Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 689, Samuel Gibbs, Continental (Conn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                                 NUMBER
Continental (Conn.)    Gibbs, Samuel     W 689
                                      Caty                  B.L.M.29731-160-55
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CONTENTS
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9,921
Massachusetts.
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Samuel Gibbs,               4
of Berkshire Co^4^ in the state of Massach^tts;
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Huntington of the Connectt. 
[paper smudged]ne, for the term of one year.
______________________________________________
[paper smudged]scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts,
at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27. of April, 1818.
_________________________________________________________
Certificate of Pensions issued the 27. of April '19,
and sent to John Hooker, judge
Springfield, Berkshire Co: Mass^tts
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Arrears to 4th of March, 1819.             82.10.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept:            48 "
                                         1819" }        _____
10 mos 4/30}
     & 4?31                                            130.10
                                                            ________
                                   {Revolutionary claim,   }
                                   {Act 18th March, 1818.}

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Notification sent to Charles Sedgwick Esq 23 May 1822 Stockbridge Massachusetts
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Nov 29/56 [illegible] to Joseph D. Slocum if widow died  before your grant lapses. Heirs have no property - in it 

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174.215 / act Mar. 3/55
                       June 21/55
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Caty Gibbs                     Wid
Samuel Gibbs                 Priv
______________________________________
29731 iss June 14/56
Rev. War
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Reg 53-1269
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[illegible]:[illegible] from 12/56
Boynton
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Joseph D Slocum
             Holland 
                          Mass
[illegible]
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1,289.
Massachusetts.
__________________________
Caty Gibbs,
widow of Samuel, ^Gibbs
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private,
Ct Line
____________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 96 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.
_______________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued
13th day of Aug., '53,
and sent to
          Eli Taintor,
              Lee,
                      Mass.
_________________________________________
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under ct
February 2, 1853, Page 4 () Vol. A.
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Saml Gibbs, Prive
Affadivit [crossed out]
Berkshire A. Mass^tts
Col. Huntington's reg^t
Conn^t line, one year.
27. April, 1818
      _____
      _____

Huntington Con. regt
Adm.

I John Hooker nether named do hereby [illegible] the within application with the additional testimony of Ezra Mack & Isaiah Brockway contained in the two depositions which arrived - & I do also [illegible] that from evidence [illegible] me I am satisfied that the applicant Samuel Gibbs is in reduced circumstances in life [illegible] in need of assistance from his country for support.
Springf Masstts July 7. 1819 - John Hooker
John  Hooker, judge
Springfield, Mass
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State of Massachusetts County of Hampden - On this first day of June A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me Joseph D. Slocum a Justice of the Peace in & for sd county. Caty Gibbs aged 83 years a resident of [illegible] and  in sd County & state who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Samuel Gibbs decd who was a Revolutionary soldier, that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under act of Congress passed March 3d 1855 Caty Gibbs
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me the day and year first above written. I certify that she is the identical person above described. I have no interest in the case
Joseph D. Slocum Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts County of Hampden
Mr Charles Hull & Eunice Hull having been duly sworn depose and say that we well know Mrs. Caty Gibbs who was a pensioner that she is the identical person who now draws and is entitled to a pension on certificate under act of February 3d 1853 that we are residents of Holland in Massachusetts, that we have known the above nine years, that she has remained unmarried, that her declaration was signed and acknowledged by her in our presence, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we are disinterested
Charles Hull
Eunice B Hull
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this 1st day of June 1855.
Joseph D. Slocum. Justice of the Peace

It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavit of Charles Hull and Eunice B. Hull of the said County and State who are personally sworn to and who are entitled to she may be entitled under act of Congress passed  it and who swear that they have no she may be entitled under act of Congress passed  interest in the result of the above application.
That Caty Gibbs is the widow remaining unmarried of the late Samuel Gibbs who was a Revolutionary soldier, for whose service she now she may be entitled under act of Congress passed  the above named pension.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand this 1st day of June 1855. I have no interest in this case. 
Joseph D. Slocum, Justice of the Peace
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden, SS.
I, George B. Morris, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that Joseph D Slocum Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificates on the papers hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand=writing of the said Joseph D Slocum and believe his signature to said certificates is genuine : also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
     In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
Geo B Morris Clerk.

