Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13155, Benjamin Gilpin, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md. 

Gilpin, Benjamin

NUMBER
S. 13155. 

carded

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CONTENTS

[stamp] This Envelope Includes FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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[left side] 

31.5 [document torn]

[document torn] ama (Mobile)

[document torn] min Gilpin of Mo [document torn] Co in the State of Ala. who was a [document torn] cav + Inf in the Company commanded by Captain Murdock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Oxburgh in the Maryland line for 16 mos Pri of Cavalry 
C “ “ “ Inf. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 56 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of March 1838 and sent Hon D. H. Lewis Hou. of Rep’s.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $606.69 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept “ 43.33
=
$650.02
= 

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 18[document torn] 1832

R [document torn] d by [illegible] Addison [document torn]
Bo [document torn] Vol 8 Page [document torn] 

[right side] 

[document torn] C. Clay + Payt. 

[document torn] Mobile, [document torn] 23, 1838. 

Letter to [document torn] D. H Lewis. June 1838  Ja. [document torn] ton. C.C. [document torn] ay

June 18. 18 [document torn] 

Letter to Hon D. H. Lewis 6 Nov 1838. Same person 28 Oct 1839. Same person $3d Audt 25 Feb 1840

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from the Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839. Agt notified 10 March 1840

Dead 
Paid as above from 4 March 1839 to 24 April 1840 Agents Notified 25 S [document torn]
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The State of Alabama

Fayette County

Before me James M Morriss a Justice of the peace for said county [“person” crossed out, ink spot] personally came Richmond Gilpin the administrator of the Estate of Benjamin Gilpin late of said county Deceased who being first duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that the said Benjamin Gilpin left no widow whatever not had none at the time of his decease Sworn to this 20th day of May 1861 and subscribed before me 

Jas M Morriss J.P.  

[signed] Richmond Gilpin
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The State of Alabama 

Fayette County 

Orphans Court [words crossed out] in vacation May 21st 1841

The Court here [setting?] is satisfied of the facts as stated in the foregoing affidavit as being true [illegible] my hand this day + year above named attest Jas B Morton clerk

[signed] Walter Hawkins Judge

County Court of Fayette County Ala

[stamp] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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                        3 [1 or 4 smudged] 334
Benjamin Gilpin
[crossed out word] Alabama
Allow 6 m for Inf. [?]  20--
16 m. for Cav 7          66.66
                                    _____
      [illegible]             86.66

[writing more faded] on final settlement
certificates vol. 1 page 17

[written vertically on top of other writing] To the Pension office

[written along long outside edge of opposite side of fold] Mr. D. H. Lewis
                                                                                                         H R
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[illegible]
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                                                              in the state of Alabama
A statement showing the service of Benjamin Gilpin of Henry

[Table of 8 columns.]  [Title written over columns 2-4:] duration of claimants [?]    [5th column:] Rank of the claimnt [6th column:] Names of the officers under whom he served-  [7th. column:] age at present the places of abode when entered the service  [8th column:] proof by which this declaration is supported

first volunteered   -      6    -   private     Col Oxburgh [sic: Col. Roxburgh]  Capt Wm Murdock  nearly 75  Montgomery Co Maryland entered service 1780  

