Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,612, Ripley Bingham, N.H.
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Service: N H
Bingham, Ripley
Elizabeth
Number: W 23,612
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5260
Vermont, Burlington
Elizaabeth Bingham, 
widow of Ripley, decd
who died on the _________________
of N H in the state of Vt.
who was a pri & sgt in the ______ commanded
by Captain ______ of the _____ commanded
by _____in the Revolution 
for one year private and one year Sergeant.
Inscribed on the roll of Burlington
at the rate of 100 dollars 00 cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 and end 30th August 1843.
Certificate of pension issued the 12th day of
January 1854 and sent to Evans and Fant.
Arrears to the 4th of Present.

{Revolutionary claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3rd}

Recorded by H R Weightman, Clerk
Vol. 2, page 360
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5446
Elizabeth Bingham
Vermont
Act 4 July '36
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State of Vermont
Orleans County, Ss.

On this twenty third day of September A.D. 1840 personally appeared before the subscriber as Judge of the County Court for the County of Orleans aforesaid, Elizabeth Bingham, a resident of Derby in the County of Orleans aforesaid, aged Eighty One 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 the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: That she is the widow of Ripley Bingham, who was a Sergeant in the army of the revolution, that he entered the army in the spring of the year 1776, for one year in the Company of Capt. Jason Wait, and before the expiration of that year he enlisted for three years, that he was wounded in the battle with Burgoyne and came home on furlough, and she further declares that at that time, in the fall of 1777 or the first of 1778, she was married to the said Ripley Bingham, in Marlow in the state of New Hampshire, that her husband, the aforesaid Ripley Bingham went from his home in Marlow N.H. thirty years or more since, into some of the Western States, and for many years she has heard nothing from him and she presumes he is dead; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
[signed] Elizabeth Bingham

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written,
Before me. [signed] Isaac Parker, Judge

I certify that the above named Elizabeth Bingham, being from age and infirmity unable to attend Court at the regular Session, therefore, as juried Court was holden at Derby where she did appear and make oath as to the above written declaration.
[signed] Isaac Parker, Judge
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State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerks Office April 23rd 1841

*unreadable stamp/seal

I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Isaac Parker of Coventry is a Judge of Orleans County Court, duly qualified, that his Commission bears date October 29th, 1840 and will Expire the last day of November 1841, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty one.
Attest [signed] H. M. Bates Clerk
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County} Ss.

On this twenty third day of September A.D. 1840 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Judge of the County Court for the County of Orleans aforesaid, Elizabeth Bingham a resident of Derby in the County of Orleans aforesaid, aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Ripley Bingham who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, that he entered the army in the Spring of the year 1776, for one year in the Company of Captain Jason Wait, and before the expiration of that year, he enlisted for three years, that he was wounded in the battle with Burgoyne and came home on furlough and she further declares that time in the fall of 1777 or the first of 1778, she was married to the said Ripley Bingham in Marlow in the State of New Hampshire, that he (illegible) and the aforesaid Ripley Bingham went from his home in Marlow, N.H. thirty years or more since into some of the Western States and for many years she has heard nothing from him and she presumed he is dead; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
[signed] Elizabeth Bingham

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me
[signed] Isaac Parker, Judge.
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I certify that the above named Elizabeth Bingham being from age and infirmity unable to attend Court at the Regular Session therefore a Special Court was holden at Derby where she did appear and make oath to the above written declaration.
[Signed] Isaac Parker, Judge

State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerk's Office April 23rd, 1841.

I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Isaac Parker of Coventry is a Judge of Orleans County Court, duly qualified, that his Commission bears date October 29th, 1840 and will expire the last day of November 1841 and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Attest    [signed] H. M. Bates, Clerk

I Jacob Taylor of Morgan in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont do testify and say that I am in the Seventy Eighth year of my age and am a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and the Act of the 18th of March 1818, and that I enlisted in to the Continental Line in March, 1778 and joined the Army at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania the next June. And I further testify that before I enlisted I resided in the town of Stoddard in the State of New Hampshire and that in the month of November or December 1777, I was in the town of
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Marlow in said State of New Hampshire and was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Marck. They were married according to my best recollection by Elder Blood. I then understood  that the said Ripley Bingham belonged to the Continental Army and was home on furlough and when I joined the Army at Valley Forge aforesaid this same Ripley Bingham that I saw married the fall previous, was there in the same Regiment with me, which Regiment was commanded by Col. Joseph Silley [or Cilley] of New Hampshire and was a Sergeant and did his duty as such while I remained with him, which was from June 1778 until 1781 - I will recollect that the said Ripley Bingham was with me in Col. Joseph Cilley's Regiment in the summer of 1779, when Gen'l Sullivan's Army went to the West against the Indians, and the said Ripley Bingham was with said Commander and returned with him to Danbury, Connecticut - And further the deponent saith not.
 [Signed] Jacob Taylor

State of Vermont}
Orleans County} Derby March 4, 1841.
Then personally appeared before above named Jacob Taylor and made oath the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true.
Before me
[Signed] Owen Newcomb
Justice of the Peace

I hereby further Certify That I am well acquainted with the above deponent and that he is a man of truth and veracity.
[Signed] Owen Newcomb, J. P.
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State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerks Office April 23rd, 1841.
I Henry M. Bates, Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby Certify that Owen Newcomb of Derby is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans, duly qualified - that his Commission bears date October 29th 1841 and will expire the last day of November 1841, and that the within signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
[SEAL] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and forty one.
Attest. (Signed) H. M. Bates, Clk.

I Zaccheus Beebe of Stanstead in the Province of Lower Canada, aged ninety two years and a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, depose testify and say that in the early part of the war of the Revolution, I lived in Lyme in the State of Connecticut, that in the month of June 1777, I removed into the town of Marlo [Marlow] in the State of New Hampshire, and lived in the house of my wife's father (Ebenezer Mack or Mac), that about the last of the year 1777, Ripley Bingham was married to Elizabeth Mac [or Mack] who was a sister to my wife at her father's house being the same house in which I then lived, I then being and saw them married and the marriage ceremony was performed by
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Elder Blood a Baptist Minister. The said Bingham at the time of his marriage belonged to the Army and served as I believe three years, after marriage- (It may be that he had not begun his three years service at the time marriage and that the service before marriage was under a former enlistment.) I further say that after Ripley Bingham and the said Elizabeth had resided together and raised a family of children, he went off and left his wife and family and she had to get along with her family the best way she could, and she had a hard time of it to keep along any way until her children some of them had become so old as to help support the younger ones. It must be as much as forty years since the said Bingham left his family and I have no belief that he is living as I have never heard of him but once since he left his family, and that was but a few years after he went away,
Signed Zaccheus Beebe

State of Vermont}
Orleans County}Ss.
At Derby on the 2nd day of April 1841 Personally appeared Zaccheus Beebe, the signer of the above affidavit and who is a credible witness and made oath that the same is true,
Before me. Signed John Kimball
Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerk's Office April 23rd, 1841

I Henry M. Bates, Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby Certify that John Kimball of Barton is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Orleans, duly qualified- that his Commission bears date October 29, 1840, and will expire the last day of November 1840 and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 23rd day of April 1841.
Attest (Signed) H. M. Bates, Clk.

