Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,933, for Isaac Lansdale, Delaware
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SERVICE
Del.

Lansdale, Isaac

NUMBER
S. 18,933

Carded

[stamp]
This Envelope includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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To Huntsville from Mo...
From 4th Sept 1839. 28 Marc...
1840 ___notification to Hon
D. Hubbard. House of 
Representatives
___________________
See letter to Hon D. Hubbard, Apl
18. 1840__ do to B. W. Wilson, 4
May 1840=
Letter to Pension Agt 83 Audw
26 Sep 1844.

See letter to D. Payton 20 Sept. 1839__Lt
to Hon D. Hubbard 2d March 1840 &
Civ to P. Agt do to Hon. D. Hubbard 
H. R.  May 16.1840__ do. to 
Huntsville P. Agt May 18. 1840__
do. to B. W. Wilson June 10. 1840
do. to Hon D. Hubbard H. R. 
July 9. 1840__ do. to Third 
Auditor Sept 30. 1840  do to P Agt
at Huntsville Oct 13. 1840

Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of the 26th April 1838 from 
3 March to 3 Sep 1839.  Agt
notified 13 Oct. 1840.
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Letter to Hon W. W. Payne & 3 Audr
29 March 1844
Paid above from 1 March to 4 Sep 1842
Agt notified 20 April 1844

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Tuscaloosa,
Huntsville [crossed out]  Ala
623- Priv
===============
Isaac Lansdale
of [blank] in the State of Alabama
who was a [blank] in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the [blank]
line for Delaware 
==================
Inscribed on the Roll of [blank]
at the rate of 80 Dollars  [blank] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
[last 5 words crossed out]
============
Certificate of Pension issued the [blank] day of
[blank] and [blank]
=================
Arrears to the 4th of   [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]

Act 15 May 1828.

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.} [smudged out]
Recorded by [blank]    Clerk,
Book [blank]  Vol. [blank]  Page [blank]
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Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
Isaac Lansdale
15 May 1828
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. December 10 th 1847
Received of J P H Draraing Agent for,  paying pensions, Forty Three dollars and Seventy cents being for six months $17 days pension due to Isaac Lansdale due from the 4th day of September 1846 to the 21st day of March 1847, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
With his $43 70/100 
B W Wilson
J. F. Marrast
Sarah Lansdale
X her mark
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State of Alabama
Fayette County ⎬ SS. I, Ins. C. Moore Clerk
of the County Court of Fayette County State aforesaid
holden at Fayetteville & for said County on the
12th October 1847 do hereby certify the said either has
been exhibited to said Court that Isaac Lansdale
was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of
Eighty Dollars per annum, was a resident of the
County of Fayette in the State of Alabama and died
in the County of Fayette in the state of Alabama, in the
year one thousand eight hundred & forty seven
on the twenty first day of March - that he left
widow whose name is Sarah Lansdale
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
my seal
of Office at Fayetteville the 12th day
of October in the year our Lord 1827
Jno. C. Moore clerk
State of Alabama
County Court Fayette
County Ala
State of Alabama
Fayette County
SS
Be it Known that before me J F Marrast
a magistrate in & for the County aforesaid duly
authorized by law to administer oaths, personally
appeared Sarah Lansdale made oath in due
form of law, that she is the widow of Isaac
Lansdale the identical person who was a pensioner
and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension
was issued, which is herewith surrendered and
that the deceased pensioner resided in Fayette County
in the State of Alabama for the space of fifteen
years before his death; and that previous thereto
he resided in Montgomery County Alabama
Sworn and subscribed this 4th day of 
October 1847
Before me day
Sarah Lansdale
X her mark
I Marrist
J. P.
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[Ink has bled through and obscured most of the script on this page.]

I John C Moore Clerk of the County 
Court of Fayette County in the State
of Alabama do certify that I [illegible]
is a [illegible] and that
the [illegible] purporting
[illegible] testimony
thereof I have hereunto affixed my
Seal of office and subscribed 
[page torn] [illegible] and this 18th October 
in this year of our Lord
One thousand eight
hundred and forty seven
John C. Moore Clerk
of the County Court of
Fayette County State
of Alabama.
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cond. with
Imale'd file
#18,933
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An 
act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldier
of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th of May 
1828" I Isaac Lansdale of the County of Montgomery State of
Alabama, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental
line of the army of the revolution for and during the
war and continued in its service until its termination 
at which period I was a private in Capt. Paul
Quinaults company in the regiment of the Delaware
line. I also declare that I afterwards received certificates 
for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was
entitled under a resolution of Congress passed the 15th of
May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the
15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States
Witness my hand this 5th day of August in the year
1828
Isaac Landale
Before me John B Carpenter a Justice of the peace in and
for the County of Montgomery State of Alabama personally
appeared this day John Martin Sheriff of the said County
and Henry Goldthead Solicitor of the Second Judicial
circuit of the said State with of the said County who
did swornlly make oath that Isaac Lansdale by whom
the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally
reputed and believed to have been a soldier in
the army of the revolution in manner as therein
Stated
Witness my hand this fifth day of August in
the year 1828
Carpenter J P
I John Moody Clerk of the County Court of the County of
Montgomery State of Alabama do hereby certify that
John B Carpenter before whom the foregoing
affidavit were sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace
in and for the said County and duly empowered to
administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this
day of August in the year 1828
Clerk
C.C.M.
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
Washington          

April 19, 1939.

