.

That she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the above mentioned Lemuel Bissell
that she now resides in South Windsor in  the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut
, and has resided there for the space of Nine years past; and that previous thereto she
resided in East Windson, CT of the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied.
Sworn and subscribed this [illegible] day of March 1855

KNOW all men by these presents, that I Sally Bissell of South Windsor 
in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do
hereby constitute and appoint Jas W Charlton of South Windsor 
in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my
name, to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Hartford, State of Connecticut, my pension from the 1st
day of September 1851, to the [illegible] day of March, 185?
(with power of substitution.)
    Witness my hand and seal this [illegible] day of March 1855.
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Jesse Charlton

STATE OF https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngCONNECTICUT, COUNTY
Be it Known, That on the day of 1857, before the subscriber, a
in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared
above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand the day and year last above mentioned.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, COUNTY - S.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the day of
1850, before me, and
in and for said county, duly authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths, personally appeared tothe


the Attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the
money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney, either by any plege, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer
and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed of to any person whatsoever.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned.
Before me
Jesse Carron his
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East Windsor Hill Conn May 31st, 1855.
Hon. L P Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,     I have thought that [illegible] of
[illegible], respecting an unfinished copy of
Pensioner certificate of Sally Bissell of South
Windsor, which reached your office, on which your letter of May 9th to Jas W Charlton. [illegible] came
to have an [illegible]! How it came to be sent 
to your office.
Sally Bissell is a woman of 89 years & lives
with her Son.  She was unwell and wished Jas W Charlton 
to draw the semiannual payment. in March 1855
I prepared the paper & went to her to have her
sign it. When I got there her son said he was
going to [illegible] & he would do it for her & I returned
home with the paper unfinished.
Her son did not go to [illegible] it, &
A few days after, she came up to the office &
wanted to have the papers finished & have James
draw the money. The first was [illegible] missing
on having the dates and I thought it would be
better to make a new copy; which it was,
I do not now remember; did I make a new copy
on which the [illegible] was [illegible], which I presume, was perfectly
argued, for [illegible] is quick to discern any imperfection.
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[illegible] imperfect copy was sent by a pure
accident. Slipped in with some other papers,
perhaps with Sally Bissells application of Bounty
and sent April 5th 1855, It acknowledges [illegible][illegible]
[illegible] number? '49, 254.  Your [illegible] [illegible] will
suggest to you that there could be no defect
in servicing? such a paper.
This I believe is sufficient.
●
[illegible name?] I remain with great honor,
your friend,
Jesse Charlton