Ripley Bingham 3rd Co. Alstead  Dm.
Paid by the Continent in 1777   L 12.00
*stylized "L" being used for British Pounds
ditto in 1778 L 5-4-8 
ditto in 1779 31/11                      L 6-16-6
Ballance (Balance) of clothing sold by L5-12-11
Average of Rum, Sugar & "   "      L 1
_________________________________________________
                                                        L 25.95
1780 Sept. 27
Gave a Certificate to Sergeant,    61-14-4
John Joyner for                            L 87-4
                                                     =====Cn

Contra.-
Engaged November 13, 1776
By 12 months in 1777       L 24
May 1, 1778 promoted to a Sergeant .
By 12 months ditto in 1778      31 81
By 10 months & 18 days in 1779   31-16
Discharged Nov. 18, 1779    [TOTAL] 87. 4
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State of Vermont}
Orleans District} At a Probate Court holden at the Probate Office at Irasburgh (Irasburg) within and for the District of Calais on the 14 day of December AD 1853
Satisfactory evidence was adduced: that Elizabeth Bingham: who was the wife of Ripley Bingham died at Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont on the 30th day of August 1843- that [there] were Six children
Ripley Bingham of about 67 [57] years of age, Betsy Hartshorn 65 [55] years, Clarissa Baldwin 62 years [52 years], Abner Bingham 60 years [50 years], Sarah Horton 57 years [47 years], Jacob Bingham 54 years [44 years in 1843] or about those ages if living at the present time (1853): That three of the said children viz Betsy Hartshorn, Clarissa Baldwin & Abner Bingham removed to the Western States more than Twenty [years] since, and have not been definitely heard from by the relatives surviving for a period of Twenty years - And that Ripley Bingham, Sarah Horton and Jacob Bingham are the legal heirs: and only heirs known to be living of the said Elizabeth Bingham. And the said Court further find from the evidence that indirect or uncertain intelligence has been received that Betsy Hartshorn was living within the last few years - Also the affidavit regularly sworn to and authenticated of Edward Jones, Town Clerk of Marlow, Cheshire County, State of New Hampshire that he has made due search of the Records of said Town of Marlow for records of the family of Ripley Bingham and: that he finds no records
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relative to the said Ripley Bingham except that he, the said Ripley, was taxed in said Marlow in the year 1794 and also a record of the earmark of said Bingham's sheep.
And the Court further find that the facts set forth are proved in said Court by the testimony duly taken according to the laws of this State, of Abijah Gustin of Marlow in the State of New Hampshire, Ripley Bingham of Burke, & Green Newcomb of Derby, Vermont, Daniel Mack and Edward Jones aforesaid: and that a part of the persons giving evidence are personally known to the Court to be entitled to full faith and credit, and that all the witnesses not so personally known to the Court have been proved to be creditable witnesses by the Certificates of the Magistrate before when they were sworn.

In witness whereof I have caused the Seal of the Probate Court to be hereto affixed and signed the same with my Official signature at the Probate Office at Irasburgh (Irasburg) in and for the District of Orleans aforesaid this 14th day of December AD 1853.
[signed] Geo. [George] Nye, Judge
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Secretary's Office, Concord.
December 26th, 1853

I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation, Walter Harriman was an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Merrimack in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given , in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.

[signed] John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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The undersigned respectfully represent that we are children of Elisabeth Bingham, deceased, That we request that the certificate of Pension due the surviving children as heirs to the said Elisabeth, widow of Ripley Bingham, a Revolutionary Soldier, be made out to them in their own name without the intervention or an administration: viz. Ripley, Sarah and Jacob:-
[signed] Ripley Bingham
[signed] Sarah Horton "X" her mark

Witness,
[signed] Jesse A. Gove
[signed] M. W. Newell

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack Ss.  I Jesse A. Gove depose and say that I am the identified subscribing witness as above written, and that Ripley Bingham & Sarah Horton whose own signatures affirm above, affirmed before myself & the said 
 M. W. Newell and acknowledged that they signed the foregoing requests, and that it was of their own free will and accent for the purpose therein expressed, and I certify that the said Ripley
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Bingham & Sarah Horton are reputable persons and known & reputed as such in the vicinity where they live.
[signed] Jesse A. Gove

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this 26th day of December A.D. 1853. I certify that the said Jesse A. Gove is a credible witness, and that I am disinterested.
[signed] Walter Harriman, Justice of the Peace
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In reply to your request of _________, received ___________ for a statement of the military history of Ripley Bingham a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR;  you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. file 23,612

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Spring 1776
Sullivan's Western Expedition 1779.

LENGTH OF SERVICE.4 years

RANK.
Sergt. [Sergeant]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN Jason Wait
COLONEL. Joseph Cilley

STATE.
 N.H. [New Hampshire]

1. Battles engaged in, with Burgoyne, in which he was wounded.
2. Residence of soldier at enlistment, _________
3. Date of application for pension, by widow. Sept. 23, 1840.
4. Residence at date of application, Derby, Orleans Co., Vt.
5. Age at date of application, 81 years

Remarks: (illegible) Marlow, N.H. Nov. or Dec. 1777 Elizabeth Mack, dau. of Ebenezer Mack. She d.[died]  at Derby Aug. 30, 1843 & her cl. [claim] was all'd [allowed] for benefit of children Ripley Bingham abt. 57, Betsy Hartshorn abt. 55, Clarissa Baldwin abt. 52, Abner Bingham abt. 50, Sarah Horton abt. 47, & Jacob Bingham abt. 44. Papers state that "sol's [soldier's] mother was a Livermore"

Sol. [soldier] is believed to have d. [died] 1818 or 19 at Deer Park, Orange County, N.Y.
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*Left Side
28 Hist.
R. Bingham
Boston
act 
Div.
F.S.

*Center 
Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
_______________
File No. 23612
Elizabeth Bingham
Wid of
Ripley Bingham
Sgt. Rev War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:-Vol. A, Page 64

[Arrangement of 1870.]

*Right Side
1892 July 
information [cut off]
to Fred Nc [cut off]
J.E.

1911 Dec. 20. History to Ripley Bingham. &
1926. June 2. photos mailed to E. Arthur Ball
(see receipt for payment in Wm. Harvey, W4225)
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*LEFT SIDE DOCUMENT

5446
Elizabeth Bingham
Vt-
let. to Jno. [John] Kimball 16, Sep, 1841.
Let. to J. Kimball Augt. 10, 1844.-
S. B. Colby [Stoddard B.] Aug 2, '47 [1847]
Let. to Hon. L. B. Peck April 25, '49 [1849]
Letter with copies of papers sent to Chairman of Senate Committee June 26, '50 [1850]

Hon. S. Foote June 2, 1853
_________________________________________________1836

*RIGHT SIDE DOCUMENT

Burlington Vt. Agency
Elizabeth Bingham, a widow of Ripley, who was a private and Sergeant in the Continental troops of New Hampshire.

