Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10087, Perry Benson, Md.

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SERVICE
Md.
Benson, Perry (star stamped to the left of his name)
NUMBER
S10087
{B.L. # 236_300_Capt.
{Issued May 25, 1789.
{To Perry Benson
{No Papers. (Carded)

CONTENTS

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10.087
Written in the left margin: Rev. War. ['war no given" is crossed out]
INVALID.
File No. 10.087
Perry Benson
Capt. U.S. Army [star]
Act:
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.}
Md. Line, [star] Revolutionary War. Records completed. Feb 13/05
1940 - Feb 29. Hist to Paul R. Benson. see his letter viz. Joseph Benson S.12989

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Free (upper right corner postage)
The honble. John C. Calhoun
Secrt. of War
Washington

Written in the margins: Mr. Hickey

Circular stamp – partial imprint, ER 13

Recd. Oct. 18. 1819.

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Perry Benson
Maryland
A2 Invalid
[written 1818 crossed out]
J. Minot
July 19/56

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February 29, 1940
BA-J/AWF (notation: our)
Joseph Benson – S.12989
Perry Benson-S.10087 (arrow drawn to highlight Perry)
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to  your letter in which you state that you are trying to traced the ancestry of John Benson who, in 1807, left Snow Hill, Maryland for Pendleton County, Kentucky, but because there were so many Bensons of that community who served in the Revolutionary War, the task has been difficult. 
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of a John Benson of Maryland. Two soldiers, only, of Maryland, with that surname, have been found in the Revolutionary War pension records of this office, those  of Joseph and Perry. Their records follow as found in the claims for pension and bounty land based upon their service in that war.
Joseph Benson – S.12989
The data which follow relative to Joseph Benson were obtained from claims for pension and bounty land on file under S.12989, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
Joseph Benson was a native of Talbot County, Maryland, date of his birth not given. He was the son of Perry Benson who was living in Talbot County.
See his letter  - in Joseph Benson – S. 12989

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Maryland, during the Revolution. The name of  Joseph Benson’s mother was not given.
Joseph Benson enlisted in the year 1779 in a company of Talbot County, Maryland militia, called “Hearts of Oak”, served at various times until in 1783, as a private in Captains Henry Banning’s and Mordicai [sic] Skinner’s company, Colonel Jeremiah Banning’s regiment, in all about two years; this service was to protect the inhabitants and property along the shores of Chesapeake Bay. His father, Perry Benson, was ensign in this company, also, his uncle, Nicholas Benson, was adjutant.
Joseph Benson lived a short while in Dorchester County, and Caroline County, Maryland, and about 1798 moved to Baltimore, Maryland.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 30, 1846, at which time he was about eighty-two years of age, and a resident of Baltimore, Maryland.
He was allowed, also, one hundred sixty acres of bounty land, on his application executed October 30, 1855, still living in Baltimore, Maryland.
Joseph Benson stated that he had “six of is own relations of the name of Benson who were actively engaged in that great contest for Liberty”, namely –
Captain James Benson,
General Perry Benson
Adjutant Nicolas Benson (his uncle)
Ensign Perry Benson (his father)
James and Perry Benson (his brothers)
In a letter dated April 28, 1853, Mrs. Samuel Lucas of 99 Hanover Street, Baltimore, Maryland, refers

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To the soldier, Joseph Benson, as her father.
S.E. Benson, son of the soldier, gave his address in 1858, Washington City.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.
In order to obtain the date of past payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:
Joseph Benson, certificate #33123
Issued April 26, 1856, rate $40.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832
Maryland Agency.
If you desire information in regard to location of bounty land referred to herein, it is suggested that you address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the following data:
Warrant #46942 – 160 acres – Act of 1855
Perry Benson – S. 10087
The date and place of birth of Perry Benson were not given, nor are the names of his parents shown.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Perry Benson served as Captain in the Maryland Line, and was disabled while in the ser-

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vice. There are no further details as to his service, nor is the nature of his disability shown.
Perry Benson was pensioned from January 1, 1803, at the rate of $20.00 per month, on account of disability  noted above: he was paid at the Maryland Agency.
He was residing in October, 1819, in Talbot County, Maryland, and gave his address Easton.
On account of his service in the Maryland Line as Captain, he was allowed, three hundred acres of bounty land on warrant # 236, which was issued May 25, 1789 to Perry Benson.
Perry Benson died October 2, 1827.
If you wish information relative to location of the land referred to above, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the following data - 
Warrant # 236 - 300 acres - issued May 25, 1789.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator