Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10289, Richard Arnold, New Jersey Penn.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE	
New Jersey
Penn 

Arnold, Richard
Mary

NUMBER
W.10289
B.L.Wt. 28532-160-55

CONTENTS

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State of Indiana  Dearborn County } sS

On this illegible] day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before John Livingston Judge of the Probate Court of Dearborn Co. and the State of Indiana now sitting, Richard Arnold, a resident of Logan Township Dearborn County & State aforesaid, aged about seventy five 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 –
That he entered the service of the United States the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit. In the first place, that he was drafted and served 2 months 1776 in Capt. Brooks Company, under Col. Heister, of the Pennsylvania Militia, for the purpose of marching against the British, who then lay at Brunswick New Jersey, but in what year he cannot at this time recollect. Secondly that he was drafted, and served 2 months in Capt. Hineline’s Company under Col. Lacy of the Pennsylvania Militia, in the year that the British lay at Philadelphia. Thirdly, he served 2 months under Robert L. Hooper Deputy Quarter Master General at Easton North Hampton Co. Pennsylvania, in guarding and taking care of camp horses. Fourthly, that he served 4 months under

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Mordecai Roberts, at Durham Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in guarding and taking care of camp horses and fifthly that he served between one and two years but the precise  time he does not recollect, in attending a ferry at Trenton New Jersey under Major Gordon and William Rosco, Superintendent, for which services he received $12.00 per month and was discharged by Major Gordon but received no certificate. he further states that he was in a skirmish with the British near what was then called the Seven Starr Tavern in Chester Co., Pennsylvania, under General Potter, on the morning that General Washington moved his winter quarters from White Marsh to Valley Forge, that he was born in Ireland, but came to America when he was about 12 years of age, that he has no record of his age, that he was living in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, when called into service, that he has lived since the war in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, [illegible] he is known by Wm Pursee, Esq., Godley Thomas, M. Brackenridge & others citizens of his own neighbourhood, who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, and that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service.

Richard Arnold

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Declaration of Richard Arnold
20526

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Richard Arnold

Sworn and subscribed to in open court 14th Nov 1832 James Dill [illegible]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforsd
We Ezra Ferris a Clergyman residing in Lawrenceburgh, in the County and State afsd and Jesse Hunt residing in the same hereby certify the [illegible] that we are well acquainted with Richard Arnold who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that from our long acquaintance with him we believe his statements are entitled to full faith and credit
Ezra Ferris
Jesse Hunt

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of aforsd in open court 14 Nov 1832 James Dill [illegible]

And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to him Ezra Ferris who has signed the preceeding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town aforsaid, and that Jesse Hunt who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit John Livingston

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I James Dill Clerk of the Probate of Dearborn County and the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Arnold for a pension –

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 14th day of November 1832

James Dill clk
P. Ct. D. County

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No. 20526
Richard Arnold [illegible] County Indiana

Rejected the service [illegible] found in guarding horses and attending ferry not being provided for as he only served 4 months in a military capacity. See letter 8 Apl 30 to [illegible]
Major

Indiana

Daniel S. Major
Lawrenceburg
Indiana

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BRIEF in the case of Richard Arnold County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by [illegible]
3. How old is he? about 75
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Years | Mons, | Days. | Rank As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Drafted in 17 |  | 2 |  | Private | Capt Brooks Col Heister

" |  | 2 |  | " | Capt Hineline Col Lacy

 |  | 2 |  | Guarding horses | Deputy Q. Mas Gel Hooper

 |  | 4 |  | " | Mordecai Roberts

[illegible] |  |  |  | attending ferry | Maj. Gordon & Supint Rosco

In  [illegible] Battles was he engaged? [illegible]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Bucks Co Penn
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect? Correct
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor,  Examining Clerk

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Hon. D. T. Disney June 4/32
S. J. Bowen 31 Jan 53
Hon. J. H. Lane Mar 1.54
  “  D. T. Disney    “ 1. 54
Hon. Wm. S. Groesbeck
Jan’y 26/59

895  5895
Indiana
Mary Arnold
Widow of Richard Arnold
Who served in the Revolutionary
Pa 
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
Of 26 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued
the 8th day of April 52
and sent to 
S. J. Bowen
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act
[illegible] 2, 1848, Page 322 Vol. 3

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State of Indiana
County of Dearborn 

On this 24th day of March 1851, personally appeared before me George Bowlby, a Notary Public in and for Said County, Mary Arnold, a resident of Harrison Township Township in said County of Dearborn, aged eighty seven years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare and make the following declarations in order to obtain from the United States the pension due to her late husband Richard Arnold, Deceased, as well as to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress of July 7th 1808, March 2nd 1840, June 17th, 1844 and February 2nd, 1848.