Honorable Theodore G Bilbe
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 

BA-J/ILL   cm[handwritten initials]
Isaac Lansdale 
S. 18933

My dear Senator:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Isaac Lansdale, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who received pension in Alabama, in 1828.

The data which follow are shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 18933, based upon service of Isaac Lansdale in the Revolutionary War.

Isaac Lansdale enlisted in the fall of 1778, served as private in Captain Wilson's Delaware company, was a Middlebrook, New Jersey, the spring following, marched thence to Camden, South Carolina, was in the battle of Gates' Defeat and was taken prisoner, shortly afterwards, while on the road, was retaken by Colonel F. Marion and taken to Hillsboro, North Carolina, where he was confined by illness to the hospital, after recovering served in Captain Peter Duquet's (possible meant for Peter Jacquett's) Delaware company until after the Siege of Ninety-Six, then served in Captain Paul Queenault's Delaware company until the end of the war.  He returned to New Castle, Delaware, after February 1783.

Isaac Lansdale was allowed pension on his application executed August 5, 1828, at which time he resided in Montgomery County, Alabama.  The soldier resided in Fayette County, Alabama, in 1840, about thirty miles from Tuscaloosa.  No reference was made to wife or children of this pensioner; his age is not shown, nor his residence at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name


[handwritten notation in margin]
Note__
These three Captains can be verified in the Vol:  "Rev. Soldiers of Delaware" also_ our files
John Wilson
Peter Jaquett
Paul Queenault
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and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of
Isaac Lansdale, you should address The Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:
Isaac Lansdale
Certificate #5
Issued August 3, 1829
Rate $80 per annum
Commenced March 3, 1828
Act of May 15, 1820
Alabama Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Hon J L Edmondsn 
Comm on  Pensions
War Dept U. S.
May 16, 1846
Isaac Lansdale
Hm D Hubbard HR
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House of Rep.
15 May 1840
Sir
you will find herein enclosed
the warrant for Isaac Lansdales pension, 
or rather the letter of the
3d Auditor directing the pension
agent at Mobile to pay his pension which
has been returned again to me,
to see if payment can ever 
be had = This pensioner has been driven
about from Mobile to Huntsville & back to Mobile again
& every when been turned off,
until he has become sick
That can be done for him?
I have given up all hope of his
getting any thing.
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care []

must surrender in all control over the old mans case even as an applicant & petitioner unless this [] attempt shall be successful.
I have the honor to be your obet servt
David Hubbard
Ho. J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
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Washington 22d Feby
1840

Sir
Your letter of the 18th instant
authorizing the payment
of $40 to Isaac
Lansdale his pension
from 4th Sept 1838
to 4 March 1839. Also a Treasury Warrant
on the Receiver of public monies Huntsville
for $40 being the pension due him from 4
1839 to 4 Sept 1839 has been recd
The letter
to me & the Warrant I have forwarded to
him by mail & have to be that you
will
place him on the Huntsville
Roll, that being more than one hundred
miles nearest his residence
I have the honor to be
Your Obt sevt
David Hubbard
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(Copy)
Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office
18 Feb.1840

Sir,
The claim of Isaac Lansdale, a
pensioner on the Mobile roll, per Act 15 May 1828.
received from you at this office, through that of
the Comr of Pensions, has been settled, and forty
dollars found due being his pension from 4 Sept.
1838 to 4 March, 1839
A. Warrant for this sum will
issue in favor of the claimant, to your care for
which be pleased to call, at your convenience, at
the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The pension from 4 March to 4 Sept.
1839, is payable at the Mobile Agency. The Agent 
is hereby authorized to pay the pensioner the sum due,
upon the surrender of this letter, together
with his (Mr Lansdales) receipt for the sum
received
The Agent having this day rendered
his Accounts, has enabled me to make the above
settlement,
Very Respectfully
Peter Hagner Audr.