second service enlisted  1    4    -   private  [6th column:] Col Armonst  Capt Brown Lekelzer Liut A Dickatur & Wm Murdock  cornet-  [Last column:] Wilson C. Williams clergymen  Major general Wm. Irwin
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the State of Alabama} circuit court [illegible] 
Henry county } Term 1837
On this 21st Day of March 1837 personally 
appeared in open court Benjamin Gilpin 
a resident of the county of Henry & state 
aforesaid of the Age of seventy five years 
old Who being first duly sworn according 
to same, doth on oath make the following 
Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit 
of the Pension Made by the act of congress passed 
the 7th of June 1836 that the year before the
surrender of Lord Cornwallis he believes in
July he entered the service at Montgomery
in the State of Maryland as a volunteer
under Captain William Murdock for
a five months tour and was marched
to Georgetown and from there to
Anapolis and joined the Fourth
Maryland Regiment commanded by
Col. Oxburgh and was marched from
there to Little York in the State
of Virginia.  When Wallis was first attack-
ed he was at Williamsburg about 12 miles
off and heard the firing. The next day
at about 12 o'clock pm under the command
of Capt. Murdock and Col Oxburgh of the
fourth Maryland Regt was marched on
the lines near Little York and continued
on the lines as guard and alternatly one
day and night on [illegible] & one day & night
off untill Wallis surrendered.  The first
Fort erected was on Pigeon Hill and
from the fort fired to [illegible]
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he assisted in digging a long thin in trench-
ment around the Brittish intrenchment
he was taken on the lines and placed on
a general guard which was placed over
General Stuben & General [illegible] was on
the the lines when General Wayne took
a fort on the right from the Brittish and
General Lafayette was on the left of their
intrenchment.  He was on the lines when
the Brittish sent a flag for a cessation of
arms and continued their untill the
Brittish [following words struck out: surrendered their arms and]
marched out.  We was formed on the west
side of the road the French on the other
side.  The Brittish marched out four
deep [illegible] to the lower end of the
lines, grounded their arms then marched
back into town without arms.  The 
next day they were taken off to
Altherman Barracks in New Virginia.
He continued and assisted in filling up
the intrenchment afterward was marched
to Frederick Town in Mary Land where he
to get a discharge but had to go to Anapo-
lis when he was discharged from that
tour of service marking his service this
tour six months.  He then inlisted
in a corps of Hone with the French under
the command of Col. Armory his Captain
was John Brown & [illegible] Lieut Dickatur
& William Murdock his Captain on his
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first tour of service was now [illegible]
He received [illegible] bounty and was to receive
a home and accutriment hundred acres
of land as an additional bounty and
Eight Dollar & 2/3 per month.  He joined the
corps in New Virginia at a place called
[illegible] Winchester in July or August when he staid with about
the last of December then he was marched
to [illegible] when he heard of peace
being made but was not discharged until
about the last of November then received
a discharge from Col Armong and Godfry
[illlegible] the Adjutant making his last
term of service about sixteen months.
That he was born in Fairfax county in the
State of Virginia the latter part of the year
of seventeen hundred & sixty three
[illegible] no record of his age as it [illegible] the family Bible [illegible] and he was
raised in Prince George County in the state
of Maryland.  He was living with his
decd. Fathers family County in the State of
Maryland.  After the close of the Revolutionary
war he moved to Roan County in the state
of North Carolina and resided there nearly
forty years and from there moved to Putnum
County in the state of Georgia and resided nearly [illegible] years and from there
moved this (Henry county in the state of Alabama)
where he has resided nearly seven years past.
He volunteered on the first tour and inlisted
on the second.  He received a discharge
from service when on his first tour of duty
but do not recollect who signed it.  He was
quite [illegible] gave it to some member of
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his Fathers family to take care of and
do not recollect any more about it.  His second
discharge was signed by Col. Armong and
countersigned by Godfry [illegible] the adjutant.
He kept this discharge many years and afterward handed
it to Mashack Franklin (a member of congress
from North Carolina) to obtain the Bounty of
Land as agreed on for the service in the last
tour but could not get it.  Therefore it was
considered of no value and no further care
taken of it consequently it was misplaced and
since he lost that he cannot find it.
All these facts stated in this declaration
he cannot [illegible] by any person in his knowledge
except his own oath.  As he moved from
the State in early life where most if not all
his companions in [illegible] resided.  He has not seen
any of them since.  Does not know that those
whom he was particularly acquainted with
during his serving as a Line that for notoriety
of his serving as a Revolutionary soldier and for
his veracity as an honest upright man
he refers the war department to [illegible]
certificate of citizen of the County of Henry
in the State of Alabama. And he further
relinquishes any claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present.  And
he declares that his name is not on the Pension
Roll of any agency in any state to his
knowledge. Sworn and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid.  Benjamin Gilpin

Moses K Speight Clk
Circuit Court Henry Co Alabama
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The State of Alabama }
Henry County }

We Wilson C. Williams
a Clergyman residing in said county & state
and William Irwin & Richard C. Spann residing in the same
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted
with Benjamin Gilpin who has subscribed
and sworn to the above and foregoing declaration
that we believe him to be about seventy five
years of age that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides, to
have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion
and also that he is a man of strict
veracity.

Sworn and subscribed the day & year
aforesaid.

Wilson C. Williams
William Irwin
Richard C. Spann

Moses K. Speight Clerk
of the Circuit Court of Henry County
Alabama

The said court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the proper interrogatories prescribed by the
war department that the above named
Benjamin Gilpin the applicant was a Revolution-
ary soldier and served as he states and the
court further certify that it appears to them
that Wilson Williams who has signed the
preceding certificate is a clergyman evident
in Henry County & State of Alabama and that
William Irwin & Richard C. Spain who has signed the same is a
resident in the same county & State and is a credible
person and their statement is entitled
to credit.