That she is the widow of Richard Arnold, Dec'd, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and served two months in Captain Brooks' Company in the Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, Commanded by Col. Hiester in the year 1776. He next served two months in the company commanded by Captain Hineline in Col Lacy's Regt Penn Vols in the fall of 1777 - during which time he was in an engagement with the British near the "Seven" Star Tavern" in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which engagement took place on the morning that Gen'l Washington moved his winter quarters from White Marsh to Valley Forge. He next served about four months at Easton, Penna under Gen'l Robert L. Hooper, Deputy Quarter Master Gen'l, in guarding the horses and other property of the American Army, next at a place called Durham in Bucks County Pa under Captain

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Mordecai Roberts in guarding Camp horses and other property of the American Army. Where he remained in service four months, the last two turens being as she thinks in the year 1788, he next served under Major Gordon about twenty months in attending the ferry across the Delaware River at Trenton, New Jersey, in the years 1778-1779 and 1780. When he left the American Army and returned to his house in Durham Township in the County of Bucks, Pennsylvania, that she knows of his having performed the service [illegible] named by reason of her having heard him and others, who were out and served with him relate the incident that occured, and of his having keft a Book during the time showing the amount and description of service and the payments he received therefore which book she has often seen and perused but which has been missing for many years and cannot now be found, that during the whole of the time named her said husband was uniformed as a soldier of the United States Army and was considered and paid as such, that she often saw him during the period of his said service when he would come home and he was always dressed as other soldiers were which fact she distinctly recalled from the circumstance that he was an intimate friend of her father's family and always visited those when he came home.
She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Arnold on the 3rd day of January 1783 by [illegible] Richard Buckhouse a Justice of the Peace residing in Durham Township Bucks County Pennsylvania

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that her name before her marriage with this said Richard Arnold was Mary Blackmon, that her husband the said Richard Arnold and at his residence in Dearborn County Indiana on the 24th day of July 1840 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to 1794 was at the time stated avove, she further declares that she lived with said Richard Arnold as his wife from the said marriage till his death and raised a faimily of children the eldest of which was born at Durham Township, Bucks County. Pennsylvania, on the 1st day of December, 1785, and that they lived at the following places after such marriage between the dates specified viz in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, between the years 1783 and 1800, between the years 1800 and 1802 at Hunterdon County, New Jersey, that during the year 1802 or early in the year 1803 they removed to this [illegible] and settled in Hamilton County, Ohio and from there they removed into Dearborn County, Indiana, in the year 1831.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first written before me
Mary Arnold x her mark

Geroge Bowlby
Notary Public

[evidence of a seal that was placed on the document]

The foregoing statement sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written. And I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Mary Arnold and believe her to be of the age stated in her declarations. I also certify that I was well acquainted with the said

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Richard Arnold in his life time, who was reputedly and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a revolutionary Soldier, and with whom the said Mary Arnold lived as his wife.

I also further certify that the said Mary Arnold is a lady of the highest standing and entitled to the fullest credit that. although aged and infirm in body, her mind appears healthy and vigorous and her memory extremely good that she related the circumstances detailed in the foregoing declaration without any prompting or hesitation and that I have good reason to believe and do believe that the said declaration is strictly true. She is unable to go to the County Seat to appear in open Court

George Bowlby
Notary Public

[Evidence of a seal attached to the document at this point]

Mr. Peter H. Golladay, a clergyman residing in the Town of Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, and Alfred J. Cotton, also a clergyman residing in Dearborn County. State of Indiana, certifiy that [illegible] were well acquainted with Mary Arnold who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that [illegible] were also well acquainted with Richard Arnold with whom she lived as his wife till he died in 1840 that Mr. [illegible] [illegible] was 94 years of age when he died that he was reputed in the neighbourhood, where he lived and died and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that [illegible] concur in that opinion, We also believe the said Mary Arnold to be of the age of eighty seven years sworn to and subscribed this [illegible] 4th day of March 1851 Before me 
George Bowlby, Notary Public
Peter H. Golladay
A.J.Cotton

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State of Indiana
Dearborn County

On this 25th day of March 1851. before me, Wm. T. Baldrige, a Notary Public, within and for the County and State afforesaid, personally appeared William Purcell, a resident of the afforesaid County, who, after being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he believes he will be seventy three years old on the 15th day of July next, that he was born in Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that from his earliest recollection, he was acquainted with Richard Arnold, that their fathers families lived within one and a half miles of each other, that the said Richard Arnold always was considered to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution, that he has often heard the said Richard, and others who were out in the service with him conversing together about the engagements they had been in and the privations and suffering they had endured.

This deponent further says that he was well and intimately acquainted with Captain George Hineline, who was a resident of said Township of Durham, Pa., that he often heard him speak of Richard Arnold having served in a company under his command in the Revolutionary War.

Deponent says that he removed  from Penna to the West about the time that the said Richard Arnold and his wife Mary came to the west, that he was well acquainted with the family of the said Mary Arnold,, formerly Mary Blackmon, in Pennsylvania, that the said Richard Arnold and the said Mary lived together as man and wife from this deponents earliest recollections and raised a family of nine

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children, the eldest of whom is George Arnold who is now sixty six years old as this deponent truly believes that the names of the other children were Sam, Mary, William, Catharine, Richard, Samuel, Charles, and Eliza, that he knows that Eliza the last named was born some time in the year 1809 and is now living with her widowed mother within half a mile of the deponent.

That he has seen the declaration made by said widow Mary Arnold before George Bowlby, Esq, a Notary Public on this 24th Inst and that he firmly believes that all the statements therein are true. He also swears that he is entirely disinterested.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me
Wm T Baldrige
Notary Public

Wm Purcel

I certify that the above named Wm Purcel is a man of unexceptionable character, that no person has a better character for truth in the Township in which he resides than does Wm Purcel

Wm T. Baldrige
Notary Public

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14.362
Mary Arnold
wife of Richard
Arnold
[illegible] July 1858 [illegible]


S. J. Bowen

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Family Record

George was born in Bucks County, Penna on the morning of the 1st December 1785
Mary
William
Catharine
Richard
Samuel
Charles
Elizabeth was born 1809

State of Indiana Dearborn County } SS
On this 26th day of March 1851 before me William T Baldrige a Notary Public [illegible] and for the County and State aforsaid Personally Appeared George Arnold who after being first duly sorn according to law Doth Depose and say that the above is [illegible] Exact

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Copy of family record kept in his fathers Bible as it now is the leaf on which it was originally written out at length having been much defaced and torn, particularly that part of said record containing the dates of the children, excepting the first and last.