Allocated July 4, 1836,
1 year private $40
1 year Sergeant $60
[Total] $100

per annum- con. March 4, 1831, ends August 30, 1843, when she died.
Payable to
Ripley Bingham
Betsy Hartshorn
Clarissa Baldwin
Abner Bingham
Sarah Horton
&
Jacob Bingham, only children 

(illegible) & Fant.
Present.
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I Elizabeth Bingham of Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont-
Widow of Ripley Bigham supposed to be deceased---depose & say, That some twenty five or thirty years ago as near as I can recollect, I was living in Stanstead L.C. [Lower Canada] when I went to Marlow in the State of New Hampshire where my husband's brother, John Bingham, came to the house where I was and in conversation about my husband, he told me that he had heard that my husband Ripley Bingham was dead. And I have good reason to believe that he is dead as I have never heard of his being alive since that time--
[signed] Elizabeth Bingham

State of Vermont}
Orleans County Ss.} At Derby on this 13th day of June 1843 personally appeared Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Bingham a person of Truth and made oath that the above affidavit by her is true-
Before me John Kimball Just. Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerks Office June 13, 1843
I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that John Kimball of Barton is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans duly qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 1th day of June AD 1843.
[signed] H. M. Bates Clerk
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I Amasa Mack of Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged fifty years Depose and say that my Father Silas Mack Esq. was Brother to Elizabeth Bingham widow of Ripley Bingham formerly of said town of Marlow that I have no distinct recollection as to the time said Ripley Bingham left his family at Marlow but well remember what was said that Nathan Benbey saw the said Ripley Bingham at Cooperstown in the state of New York and the said Bingham there lived with an other woman and the said Benbey informed the people at Cooperstown aforesaid that the said Ripley Bingham was a married man and had a wife and family at Marlow which caused the said Ripley Bingham to leave the place from which time nothing has been heard of said Ripley Bingham to my knowledge and I further say that my aunt Elizabeth Bingham had a very hard time to bring up her family frequently worked at Raking hay for my Father and pulling flax also for the neighbors & hoeing potatoes & other farming work and I further say, that some few years ago my Aunt Elizabeth Bingham fell and broke her hip and has ever since has been a cripple and now resides with her son at Derby in the State of Vermont poor and destitute 

[signed] Amasa Mack 

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire} Marlow August 19, 1843

Than Amasa Mack a man well known to me as a man of truth personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true according to the best of knowledge and belief.

Before me
[signed] Dudley Lewis Justice of the Peace
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I Abijah Gustin of Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged sixty years  Depose and say that I am [the] son of Lydia Gustin sister of Elizabeth Bingham widow of Ripley Bingham formerly of said town of Marlow and fully remember the time when said Ripley Bingham left his family; some one or two years after he left his family Mr. Nathan Benby  [or Benbey] of said Marlow saw said Ripley Bingham at Cooperstown in the state of New York where he was living with another woman and informed the people of said Cooperstown that the said Ripley was a married man and had a family at Marlow and the woman with whom he lived with refused to live with said Bingham any longer and he left the place some time after James Bingham of Lempster [New Hampshire] saw said Bingham at Minisink where the said Ripley Bingham lived with another woman and said James Bingham informed the people at Minisink that said Ripley Bingham had a family at Marlow which information caused the woman he lived there to refuse to live with said Ripley Bingham any longer and since with nothing has been heard from said Bingham to my knowledge.
And I further depose and say that my Aunt Elizabeth Bingham had an exceeding hard time in bringing up her family having to hoe potatoes, Rake hay and pull flax and other men's work and I further say a few years ago [she] fell and broke her hip and has been a cripple ever since and now resides with her son in Derby in the state of Vermont poor and destitute.
{signed] Abijah Gustin

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire ss.} Marlow August 19, 1843
Then Abijah Gustin a man well known to me as man of truth personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Before me 
[signed] Dudley Lewis Justice of the Peace
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14, Sep 1841.  5446
Elizabeth Bingham
Widow of Ripley - Orleans
County Vt. 4, July 1836
John Kimball
(illegible signature)

*Sideways Script

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington
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Barton 8th Sept. 1841

J. L. Edwards, Esqr.

Sir enclosed is the papers of Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Bingham for a pension - No record of Marriage can be found Neither Church-Town-or Family Record can be found. I hope the evidence of four persons will be sufficient on that point - but the death of Ripley Bingham cannot be proved but it is to be presumed that if he has been living since the passage of the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832 he has been a pensioner, and most probably he would if living have been a pensioner under the Act of 18th March 1818 as there can be no doubt but he was poor enough to come under that Act.
Please let a return be made to John Kimball, Barton, Orleans County,  Vermont soon as convenient may be -
Respectfully Yours
[signed] John Kimball
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Baker is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cheshire duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of May 1838 and will expire on the twenty first day of May 1843 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this fifteenth day of August 1841.

[signed] Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State.
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I Lydia Gustin of Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, of lawful age testify and say that I was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mac [Mack] which took place in Marlow at her Father's house the last of the year 1777 or the first of the year 1778, and was married by Elder Blood a Baptist minister and that the said Elizabeth Bingham now lives in Derby Vt., and was left with a large family without any property-
 [signed] Lydia Gustin her "X" mark
[witness] Isaac Baker
[witness] Amasa Mack

State of New Hampshire, Cheshire Ss. Marlow
August 4th 1841 personally appeared the above named Lydia Gustin and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is just and true,
Before me
[signed] Isaac Baker Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Lydia Gustin is a creditable witness.
[signed] Isaac Baker J. Peace

I Molly Brown of Alstead in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that I was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mac [Mack] which took place in Marlow at her father's house the last of the year 1777 or the first of the year 1778 and was married by Elder Blood a Baptist minister, & further state that the common report is that Ripley Bingham is dead, and said Elizabeth, was left with a large family and destitute of property. 
[signed] Molly Brown her "X" mark
[witness signed] Isaac Baker
[witness signed] Amasa Mack
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire Ss. August 4, 1841.
Personally appeared the within named Molly Brown and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by the subscribed is just and true.
Before me
[signed] Isaac Baker J. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Molly Brown is a creditable witness.
[signed] Isaac Baker J. Peace-

This may certify that I have examined the records kept in the town of Marlow for the purpose of recording Marriages and do not find the record of the Marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mack on said records.
[signed] Willard A. Baker Town Clerk of Marlow

Marlow August 4, 1841-
Cheshire Ss August 4, 1841 personally appeared the above named Willard A. Baker and made solemn oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true.
Before me
[signed] Isaac Baker J. Peace
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Ripley Bingham 3rd Co. Alstead - Dm
Using "L" [Pound sterling symbol]
Paid by the Continent in 1777          L 12-0-0
ditto in 1778 L 5-4-8 
ditto in 1779 31/11                              6-16-6
Balance of Clothing sold by (illegible) 5-12-11
Average of Rum & Sugar &6                1-
_________________________________________________
                                            [Sub Total] 25-9-5
178 Sept 27 Gave a Certificate to Sergeant 
John Joiner [Joyner]  for ---          61-14-4
_________________________________________________
                                               [Total]   L 87-4            
Contra
Engaged Nov 13-1776
By 12 Months in 1777               L 24-
May 1-1778 Promoted to a Sergeant
By 12 ditto in 1778                        31-8-1
By 10 Months & 18 days in 1779  31-16-
_________________________________________________
Discharged Nov. 18, 1779             87-4