Wm D Pickett Judge 8th Circuit
Court
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The State of Alabama } I Moses K Speight Clerk of the
Henry County } Circuit Court of said county, the said
Court being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court
in the matter of the application of Benjamin Gilpin for
a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal (there being no official seal) this the
twenty second day of March AD 1837 and of
American Independence the sixty first year.

Moses K. Speight Seal
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[Two columns]
[Left column]

No 13.139.
[double underline]

[illegible]

Benjamin Glipin
(evidence of)
Pens. Mobile roll
Act 7 June, 1832

$99.01
______

8 Sept 23 1841
9 [illegible]

Re[illegible] dated 9 Sept 1841
Sent to Treasury 10 Sept 1841

[Right column]

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Treasury Department, Second Comptroller's Office September 9th, 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 admin of Benjamin Gilpin, decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Ala Agency, at the rate of Eighty six Dollars and 67 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 24th April 1840.

Respectfully yours,  Albion K. Parris, Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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[Two columns]
[First column]

Fayette Ct Ho 15 March 41

Daniel Peyton
Recd 29
Ansd 31st
Recd 6 Sept
Ans

[Second column]

[illegible] wanting [illegible]
the deceased left [illegible]
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[illegible]

The State of Alabama
Fayette County Sct.

Be it known that before me B W Wilson
a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared
Richmond Gilpin and made oath in due form of law that he is the
Administrator of the Estate of Benjamin Gilpin deceased, the identical
person who was a pensioner and is now dead and to whom a certifi-
cate of pension was issued of which the following is a true copy

War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States of the
7th June 1832 Benjamin Gilpin of the State of Alabama who was a
private of Calvary & Infantry in the War of the revolution is entitled to
receive Eighty Six dollars and Sixty Seven cents per annum during his
natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semian-
nually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year
given at the war office of the United States this 30th day of March one
thousand eight hundred thirty eight.

[illegible] and  S Cooper
Countersigned. Actg. Secretary of State
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That the deceased pensioner resided in Fayette County in the State
of Alabama about two months before his death and in Henry County
in said State about eight years, and previous thereto he resided
in the State of Georgia.

Sworn and subscribed the 8th day March AD 1841.

Before me
B. W. Wilson JP}   Richmond Gilpin
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Know all men by these presents that I Richmond Gilpin
Administrator of the estate of Benjamin Gilpin of Fayette County
State of Alabama who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
do hereby constitute and appoint Daniel Peyton my true and
lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the
Treasurer of the United States for paying pensions in the City of
Washington District of Columbia the balance of said pension
from the 4th day of March 1839 to the 24th day of April 1840 being
the day of his death.  Witness my hand and  seal this 8th day of March
1841.  

Signed sealed in presence of } Richmond Gilpin Seal 
B. W. Wilson }
Jas B Moron } 

The State of Alabama } Be it known that on the 8th day of
Fayette County } March 1841 before the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Richmond
Gilpin above mentioned and acknowledged the foregoing power of
Attorney to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I have here-
unto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.

B. W. Wilson J.P.

The State of Alabama } I James B. Morton Clerk of the County
Fayette County } Court for said County do hereby certify
that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that
Benjamin Gilpin was a pensioner of the United States at the
rate of Eighty Six dollars and Sixty Seven cents per annum, was
a resident of the County of Fayette in the State of Alabama, and
died in said county and State on the 24 day of April 1840 and
that Richmond Gilpin is the administrator of the Estate of the
said deceased.

[Blurred image of
seal of Fayette
County court clerk ]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand affixed my seal of
office at Fayette Court House the 8th
day of March AD 1841.

Jas. B. Morton Clerk
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The State of Alabama }
Fayette County } Ss.

Be it known that on the
13th day of March 1841 before the subscriber a
Justice of the peace in and for said County personally
appeared Daniel Peyton the attorney named in the
foregoing power of attorney and made oath
that he saith, was not from him by reason of
any sale transfer or mortgage of the pension 
or amount of pension therein authorized to be
received by him.  Sworn and subscribed 
the day and year last above mentioned
before me.