Deponent further swears that the Bible containing the above named family record was kept in his Father Richard Arnolds family from the deponents earliest recollection and was and is in the hand writing of his father but that the same is not in his deponents house and posession and has been since the death of his Father and deponent swears that he is entirely disinterested
George Arnold

Sworn to and subscribed
the date first above written and I hereby certify that the said George Arnold is a man of the highest respectibility and of undoubted honesty.

Wm. T. Baldrige
Notary Public

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State of Indiana
County of Dearborn   SS

On this 13th day of April 185[last number illegible], before me personally appeard Jonas Frazee of said County and state who after being duly sworn according to Law deposed as follows.

I am a pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7th 1832. I draw my penson at the Cincinnati Agnecy. I am a second cousin of Richard Arnold, now deceased, who was a soldier of and during the revolutionary [sic] War and whose widow Mary Arnold has applied for a pension.

I knew said Richard Arnold intimately before and during the Revolutionary War. We were raised together. I saw him several times while he was in Captain Brooks' and Captain Hineline3's Companies in 1776 and 1777 in each of which companies he served two months. I nursed him after he was hurt at the "Seven Star Inn" till he recovered, which was about four weeks.

I saw him many times in 1778 at Easton and Durham, Pennsulvania, where he was engaged under Deputy Quarter Master General Robert L. Hoover and Captain Mordecai Roberts eight months (about four months at each place) in guarding and taking care of camp horses and in erecting temporary sheds and stables for the protection of horses and other property for the American Army, he being a carpenter by trade. I saw him first at the ferry across the River Delaware at Trenton a short time after he left Durham, [illegible] the ferry with him and  conversed with him concerning his new dates

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He informed me that he was serving under Major Gordon of the Army, that he was occupied at the ferry when it was necessary to [illegible] the American troops or property belonging to the Army as post carrier to and from the seat of Government or the different portions of the Army and where not employed in ferrying horses, troops, etc. he was engaged in building boats to be used in [illegible] troops and carrying them up or down the river as occasion should require. I went to see him several times at the ferry, stayed with him several days at different times but cannot say how many. He went there from Durham late in the fall of 1778 or early in the winter following and was employed there certainly till the fall of 1780. when he was discharged and went home, I remember distinctly the year he went to the ferry from the fact that the British Army invaded Philadelphia and the Battle of Monmouth was fought the summer previous to his going there and while he was at Easton, Pennsylvania, taking care of horses [illegible] as aforesaid and I remember when he left the ferry from the fact that my sister Catharine was married the day before he went home which marriage took place on the 3rd day of December 1780 at my Father's house. I know he was in the military service from the fact that he was detailed by the officers of the Army to go from Durham to the ferry and because he was subject to military duty and was regularly mustered and paid by the officers of the Army, I know it because he told me so during his service because he was so considered by everyone who knew him at the time, because he came home on furlough to my knowledge

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[illegible] which furlough was given by an officer of the Army and which I saw and read at the time, because [illegible] he was discharged at the end of his term of service by an officer of the Army. Which discharge was in writing and [illegible] that he had a considerable amount of pay due him at the time he was discharged and which I have often [illegible] and read because he complained to me of the conduct of some of his officers in refusing to permit him to visit his home as often as he desired and said they ere very exacting of him, and because he has a great many times since the War related to me and others in my presence many of the circumstances and incidents [illegible] with his service at the ferry, all of which should [illegible] that he was in the military service of the United States.
His rank for the four months he was in Captain Brooks and Captain Hineline’s companies was that of a private and for the eight months he served at Easton and Durham under Deputy Quartermaster General Hoover and Captain Roberts and while he was at the ferry was that of an [illegible] [illegible] in which capacity he was paid at the rate of [illegible] dollars per month or one hundred and forty four dollars per annum. I am positive that [illegible] served two months under Captain  Brooks and two months under Captain Hineline as a private, that he served eight months under General Hoover and Captain Roberts at Easton and Durham, Pennsylvania and at least twenty eight months at the ferry as in illegible making four months

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For which he was paid $6.66 per month and at least 28 months for which I know he was paid $10 per month, I have no interest whatsoever in the claim of Mary Arnold for a pension and only make this statement for the purpose of assisting her to procure from the government that to which I consider her justly entitled

Jonas Frazee X his mark

The above and foregoing statements was sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first heretofore written and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Jonas Frazee, that although advanced in years, his mind appears clear and unclouded and his memory remarkably good that he related the facts set forth in the foregoing statements without prompting from anyone and without expressing doubt or hesitating in the least concerning any circumstances [illegible] related. I further certify that said Jonas Frazee is a man of the strictest [illegible] and that I have no doubt of the [illegible] of any material fact he has stated and said affidavit.