State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State Office April 27-1841
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the record from Records (illegible) now in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State.
[signed] Josiah Stevens, Jr.
Secretary of State
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I Zaccheus Beebe of Stanstead in the Province of Lower Canada aged Ninety two years and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States depose testify and say that in the early part of the War of the Revolution - I lived in Lyme in the State of Connecticut - that in the month of June 1777 I removed into the Town of Marlo (Marlow) in the State of New Hampshire and lived in the house of my wife's Father (Ebenezer Mac or Mack) that about the last of the year 1777 Ripley Bingham was married to Elizabeth Mac (Mack) who was a Sister to my wife at her Father's house  being the same house in which I then lived & then being present & saw them married and the marriage ceremony was performed by Elder Blood, a Baptist Minister - The said Bingham at the time of his marriage belonged to the Army and served as I believe three years after marriage - ( It may be that he had not begun his three year service at the time of marriage, and that the service before marriage was under a former enlistment).
I further say that after Ripley Bingham and the said Elizabeth had resided together and raised a family of children he went off and left his wife and family and she had to get along with her family the best way she could and she had a hard time of it to keep along anyway until her children had some of them become so old as to help support the younger ones - It must be as much as forty years since the said Bingham left his family and I have no belief that he is living as I have never heard of him but once since he left his family and that was but a few years after he went away -
[signed] Zaccheus Beebe

 State of Vermont}
Orleans County Ss.} At Derby on the 2nd day of April 1841 personally appeared Zaccheus Beebe the signer of the above affidavit and who is a credible witness and made oath that the same is true. Before me
[signed] John Kimball Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerks Office April 23rd-1841-

I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that John Kimball of Barton is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans - duly qualified - that his commission bears date October 29-1840- and will expire the last day of November 1840- And that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 23rd day of April AD 1841.
Attest H. M. Bates Clerk
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I Jacob Taylor of Morgan in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont do testify and say that I am in the seventy eighth year of my age and am a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, under the Act of the 18th of March 1818, and that I enlisted into the Continental line in March 1778 and joined the army at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania the next June - And I further testify that before I enlisted I resided in the town of Stoddard in the State of New Hampshire, and that in the month of November or December 1777 I was in the town of Marlow in said State of New Hampshire and was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mack. They were married according to my best recollection by Elder Blood. I then understood that the said Ripley Bingham belonged to the Continental Army and was home on furlough, and when I joined the Army at Valley Forge aforesaid, this same Ripley Bingham that I saw married this fall, proving was there in the same regiment with me, which regiment was commanded by Col. Joseph Cilley of New Hampshire and was a Sergeant, and did his duty as such while I remained with him which was from June 1778 until 1781.- I well recollect that the said Ripley Bingham was with me in Col. Joseph Cilley's Regiment in the Summer of 1779, when Gen. Sullivan's army went to the west against the Indians, and the said Ripley Bingham was with said Commander and returned with him to Danbury, Connecticut. And further the deponent saith not.-
[signed] Jacob Taylor

State of Vermont}
Orleans County Ss} Derby, March 4th, 1841
Then personally appeared the above named Jacob Taylor and made oath the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true.
Before me
 [signed] Orem Newcomb Just. of Peace

I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent and that he is a man of truth and veracity.
[signed] Orem Newcomb Just. of Peace
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State of Vermont\Orleans County Clerks Office April 23rd-1841-

I Henry M. Bate [Clerk of Orleans] Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Orem Newcomb of Derby is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans duly qualified that his Commission bears date October 29th 1840 and will expire the last day of November 1841- And that the within Signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty one.

Attest [signed] H.M. Bates Clerk
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State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.

I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Dudly [Dudley] Lewis- is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Cheshire duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty-fifth day of Nov'r - 1839 and will expire on the twenty fifth day of Nov'r - 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twenty third day of Aug., 1843.

[signed] Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State.
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Nov. 25, 1843.

Addt'l tes. [testimony] case of
Elizabeth Bingham

*Sideways writing
Col. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department Washington
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Barton, Vermont  November 17th 1843
Col. James L. Edwards -
Dear Sir -

Enclosed is some evidence in the case of Elizabeth Bingham - She has been refused a pension thus for on account that she has not been able to prove the death of husband (Ripley Bingham) of whose death I think there cannot be a reasonable doubt, although nothing can be shown positive - The affidavit of the widow shows that John Bingham (Brother to Ripley) told her that her husband was dead - Since that John Bingham is dead and died before there was any Law granting pensions to widows - but when he died is not known as John Bingham has long since been dead and whether he heard the place where Ripley died cannot be known -
Enclosed is also the affidavits of Amasa Mack and Abijah Gustin by which it appears that Ripley Bingham had a wife at every port or when once discovered and exposed would seek for a wife in some new place - and I think that a man of his dissolute habits would not be likely to be a long life man - 
Since I was at Washington, I have examined the rolls (as published in 1834) of most of the States and the name of Ripley Bingham as a pensioner cannot be found where I examined  - (Judge Bridges of St. Albins [Albans] furnished me with most of the Rolls) - Great pains has [have] been taken to learn what has become of Ripley Bingham and nothing has been heard from him since what is stated by Mr. Gustin and Mr. Mack in their affidavits -
When a man has abandoned his wife and taken other women and lived with them, she his old wife could obtain a bill of Divorce from her husband for willful desertion if she chose so to do without showing him guilty of adultery - In the present case the Widow never applied for a bill of Divorce -
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In case Ripley Bingham's name cannot be found on any pension Roll of any state, I think it n more than fair to presume that he was dead before the pension Laws took place - and the only place to ascertain for certainty whether he ever was a pensioner is at the Washington -
I cannot but hope that there will be a favorable decision in her case - and could plead her case a long time if I thought it would help her case but I conclude you like short stories best -

With much respect
Your Obdt [Obedient] Servt [Servant]

[signed] John Kimball
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July 19, '47

(Illegible text) case
Elizabeth Bingham

*Sideways text

John L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Montpelier Vt. July 13, 1847

John L. Edwards, Esq.

Dear Sir,

I beg have to solicit from your Dept. a statement of the position of the claim of Elizabeth Bingham to a pension as the widow of Ripley Bingham. Her Declaration was taken & proof furnished of her marriage & the Service & Death of her husband some years since through the agency of John Kimball of Barton in this State- Pending the consideration of the claim, Mr. Kimball deceased & the widow is also dead. Her children of whose request I make this enquiry were informed by Mr. K. [Kimball] or by his Executor that the proof of Marriage & Service were satisfactory to the Dept. but that the fact of her husband's death was not deemed to be sufficiently proved.
I therefore desire to know whether that impression is come at & whether the claim was fully established in all other respects except the proof of his death.
With great regard
[signed] S. B. Colby
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Edwards 
To
S.B. Colby

Wid. Bingham
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Pension Office
August 2nd, 1847.

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 13th
 [July 13, 1847] I have to inform you that no additional evidence has been received in the case of Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Ripley Bingham, since the date of my letter to Frederick Kimball, Esq., of the 10th August, 1844 a copy of which is herewith enclosed.

I am, very respectfully,
Your Obt. Serv. [Obedient Servant]
J L Edwards

S. B. Colby, Esq.
Montpelier, Vt.
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copy - J. L. Edwards
To
F. Kimball [Frederick]

Wid. Bingham
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(Copy)

Pension Office,
August 10th, 1844

Sir,
              The additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Bingham has been examined and filed with her other papers. She asserted in her declaration that her husband left her about thirty years ago and went to the West and that she has not since heard from him. She now states that after he left her, his brother informed her that he had heard that he was dead.
Unless it is clearly made out that he is dead, she cannot claim as his widow.