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Please direct the warrant
to me at Holland
Hampden Co
Massachusetts -
Joseph D Slocum

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174.215
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152
Saml Gibbs's 
application
( Copy 1
Recd 22 Mar: 1822
9921



Charles Sedgwick,
Stockbridge, Mass:
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District of Massachusetts, ss :
On this twenty sixth day of February 1822 [a year crossed out], Personally appeared in open Court before the ["Circuit" crossed out] Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, ["in the Western Circuit" crossed out], on the 4th Monday of February 1822 [year crossed out], the same Court, being a Court of records for said Circuit; proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Samuel Gibbs aged sixty four years, resident in Becket in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Jewett in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jedediah Huntington in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated 27 April AD 1818 and that his pension certificate is numbered Nine thousand, nine hundred twenty one

And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor 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 schedule, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed - schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted - to wit:
[first column]
One Yoke Oxen         45.00
One Cow                   12.50
One Do                      12.50
One Yearling heifer     7 -
One calf                      3 -   
Two Swine                   7 -
Five Sheep                  12
one Table                    1.00
6 [illegible] chairs          .50             
1 Chest                        1.25
3 Old chests                    60
                                  ________
                                 $102.35

[second column]
1/[?] avd Grains                        1.00
1 Small [illegible] & Hooks         .25
     Slice of [illegible]                   .75
     Six [illegible]                           75
1 cupboard [illegible]           }
[illegible] Plates Baking        }    2.00 
knives fork spoons &c          }   
1 p [illegible] [illegible]                 .18
[illegible] Hollow Ware         }
Pot, Kettle, &c                       }     2.50
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]      1.17
 & [illegible]                            __________
                                                    $8.60

[third column]
Spinning Wheel, [illegible] &c            1.00
Wash Tub & old Pails                            .50
1 old Plough [illegible]                        1.95
Old Scythe & Tackling                         1.00
1 old Looking Glass                               .75
                                                          ________
                                                             5.20
                                                             8.60
                                                          102.35
                                                     ___________________
                                                        $116.15     
That I am by occupation a Farmer that my health is such that I am unable to labor but very little that the number of my family residing with me is Five that their names and ages are as follow: Caty Gibbs my wife aged forty nine years, Samantha Gibbs aged fifteen years who is [illegible] and unable to labor, Charlotte Gibbs _ aged fourteen years John M Gibbs aged twelve years Joseph Joshua Gibbs aged eight years.
(Sign^d) Saml Gibbs.

Sworn to, and declared on the twenty sixth day of Feby 1822 [182 crossed out], before this Court -            Chars. Sedgwick Clk.

I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the ["Circuit" crossed out] Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Berkshire do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred fifteen dollars and sixteen cents.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twelfth day of March 1822 [1820 crossed out].

Chas. Sedgwick } Clerk of the Court for the County of Berkshire.
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State of Massachusetts }
County of Hampden ss } On this twenty ninth day of April A.D. 1853 Personally appeared before [illegible word directly under 'before'] me Henry W. Bishop Judge of the Court of Common in and for the State of Massachusetts at her dwelling house in the town of Tolland in the County of Hampden and State aforesaid she being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in open court Caty Gibbs a resident of the town of Tolland County and State aforesaid aged 81 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed February 3 1853. That she is the widow of Samuel Gibbs decd late of the town of Becket in the county of Berkshire and state aforesaid, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner of the United States upon the Massachusetts Agency at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum, under the act of Congress passed in 1818, and she further that she was married to the said Samuel Gibbs decd on the ['fourteenth' crossed out] twenty sixth day of June eighteen hundred & five
That her late husband the said Samuel Gibbs died at said Becket on the 14th day of July 1829. That she was his widow on the 3d day of February 1853, and still remains his widow ___ For proof of her claim she refers to the accompanying papers and to the papers of her late husband the said Samuel Gibbs now filed in the Pension Office at Washington
                   Caty Gibbs
Subscribed & sworn to before me 
Henry W Bishop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the state of Massachusetts
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         Common wealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County SS.
              I certify that Henry W Bishop, Esquire before sworn the foregoing declaration was made & who has hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the State of Massachusetts duly commissioned & sworn.
      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office as [illegible] of said Court this second day of May 1853. 
Charles Sedgwick Clk.