Hon. David Hubbard, (signed) 
Ho. of Reps.
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Fayette C House Ala
March 11th 1840
The Agent of the United States for paying
Pensions in Mobile State of Alabama is hereby
authorised to pay the within amount to Robert Broadnax and he is authorized to receipt for the same
for me,-
(signed )
Isaac Lansdale
(Copy)
Test
B.W.Wilson

It is represented to me by the Commissioner of Pensions
that the within named Isaac Lansdale was transferred
to the Huntsville Agency, commencing on the 4th of
March 1839. That being the case, the Pension Agent 
at Huntsville will pay Mr Lansdale's pension from the ┃
4th of March 1839 to the 4th of September 1839 in the same
manner as the Pension Agent at Mobile was
directed to do by the within letter-
May 16. 1840
(signed
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

Copy
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House Rep 16 April
1840

Sir
You will see by the enclosed letter
from the Hon B W Wilson of Fayette
County
Alabama
that Mr Lansdales
Pension has not yet been paid
altho
the agent
at Mobile
was directed
so to do ==When you shall have determined
what further is to be done in
the matter you will be please to
return me Judge
Wilson
Letter
I have the honor
to be
Respectfully 
David Hubbard

J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Apl [April] 22 1840
Isaac Landsdale 
AlaMl

[At right angle to above]

Fayette C. [Court] H.[House]  Ala. [Alabama]
13 April

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington DC
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Fayette Court House Ala. April 11th 1840
Sir
I am requested by Isaac Lansdale
a Revolutionary Pensioner to address you on the subject of
his pension. Mr Lansdale has been trying in all
lawful ways to get his pension from the 4th March
1838 up to the present time he made application
some short time after that time to the Pension
Agent at Mobile and was informed I believe
that the Pensioner did not belong to the Mobile District
however I believe that the application is now at
Washington City [CITY is crossed-out] then was directed by a letter
from yourself of the 20th Sept 1839 to apply to the
Huntsville Agency which appears from a letter
from the department which I have this day recd.
from the Hon David Hubbard to have been a
mistake of one of the Clerks. I then enclosed all
the applications and the directions which he
recd to the Hon D. Hubbard to present to the
department, which he did and he (Hubbard)
enclosed Mr Lansdale a draft on the receiver
of Public Monies at Huntsville for forty dollars
which was the amount of Lansdale pension
from the 4th of Sept 1838 to the 4th March 1839.
which has been paid also a letter of the 18th
of February 1840 from Peter Hagner Auditor
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authorising the Pension agent at Mobile on
the presentation of the letter and a receipt for the same
to pay Mr Lansdale his pension from the
4th of March to 4th Sept 1839 which letter has
been together with Lansdale receipt sent to the
agent at Mobile and payment refused
on the grounds that the pensioner does not live in his district  Mr Lansdale has now the
letter of Mr Hagner, and does not know what
to do with as the agent at Mobile will not
pay it. You will please write me or him on this
Subject. Mr. Lansdale has also recd a letter
from you of the 28th March 1840 notifying him that his pension from the 4th of Sept 1839 will be paid at Huntsville he requests me
to say to you that he wishes to draw his
pension at Tuscaloosa as he does not live
more than 30 miles from that place and
something like a 130 from Huntsville
if he draws at Huntsville he will be compeled
to take paper money as he is unable to go
after it himself and there but [illegible]
communication between this place and that
and our paper money is from 10 to 15 per cent below par
I am Respectfully
Burr. W. Wilson
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House of Reps 8 July 1840
Sir
I herewith enclose you another communication
from the Hon B W Wilson upon the
subject of Isaac Lonsdales pension, which has been detained from him for years,
& this under
constant exertions on his part to have the
payments made-
I have given you so much trouble already
upon this subject that I should decline
again to importune you were it not that the old soldier wants his dues & he as well as myself
cannot comprehend why it is that he cannot
be paid - If he or his friends & Representatives,
are unable to present his claim properly
it is still
proper that some arrangement should be made
to have it settled; and I greatly desire to be informed whether, some way cannot be studied
out and adopted whereby he can get what is
due him
I have the honor to be your
David Hubbard

Hon J L Edwards Comm
of Pensions
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Mar 23 1840
Mr Evans

[At right angle to above]
The Hon J L Edwards
Com of Pension
Washington City 

Free
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
2nd March 1840
SIR,

Be pleased to inform me to what time
Isaac Lansdale
a Pensioner now on the roll of your Agency, under the Act
of 15 May 1828 at eighty
Dollars
per annum
was last paid. As his name will be
transferred to the Huntsville Agency, after the receipt
of your answer, you will cease to pay him thereafter, and requlate your books accordingly.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant
J L Edwards

Paid to 4 March 1839 at Washington city as per
advice 17 July 1840
J B Hagan
18 March 1840

J. B. Hogan Esq
Agent for paying U. S. Pensioners under the
Act of
Mobile
Alabama
18 March 1840
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Hon. David Hubbard
July 9 1840
G.C.