Wm. T. Baldridge
Notary Public

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144020  Act Mar 2/55 
                      May 21st
[illegible] S. J. BOwen [illegible, possibly March] 13/56

Mary Arnold wid of Richard Arnold [illegible - lined out]
Pri
Revolutionary War

Wid has [illegible]

[written diagonally over the above]
No  2532 [illegible] May 28 56
[written diagonally over the above]

;[illegible] [illegible] 48 - 5895

[illegible]:160  [illegible] [illegible] 23d/56
B [illegible]

S.J. BOwen
[crossed out] S. J. BOwen [crossed out]
[illegible]

Vol. A. 124

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144020
Bounty Land
Act March 3, 1855

Rev War

S. J. Bowen Atty
[illegible]

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State of Indiana.
County of Dearborn

On this 24th day of March 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Mary Arnold, aged 91 years, a resident of Dearborn County, State of Indiana, who being duly sworn according to law, disclosed that she is the widow of Richard Arnold, deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier, in support of his [illegible], that she is the widow of the said Richard Arnold, deceased. She would respectfully beg [illegible] to refer the department to the evidence in [illegible] file in the pension office in support of her claim for pension as the widow of said Richard Arnold, deceased. Her her pension certification is dated the 8th day of April, 1852, and recorded in the Pension Office on the roll of pensioners under act of February 2, 1848, page 322, volume 3.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.

Witness
Wm. T. Baldrige
 George Arnold

Mary Arnold X her signature

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State of Indiana.
County of Dearborn

On this 24th day of March 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Mary Arnold, aged 91 years, a resident of Dearborn County, State of Indiana, who being duly sworn according to law, disclosed that she is the widow of Richard Arnold, deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier, in support of his [illegible], that she is the widow of the said Richard Arnold, deceased. She would respectfully beg [illegible] to refer the department to the evidence in [illegible] file in the pension office in support of her claim for pension as the widow of said Richard Arnold, deceased. Her her pension certification is dated the 8th day of April, 1852, and recorded in the Pension Office on the roll of pensioners under act of February 2, 1848, page 322, volume 3.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.

Witness
Wm. T. Baldrige
 George Arnold

Mary Arnold X her signature

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and qualified ant that his signature thereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 16th day of May 1855.

Cornelius O'Brien
Clerk
Dearborn Circuit Court

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Jane, Mary, Wm, Cath, Rich, Saml, Chas & Eliza

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In reply to your request of ______________, received _____________ for a statement of the military history of Richard Arnold , a soldier in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau.
W file 10,289

Date of enlistment or appointment - 76
Length of Service - 2 months
Rank - Pvt
Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain Brooks, Colonel Heister
State - PA

Date of enlistment or appointment - *Fall 77
Length of Service - 2 months
Rank - Pvt
Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain George Hineline Colonel Lacy
State - [blank]

Date of enlistment or appointment - 78
Length of Service - 2 months
Rank - Artificer under
Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain Robert L. Hooper, Asst Q M & Com Issues Deputy G M Gen
State -NJ   Page 842, N.J. book

Date of enlistment or appointment - 78
Length of Service - 4 months
Rank -  Artificer
Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain Mordecai Roberts   
State - 

Date of enlistment or appointment - 77-79-1780
Length of Service - 20 months
Rank - Artificier
Officers under whom service was rendered - Captain Wm Rosco Supt of Ferry at Trenton, Maj Gordon
State -       Page 365 N.J. Book

Battles engated in *eng near Seven Star Tavern, Chester Co, Pa "hurt his rt foot [lined out] rendering him unfit for camp duty [lined out]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Durham Twp, Bucks Co, Pa

Date of application for pension: Nov. 14, 1832 [illegible - may say allotment]

Age at date of application, 75  B. in Ireland, immigrated 12 yr old

Remarks:  [illegible] Mar. Jany 3, 1783

[illegible] July 24, 1843 - Dearborn Co., Ind

Wid appln Mch 24, 1851 at 87 yrs

Harrison Two, Dearborn Co., Ind

No further data

Very respectfully, 
[no signature]
Commissioner

27225b8ml-07

Oldest child George b. Durham Dec 1, 1785, Jane, Mary, Wm., Catharine, Rich'd, Samuel, Charles, & Elizabeth b. 1809

1832
   75
1757

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[On left page]

[illegible] 5/94 [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

Miss Helen M. Little
306 E. Walnut St Bloomington, Ill

Oct 30 '96 To
Mrs  Mary Blackburn
[illegible]
L. M. B.

1906 Apr 27 History to G. B. Tebbs
M. B. H.

1907 Mch 16 History to
Miss Laura Arnold

1908 Aug 4, Hist to L. R. Tatum
A. E. P.

1908 Aug 27. Hist to Robt Ralston 
Jones, 405 Custom House, Cincinnati
Ohio For [illegible] F. W.

1912 Jany 16 Hist to Mrs
Emily A. Cavender.  V. L. M.

1912 Dec 16 Hon H. A. Barnhart [illegible]

[On right page]

Rev Widow &C
File No. 10289
[crossed out] Nancy [crossed out} Mary Arnold
Wid of Richard Arnold
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby 2/48
Index: Vol. A, Page 17
(Arrangement of 1870)

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28.532

[illegible]


[In the darkened area,]
[illegible]
[illegible]
Rejected [illegible]
letter April
[illegible] 1836
D. S. Mayor
2d
let 30 January 1838
[illegible]
[illegible]

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D. T. Disney [illegible]

Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

[illegible notation written vertically at the start of the word Washington]

[In the darkened piece]  
14.362
Mary Arnold
Wid of Richard Arnold
Act 7 July '38
[illegible] S. J. Borsen
July 11/67
Same Mch 31/52
Same Apl 2/52

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9.193
Indiana    M.
Mary Arnold
widow of RIchard
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 16 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence
on the [lined out] 4th day of March, 1843 [lined out]
25 July 1843
& ending 4 March 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued
the 8 th day of Apr '52
and sent to 
J. M. Bowen
present

Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 
17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 217

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No. 38.317 [could be 38.307]

Richard Arnold, decd
Indiana
Act 7 June 1832
8 mo private, $26.66
per an: to 24 July 1843
when he died
Payable to
Mary Arnold, his
widow.