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Names of Persons | Date of Publishment | Date of Certificate | where belonging

Samuel Gibbs Jr and Caty Johnson | June 8th 1805 [illegible] | June 26, 1805 [illegible] | Becket   Sheffield

I Sidney Jones of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire a Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do [illegible] & say that I am the Town Clerk of Sheffield at this time & have the custody of the Town Records.
     I further say that upon the record Book of sd Town containing the record of the publishment of intentions of marriage I find the above Entries in the manner & form  & with the Captions as above stated and I further say that the same is a true copy of sd record. The above duly on in figures as stated and the date of the publishment  is distinctly June Eight Eighteen hundred & five - and the date of the certificate is June twenty sixth Eighteen hundred & five. 
                Sidney Jones

Commonwealth of Mass}
Berkshire County            } On this thirtieth day of April Eighteen hundred & fifty there personally appeared Sidney Jones Esquire of the foregoing affidavit to me known to be the Town Clerk of Sheffield in sd County and made oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that I have no personal interest in the event of the claim  & have no agency in prosecuting the same. Before me Billings Palmer
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Berkshire, ss.
     I, Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that Billings Palmer and Franklin Sturgis Esquires whose signatures ["is" crossed out] are affixed to the certificates on the papers hereto annexed, ["was" crossed out] were at the dates thereof, ["one of the" crossed out] Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth,
and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to their acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Palmer & Sturgis and believe their signatures to said certificates ["is" crossed out] are genuine. 

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this Second day of May in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and fifty three.

Chas Sedgwick Clerk.
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I Fanny Hall wife of Jerre Hall of Lee in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do depose and say that I am the daughter of Katy Gibbs the widow of Samuel Gibbs, that I was born previous to the marriage of the said Samuel Gibbs to my mother,  and when the sd Samuel Gibbs and my mother were married I was of the age of seven years, and lived with my mother and was present at the marriage of Samuel Gibbs to my mother, and was at the time of their intermarriage of the sd age of seven years, that they were married in the Tower of Sheffield County aforesd, by a man by the name of Davey a Justice of the peace. That they were married the month of June A.D. of the same year that they obtained their certificate and the same day they obtained their certificate as I well remember, that I can now of the age of Fifty Five years , that I lived in the family of my mother after her marriage to the sd Samuel Gibbs untill I was married to my present husband the sd Jerre Hall That the sd Samuel Gibbs and my mother lived together as man and wife untill he died and that they have four children - after their marriage, and that he died on the fourteenth day of July A.D. 1829
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims, 

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Caty Gibbs of Tolland in the County Hampden and State of Massachusetts
hereby constitute and appoint Eli Taintor of Lee Massachusetts
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of myself
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself - and I hereby revoke all other Posers of Attorney by the granted in the premises
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 
Witness my hand and Seal this 29 day April A.D. 1853

Signed and Sealed in the presence of }
Henry W  Bishop                                  }

Caty Gibbs

State of Massachusetts }
County of Hampden     }   ss.
     On this twenty ninth day of April A.D. 1853 before me, the subscriber, a ["Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid" crossed out] Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the state aforesaid, personally appeared Caty Gibbs and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid. }
Henry W Bishop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the state of Massachusetts ["Justice Peace." crossed out]
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Claim of Caty Gibbs
Act of Congress passed February 3d 1853.
                                     _______________________________
State of Massachusetts }
County of Hampden     }   ss.
                        Be it know, That on this twenty ninth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three, before the undersigned, a ["Justice of the Peace" crossed out] Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Caty Gibbs a resident of Tolland in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the widow of Samuel Gibbs decd late of Becket in the County of Berkshire in said state.

who was a Revolutionary Pensioner upon the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency

at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that ["the said Pension ought to be increased" crossed out] she is entitled to a pension; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as ["my" crossed out] her Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and }
       year aforesaid, before me.             }
Henry W Bishop ["J. Peace." crossed out] }
Judge of the court of common Pleas in & for the state of Massachusetts

I, Henry W Bishop ["Justice of the Peace, in and for said County" crossed out] Judge of the court of common Pleas [illegible] of Massachusetts & for the state, do hereby certify that Caty Gibbs who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Henry W. Bishop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas ["J. Peace." crossed out]

I, Charles Sedgewick Clerk of the said Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Henry W Bishop before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, ["a Justice of the Peace in and for said County" crossed out] Judge as aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
                 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this second day of May A.D. 1853.