I am, Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. [Obedient Servant]
(Signed) J.L. Edwards

F. Kimball [Frederick], Esq.
Barton,
Orleans Co., Vt
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State of Vermont}
Orleans District Ss} I John Prentiss Register of Probate in and for said District certify that at a Probate Court held at Irasburgh [Irasburg] in said District on the 27th day of December AD 1848 satisfactory proof was exhibited to said Court, that Elizabeth Bingham late of Derby in said District died at said Derby on the 30th day of August AD 1843- and that she was the widow of Ripley Bingham who was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier - It was also provided to said Court that the said Elizabeth Bingham left at her decease Ripley Bingham, Betsey Hartshorn, Clarissa Baldwin, Abner Bingham, Sarah Horton, and Jacob Bingham who were the only surviving children of the said Elizabeth, and the only children of the said Ripley Bingham Senior - I also certify that John H. Kimball of Barton in said district, is administrator of the Estate of the said Elizabeth, duly appointed and authorized to act as such -
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court at Irasburgh [Irasburg] aforesaid this twenty seventh day of December AD 1848-
[signed] John H. Prentiss, Register.
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State's Office April 27, 1841

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Records from Reed's Regiment now in this Office.

*Seal

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State.
(Signed) Josiah Stevens, NH
Secretary of State

I Lydia Gustin of Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that I was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mack which took place in Marlow at her father's house the last of the year 1777 or the first oof the year 1778 and was married by Elder Blood, a Baptist Minister and that the said Elizabeth Bingham now lives in Derby, Vt., and was left with a large family without any property.
[signed] Lydia Gustin her "X" mark
{signed witness] Isaac Baker
[signed witness] Amasa Mack

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire Ss.} Marlow, August 4, 1841
Personally appeared the above named Lydia Gustin and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is just and true.
Before me  (Signed) Isaac Baker,
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Lydia Gustin is a credible witness.
(Signed) Isaac Baker, J. Peace
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I Molly Brown of Alstead in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that I was present at the marriage of Ripley Bingham and Elizabeth Mac {Mack} which took place in Marlow at her father's house the last of the year 1777 or the first of the year 1778 and was married by Elder Blood a Baptist Minister. I further state that the common report is that Ripley Bingham is dead and said Elizabeth was left with a large [family] and destitute of property.
(Signed) Molly Brown her "X" mark
[signed witness] Isaac Baker
[signed witness] Amasa Mack

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire Ss.} August 4, 1841,
Personally appeared the within named Molly Brown and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by her subscribed is just and true -
Before me
(Signed) Isaac Parker [Baker], J.P.
I hereby Certify that the above named Molly Brown is a Credible witness.
(Signed) Isaac Parker [Baker]
J. Peace

This may certify that I have examined the Records kept in the Town of Marlow, for the purpose of Recording Marriage, and do not find the Record of the Marriage of Ripley Bingham in said Records.
(Signed) Willard A. Baker,
Town Clerk of Marlow
Marlow, August 4, 1841}
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Cheshire Ss. August 4, 1841.

Personally appeared the above named Willard A. Baker and made solemn oath that the above Certificate by him subscribed is true.
Before me.
(Signed) Isaac Baker

Seal 

State of New Hampshire
Office of the Secretary of State

I Josiah Stevens Jr., Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby Certify that Isaac Baker  is an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County Cheshire, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated in the twenty first day May 1838, and will expire on the twenty first day of may 1843, and tat his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State, this sixteenth day of August , 1841.
Signed Josiah Stevens Jr.
Secretary of State

I, Elizabeth Bingham of Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, widow of Ripley Bingham, supposed to be deceased- Depose & say, That some twenty five or thirty years ago as near as I can recollect, I was living in Stanstead L.C. [Lower Canada] when I went to Marlow in the state of New Hampshire, when my
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husband's brother John Bingham came to the house where I was and in conversation about my husband, he told me that he had heard that my husband, Ripley Bingham, was dead, and i have good reason to believe that he is dead as I have never heard of his being alive since that time.
Signed, Elizabeth Bingham

State of Vermont}
Orleans County} Ss.

At Derby on the 13th day of June, 1843 personally appeared Elizabeth Bingham a person of truth and made oath that the above affidavit by her is true,
Before me, John Kimball, Just. Peace

State of Vermont
 Orleans County, Clerk's Office June 13, 1843.
I Henry M. Bates, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do hereby certify that John Kimball of Barton is a Justice of the Peace  within and for the County of Orleans, duly qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of June, A.D. 1843.
Signed H. M. Bates, Clerk.
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I Amasa Mack of Marlow in the County of Orleans and State of New Hampshire aged fifty years, depose and say that my father Silas Mack, Esq. was brother to Elizabeth Bingham widow of Ripley Bingham, formerly of said town of Marlow, that I have no distinct recollection as to the time said Ripley Bingham left his family at Marlow but well remember what was said that Nathan Benley saw the said Ripley Bingham at Cooperstown in the State of New York and the said Bingham then lived with another woman, and the said Benley informed the people at Cooperstown aforesaid that the said Ripley Bingham was a married man and had a family at Marlow, which caused him to leave the place, some time after James Bingham of Lempster saw the said Ripley Bingham at Minisink and the said Ripley Bingham then lived with another woman, and the said James Bingham informed the people at Minisink that the said Ripley Bingham was a married man and had a family at Marlow which caused  the said Ripley Bingham to leave the place from which time nothing has been heard of said Ripley Bingham to my knowledge.
And I further say that my Aunt, Elizabeth Bingham, had a very hard time to bring up the family frequently worked at Raking Hay for my father and pulling flax also for the Neighbors - hoeing and digging potatoes & other farming work. And I further say
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that some few years ago my Aunt Elizabeth Bingham fell and broke her hip and has ever since has been a cripple and now resides with her son [at] Derby, in the State of Vermont, poor and destitute.
Signed, Amasa Mack

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire} Marlow, August 19, 1843
Then Amasa Mack, a man well known to me as a man of truth personally appeared before me and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true according to the best of knowledge and belief.
Before me. 
(Signed) Dudley Lewis Just. of the P.

I Abijah Gustin of Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged Sixty years - Depose and say that I am a son of Lydia Gustin, Sister of Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Ripley Bingham formerly of said town of Marlow and full remember the time when said Ripley Bingham left his family. Some one or two years after he left his family Mr. Nathan Benley of said Marlow saw Ripley Bingham at Cooperstown in the State of New York where he was living with another woman, and informed the people of said Cooperstown that the said Ripley was a married man and had a family at Marlow and the woman with whom he lived with refused to live with said Bingham any longer, and he
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left the place, some time after James Bingham of Lemster [Lempster] saw said Bingham at Minisink where the said Ripley Bingham lived with another woman and said James Bingham informed the people at Minisink that said Ripley Bingham had a family at Marlow which information caused the woman he lived with there to refuse to live with said Ripley Bingham any longer, and since which nothing has been heard from said Bingham to my knowledge. -
And I further depose and say that my Aunt Elizabeth Bingham had an exceeding hard time in bringing up her family, having to hoe potatoes, rake hay and pull flax and other men's work. And I further say a few years ago fell and broke her hip and been a cripple ever since and now resides with her son in Derby in the State of Vermont, poor and destitute.
Signed Abigha [Abijah] Gustin

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire} Ss. Marlow Aug. 19, 1843
Then Abijah Gustin, a man well known to me as a man of truth, personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Before me-
 (Signed) Dudley Lewis Just. of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State

I Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the aforesaid State do hereby Certify that Dudley Lewis, is an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cheshire, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 25th day of November 1839 and will expire on the 25th day of November 1844, and that his Signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said state, this 23rd day of Augt. 1843-
Signed, Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State.