S. J. Bowen
Present

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Mary Arnold
wid of Richard
Indiana
Act 7 July '38 [ilolegible]
8 mo pri - $26.66
per an from 24 July 1843
when her husband died

S. J. Bowen
Present

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Address:  "The Military Secretary,
              War Department, Washington, D.C."

1121459
War Department,
The Military Secretary's Office
Washington.  April 19, 1906.

Respectfully returned to
Mr. G. B. Tebbs, Commander
John Campbell Post No. 204, G. A. R.,
Harrison, Ohio

The name Richard Arnold has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, or any organization of Pennsylvania or Continental troops in service during the war of the Revolution.

THe collection of Revolutionary war records in this office is far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information can be obtained from the Adjutant General of the State of Pennsylvania.

In view of the statement that a land warrant was issued on account of the service of the soldier in question, it is further suggested as a possibility that information in relation to him can be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the land warrant records of all wars.

F. C. Ainsworth
THe Military Secretary
[illegible initials]
M. S. O. 72-1

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Mary Arnold, widow of Richard, Ohio admitted claim under Act 1832, 1838 [illegible]
Jonas Frazee [illegible] a admitted claim, Act 1819 or 1832

I wish to see the papers.

S. J. Bowen

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Know all Men by these Presents,

That, I Mary Arnold, of Dearborn County, State of Indiana, have constituted and appointed, and by these Presents do constitute and appoint, S. J. Bowen, of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution for me and in my name, place, and stead, to ask, and receive of and from the United States any Bounty Land, Pensions, Money or Moneys that now is or are due to [blank space] on account of services rendered, disbursements made, ore expenses incurred by [blank space] while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in [blank space] name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such Bounty Land, Pensions, Patents, and Money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature [blank space] may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, and, generally to do any and every other act or acts that [blank space] might or could do, were [blank space] personally present at the doing thereof: hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever [blank space]said Attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 21st day of December 1850.
Mary Arnold x her Mark
[The word “seal” is printed in somewhat of a rectangle.]

Signed, Sealed and Delivered /Two Witnesses
in the presence of
H. T. Baldrige
George Arnold

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State of Indiana /Ss
County of Dearborn

On this 21st day of December 1850 personally appeared [blank space] before me, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her deed for the purposes therein contained.
Wm. T. Baldrige [crossed out letters and what appears to be the word Seal in a somewhat rectangular box]
Notary Public

[blank space] of [blank space]/Ss
County of [blank space]
I hereby certify, that [blank space] Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of [blank space] County Court, this [blank space] day of [blank space] one thousand eight hundred and [blank space]

Clerk

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State of Indiana/Ss
County of Dearborn

On this the 30th day of October 1851, before me personally appeared Jonas frazee of said county and made oath in due form of law that he is a pensioner under the act of the 7th June 1832; that he is 91 years old, that he knew Richard Arnold, late of this Township of Harrison, Dearborn County, State of Indiana, both before and after the Revolutionary War; that said Arnold resided in Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before and during said war, and for some years after the war; that said Arnold removed to Harrison Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, in the year [blank space] and lived in said Township until his death in 1843. 

Deponent further makes oath that said Richard Arnold was in the service of the government during the Revolutionary War; that his deponent saw said Arnold in the fall of 1776 in Col. Heister’s regiment when it was stationed at Easton, Pennsylvania,  (the month he cannot recollect but thinks it was as late as November as the weather was quite cold); that he next saw him this said Arnold at the skirmish of the Seven “Star Tavern” or Inn, in which engagement said Arnold hurt his right foot so as to lame him considerably and render him unfit for camp duty several days, all of which time this deponent waited on him, the campaign being in the year 17 77 in the fall of the year; that he next saw said Arnold at Easton, Pennsylvania, when he had been detached for the purpose of taking care of the horses and other property belonging to the American army. When

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he served, according to deponent’s recollection, a tour of four months, and then went to Durham where he served in the same capacity four months longer, these tours being in 1778; that said Arnold was thus detached to act as a ferryman across the Delaware River at Trenton where he continued nearly two years to cross the American troops and such property as they carried with them; that deponent saw said Arnold while tending said ferry several times at different periods; that, he, deponent, recollected the time of this last service only from having seen said Arnold at different times in 1779 and 1780 at said ferry and from having many times during said year crossed over with him and from the fact that said Arnold left the service in the month of December 1780 and returned to his home at Durham Township; that said Arnold all of the time aforesaid was considered as a soldier of the American Army and was uniformed as such; that deponent is a distant relative of said Arnold and has known him from his earliest recollections nearly all of the time intimately; that Mary Arnold who has made application for a pension on account of his service is his widow; that he was not present at the their marriage but he knows of them having been together as man and wife from the year 1788 till his death and that he is disinterested. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above before me.
Wm T Baldrige 
Notary Public
 Jonas Frazee   X his mark

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Brief in the case of Richard Arnold dec’d
County and State of Indiana
Act 7 June 1832

Claim, (“original,” or [lined out]”for increase.[lined out]”)

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

P[illegible] evidence of service

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Widow is entitled from his death at the same rate.