B. W. Wilson J.P.}  Daniel Peyton [J.P. lined through]


Fayette C. House Ala
March 15th 1841

Peter Haynes 3rd Auditor

Sir Please collect the foregoing and
forward the same to me at the above place [illegible].

Respectfully yours [illegible]
Daniel Peyton
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13155 INVALID.

File No, 13,155 Benjamin Gilpin Bear War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: Vol.: 1, Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Benjamin Gilpin Alabama 7th June 1832.
$86.67
To What time last paid

PensionOffice
28 Oct 1839

pd to 4 Sep 1838--3d qr not in
JH
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Abbeville Ala.
Septr. 23d

Paid 12 1/2

To the Hon. Dixon H. Lewis Esq.
Lownsborough
Ala
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Alley Ville Sept 19th 1838

Dear Sir Gum[?] sorry to be obliged to trouble you about my business again but the favours I have already received emboldens me to trespass on your time again as so on as I received the certificate I sent to Mobile but was informed by the agency at Mobile arriving to a late lane[?] I could not draw my money at Mobile I then sent a power of attorney to you to Washington City and have not heard from you since Please to be no good as to inform me if you received the power of attorney and what course I should now pursue in order to get my money and you will oblige me very much Direct to me at Franklin Henry County 
Benjamin Gilpin
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House of Representatives, January 26th, 1838.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Enclosed I send you the papers of Mr Benjamin Gilpin. He is much respected wherever he is known, and believed by all who know him to be a Revolutionary soldier.
Your Obdt. Srvt. Dixon H Lewis
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Comr.  June 18
Benj Gilpin
Alamb

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C
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Branch of the Bank
of the State of Ala [illegible]
Mobile 4th June 1838

Sir

I am today in receipt
of your favor of the 23rd
inst.

Upon the examination
of the Pension Rolls in this
office I find no name of
Benjm. Gilpin inscribed on
the 13th April last, in obedience
to your instructions of the
20th March but there is no evidence
of his having called for his
pension at all nor have
I any recollection of his
having applied for it.

It is not improbable
that an application was 
made, & that his papers
were not in due form &
payment therefore refused.

Respectfully
your obedt. servt.
Geo. S. Gaines
[illegible]

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Oct 24
Mr Evans


[written vertically on left side of page]
Lawndesboro Ala
Oct 14th

per
D H  Lewis
[illegible] C

J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Lawndesboro Oct 10 1838

J L Edwards Esqr

Sir-

Enclosed is a letter
from Benjamin Gilpin, of Henry County,
Alabama, who was placed on the
pension rolls sometime during the last
session of Congress.  It appears he has
applied to the Pension Agent at Mobile
& was refused payment, probably on
the ground that his pension was not pre-
sented within eight months after it be-
came due. The power of attorney which
he mentions, I never received.  Will
you be kind enough to inform me
what course is necessary to procure
the pension due him.  Please direct
your letter to me at this place as soon
as possible, that I may be able to for-
ward him the information required,
before I go on to Washington.  Direct
your letter to me at this place viz.
Lawndesboro, Lawndes County South
Alabama & oblige

yr obedt. servt. Dixon H Lewis
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office
February 27th, 1840.

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," Benjamin Gilpin--------
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Ala. Agency, at
the rate of Eighty six Dollars and Sixty seven Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept.1838
to the 4th March, 1839.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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J L Edwards Esqr.
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House of Reps
May 30th 1838

J L Edwards Esqr

Enclosed I send you
an application of Benjamin Gilpin
to receive his pension through me
at this place.  If the thing can
be done I should be glad to get
the money for him.  If not, be
good enough to send me such direct-
tons as may be necessary to en-
able Mr. Gilpin to receive his
pension at Mobile. That place is
very remote from Mr. Gilpin, there
is but little communication with it
as Henry County trader at Apalach-
icola & I fear the pension agent
exercises a rigour in allowing money
to be drawn by pensioners which makes
it next to impossible to received their pen-
sions.  It is not the first complaint which
has come to my knowledge of great
rigour towards pensioners.

Yr obit servt.
Dixon H Lewis
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[written vertically on right side

[illegible] abt Mar 26]

J L Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
Washington City

[written vertically on left side
Hon D. H. Lewis
HR]

Benj Gilpin
Ala
[illegible]
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House of Reps
March 23rd 1838

J L Edwards Esqr

Sir

Enclosed is the
additional statement which you informed
me was necessary to entitle Benjamin
Gilpin to a pension.  I presume that
it will make his proof complete.

