Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,296, Joseph Gilpin, Del. Sea Service
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(s-1776)

Service
Del. 
Sea Service

Gilpin, Joseph

Number
S.4.296

carded
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Ohio 1934
Joseph Gilpin
Boone [illegible] in the State of Kentucky
who was a [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Regt commanded by [illegible] in the Delaware line for  
18 months
15 months Private 50.00
3 ms [illegible] 60.00
$110.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 110. Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Delaware Sea Service Records [illegible] Mar. 30 '04
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. day of April 1833 and sent to Hon. R.M. Johnson {illegible] Kentucky
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.  220.  Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 33.  55.  $275.
Revolutionary claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible] Palmer Clerk, Book E Vol. 8, Page nine.
Duplicate Certificate issue from [illegible] James Bright Ky Sept 2 1835
1874 April [illegible] Hon. Chas O'Neil [illegible] military [illegible] (for [Geo Gilpin
1889 Dec 8 J H Shinn referred by letter to [illegible]
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At the request of his Excellency Caleb P. Bennett Governor of the State of Delaware, and in order to render such aid to the petitions of Israel Gilpin and Joseph Gilpin of Boone County Kentucky for pensions, for services rendered the United States during the time and in the manner stated therein as their cases may deserve; I Edward Gilpin aged seventy two years, do declare that the statements made by them and each of them [crossed out text] are substantially correct, that Israel Gilpin was at the time I believe, both before and after the battle of Brandywine, acting as a Commissary, and Joseph Gilpin aiding him in that department: Having been intimate with both of them; and having frequent intercourse with them, and their family during the revolution, especially conversant with them on all occasions during their residence in Delaware, have recollections of such of the particulars by them stated, as to induce me to say that full faith and conficence may ought to be placed therein.
Edward Gilpin
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress on the 7th June 1832
State of Kentucky County of Boone Scott
On this 19th day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared before one Chasteen Scott a Justice of the Peace in the said County of Boone State of Kentucky Joseph Gilpin a resident of said County of Boone State of Kentucky aged eighty five [illegible] who [illegible] duly sworn according [illegible] doth on his [illegible] make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of [illegible] 1832 - [illegible] the service of the United States as a volunteer private military man early in the spring of the year 1776 in the county of  Newcastle State of Delaware where he then [illegible] in a company commended by Capt Israel Gilpin and continued to serve in said company until the beginning of the fall of the year 1777 when said Israel Gilpin was changed to the commissary department at which time this applicant Joseph Gilpin was also taken from [illegible] company and changed into the commissary department with said Israel Gilpin and acted in the [illegible] commissary department under [illegible] said Israel Gilpin.  He [illegible] Israel in the [illegible] and this applicant in the [illegible] commissary department in which department [illegible] at the home of the Battle of Brandywine after a few months before and for two or three months after the said Battle of Brandywine.  When he went to sea in the Merchants [illegible] and continued in the sea service or occasions permitted the [illegible] of the home of the war - [illegible] which 18 months service in the [illegible] company he was engaged in [illegible] the country from the British [illegible] in the three months he served in the commissary department he was in the Battle of Brandywine which was the only battle he was in on land - he was in two engagements with the enemy at sea.  the first of which the vessel he was in made its escape - in the ^ [illegible] under Capt Alex-r. Holmes - 2nd engagement the vessel in which he was in ^ at that [illegible] was taken and himself [illegible] crew taken prisoners by the British frigate Greyhound and kept on the Greyhound a prisoner for several weeks then taken to Philadelphia and exchanged for British prisoners
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During this time He was in the service in the [muleder] company  he was under Col. M. McKinly - then while in the commpany department. He was with [illegible] Genl. Smallwood. Lafayette V. Greene. [unknown single letter]                      that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testamony he can procure who can certify to his service except the testimony of Israel Gilpin hereby annexed.
He hereby relinquishes every claim  whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of  any state,
Sworn &  subscribed to this day & year aforesaid.
Joseph Gilpin
Simon Colefore [spelling?]
Mr.Otis  15 Octr. 1832
Chastain Scott
Boon County Kentucky - October 19th 1832
Mr. Lewis Conner
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Kentucky Boone County Sett
This day personally appeared before
me Chasteen Scott a Justice of the peace in & for said
County Israel Gilpin a resident of said County aged
Ninety two years & who being duly sworn deposeth and
saith that he lived in New Castle County Delaware
during the time of the revolutionary war and was
well acquainted with Joseph Gilpin who has Sign
& sworn to the within declaration for a pension & that
said Joseph Gilpin did volunteer as a private mil
man & for the company of Militia commanded
by this deponent as he state early in the spring of
the year 1776. & that he continued to serve in said company
in the service of the U States until early in the fall
of 1777. & then was charge to the Commissary department
& served in it three months or upwards as he states
in his declaration & that he was in the Battle of Bromby
Wine as he states and that he shortly afterwards went to
Sea but of his service, there this deponant personally has
nowledge
Sign & Sworn to this 19th of Oct 1832
Ira Gilpin
Kentucky Boon County Set
Sept
I Chasteen Scoll a Justice of the peace in
and County do hereby certify that the above
name of Joseph Gilpin sign & qualified to the above
Chasteen Scott
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There are cases of extraordinary merit on account age, in [illegible] and merit.  Certificates of pension to Willis Groves Burlington as soon as possible.
RM Johnson
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August 28, 1934
Mrs. Bessie Gilpin Sessions
519 South Alabama Avenue
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
BA-J/ILL
Joseph Gilpin
S. 4296
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Gilpin, a brother of Israel Gilpin, both Captains in the Delaware troops, in that war.
The record of Joseph Gilpin is furnished herein as shown in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S 4296, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Gilpin, while a resident of New Castle County, Delaware, enlisted in the spring of 1776, and served eighteen months as private in Captain Israel Gilpin's company, Colonel John McKinley's Delaware regiment, after which he was transferred and served three month as issuing commissary, with rank of captain, under said Israel Gilpin, purchasing commissary, was was in the battle of Brandywine.  He then entered the sea service, acted as sailing master and Lieutenant, and served three years; during this period of service, he was in two engagement, the first on the ship, "Sally", commanded by Alexander Holmes, was captured by the British frigate "Greyhound", was held prisoner several weeks, and exchanged in Philadelphia; the second, on the "Lady Washington", off Savannah, during which he commanded a part of the time, because of the indispostion of the Captain, his name not stated.  No relationship bewtween the soldier, Joseph Gilpin, and Captain Israel Gilpin, was stated.
Joseph Gilpin was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, at which time he resided in Boone County, Kentucky; he was then eighty-five years of age, the date and place of his birth, and
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names of his parents were not stated.
In 1833, Israel Gilpin, a resident of Boone County, Kentucky,
aged ninety two years, stated that Joseph Gilpin served in his company
in New Castle Delaware in the Revolutionary War. In 1833, one Edward
Gilpin, aged seventy-two years, was a resident of Wilmington, Delaware;
he stated that he was well acquainted with the families of both Israel
and Joseph Gilpin during their residence in Delaware. No relationship
between these persons with surname Gilpin was stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and
address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of Joseph
Gilpin, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:

Joseph Gilpin
Certificate 7934
Issued April 20, 1833
Rate $110 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831.
Act of June 7, 1832.
Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
2.
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[illegible]
4296
INVALID.
File No. 4296

Joseph Gilpin
Pri. Del. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-- Vol. A
, Page 141
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Delaware and Sea Service Records [illegible]
1907 July 23
Hist to Mabel F. Smith-
1934 Aug. 28. Hist to Mrs. Bessie
Gilpin Sessions [illegible]
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[illegible] Ky
August 24th
[illegible]
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
[illegible]
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Application for a new certificate
The State of Kentucky
Boon County
to
the
On this 20th
day of August 1835. before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace for the said County of
Boon personally appeared Joseph Gilpin
who on his oath declares that he is the same
person who formerly belonged to the company
commanded by Captain Isral Gilpin in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel McKinley
in the service of the United States that his
name was placed on the pension roll of the
State of Kentucky that he received a certificate
of that fact under the signature and seal of
the Secretary of war which certificate he
placed in the hands of his attorney in March
last and which his atty lost as he was informed
in the City of Cincinnati Joseph Gilpin
Sworn and subscribed
Before me the day & year aforesaid
Cornelius Hughes [illegible]
At the same time and place personally
appeared James Bright who being duly
sworn deposes and says that he acted as
atty for the said Joseph Gilpin in March
last for the purpose of procuring his pension
money that the said Joseph Gilpin placed
in his hands his pension certificate for that
purpose which this deponent lost in the
City of Cincinnati on or about the first
of April last
James Bright ┃
Sworn and Subscribed
Before me the day & year aforesaid
Cornelius Hughes [illegible]
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State of Kentucky
Boone County To wit:
J. J. G. Hamilton Clerk of the County Court for the County
aforesaid do certify that Cornelius Hughes Esq. before whom
the preceeding two affidavits were taken and whose name
is signed to the same is and was at the time of the
execution of the same a Justice of the peace in and
for said County of Boone and State of Kentucky, duly
Commissioned and qualified and that full faith &
credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
Court of said County at the Courthouse
in Burlington this 21st day of August 1835.
J. G. Hamilton Clk
Please to forward me another certificate in lieu of the one last
P.S.
please direct your communications to the
Burlington Post Office, Boone County Ky.
[illegible] Bright
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RALPH B. IVES, PRESIDENT
ADDISON SESSIONS COMPANY
Resident Agents
111 North Grand Box 1237

Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford Conn. Incorporated 1819
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
August 13, 1934

War Department,
Record of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I am interested in securing verification of
the military service during the Revolutionary War of
JOSEPH GILPIN, a brother of ISRAEL GILPIN. According to
my family history these two men ranked as Captains, and
resided in the state of Delaware at the time of enlistment
.
This information is required in my application
for affiliation with D.A.R. and I shall greatly appreciate
your cooperation.
Very truly yours,
Bessie Gilpin Sessions
Mrs. Bessie Gilpin Sessions,
519 S. Alabama Ave.,
Okmulgee,
Oklahoma.
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In reply to your request of __________________, received________________for a statement of the military history of Joseph Gilhim a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S File 429

Dates of               Length of     Rank  
Enlistment or       Service
Appointment     
1.Spring 76            18 mos.        Pri.
2. Fall 77                  3 mos          Capt.
3. About Dec. 1777   3 yrs.         Acted as-

Officers under whom service was rendered.
       Captain                          Colonel
1. Israel Isilhin                            John McKinley
2.  Commissary of 
3.