Chas Sedgwick Clerk.
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Tolland Hampden Co. Massachusetts
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible], [illegible]
                      in in the month of June 1855 I made application for [illegible] [illegible] in for Caty Gibbs widow of Samuel Gibbs a private in the Revolutionary War. Soon after the application was made and before warrant was [illegible] Caty Gibbs died without writing a will. In the month of June 1856 I [illegible] a Land Warrant for [illegible] [illegible] this day of  June 1856. No 29731. Before I [illegible] the Warrant I had [illegible] and [illegible] of [illegible] pensions. [illegible] other [illegible] of Caty Gibbs have [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Caty Gibbs daughter & son in law with whom she lived at the time of her [illegible] that for a number of years [illegible]. I now want to [illegible] whether the administrator can [illegible] the Warrant and if not in what way can the [illegible] [illegible] Co make the Warrant [illegible] [illegible].

Very Respectfully 
your [illegible] [illegible]

Joseph D. Slocum
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April 23, 1936.

Mrs. A.B. Cook                          BA-J/ILL
485 East Main Street                 Samuel Gibbs
Meriden, Connecticut.              W. 689
                                                  Samuel Gibbs
                                                  W. 7519

Dear Madam:
                      Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Samuel Gibbs, pension claim W. 689, and Samuel Gibbs, pension claim, W. 7519.

                       The records of these two soldiers are given herein as found in the papers on file in the above noted pension claims, based upon service, and disability incurred in service, in the Revolutionary War.       

                        SAMUEL GIBBS-W. 689

                         Samuel Gibbs enlisted in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, sometime in December 1775, served as private in Captain Joseph Jewett's company, Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Connecticut regiment, marched to Roxbury near Boston, thence to New York was in the battle of Long Island and was discharged January 1, 1777, at Peekskill, New York.

                         He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he resided in Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He was then aged sixty year; the date and place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

                          In 1822, the soldier and his wife, Caty, had four of their children living with them, shown as follow: Samantha, aged fifteen years, Charlotte, aged fourteen years, John M., aged twelve years, and Joseph, aged eight years.

                         Samuel Gibbs died July 14, 1829 in Becket, Massachusetts.
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                   Samuel Gibbs married June 25, 1805, Caty Johnson; both parties were then of Becket, Massachusetts. They were married in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, by a Justice of the Peace. The soldier's name was recorded Samuel Gibbs, Junior, at that time.

                    Caty Gibbs, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed April 29, 1853, at which time she resided in Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts. She was then aged eight-one years; the date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown. She died June 6, 1855 in Tolland, Massachusetts, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law; the name of that daughter was not designated.

                    In July 1853, Fanny Hall was a resident of Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. She was then aged fifty-five years and was the wife of "Jere" Hall" of that place; the date of their marriage was not shown. She stated that she was the daughter of the soldier, Samuel Gibbs, and Caty (Johnson) named above. One Jeremiah Hall, also a resident of Lee, Massachusetts, was then aged sixty years; he stated that he had  been acquainted with the soldier and his wife since 1813, but he did not stated that he was identical with "Jere", the husband of the above noted Fanny Hall. [in the right margin of the paragraph is written: Mrs. Fincle/O.K]

                    No reference was made to a former marriage of the soldier.

                                                      ------------

                    SAMUEL GIBBS-W. 7519.
          
                    Samuel Gibbs enlisted and served in the battle of Bunker Hill, also volunteered and went of the expedition to Quebec; the dates of enlistments, names of officers and length of said services were not given. He was commissioned January 1, 1,777. Lieutenant, served in Captain Daniel Allen's company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' 3" Connecticut regiment, was wounded in his arm at the time the British burned Norwalk, Connecticut, was subsequently, in important engagements, not named, and served until November 3, 1783, on which date

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he was commissioned Captain by brevet.
          
               Captain Samuel Gibbs was allowed pension on account of disability resulting from injury received in service in the Revolutionary War from May 31, 1787, under the Act of April 18, 1796. His name was placed on the invalid pension roll of New York City. April 11, 1818, Captain Samuel Gibbs applied for pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, at which time he relinquished his disability pension.  His claim was allowed. In 1818, this officer resided in Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut. In 1820, he was a resident of Norwalk, in said Fairfield County, aged then sixty-three years. The Date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

                Captain Samuel Gibbs married October 12, 1803, Julia F., whose maiden name was not stated; the place of their marriage was not given.

                  Julia F. Gibbs, the widow of the above noted officer, was allowed pension on her application executed March 29, 1853; she gave her age then as seventy-six years, but did not state the date and place of her birth, nor give the names of her parents. She resided then in New Haven, Connecticut, and also in Norwalk, Connecticut. Julia F. Gibbs moved about January 1856 from New Haven, Conneticut [sic] , to Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, to live with her daughter and son-in-law; she did not state the names of said daughter and her husband.
 