Yr obdt servt
Dixon H Lewis
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[Two columns]
[First column]

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

[Second column]

Payment to be made
at Mobile Ala.
by George F. Gaines, Esq.
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of
Mobile
Alabama


Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E2  Vol. 8
Page 98 by D.D. Addison
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
States, of the 7th June, 1832, Benjamin Gilpin
of the State of Alabama
who was a Private of Calvary & Infantry in
the War of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty Six dollars and
Sixty Seven cents per annum, during his natural life, com-
mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-
annually, on the 4th of Marchand 4th of September, in
every year.

[Image of blurred seal]

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 30th day of
March one thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight.

S. Cooper
Actg. Secretary of Wa

Examined and}
Countersigned}

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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The State of Alabama}
Henry County }  Personally appeared
before Benjamin C. Lansdell, Judge of the
county court Benjamin Gilpin who after being
duly sworn deposeth and saith that he [word struck out]
had been a Revolutionary soldier and did make out thru
several declaration in support of his claim to
a Pension under the act of 7th June 1832. the first
he believes was made out and forwarded to the
City of Washington in the early part of the year
of 1833 which was received at the Pension Office and
from some defect in the form it was returned to him
with directions to correct it. the second was made
out before the county court for said county which in
session either in December 1834 of Jan 1835 and
was mailed by him at the Franklin P.O. in said Co.
and after waiting until the latter part of the year
1836 & not hearing from the Pension Office he addressed
a letter to the head of that department and received
a letter from the war department & Pension offices
informing him that no papers in support of his
claim had been received at that office dated 7th of
November 1836.  that he applied to the circuit 
court at its session in March 1837 and made
out the last which is the one enclosed to the
Hon D. H. Lewis.  that he was prevented from making
the said application from circumstances beyond his control
he is aged and very infirm having to use crutches
in attending to his business.  Sworn and subscribed
before me in the county & State aforesaid on the 8th day
March 1838.

B. C. Lansdell J.C.C.  Benjamin Gilpin
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Hon. D. H. Lewis
HR
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I certify that B C Lansdale whose name
is signed to the within is [following struck through: acting] Judge
of the County Court of Henry County
which is in my District.

Dixon H Lewis
March 22nd 1838
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[Written vertically on left side
Mail Oct 26
illegible]

Lawndesboro Ala
Oct 16th
per
D H Lewis

J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C
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Lawndesboro, Ala
Oct 15th 1839

Sir

Enclosed I send you two
letters from Mr. Gilpin a revolu-
tionary Pensioner, complaining
of the difficulty of drawing his
pension at Mobile.   The facts
as stated, I am sure, are true, &
he has again through me, sent
his papers to Mobile to draw
his March & September install-
ments, but with little hope on
my part, he will succeed.
Can no means be adopted to
pay him his money from
Washington through the Bank
at Montgomery, & to prevent
these vexatious delays & object
[illegible] on the part of pension
agents. 
 
Yr obdt servt
Dixon H Lewis

J L Edwards Esr}
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In at May 23
Ben Gilpin
Alabama

James L Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City

Hon C. C. Clay
Senate US
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Washington City - May 22d 1838

Sir,

Enclosed I send you a letter, lately recd. from
A. C. Gordon, Esqr. of Henry County Alabama,
in relation to the non-payment of a pension due
to Mr. Benjamin Gilpin, which was payable at
Mobile.  Please examine it, and giveme  the
necessary explanation, in reply, with as little delay
as possible.

I wish you to return Mr. G.'s letter

Very respectfully,

Your obt svt

C.C. Clay

J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
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8th March 1838
Abbevile Henry County Alabama

Hon. D. H. Lewis

Dear Friend

I herein [illegible] to you
Mr. Gilpins affidavit as hereto the cause of which
has been the delay in his present application
for a Pension.  He has also furnished a letter
he received from the Pension office which with
[illegible] circumstances in support of his affidavit
I have also annexed a certificate of what
comes within my own knowledge.   I hope
he will not be disappointed with & [illegible] decision
of the war department. He has strived to 
satisfy the department but if there is [illegible]
something defective he is fearful that 
no [illegible] can be in time to comfort him
if it is not obtained soon.  As is of such advanced
age and a cripple without a hope of a cure.
He desires me to tinder to you his grateful
thanks for your kind attention in this matter.

I remain your sincere friend and
Obt. Servt.

B. C. Lansdell