Record 50 Page 140
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Pension Office
July 9. 1840
Sir,

This morning I received your
of yesterday accompanied by the
enclosed letter from Mr Wilson in the case
of Isaac Lansdale. After the note of
the 16 of May last from the 2d Comptrollers
directing the Huntsville Agent to pay
Mr Lansdale's pension from the 4 of
March 1839 to the 4 Sept. 1839, I did
not suppose that there would be any
further difficulty. It seems
however, that the note has not been sent
to the Agent.
No payment of course can be
expected.
If, however, the parties concerned
will return 
that letter to this office I will
direct the
transfer of Lansdale's
name to the Tuscaloosa Agency, and I presume that
then there will be no difficulty in drawing the
pension, provided the proper vouchers be produced
I have the honor
Hon. David Hubbard
House of Rep
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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
-----------------------------
Briefed by L. Heisner
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Isaac Lansdale
Service Rev. War Del
Additional Service
No. claim, State records 190
No claim, combination records , 190
REMARKS:
No. O. W. Inv. Widon
Rej other than 
S. F. 18.933,
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0-8  Chief Division
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(Copy)
B. W. Wilson Esqr
Mobile 25th of March 1840

Sir

Yours of the 11th inst. has
come to hand and I have accordingly called on
the Pension Agent who informed me that you
must call on the Pension Agent at Tuscaloosa
for persons living in your section of country a new
Agency being at Tuscaloosa in great haste
Respectfully
(Signed )
Robt Brodnax
N.B. I wrote you by Genl Taylor to collect the money
from Mccollum as Early as possible I hope you will do so
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Washington 27 March 1840
Sir

you have herewith Isaac Lansdale
receipt for two semiannual payments of his
pension ending
the
4 Sept 1839 -
payable the half at
Mobile & half at Huntsville - It is
proper that I should here state
that Mr
Lansdale has been put to an expense
nearly equalled to half of his
Stipend
& it would be well
to place him
on the Huntsville Roll
certainly
to prevent future evils of like kind
---
I have the honor to be
Respectfully 
David Hubbard

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Fayette Co Ala
29 May       Free
Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.

June 9, 1840
Isaac Lansdale
Ala
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Fayette Court House. Fayette County
29th May 1840.
Sir
Some time since I received a transfer
for Isaac Lansdale authorizing him to
draw his pension at Huntsville.  I have
also rec'd your favor of the 4th instant informing
me that it will be necessary for him to make
an affidavit that he resides within the limits
of the Tuscaloosa Agency and that he wishes
to be paid there. Mr Lansdale resides in
Fayette County and has for a number
of years which is one of the County's belonging
to that District but you will perceive
that he is and has been for the last
18 months extremely unfortunate in all 
his applications to draw his pension
either from Mobile Huntsville
of Decatur. Some months since
I rec'd a letter from the department
authorizing him to draw forty dollars
of his pension from the Agent in
Mobile due I think in 1838. I sent
the letter to Mobile and the agent would 
not pay it because he lived in the
Tuscaloosa District altho it appears
from the letter which I have that he
had retained that much of the government
funds to pay it. I have sent that letter
together with the refusal to pay it to the
Hon David Hubbard with a request
that he might lay it before the
proper authority. I also wrote to you on
the subject requesting to be advised
what Mr Lansdale must do and I do
earnestly hope that you will see that
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this old man shall not be Swindled out of
what
his country has allowed him you will
percieve from the enclosed that Mr Lansdale
has applied at Huntsville for his pension
and has been refused on the ground
that he resides in the Tuscaloosa District

I am Respectfully
Your obt svt
B W Wilson

Hon J L Edwards
City of Washington
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22nd February 1840
David Hubbard
Recd 22nd Feby 1840
Ansd 22d

The subject of 
a ___ ___
respectfully
re-_ ___ to the 
Comr of Pensions
___ Mr Hubbard
so informed
3d Auditor's office
Feby 22d 40

Randall

Peter Hagner Esqr
3d Auditor Treasury
Department 
Washington
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office
October 10th 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," Isaac
Lansdale
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Tuscaloosa, Al. Agency, at
the rate of
Six
Dollars and
66 2/3
Cents
per month under the law of the 15th May 1828, has
been paid at this Department, from the
3d
of March
to the 3d September
1839
Respectfully yours
J. Seavers
Acting Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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56 1/4

[Stamp:] [Illegible]
JUL
17

Samuel Peyton [illegible]
Fayett Court House
Answer to
[illegible] J L Edwards 24th July Ala [Alabama]

[at right angle to above]
1.00
2.00
$5
____
3.75

I Lindsey  20.00
3.75
______
$16.25

paid to L Lindsey for I Lindsey
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Mobile 16 July 1839
Daniel England Esq.
Dear Sir
Yours of the 3 June is read
Enclosed please find 20p to bring the amount due James Lindsay.  
The vouchers of James Lansdale was read
in due time but owing to their being mislaid they
were not embraced in my last quarterly accounts &
having signed the agency and Col Jno B. Hogson
being appointed- I presented the vouchers of James
Lansdale for payment, and was answered that the
pensioner was not embraced within his district &
according to the honor? of his Bind, I herewith enclose
the sum and would advise that you confer with J.
L. Edwards Esqr Washington City, in for the subject.
I am sorry that the above mistake 
was not detected in time to save the old man all that
trouble.
I am Respectfully
(Gnoz?) old self
George Graines
By as in Myself
(?) letters enc by W. Harris, and referred to me
J. L. Edwards
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Fayette C H Ala
29 Aug