State of Vermont}
Orleans District} Ss.
I John H. Prentiss, Register of Probate in and for said District Certify that at a Probate Court held at Irasburgh [Irasburg] in said State on the 27th day of December AD 1848 satisfactory proof was exhibited to said Court that Elizabeth Bingham late of Derby in said District died at said Derby on the 30th day of August AD 1843 and that she was the widow of Ripley Bingham who was reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier. It was also proved to said Court that the said Elizabeth Bingham left at her decease, Ripley Bingham, Betsey Hartshorn, Clarissa Baldwin, Abner Bingham, Sarah Horton and Jacob Bingham who were the
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only surviving children of the said Elizabeth and the only children of the said Ripley Bingham Senior. I also certify that John H. Kimball of Barton in the said District is Administrator on the Estate of the said Elizabeth, duly appointed and authorized to act as such.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Irasburgh [Irasburg] aforesaid, this 27 Day of December A.D. 1848.
(Signed) John H. Prentiss, Register
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(No. 160)

31 Cong.}
1 Less.}

The petition of the Adm. of Elizabeth Bingham, 
(illegible) to be allowed for the benefit
 of the heirs of the 
said Elizabeth the 
pension to which she
was entitled at the 
time of her death

1849 Jany. [January] 17, Referred to the 
Comm: on Pensions.

1850 June 19, Referred to the 
Comm: on Pensions.

Mr. Upham
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To the Hon. Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled

John H. Kimball of Barton in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, Administrator  of the Estate of Elizabeth Bingham, late of Derby in said Orleans County deceased.

Respectfully represents that Ripley Bingham was a soldier of the United States for more than two years in the Revolutionary War.

That Elizabeth Bingham was married to the said Ripley Bingham in December AD 1777 or near that time and that the said Ripley Bingham served in the Revolutionary War subsequent to said marriage.

That about the year 1802 the said Ripley Bingham, who then resided in Marlow in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, left his house and his family which then consisted of the said Elizabeth Bingham, and eight children at said Marlow, and went into the Western Country. While he was supposedly into the State of New York and not returning, the said Elizabeth with her friend made great enquiries for him but never could hear anything of him but believed he died soon after he left his family - as above stated.
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That the said Elizabeth Bingham filed her declaration in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions for a Pension for the services of the said Ripley Bingham in the Revolutionary War about the year 1841 - which application was rejected as this she remembers & believes, solely because the said Elizabeth Bingham could not make positive proof of the death of the said Ripley Bingham.

That the said Elizabeth Bingham resided at Derby in the County of Orleans, Vermont many years being poor and dependent on her children for her support, and when she died in the residence of her son Jacob Bingham on the 30th day of August A.D. 1843 and leaving Ripley Bingham, Betsey Hartshorn, Clarissa Baldwin, Abner Bingham, Sarah Horton, and Jacob Bingham her only surviving children.

 Your memorialist further represents that he is informed and believes that the evidence filed in this case by the said Elizabeth Bingham in the Pension Office was sufficient to entitle her to a Pension, except the proof of the said Ripley Bingham's death, to which evidence this memorialist would respectfully refer.

This memorialist therefore prays this Hon. Congress to take the above case into their favorable consideration and by some special law grant unto the above named surviving children of
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the said Elizabeth Bingham and Ripley Bingham such Pension as the said Elizabeth Bingham was reasonably entitled to at the time of her decease-
Barton, Vermont Dec'br 28th, A.D. 1848
[signed] John H. Kimball

To the Committee on Pensions-
Gentlemen-
Please address a note to the Commissioner of Pensions asking for the evidence filed in his office in support of this claim.
[signed] W. Upham [William Upham]
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I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying pages numbered from 1 to 15 are truly copied from the original papers in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
[signed] J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That James L. Edwards, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 25th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
[signed] T. Ewing [Thomas]
Secretary of the Interior.


T. BARNARD, printer.
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To Comm'ssr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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June 20th 1850,

Col. J. L. Edwards, 
Comm'ssr [Commissioner] of Pensions.

Sir,
The Ch'r [Chair] of the Com. [Committee] on Pensions would be glad to receive from you certified copies of the papers filed in your Bureau, relating to the enclosed case of Elizabeth Bingham - also such information and views touching the petition of her Admin. [Administrator] as you may deem proper to communicate.

Respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't [Obedient Servant]
Jno. P. Sheldon [John Pitts Sheldon]
clk. com. Pen's (S.)
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June 26, 1850

From Comss'r [Commissioner] of Pensions

(very faded script)
Proof insufficient for the
Dept. to allow claim -
(last two sentences are too faded to read)
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Pension Office
June 26, 1850.

Sir,
In pursuance of your letter of the 20th instant, I have the honor herewith to enclose Certified copies of the papers filed in this office in the case of Elizabeth Bingham, numbered from 1 to 15, and which furnish all the information in my possession. The claim cannot be allowed by this Department in the absence of such proof as is required by the Regulations. I respectfully submit, therefore, that it rests with the Committee to decide whether the case should be provided for by Special Act.
The petition is herewith returned.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt: Servt: [Obedient Servant]
[signed] J L Edwards

Hon. G. W. Jones
Chairman of the
Committee on Pensions
U. S. Senate
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State of Vermont.

Office of Secretary of State
Montpelier May 7th, 1852

I hereby certify that John S. J. Bernis Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his proper handwriting to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Caledonia in said State, duly appointed and qualified, and that full evidence is de to his official acts and attestations as such.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office this 7th day of May A.D. 1832.
[signed] Ferrand F. Merrill
Secretary of State
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
Know all Men by these presents, That I
Ripley Bingham [Junior] of Burke in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont do hereby constitute and appoint F. L. Eames my true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of Elizabeth Bingham 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 of every description in relation to said claim that may be on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file any additional evidence or arguments that can be obtained, and to receive the certificate which may issue for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to myself; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might do were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this thirtieth day of April A.D. 1852.
Signed and sealed in presence of 
M W Newell}    Ripley Bingham [Junior]
John S J Bernis}         

STATE OF Vermont
Caledonia COUNTY, SS: On this 30th day of April A.D. 1852, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Ripley Bingham [Junior] and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his free act and deed for the purposes therein expressed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned.
[signed] John S J Bernis, Justice of the Peace.
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CLAIM OF Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Bingham
Act of July 4, 1836:
STATE OF Vermont
Caledonia COUNTY, SS. BE IT KNOWN THAT, on this 30th day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-two before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ripley Bingham [Junior] a resident of Burke in said county, and made oath according to Law, that 
he is a son of Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Bingham dec'd, widow of Ripley Bingham who was a Revolutionary soldier; that the said Elizabeth died on the __________(left blank) day of September 1843; that previous to her death she applied for a pension under the Act of July 4, 1836-
that he has been informed that said pension ought to be allowed, that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as my said agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

[signed] Ripley Bingham

Witness:
[signed] M W Newell
[signed] John S J Bernis

Subscribed and duly sworn to the day and year aforesaid, before me
a Justice of the Peace; and I do hereby certify that Ripley Bingham who has executed the foregoing affidavit before me is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.