Name and residence of Agent
S. J. Bowen
Present,

Kirby
Examining Clerk

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Brief in the case of Mary Arnold, wid of Richard
County and State of Indiana
act 7 July 38 & supplements

Claim, (“original,” or “for increase.”)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

P[illegible] evidence of a pensioner.

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

Name and residence of Agent
S. J. Bowen
Present,

Kirby
Examining Clerk

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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Richard Arnold which require further proof or explanation.

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? [no answer given]
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resided? [no answer given]
III.	If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [no answer given]
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? [no answer given]
V.	*Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? [no answer given]
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [no answer given]
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1852? [no answer given]
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion? [no answer given]
IX.	Has the Clerk given his certificate? [no answer given]
X.	Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? [no answer given]

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XI.	Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? [no answer given]
XII.	If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? [no answer given]
XIII.	If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [no answer given]
XIV.	†If the applicant’s name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? [no answer given] If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? [no answer given] Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? [no answer given]
XV.	Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service? [no answer given]
XVI.	‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? [no answer given]
XVII.	Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered? [no answer given]

EXPLANATORY NOTE
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____, and for which service I claim a pension

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3         It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.     
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.       
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.          
+QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.      
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.      
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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Feb 1
[illegible] – at
Richd Arnold [writing on a diagonal through the name] Msa [writing on a diagonal through the name]
[written vertically] J. L. Edwards [illegible] [illegible] [written vertically]
Hon G. H. Dunn
HR

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Feby 1 1838
Sir

You state that Richd Arnold claim was rejected April 1833. Are his papers yet with you? If so, please enclose them to me.
Yours
G H Dunn

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Dec 28, 1851 [may be 1857]
Addl evi in case of Mary Arnold
Widow of Richd

Revolutionary Pension
additional evidence in
case of Mary Arnold
widow of Richard.

Triplett

S. J. Bowen atty
Present

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Washington D.C. Dec 26, 1851

Sir,

Enclosed please find additional testimony in the case of Mary Arnold, widow of Richard Arnold, who claims a Pension, under the acts of ’32, ’38, ’43, ’44 and 1848, which I hope may prove sufficient to justify the office in allowing said claim.

Respectfully,
S. J. Bowen

Hon. J. E. Heath
Com. of Pensions

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April 23d 1801
Appl of Mary
Arnold widow
of Richd

Pension office
Cap Triplett

S. J. Bowen Atty
Present

[written vertically] Was
Washington City March
[written vertically]

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Washington City, D. C.
April 18, 1851

Sir,

Enclosed is the application of Mary Arnold, widow of Richard Arnold, decd, for a pension under the Acts of 7th June 1832, 7th July 1838, &c [illegible] which please cause to be disposed of as early as convenient.

Respectfully 
S. J. Bowen

Hon James E. Heath
Com of Pensions

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April 23/52
Addl evi in case of Mary Arnold widow of Richd

Additional testimony in the case of Mary Arnold, widow of Richard, who claimsincrease of pension under the acts of 1832, 1838, 1843, 1844 & 1848.

Kirby

S. J. Bowen atty
Present

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Washington City D.C.
April 22, 1852
Sir,

I enclose additionally testimony in the case of the claim of Mary Arnold, widow of Richard, decd, for a pension under the acts of 1832, 1838, 1843, ’44 & ’48.

I think this testimony ought to satisfy the mind of any one that Arnold served in the war of the Revolution at least thirty two months – twenty eight months as an Artificer, and found months as a private. The claim is for a pension at the rate of $144 per annum, deducting previous allowanes, which I am requested to ask, may be acted on as early as practicable.

Respectfully,
Your obt servt
S. J. Bowen
Hon . J. E. Heath
Comm of Pensions

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Oct 21st 1832
Mary Arnold wid of
Richard
Cole

S. J. Bowen Atty
Present

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Washington City, D. C.
Oct. 21, 1852
Sir,
It is a long time since I filed additional evidence in the case of this claim of Mary Arnold, widow of Rich’d Arnold, dec’d, for increase of pension under the acts of ’32, ‘38 and the supplementary acts of Congress granting pensions to widows of revolutionary soldiers. I have now respectfully to request that the claim may be acted on without further delay, the claimant being quite impatient concerning it.
Respectfully,
S. J. Bowen

Hon J. E. Heath
Com’r of Pensions

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Hon Comm of Pensions

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Washington
Feby 27, 1854
Dr Sir


Will you oblige me by looking into the case spoken of by my correspondent in the accompanying letter? 

Please advise me of the results of your investigation
Very respectfully Yours,

D. T. Disney

Hon Comm of Pensions

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Jan 30
[illegible]
[illegible]
Rich’d Arnold

[written vertically]
J. L. Edwards
Comm Pensions
[written vertically]

Hon G. H. Dunn
[illegible]

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[illegible] Reps
July 29, 1838

Sir,

Are there any papers in your office 
relating to  Arnold [illegible insertion] application for a pension & if so to permit me to inquire what are the objections to the same.

Resp yours
G H Dunn

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No 144,020
Mary Arnold of
Richard Arnold
28532
160 acres

asks that Bounty Land claim be admitted under recent act of Congress

28,532
160
Boynton

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Washington City D. C.
May 16, 1856

Sir,
The claim of Bounty Land of Mary Arnold, widow of Richard Arnold, dec’d (No 144,020) suspended under the Act of March 3, 1855, is made good by the recent act of congress she being a pensioner on account of the Revolutionary service of her husband.