J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

(sideways)  Mr. Evans
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Fayette C House Ala
August 27th 1839.
Dear Sir
Your printed sheet in answer to my letter
of the 24th July has been received with directions that
The vouchers in the case of Isaac Lansdale must
be sent to that office.
I enclose to you the letter received
from Geo S Gaines the former agent also the
application made by the Atty for Mr Lansdale and
you will please instruct me at what agency Isaac
Lansdale shall apply for his stipend, if from the
Treasurer of the United States, or an agency. or
what other voucher you wish to examine on the
subject, as your sheet does not contain the information
sought for and consequently I am compelled
to ask further instructions which you will readily
perceive from the enclosed documents
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
Daniel Peyton
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29. March 1844,
Hon W. W. Payne
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Pension Office
March 29th 1844
Sir
I have referred the paper in the
case of Isaac Lansdale, to the Third
Auditor of the Treasury, that the pension
may be paid in conformity to the Act
of the 23d August 1842.
(signed)  Ihare H


Hon. W. W. Payne
House of Representatives
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November 15, 1935.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. Alice H. Potts
Kosciusko
Mississippi

BA-J/ady
Isaac Lansdale
S.18933

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to
soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims made to the United States
for pension and bounty land based upon military
service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show
such a claim on file on account of the services of
William Haden as described by you, all spellings of
the names searched.

The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for
pension, S.18933, based upon the military service of
Isaac Lansdale in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of
the parents of Isaac Lansdale are not shown.

Isaac Lansdale enlisted, place not stated, in the
fall of 1778, served as private in Captains Wilson's,
Peter Duquet's and Paul Quenault's Delaware Companies,was taken prisoner at Gates' Defeat, was soon recaptured 
by Colonel F. Marion, and served to the end of the war.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
August 5, 1828 while a resident of Montgomery County,
Alabama. In 1840 he was living in Fayette County, Alabama.
There are no family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

April 20, 1927

J. H. Bennett
1329 Greymont Ave.,
Jackson, Miss.
Sir:


I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim S. 18933 it appears that Isaac
Lansdale enlisted in the fall of 1778, served as a private in
Captains Wilson, Peter Duquet and Paul Quenault's Delaware
Companies, was taken prisoner at Gates' Defeat, was soon
recaptured by Colonel F. Marion, and served to the end of
the war.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
August 5, 1828 while a resident of Montgomery County, Alabama.
In 1840 he was living in Fayette County, Alabama. His age is
not given.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

[handwritten: Date of death
not on AB]
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[Paper is folded.] reply to your request of _ _ _, received _ _ _ 
[folded] statement of the military history of  [handwritten]  Isaac Landsdale 
[folded] dier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
[folded] formation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.   [Handwritten] S. F. 18,933.

[Table headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |  LENGTH OF SERVICE.  |  RANK.  |  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN  | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. COLONEL  |  STATE. ]

all 1778  [arrow pointing to: served to end of war]  |     |  Pri.  |  Wilson, Peter Duquet, Paul Quenault  |   [check mark]  |  Del

Battles engage in, [handwritten] {was taken prisoner at "Gates defeat" but soon recaptured by Colonel F. Marion.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark]
Date of application for pension, [handwritten] Aug 5, 1828, His cl was al
Residence at date of application, [handwritten] Montgomery Co. Ala
Age at date of application, [handwritten] not stated
Remarks: [handwritten] There is no data relative to family.

In 1840 liv.d in Fayette Co. Ala.

Very respectfully,
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United State Senate
Committee on Commerce
April 14, 1939

John William Bailey, N.C., Chairman
Morris Sheppard, TEX.     
Charles L. McNary, OREG.
Hattie W. Caraway, ARK.
Hiram W. Johnson, CALIF.
Bennett Champ Clark, MO.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, MICH.
John H. Overton, LA.
Wallace H. White, Jr., MAINE
Theodore G. Bilbo, MISS.
Ernest W. Gibson, VT.
Vic Donahey, OHIO
Joseph F. Guffey, PA.
Frances T. Maloney, CONN.
George L. Radcliffe, MD.
Claude Pepper, FLA.
Josh Lee, OKLA.
A. Hand James, CLERK
Roger Williamson, ASST. CLERK


Records Division,
Veteran's Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I will highly appreciate it if you can forward me a copy of what records you have bearing on the service of one, Isaac Lansdale, who was not only a soldier of the American Revolution but was a member of the Staff of Colonel Francis Marion, better known to students of History as the "Swamp Fox".

Mr. Lansdale was taken prisoner at one time by Lord Cornwallis at "Gates" defeat and later re-captured by Colonel Marion.

I am sure that your records reflect this fact and also, that on August 5, 1828, when he was living in the State of Alabama, he was granted a pension as a Soldier of the Revolution.  If you will please transmit this letter to your Pension Division, after noting same, I will appreciate it. They perhaps have something on this matter there.