[signed] John S J Bernis, Justice of the Peace.
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Washington, May 15, 1852.

Sir,

We herewith enclose the proper authority from Ripley Bingham [Junior] to examine the papers and prosecute the claim of his mother Elizabeth Bingham, dec'd whose papers are supposed to be in the files of your office, under the Act of 4th July 1836, suspended,  New Hampshire line.
Very respectfully,
[signed] Evans & Fant.


James E. Heath, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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Washington, May 21, 1852.

Sir,

We desire to call up the case of Elizabeth Bingham, Widow of Ripley, Vermont, (illegible) to the Act 4th July 1836. Our authority is on file with the papers. 
Elizabeth Bingham, in her declaration, states that her husband entered the Service in the Spring of 1776 for 1 year, under Capt. Jason Wait, and before the expiration of the time enlisted for 3 years, was wounded at Burgoyne's defeat, came home on furlough, married Fall of 1777 or Spring of 1778 at Marlow, New Hampshire. Left his family more than 30 years since.
Zacheus Beebe, a Revy [Revolutionary] Pensioner, resides in the Province of Lower Canada. In 1777 lived in Marlow, N.H. last of the year 1777 Ripley Bingham was married to his wife's Sister, at her father's house, where he said Beebe then lived, was married by Elder Blood a Baptist Minister. He said Bingham at the time of his marriage
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was in the army and at home on furlough- He returned to the Army, & he believes served three years.

Lydia Gustin Was present at the marriage which took place the last of the year 1777 or beginning of 1778.

Amasa Mack & Abijah Gustin state that after Bingham abandoned his family, he lived in Cooperstown, N.Y. - but when it became known that he had a wife, he left that place. He was living with a woman at Cooperstown.

Jacob Taylor, a Revy [Revolutionary] Pensioner, belonged to Cilley's N.H. Reg [Regiment] enlisted in March 1778 and before he joined the Army was present at the marriage of Ripley & Elizabeth Bingham. Was with Bingham in Cilley's Regiment from June 1778 until 1781-

Record evidence showing 2 years & 10 months Service.

Certificate of the Court 7th Dec. 1848, showing
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The objection urged by the Pension Office is, that there is no evidence of Bingham's death. It is to be presumed if he were alive, that he would have applied for a Pension, and yet your files furnish no evidence on this point- But it has been decided by the Courts that there 7+ years have elapsed and neither relatives or friends have heard from the individual, he is presumed to be dead- In addition, Secy [Secretary] Ewing so decided for the Government of the Pension Office.

Very respectfully
Evans & Fant

J.E. Heath, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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State of New York}
County of Orange SS.} Jane Swartwout of the town of Deerpark in the County of Orange, being duly sworn says that she is eighty two years of age, that she was well acquainted with Ripley L. Bingham in his life time; that said Bingham was a carpenter by trade, and came from some of the Eastern states to the state of New York, that he came into the town of Deerpark (then Minisink) about the year 1800 (deponent would think a little prior to that time) that he continued from that time to reside in that neighborhood till his decease, that said Bingham was a strong built man, and had black sharp eyes, and black hair, and that he died in or about the year 1819, at his residence in Deerpark aforesaid, which was about one mile distant from the residence of deponent. And further saith not.
[signed] Jane Swartwout her "X" mark

Subscribes & sworn before me the 2nd day of August 1852 and I do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Jane Swartwout & that she is of good moral character is intelligent and is a credible witness.
[signed] Jas. [James] Bennet one of the Justices of the Peace of the County Orange in the State of New York
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State of New York,}
ORANGE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,} SS.

I, NATHAN WESTCOTT, Clerk of the said County of Orange, and also Clerk of the County Court of said County, being a Court of Record having a seal, do hereby Certify, that Jas. [James] Bennet before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to administer oaths for general purposes; and further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature "Jas. Bennet" subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county of Orange the fourth day of August 1852.

[signed] John C. McConnell, Deputy Clerk
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Senate Chamber
Feby [February] 12 - 1853

Sir:
At the request of John H. Kimball, Esq. of Barton, Vt. I have upon leave, withdrawn the accompanying letter of Elizabeth Bingham from the file of the (illegible). I refer then to your office.

Respectfully Yours
[signed] Solomon Frost

Hon. J. H. Keith}
Comm. of Pensions}
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Elizabeth Bingham
Widow of
Ripley Bingham
New Hampshire

Susp [suspended] Act 4th July 1836

filed 15 Sep 1853

Evans & Fant
Washington City
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State of Vermont
Orleans County SS.
I, Luraney [Lurany] Mack, Late of Stanstead, Stanstead County and Province of Canada, Now of Derby Orleans County and State of Vermont, Depose and Say that I am eighty four years of age, That I formerly lived in the town of Marlow and County of Cheshire, State of New Hampshire, And I distinctly recollect Ripley and Elizabeth Bingham and their marriage ceremony was performed at my father's house and I was present and I think in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. I recollect of kissing the bride after the ceremony was performed, they lived together as man and wife till one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and then Ripley Bingham left town and reports sayed [said]  he went to Yorke State [New York State] and as far as my knowledge extends has not been back since. His son Ripley Bingham, I have ever been acquainted with and is the one that is now making application for a pension for his Father and Mother.
Elizabeth Bingham died at Derby, Orleans County and State of Vermont August 30th, 1843 and I was present at her funeral and further the deponent sayeth [saith] not.
[signed] Lurany Mack

Derby Vt.
Orleans County SS} July 15th AD 1853
Personally appeared Luraney [Lurany] Mack and made oath that the affidavit by her subscribed as above is true and that I am disinterested in this case -
Before me - [signed] L. C. Bates Just. Peace
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County Ss.} Derby, July 15, 1853

This may certify that I am acquainted with Mrs. Laurany [Lurany] Mack, the signer of the foregoing affidavit and con(illegible) her entitled to credit as to truth as before.
Sworn to     L C Bates Just. Peace

STATE OF VERMONT.
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, September 2nd, 1853.}

I certify that L. C. Bates, Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand-writing to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date, thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Orleans, duly elected and qualified, with full power and authority under and by the virtue of the laws of said State to administer oaths and take depositions, and acknowledgements of deeds, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are, and ought to be given.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office, this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1853.
[signed] Ferrand F. Merrill Secretary of State.

*SIDEWAYS SCRIPT
Elizabeth Bingham
Widow of
Ripley Bingham
New Hampshire
Susp [suspended] Act 4th July 1836.

filed 15 Sep 1853.
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Elizabeth Bingham
Widow of
Ripley Bingham
New Hampshire
Susp [suspended] Act 4th July 1836.


 filed 15 Sep 1853.

Evans & Fant
Washington City
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord.

September 7th, 1853;

I hereby certify, That at the Date of the annexed attestation, Jesse A. Gove was an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Merrimac NH -
in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.

[signed] John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack, Ss.