I respectfully request that her claim my now be allowed.

Truly Yours
S. J. Bowen

Hon J. Minot
Com of Pensions

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Washington
Feby 13, 1852

Sir

I beg leave to call your attention to the accompanying letter from me of my constituents and to say that you will confer a favor upon me if you will enable me to answer his queries & advise now upon the subject.

Respectfully
[illegible] 
D. T. Disney

Commissioner of Pensions

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Washington
Feby 13, 1852

Sir

I beg leave to call your attention to the accompanying letter from me of my constituents and to say that you will confer a favor upon me if you will enable me to answer his queries & advise now upon the subject.

Respectfully
[illegible] 
D. T. Disney

Commissioner of Pensions

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Pension Office
March 31, 1852

Sir,

The affidavit of Jonas Frazee in the case of Mary Arnold has been received and placed with the other papers in the case. The witness professes to be a pensioner of the U.S. but his name cannot be found on the Indiana Agency. If he was pensioned from any other state we should know it, that his papers may be found, which will,, perhaps, enable us to judge of his opportunities to know what he testifies to.

I am very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
F. F. C. Triplett
For Com. Of Pensions

S. J. Bowen, Esq.
Present

Jonas Frazee is on the pension roll at Cincinnati & was paid to Sept. 4, 1851.

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Hon. D T Disney
Mem. Congress

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Harrison
Feb 23/54
D. T. Disney

Sir,

According to your request when at home last fall, I write  you a few lines  relative to my mother's pension. I see in a news paper Revolutionary widows are far more numerous than the last Congress supposed when it passed the act of February, 1853 granting pensions to the widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War married who were married subsequent to the year 1800.

My mother was married in 1783 and is at this time 89 years of age and therefore is entitled to the benefits of the act of 1853. I have never seen the act she now draws 26$ per year and I am quite well satisfied there is something [illegible] somewhere

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you will find all the papers in the Pension Office. I wish you would examine them all personaly [sic] & see if there is not a [illegible] some where. 

Wm J. Bowen & Wm Balderidge [sic] has [sic] acted as agents in the case do not say any  thing about the subject to Bowen.

Truly yours
With respect
George Arnold

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OMiT N  C [not sure what this was supposed to be]
[stamped information]
Military Secretary’s Office
April 18 [vertical]
1121459
1906 [vertical]
War Department
[stamped information]

Harrison, Ohio
April 16, 1906

G. B. Tebbs, Post Commander
John Campbell Post No. 204, G. A. R.

Requests military record of
Richard Arnold, Bucks Co., Penn.
Rev. War.
[round stamp]
C. [illegible] Div.
Apr 24, 1906
Files
[round stamp]
Respectfully referred to Hon. Commissioner of Pension for information [illegible].
Respectfully
G. G. Tebbs
P. C.

Harrison, Ohio
April 21, 1906

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Headquarters
John Campbell Post No.  204, GAR
Department of Ohio
Harrison, Ohio, Apr 16, 1906
Adjutant General USA
Washington, D. C.
Sir, 
In order to erect a government headstone over the grave of Richard Arnold a deceased soldier of the Revolutionary War, Ii would like to have his correct military service -- a statement made to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution shows that said soldier served in [illegible] War as follows.
1776 -- 2 months [illegible], Capt. Brooks, Col. Huestes [this might be Col. Heister named in a previous document]
1777 -- 2 months [illegible], Capt Hamlin Lacy
1778 -- 2 months [illegible], Capt Hooper [illegible]
[round stamp]
Pension
U. Apr 23 1906 S.
Office
[round stamp]
4 __ 4 months General Medicia Roberts
Also served between 1&2 years in attending the ferry at Trenton N.J. under Major Gordon -  Resided in Bucks Co Penna at time of enlistment. Applied for pension Nov 14, 1832, died July 24/1843 also received Bounty Land Warrant --  a pension was granted his widow Mary Arnold April 8, 1852.
Respectfully
G. B. Tebbs, Post Commander

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The Ohio Society of Sons of the Revolution
Office of the Historian,
Robert Ralston Jones,
405 Custom House.

Cincinnati, O. August 20, 1908

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
I have the honor to request an abstract of the Services of Richard Arnold, a native of Ireland and a resident first of New Jersey and afterwards of Pennsylvania, in which latter state he performed service during the Revolutionary War. He came west and at different times lived in Harrison Tp., Hamilton Co., Ohio, and Logan Tp., Dearborn Co., Indiana. At the time of applying for a pension (Nov. 14, 1832), Richard Arnold is said to have been a resident of Logan Tp., Dearborn Co., Ind.

Richard Arnold died July 24, 1843, before a pension was granted; a certificate was issued to his widow, Mary (Blackmore) Arnold, dated April 8, 1852, and (as I am informed), under an act of Feb. 2, 1848.

The purpose for which the information is asked, is to check the services of Richard Arnold, before placing his name on a bronze tablet to Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Hamilton Co., Ohio; Richard Arnold lived near the state line and is buried in the town of Harrison, Harrison Tp., Hamilton County, Ohio.