                    In 1820, Captain Samuel Gibbs had three children living at home in Norwalk, Connecticut, shown as follow: Julia, aged sixteen years, Maria, aged twelve years, and George, aged six years. There are no further data regarding said children.

                  No reference was made to a former marriage of Captain Samuel Gibbs. 

                                                 Very truly yours,


                                                 A.D. HILIER,
                                                 Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

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[left side of paper]
Rev War
WIDOW, &c.
    ___________
File No.   689
Caty Gibbs,
         Widow
Samuel Gibbs,
           Priv. Rev. War
      __________
Act: Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:-----Vol. A, Page 271

[Arrangement of 1870.]


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1922. Apr. 24. Hist. to Mrs. J.G. Nelson AW
1936-April 23 - Hist. to Mrs. A.B. Cook - L.L.L.
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Pension Office
Aug 10/53

Sir  Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner

Respectfully V
[illegible] Cole
for Commissioner

F. Burt Esq
Aud. Present

Samuel Gibbs, act 1818 $8 p.m. -- Died 14th July
1829, and paid to his death.

F. Bush
Auditor
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May 31, 18[illegible]
No 1861
Appl. of Caty Gibbs widow of Saml.

Mass:
Act 1818
s. 19
Act 3d Feby : 1853

Rev:
allowed $96 per annum
Com. Feb 3rd 1853

Eli Taintor
Lee 
Mass

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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[left]
A.B. 
Died - June 6 - 1855

[right]
1289
Massachusetts
Caty Gibbs
[wid]ow of Samuel
[w]ho served in the Revolutionary [w]ar, as a private

...cribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 [cen]ts per annum, to commence on ["th day of March, 1848" crossed out] 3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of August 1853 and sent to Eli Taintor
Lee
Massa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [date crossed out], Page 40 Vol. A
Feby 1853
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Washington May 30 1853
Sir      I hearwith [herewith] inclose [enclose] you the papers of Caty Gibbs Widow of Samuel Gibbs
for a pension under the Act of Congress past Febuary [February] 3d 1853 when the rezult [result] is known please to direct to me at
Lee Massachusetts           - Eli Taintor

L P Waldo Com
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Lee July 19th 1853
Sir
I herewith enclose the additional
testimony in the Pension Case of Caty Gibb the
Widow of Samuel Gibbs decd Claiming under the
Act of Congress passed Feby 3d 1853
Yours respectfully
Eli Taintor
L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Caty Gibbs widow of Saml. aged 81 yrs
Hampden County and State of Mass
act of Feb. 3rd 1853

Claim, ("original," [or "for increase." crossed out])

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a private; and pensioner under act of 1818 at $96 per annum
Marriage proved by public record

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Death, auds, certificate
Identity, by certificate of judge

Name and residence of Agent
Eli Taintor Esqr
Lee
Mass

Examining Clerk.
J LeGray
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State of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss    Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for sd  County of Berkshire duly authorised by Law to administer oaths Jeremiah Hall a resident of the Town of Lee in said County
of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts aged sixty years who being first duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and saith he is personally acquainted with Caty Gibbs whose application for a pension as the widow of Samuel Gibbs late a pensioner of the United States hath been forwarded to the Department that Deponent was personally acquainted with the sd Samuel Gibbs late her husband and has been personally acquainted with sd widow and her late husband from the year 1813 and knows they lived together as man and wife and was so reputed and believed to be where they resided that knows the sd Samuel Gibbs died about the Fourteenth day of July 1829, and that he left Caty Gibbs the applicant for a pension his widow who
has not intermarried since his death but still remains his widow

Sworn and Subscribed   } Jeremiah Hall
Before me this Sixth day}
of July A.D. 1853             }
Franklin Sturgis Just Peace.
I certify that Jeremiah Hall who executed the above affidavit is a credible wittness [witness], and that I am not an agent in this claim and have no interest therein
Franklin Sturgis Just Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire, SS.

I, Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify that  Franklin Sturgis Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed , was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth,
and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Franklin Sturgis and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Chas Sedgwick Clerk.

[appears to be a seal in the bottom left corner]
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I Frederick Wolcort, Clerk of the 
Court of Common Pleas in the County
of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, 
certify that Amos Beecher, [illegible] 
a Justice of the Peace within said
County legally commissioned & qualified,
that the signature to the within
certificate is his hand writing, & that
the seal hereto annexed is the seal of
said Court - November 6th 1818,
Frederick Wolcort, Clerk
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I Isaiah Brockway of Southampton in the County
of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of lawful age do testify & say that Samuel Gibbs of Becket in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of aforesaid
enlisted in the month of December AD 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Jewett of Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment. And that he served in the said corps, in the service of the
United States for the term of one year & I think for more than one year; & further the deponent saith not
Isaiah Brockway
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire. On this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen, personally appeareth the above named deponent before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace within & for the County of Hampshire &
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and being by me carefully examined and cautioned and sworn in due form of Law to testify the whole truth, & nothing but the truth; maketh oath to the Deposition above written, & subscribes the same, in my presence, the said Deposition being first reduced to writing by Charles F. Bates; taken de bene esse at the request of Samuel Gibbs aforesaid; & I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a man sustaining a good moral character & is in good esteem among his fellow citizens.
Frederic Judd Justice of the Peace
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Isaiah Brockway
Deposition token
the request of
Samuel Gibbs

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire p. Clerks Office. Northampton
I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire certify that Frederic Judd [illegible] is a Justice of the Peace written & for said County & that his signature to the written Certificate is his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & office the seal of said Court this first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
[Signed] Josiah Dwight
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[Stamped onto the document]
Record
Mar 24 1922
Division [the ink is faded]

Mar. 22. 1922

Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:-

My cousins and I wish information about our great-grand-father's service in the Revolutionary War as we wish to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Below is the only record we have been able to obtain; taken from the family Bible.

"Samuel Gibbs Born Jan. 11, 1758 in Lyme Conn. Died July 14, 1829 in Becket Mass.
1. Married Lucy Brockway in Lyme
2. '' [Married] Charlotte Tourgee in West Granville Mass. Sept, 4, 1791.
3. Married Catherine Johnson in Sheffield Mass. June 23, 1805
Catherine Johnson was born March 13 1772 in Stonington Conn.
Died June 6, 1855 in Tolland Mass.
He drew a pension the last few years of his life."
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There were children by all three wifes [the "f" in "wifes" is smudged]. A daughter of the second wife was one [of] the company leaving Granville Mass. and settling Granville Ohio.
Our great-grandmother was the third wife.
We will be very grateful to you for any information you can give us.
Our grandfathers name was Joseph Gibbs.
Thank you for your trouble in looking it up for us.

Address Mrs. Jennie Gibbs Nelson
11 Spring St.
East Hartford
Conn.
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[Stamped onto the document]
Received Apr 11 1936 Mail Sub-Div.
Vets ADM. [Administration] Reader 12

485 East Main St.
Meriden Conn. 
April 9. 1936.

Record Keeper Pension Office
Washington. D. C.

Dear Sir:
I am doing some genealogical work for General Gibbs of New York in the line of Lieut. [Lieutenant] Samuel Gibbs a Rev. olutionary Soldier.
I have found the pension record of Samuel Gibbs private W.689 and of Samuel Gibbs, capt. W.7519.
Will you please send me the complete record of these two men? I shall be very grateful is you can do this.

Respectfully yours.
Susette M. Cook (Mrs. A. B. Cook)
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTIONS.
3-235

W689
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , __________, 19__

In Reply to your request of __________, received _________ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Gibbs a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or [written above by hand "and"] his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

[Column titles] 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.

Dec 75 to | Jan 77 | Pvt | Jos. Jewett | Jedidiah Huntington | Conn.

Battles engaged in, __________ [A check-mark is drawn above the blank]
Residence of solider at enlistment, Enl [Enlisted] at Lyme Conn
Date of application of pension, Apr 27 1818. His cl. [claim] was al. [allowed]
Residence at date of application, Becket Mass
Age at date of application, 60. date and place of birth not stated

Remarks: He mar [married] at Sheffield Mass June 26 1805 Caty Johnson. He d. [died] at Becket Mass July 14, 1829. She was al. [allowed] pen [pension] on her application executed Apr 29, 1853 while living at Tolland Mass aged 81. She died in June 1856. Children referred to in 1822, Samantha 15, Charlotte 14 John M. 12, Joseph Johnson 8.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

[Written in the bottom left corner]
Omit dau [daughter] born before marriage