Thanking you for this and any additional information that you may be able to afford me relative to Mr. Lansdale, I am

Sincerely yours,

Theo. G. Bilbo
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Kosciusko
Miss Nov 5th
Dear Mr. Hiller:
Can you give me any
information about Isaac
Lansdale, born in Delaware┃
1762, moving to Alabama
after the Revolutionary war.
Did he receive a pension?
Also can you find out the
name of his third wife
Sarah. and did they
Marry in Alabama.
I will appreciate any
information that you
can give me about
Isaac Lansdale.
Alex William Haden a
Captain of a Virginia
Militia during the Rev
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war.
Thanking you for answering
my letter soon -
I am Yours Sincerely
(Mrs) Alice Hammond Potts
Kosciusko
Miss

SEAL: Received Nov 8 1935
Mail Sub Div
Vets Adm
59
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OFFICE PHONE 491      RES. PHONE 830

JOHN P. GATES ROAD MACHINERY CO.
DISTRIBUTORS
ADAMS ADJUSTABLE LEANING WHEEL ROAD GRADERS
ROAD MAINTAINERS, PATROLS, DRAGS, PLOWS, WHEEL, DRAG AND FRESNO SCRAPERS
COMPLETE LINE OF
ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY AND METAL CULVERTS
307-309 MORRISON BUILDING - W. PEARL STREET
P.O. BOX 62
JACKSON, MISS.    Feby. 17,1927

The U. S, Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D.C

Subject. Isaac Lansdale, soldier of the Revolution 1777-1783

Gentlemen:
      For the purpose of getting a direct line on Isaac Lansdale, soldier of the Revolution for D.A.R. information, I am writing you this letter. Below is some information that will assist you in locating his record.
     "Isaac Lansdale was born in Delaware in 1762 and enlisted as an American soldier in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain in the Fall of 1778. His first Captain was Wilson, and his first Colonel was Wilson, under the command of General Gates. His later Captains were Captain Peter Duquet, and Captain Paul Quenault. He was taken prisoner at Gates defeat by Lord Cornwallis's army, but he was recaptured by the army of General Francis Marion, under whose command he belonged until the close of the war in 1783. During the latter years of the war, he was a member of General Marion's staff.
     On the 5th day of August 1829, while residing in Montgomery County, Alabama, he made application to the U.S. Government for a pension and his claim was allowed. He died and was buried in Fayett County, Alabama in1844."
     Thanking you for any further information you can give me as to his record, I am 
                                             Yours truly,
                                            J. H. Bennett
                                        1329 Greymont Ave.    
P.S.
If there is any charge for the information please advise.        

[Stamp:]  U. S. PENSION OFFICE
F
FEB 21
1927
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OFFICE PHONE 491                 RES. PHONE 830
JOHN P. GATES ROAD MACHINERY CO.
DISTRIBUTORS
ADAMS ADJUSTABLE LEANING WHEEL ROAD GRADERS
ROAD MAINTAINERS, PATROLS, DRAGS. PLOWS, WHEEL DRAG AND FRESNO SCRAPERS
COMPLETE LINE OF
ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY AND METAL CULVERTS
307-309 MORRISON BUILDING - W. PEARL STREET
P. O. BOX 62
JACKSON, MISS.             Feby. 17. 1927.

The U. S. Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Subject.
Isaac Lansdale, soldier of the
Revolution [check mark]
1777 to 1783

Gentlemen:
For the purpose of getting a direct line on
Isaac Lansdale, soldier of the Revolution for D. A. R.
information, I am writing you this letter. Below is some
information that will assist you in locating his record.
"Isaac Lansdale was born in Deleware [Delaware] in 1762
and enlisted as an American soldier in the Revolutionary war
against Great Britain in the Fall of 1778. His first
Captain was Wilson, and his first Colonel was Wilson, under 
the command of General Gates. His later Captains were Captain
Peter Duquet, and Captain Paul Quenault. He was taken prisoner
at Gates defeat by Lord Cornwallis's army, but he was recaptured
by the army of General Francis Marion, under whose command he
belonged until the close of the war in 1783. During the latter
years of the war he was a member of General Marion's staff.
On the 5th day of August 1829, while residing in
Montgomery County, Alabama, he made application to the U. S.
Government for a pension and his claim was allowed. He died ##
and was buried in Fayett County, Alabama in 1844. "
Thanking you for any further information you
can give me as to his record, I am
P. S.
Yours truly,
JH Bennett
1329 Greymont Ave.