Very respectfully, 
Robt Ralston Jones
Historian and Chairman of Committee on marking graves of Revolutionary Soldiers.
[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office A Aug 22 1908 [round stamp]

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Sleepy Hollow [and] After Supper mines at Black Hawk, Colorado
Address Box 31, Capitol Hill Station

The Pearl Tatum Mining Company
630 Empire Building

Louis R. Tatum, - President and General Manager
Charles L. Wellington, -  Vice President
George P. Goodier, - Secretary
P. A. Tatum, - Assistant Secretary
Dr. David A. Strickler, - Treasurer
Robert Wilkinson, - Superintendent

Directors
Louis R. Tatum, - Attorney-at-Law
Charlss L. Wellington, - Traffic Mgr. C. & S. Ry.
Rudolph F. Kilgen, - Real Estate, St. Louis
George P. Goodier, - Mining
Charles H. Morehouse, Div. Freight Agent, Santa Fe R. R. 

Denver, Colo., July 27, 1908

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:

My wife’s great-grandfather, one Richard Arnold, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. I am trying to straighten out some facts relative to the genealogy of the said Arnold. I believe the records in your office will give us all the desired information. I am informed that a pension certificate was granted on April 8, 1852 to Mary Arnold, the widow of Richard Arnold, and that the record thereof, made under the Act of February 2, 18l48, may be found in Volume 3, Page 322.

I desire to know particularly the date of birth of said Richard Arnold. He was born in Ireland, and died the 24th of July 1842, in Dearborn County, Indiana. He applied for Pension November 14, 1832.

Any information concerning the birth of Mr. Arnold and other facts will be very much appreciated.

Yours very truly,
Louis R. Tatum
[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office A July 30 1908 [round stamp]

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City. Jan 7, 1912

Revolutionary Record Division

Gentlemen –

Will you [underlined] please [underlined] send me copy of the services and Pension granted for Richard Arnold to his widow Mary perhaps Mary [underlined] Blakemore [underlined] [sic] Arnold issued April 8, 1848 under Act of Feb 20, 1948 Page 325, Volume 3 – I will be

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2

most thankful indeed for this copy of his service and Pension.

Thanking you again I am 
Most Respectfully
(Mrs) Emily Arnold Cavender
3313 17th St. N. W.
City

He enlisted from Bucks Co. [underlined] Pa [underlined] I think

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[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office A Feb 19 1894 [round stamp]

306 East Walnut St.
Bloomington, Ill.

Hon. Wm. Lochren
Comm. Of Pensions

Dear Sir:

I wish to ascertain information concerning Richard Arnold, who was bore in Ireland, moved to Frederick, Md., about 1735 and died in Harrison, Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution I have been told.

Will you please tell me whether he was pensioned or not?

I desire to join a Chapter of the Daughters of Am. Revolution here, and I can not do so, unless I have proof that Richard Arnold

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was pension for services during that war.

If you will kindly give this matter your attention, you will greatly oblige.

Yours Respectfully,
Helen M. Little

Feb. 14th, 1984

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[illegible] Sept. 30, 96

Hon. Com Pensions

Dear Sir

I write for information concerning the public service of my Great great grandfather in the Revolutionary War Mr Richard Arnold, whose widow received a Pension until her death, her residence while in receipt of same was

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Harrison, Ohio. Her maiden name was Blakemore. Also the Public Services of Major General Arthur St. Clair the Great great Grandfather on father’s side.

Hoping to receive most fully concerning the first as the latter is better known I am.

Very respectfully,

Mary St. Clair Blackburn
#2970 C[illegible] Av
Cincinnati, Ohio

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98532 [illegible]

C[illegible] Sept 24 – 96
not W
 “     R 

Pension Department

Gentlemen: 

I write for information and papers concerning the Public Services or Military Record of Richard Arnold, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, his wife Mary Arnold whose maiden name was Blakemore received a Pension at Harrison O for

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her husband’s services. Their son George W. was my Great Grandfather my mother’s maiden name was [illegible] a [illegible] daughter 

Hoping to soon receive the desired information

I am 
Very respectfully 
(Mrs.) Mary St. Clair Blackburn
#2990 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio

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[round stamp] Indianapolis, Ind. Feb 27 4:30PM 1907 [round stamp]

[cancelled postage] Postage One Cent 1843 McKinley 190[illegible]

[oval picture partially covered with thick black lines] United States of America [eagle picture] [oval picture partially covered with thick black lines]

The space above is reserved for postmark.
POSTAL CARD.
The space below is for address only.

[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office O Mar 1 1907 [round stamp]

Bureau of Pensions War Dep
Washington D C

[vertically on left side] O[illegible] [vertically on left side]
[vertically on right side] [illegible] [vertically on right side]

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Please inform me if you find the name of Richard Arnold of Bucks Co., Pa., on your list of Pensioners of the War of the Revolution.

Address
(Miss) Laura Arnold
1301 Broadway
Indianapolis

27 Feb 07

[round stamp] O. W. & N. Div Files Mar 6 1907 [round stamp]

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Hon. H. A. Barnhart H. R.
His letter in W. File 4182 Wm Daugherty

Dec. 16, 1912

W. File No. 10,280, Richard Arnold who was born in Ireland, resided in Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he enlisted and served in 1776 and 1777, four months as Private, and during 1778, 1779 and 1789. Twenty-six months as Artificer, in the Pennsulvania and New Jersey troops, and was in an engagement near Seven Star Tavern, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Soldier Married January 3, 1783, Mary Blackmore. In 1832, he was seventy-five years of age; he died July 24, 1843 in Dearborn County, Indiana, where his widow was pensioned in 1852.

Children referred to, George, Jane, Mary, William, Catharine, Richard, Samuel, Charles and Elizabeth