I, Wells Way, now of Concord, in the County of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire, but formerly of Marlow, in the County of Cheshire, & State aforesaid, depose and say that, I am eighty three years of age, that from the time I was seventeen years of age, I resided in Marlow down to the year eighteen hundred and thirty.  That Ripley Bingham was among my first acquaintances, and was a Mill right and carpenter. That a man by the name of Mack, and myself, worked with the said Bingham in building a mill - That Bingham was always reputed to have been in the War of the Revolution; I have many times heard him repeat his services in the war; Ripley Bingham married Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Mack, and had two or three children when I first went to Marlow, I knew said Bingham down to about seventeen hundred and ninety-four (1794) when he left Marlow. And it was always reported that he went west into York State & where else I never knew - I have never heard from him since. Elisabeth [Elizabeth], his wife, lived in Marlow
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as long as I lived there, permanently, (about 1820) and subsequently went to Canada, and finally heard she went to Derby, Vermont where she died.
Luraney [Lurany] Mack, whose affidavit I have heard read, I knew very well. She is about my age, & we were children together, and her statement can be relied on as being correct. Elizabeth Bingham was her Aunt - I frequently have been to Marlow - Last year I spent several months there, and I never heard but an opinion expressed relative to Ripley Bingham and his long absence, and that was, as I have testified above - I further say that I have no interest in the result of this application-
[signed] Wells Way

Sworn to and subscribed, before me, this seventh day of September A.D. 1853, and I certify that the said Wells Way is a credible witness & entitled to the fullest credit - I further certify that I have no interest (over)
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in the results of this case, nor am I concerned in its prosecution -
[signed] Jesse A. Gove
Justice of the Peace

* Sideways Script

Elizabeth Bingham
Widow of
Ripley Bingham
New Hampshire
Susp [suspended] Act 4th July, '36 [1836]

Filed 15 Sept 1853

Evans & Fant
Washington City
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Washington, Sep. 15th, 1853

Sir

We herewith enclose additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Bingham, Widow of Ripley Bingham, New Hampshire, Susp. [suspended] Act 4th July 1836.

Very respectfully
Evans & Fant.


Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm. of Pensions. [Chairman]
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Barton, Vt. Dec'br [December] 19th 1853

Dr [Dear] Sir
Enclosed I send you herewith the affidavit of Jane Swartwout as evidence in the application of Elizabeth Bingham for a pension. Her application was filed about the year 1841 under the Act of, I think, 1836 & has been suspended for want of direct proof of her husband Ripley Bingham's death--
--The proof showed that he has not been heard from for more than forty years-
--Now we submit whether as a matter of Law-his death is not to be presumed after an absence unheard from of seven years- & much more when he has not been heard from in nears half a century-
We have made great enquiry for Bingham - I find thus a man answering his description deceased in Minisink [now Deerpark] N.Y. -  about 1818 - whom I believe to be the long lost man.
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You are requested to have her case re-examined - hoping that the presumption of Law and Ripley Bingham's death - coupled with the enclosed affidavit- will be found sufficient to entitle applicant to a certificate.

Ripley Bingham's Mother was a Livermore & we suppose after he went west he observed the initial letter of her name as the middle one of his own-

I am very respectfully
Your Obt Serv [Obedient Servant]
John H. Kimball
Agent of
Ripley Bingham [Jr.]

Hon. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
(illegible)
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Ripley, Orleans County and State of Vermont
act July 4, 1836.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") BLANK

Proof exhibited, (if original.) BLANK

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
-Record evidence of more than two years 
served in the grades of Private & Corporal.
Satisfactory parol [refers to something spoken or verbal] proof of marriage.

(illegible) the Commissioner, by alone the certificate was issued to be passed to the clerk-

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
-did when new (illegible) at Elizabeth Bingham's death-- Jan. 10, 1852

Name and residence of Agent
Evans & Fant
Present.

Examining Clerk,
[signed] Ogden Miles
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Washington; Dec. 28th, 1853

Sir;
Herewith you will receive additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Bingham, widow of Ripley Bingham; Revy [Revolutionary]: Act: July 4th, 1836: original claim filed May 15th, 1853.

Very Respectfully
Evans & Fant


Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm. of Pensions-

We request that the certificate may be issued to the children in compliance with this request.
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Jan 10/54 [1854]
Col Niles
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Concord, N.H.
January 6th, 1854;

Messrs. Evans & Fant

Gentlemen,

I have just received yours of 4th viz: since I wrote you. I have heard that one more of the children has been found, and probably all six are alive, at any rate, if I was to pursue the course indicated in yours, I should be obliged to bring in one or two of the western heirs for a certainty, and perhaps all of them. In that view of the case, let the certificate be issued in the name of all six of the children. I prefer that. And the certificate now in my hands, Mr. Kimball must stand from under - Lose no time in forwarding viz to me: I will take measures to have Power of Atty [Attorney] executed by the Western children in the mean time. 
You will remember that he was
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a Sergeant:
The statement in Kimball's affidavit is, as I supposed, false, so far as regards the testimony he has had before the Commission a (illegible) time.

I propose to pursue him and some of those points, and I shall state the fact, that no papers that are material, were filed by said Kimball until very recently, say since you presented our testimony, upon which the claim was allowed.

Let me repeat, send me the certificate without delay.

Truly yours
[signed] Jesse A. Gove
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Request for Photostating    3-2006
(To be prepared in duplicate.)    Ex. AW

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK

Job No. 3497    Date May 29 '26
Subject Ripley Bingham, Rev. W23612
1 copies of 18 pieces consisting of 28 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Division.

Remarks: See receipt for payment in 

Approved: [signed] Wm. Harvey
W4225
Chief Clerk.

[signed] A.E. Wilson
Chief Sec [Secretary]
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THE EXAMINER MUST BRIEF THIS LETTER.

No.
July 27 1892
FILES
Special Examiner.

Dated 
____________,189.
Ripley Bingham-
Rev. War.
BRIEF
136
21

TO CHF. Rev. War DIV.
ACTION (illegible signature)
JUL  1892
COMMISSIONER
FILE WITH CASE
AW Wid.
F. 23612
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Add to N. Bingham

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,

SPECIAL EXAMINATION
DIVISION.

July 25, 1892

Hon. Comm. of Pensions
Sir:

For use of Norman Bingham, Esq. of Boston- grandson of soldier; I have the honor to request the following information in regards to case of Elizabeth Mack Bingham, widow of Ripley or Elisha Bingham, N.H. Mil [Military]-Revolutionary War-Name of organization- Dates of enlistments and discharges- Date and place of the soldier's death- Date and place of marriage- The claimant (widow) lived in Vermont when she applied for pension- died there before allowance and pension was paid to the heirs- Atty was first- Kimball and alliances- Gove of Concord N.H. A simple memorandum will answer - as information is for use in completing family history- not for the purpose of an admission to Sons of Revolution.
Respectfully,
[signed] Fred Mack
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PRESIDENT'S ROOM
HILLSDALE COLLEGE
Joseph W. Mauck, President

HILLSDALE MICHIGAN
Dec.12,1911.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

The Adjutant-General, whom I first addressed on the subject named below, has referred me to you.

Please send to me a copy of the Revolutionary War Pension Widow's File, No. 23,612, Certificate, No. 5,260 of Ripley Bingham (Private and Sergeant in the New Hampshire service,) of the Burlington, Vermont Agency.

The full personal account, names of parents, place of birth and residence, and the like are desired.

Respectfully,
[signed] (Mrs.) Frances B. Mauck
JWM-HC

Address 173 Hillsdale Street,
Hillsdale, Michigan.

STAMP
PENSION OFFICE
U.S.
L
DEC 14. 1911

DEC 19 1911
Clerk AW