P. S.
If there is any charge for the information please advise.

[Stamp:] U. S. PENSION OFFICE
F
FEB
21
1927
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I. A. LOWER, PRESIDENT.
C. R. LOWER, VICE PRESIDENT.
C. F. LONG, SECRETARY

American Insurance Co.
501 - 503 SECURITY BUILDING
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Aug. 22, 1922
Department of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:--

I am writing to ascertain if I can get from
the pension records some information of my great great grandfather, Isaac Landsdale, who was a Revolutionary
soldier, private in the Delaware line, and who resided
in Fayette County, Alabama, in the year 1840. My information
is that he was enrolled Sept. 9th, 1828. I would
like also to get some information as to my great great grandfather on the other side, Jacob Fulmer, [note handwritten: more information] as the name
was spelled in that day. He was also a Revolutionary soldier
but I have no data on his service.

Thanking you for this information, I am 
Yours very truly,
Felix Folmar,
501 Security Bldg.,
Oklahoma City.

[Stamp:]  U. S. PENSION OFFICE
AUG 
25
1922



KEEP OKLAHOMA MONEY IN OKLAHOMA
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D.C. McCOOL
-
CHANCERY CLERK MADISON COUNTY
COUNTY AUDITOR
EX OFFICIO NOTARY PUBLIC AND
CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CANTON MISS.

15th March, 1921

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:--

Will you be so kind as to furnish me with what data you can
concerning the Revolutionary War History of one Captain Isaac Lansdale,
who was connected with the Command, so I am informed of General Gates
and Francis Marion. He died in Fayette County, Alabama, and was drawing a
pension as a soldier of the Revolution, so I am informed.
He was my Great-great Grandfather, and I would like to know
a little of his war history, etc., and will be very grateful for any
information that you may see fit to give; and will be glad to pay whatever
fees are charged.
If I have addressed the wrong Department for this information,
will you be so very kind as to turn it over to the correct one.
Thanking you, in advance, for your kindness, I am,
Truly yours,
D. C. McCool

SEAL: US Pension Office Mar 18, 1921
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OFFICE OF
JAMES F. MCCOOL, CHANCERY JUDGE

KOSCIUSKO, MISS., [Handwritten] July 11th 1913.

Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please tell me whether
or not your records show the name of
Isaac Landsdale as a member 
of the Revolutionary War?

It is thought he was a 
member of the Command of General
Francis Marion. [Underlined for emphasis:] Please answer this letter. 
Yours Truly, 
[signed] James F. McCool
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18933
Invalid
File No. :18933
Isaac Lansdale
Private Revy War
Delaware Maryland line
No 623
Act: June 7 "32 on Alabama roll
Index: Vol. 1, Page 217

1913 July 21. History to James F. McCool,  FW
1921, Apl 18 Hist.to D.C.  McCool         EU
1922, Sept.23 Hist to M. Felix Folmar MMH
Apl 20 Hist. to J.H. Bennett        MMH
5 Nov 15 Hist to Mrs. ce H. Potts   ADY
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(Copy)
Fayette Court House Ala
June 18th 1840
Dear Sir
I have recd your favor of the
22nd of May enclosing papers in relation to
Isaac Lansdales claim as a pensioner, I am
truly sorry that I have not heretofore been enabled
to make the Department fully understand
the nature of Mr Lansdale's applications, and
the great injustice by which he has been treated
by some of the officers who have charge of the
Pension money.
I will here make a statement to you which
the papers I enclose will prove. Previous to 1839
Mr Lansdale under the act of the 15th May 1828
drew his pension eighty dollars at Mobile. I
think some time in the fore part of 1839, if I
mistake not one John B. Hogan was appointed
the pension Agent at Mobile. Some time in
March 1839 Mr Lansdale applied as usual for
his pension at Mobile, but was refused on
the ground that his name was not included
in the pension Roll for that District which 
refusal was sent to the Commissioner of Pensions (J. L. Edwards) In answer to a communication
on this subject Mr Edwards says to Mr Peyton that Mr Lansdale will receive his pension
from the 4th March 1838 to the 4th March 1839 at
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Huntsville, See his letter marked (A) Mr Lansdale applied according to the Directions of Mr. Edwards at the Huntsville Agency, but was refused on the ground that his name was not on the roll. You will see the Letter of Mr Turner  this subject to Mr Peyton Marked (B ). the application
and refusal was also sent on to Mr
Edwards about the commencement of Congress
I sent all the papers to you in relation to
his applications and refusals which I could
get, and requested you to lay them before the
Department, and get an explanation and have
their errors and misdirections set right. All
the papers which you sent back to me I herewith re-enclose
You sent me a draft in favor
of Isaac Lansdale on the receiver of Public
monies at Huntsville for
forty dollars the amount of his pension from the 4th Sept 1838 to
the 4th March 1839. and also a letter from Peter
Hagner, authorizing the Agent at Mobile to pay
the pension from the 4th March to the 4th Sept
1839 which letter and draft I sent you a receipt
for.
The draft has been paid, Mr Lansdale
immediately made application and sent
the letter to Mobile, and was met with the old
answer, that the pensioner did not reside in
his district, altho. Mr Hagner says in his letter
which you last sent me that it was done on
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a settlement made with him 18th Feb. 1840. Some
time since Precd. a letter from Mr. Edward enclosing
a transfer of Mr. Landsdale pension to
the Huntsville agency. Since which twice he has
again applied to the Huntsville agency and has
been refused on the ground that he lives in the
Tuscaloosa Agency immediately on the receipt of
this intelligence I enclosed the refusal to [strikethrough: yourself]
Mr. Edwards or yourself and have received a letter which I wish to direct your particular attention
to marked (C.) It cannot be unknown to the 
department that he resides in Fayette County.
The letter of Comptroller which is on Hagner's 
letter I consider unnecessary to send to Huntsville,
and it will be expense and trouble for nothing, 
as for the transfers which is to be made as regards
to Mr. Landsdale from one agency to another.
I have got this to say, since the 4th March 1839 he
as applied according to the directions of the department
as many as three or four times both
at Mobile and Huntsville, all of which applications
and refusals have been made known
to the Department at Washington City imme- [continued on next page]
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diately after it was done, Mr Lansdale last payment for his pension was a draft on the Receiver
of Public Monies at Huntsville which was for the
amount of his pension due from 4th Sept. Until 4th
March 1839. Since which time he cannot draw any
thing either from Mobile, Huntsville, or anywhere
else, this fact, the department cannot be ignorant
of they have had time to read the applications
and refusals. he lives in Fayette County about 20
miles from Tuscaloosa, and in that District.
I ask why is he not placed on the list at that
agency. It may said that he that he has been
directed to be paid at Huntsville or Mobile. I
answer that he has applied, as the law directs
to both places at different times, and has been
as often refused, and that refusal made known
beyond any dispute - and the questions now to decide is shall the officers who are entrusted with
the pension money keep it, or can they be made
to pay it out to the Revolutionary Soldiers, whom
the law allows it to
I am Respectfully
(signed ) Burr W. Wilson
Hon. David Hubbard, M.C
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GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 6th 1844

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", and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Isaac
Landale a Pensioner on the Roll of the Tuscaloosa, Al. Agency, at the rate of 
Eighty -Dollars
 per annum, under the law of the 15th May
1828 has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1842
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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[Eagle with ribbon "E Pluribus Unum"] Revolutionary Claims.   No. 5
Under the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving
Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" apprered(?)15 May 1828. 

I certify that [handwritten:] Isaac Landsdale of ___ in the County
of [Handwritten:] Montgomery in the State of [handwritten:] Alabama is entitled to receive pay 
in the [handwritten:] Delaware Line of the Army of the Revolution at the rate of
[handwritten:] six dollars and [handwritten] sixty six & 2/3 cents a month payable during his life
 on the third day of March and third day of September in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay shall not in any way be transferable
or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal process whatever. 
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury
of the United States this third ___ day of
August in the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty nine, and of Independence the fifty fourth.
D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
Engd by [illegible] Wash.n

[Handwritten at 90-degree angle:] Isaac Landsdale
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Received from GAO
Final Payment Voucher
From GAO
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880                                                                   896

No of Original paymt 623
Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department
Augt 30, 1828

Isaac Lansdale of _____ in the County of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Paul Quenault's company, in the regiment of the Delaware line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of MY, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 

     By order of the Secretary,
                                   A. Dinkins

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office,
5th September 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Isaac Lansdale in the Delaware line. It further appears that Isaac Landsdale is not now on the pension list of any agency and has been so since the 3 March 1826.
                                        Peter Hagner And
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3 No 24th 1847
Isaac Lansdale, Decd
15th May 1828 


Tuscaloosa, Alabama
4th De, 1847
Roll #24

Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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Isaac Lansdale enlisted in the Delaware
regiment of the Continental line sometime
in the fall of the year 1778 in the company
of Capt Wilson and joined the army at
Middlebrook in the spring of the succeeding
year. -I took the place of Gideon
Cullen who enlisted before John Rho??
of Kent County-- remained under Capt.
Wilsons command untill Gates defeat
at Gun Swamp in South Carolina. .
was taken prisoner with a great part
of this regiment at that place --was
taken on the road to Charleston
by Col F Marion-- went in to his
quarters at Hillsboro North Carolina
where he was taken sick, went in
the hospital under Doctor Reed. [When]
he recovered he joined the headquarters (presumed)
of Genl Green at Cheraw Hill
So. Car. was placed in Capt Peter De[quet's]
Company of the Delaware line. he [re]mained
in his company until a[fter]
the siege of ninety six--when Ca[pt]
Daquet was relieved by Capt.
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Quenault under whose command he remained until the close of the war remained until the close of the war returned in the fall of '82 from Ashley halls in So Car and arrived in Delaware in Feby '83 when he was furloughed for twenty days returned to New Castle and was again furloughed for three months and at its expiration returned and was dismissed until further orders. sometime in Spring of '84 he received two certificates the both of which he does not now recollect by a reference to the rulings of the several companies it is believed it will appear that the above statement is correct, his residence is in Montgomery County which he gives on his direction.

Isaac Lansdale