Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18712, Walter Bell, Conn. Mass.

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Conn.
Mass.

Bell, Walter
S. 18712

carded

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10118

Massachusetts

Walter Bell

of Coleraine in the State of Massachusetts
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Cochran of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Wincoop in the Massachusetts
line for 6 Months 15 days

Connecticut and Massachusetts

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 21 Dollars 64 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1833
and sent 
Grennell Greenfield Massachusetts

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833   $43.34
Semi-annual ending September 4, 1833  10.83

  $54.17


Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.


Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book E. Vol. 2d. Page 4

Date of death on A. B.

77 Franklin

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Walter Odell

Colerain

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY SS.
ON THIS eleventh day of September A.D. 1812
appeared in open Court, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Common Pleas of the
said Commonwealth, now sitting at Greenfield within and for the said County of Franklin,
Walter Bell a resident of Colerain in the County and 
Commonwealth aforesaid, aged 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 an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated That at Colerain on the forth day of April one
thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Six I enlisted for nine
months in the Continental service under Capt Robert Colerain
and I Marched from Colerain and there we organized
Samuel Morrison Jacob Shop and Joseph Newman John Mcman 
[illegible] that being all orders from Albany
marched from Ticonderoga and [illegible]
[illegible] Couchman and he command to go to fort George
and take a Balance of provisions and go to Ticonderoga
and then wait for him and we remained there doing
duty under but Col Winwood a Dutchman we [illegible]
and was ordered with others to go down to St Johns
with provision we performed that duty and returned
[illegible] Ticonderoga in the month of September 1776
I was ordered to Crown point and there I was [illegible]
sick with the fever & ague and my father hearing of my
sickness became to [illegible] 
[illegible]
in Maine I soon recovered my health have reared my health in [illegible]
called for entered much out the same again but
my father thought I was not able to do duty and my
father hired John Cannon to take my place in

He hereby relinquishes every claim which pension or annuity except the present, and declares that
his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Walter Bell
Attest E. Alvord Clerk

WE, Aretas Loomis a clergyman and Reuben Hillman
residing in Colerain  hereby certify we are well acquainted with Walter
Bell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we
believe him to be it seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood
where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.    Aritas Loomis
Attest E. Alvord Clk                                                     Reuben Hillman


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 them that Aretas Loomis
and Reuben Hill who has signed the preceding certificate is
clergyman resident in said town of Colerain, and Reuben Hillman
who has also signed the same is a resident in said Colerain
is a credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to
Attest E. Alvord Clerk
I, ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Walter Bell
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this
eleventh day of September in the year of our LORD one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two
E. Alvord Clerk

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Service and he went and served out the
remainder of the Nine Month for McCl
and at said [illegible] about the forth of October
one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven
turned out with the remainder of the Company
of Militia under Capt Hugh McClellen and we
Marched to Bennington and from there to Bottom
Hill Mills and there remaned a few days from
there we marched to Fort Miller and remained
there about twelve days til after they had
Generals Burrows army surrounded and as
men as could be spared was Dismised and
ordered home and I was one of that number
which was about the fifteenth day of said October
there is no person now living within my
knowlege whereby I can prove the above
Service and complying with the rule presented
by the Secretary of War I offer the Revend
Antarus Loomis Reuben Hillman
to certify in compliance with said rule

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Walter Bell

Colerain
22,278
Private
6 mo 15 days
Conn

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BRIEF in the case of Walter Bell
of Colerain in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 75
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period
Apl 4 Oct 15 in 1776

Duration of Service.
Years Months, Days
  "         6           "
  "          "           15 
Rank
As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Cap Cochran [illegible]
McClellen

5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Colerain Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  evidence alone
cannot produce any proof
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

[illegible]
Examining Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MHF/eel

William S. Kemp
39 Auburn Street
Brookline, Massachusetts

Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 18712 it appears that Walter Bell was born in Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, date and names of parents not stated.

He enlisted October 1, 1777 and served about fifteen days as a private in Captain Hugh McClellan's Massachusetts Company.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832 while a resident of Colrain, Massachusetts where he had always lived, and was then aged seventy-five years.

There are no data whatever on file as to his family, except the statement that his father was living in 1776 during his first service.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

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18712
INVALID.

File  18,712
Walter Bell
Pvt Rev War
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Act June 7, 32
Index: -- Vol. 1 , Page 42?
{Arrangement of 1870.]
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it
Oct 22/94 Hist to Isaac C. Brewer
319 Huron Ave. Sandusky Ohios

May 16-1902
Mrs. Fannie Story
Belleville Wis

Dec. 3 - 1902
Mr. F. E. Stivers
Ansonia Conn
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1929-Feb 9- Hist. to M.S. Kemp
1929, Feb 18 Hist. to E.L. Smith
MMF

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RECEIVED
OCT 18 1894
A. & N. S, DIV.

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Sandusky City Ohio
October 13th 1894

Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I am desirous to find the Military record of Walter Bell of Roxbury Massachusetts, from May 185h 1758. He was a private in the Continental Army. H received a peinsion for many years. He was the son of Thomas Bell of Roxbury. Any information you can give me on this subject will be considered a great favor.

Respectfully
Isaac Curtis Brewer
319 Huron Avenue
Sandusky City Ohio

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[stamp]

US PENSION OFFICE

May 1907

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Belleville Wis
May
6th 1902
[illegible] Division
Chief Clerk
Dear Sir
I have been unavoidably
deterred from returning
enclosed blank which
I can only partially fill
out but trust it is sufficiently 
so to enable you
to fix upon the person
indicated. & that you
may be enabled thereby to give
us the desired information
which is to be used for
genealogical purpose

Respy Fannie Story, Belleville Wis

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REVOLUTIONARY FILES
NOV 10 1802

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own [diagonal writing] 
5 Church St

Nov 5, 1902

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly send me the service of Walter Bell, who was in the Revolutionary War, and was a pensioner in 1840. I would esteem it a great favor. 
Sincerely yours,
(Mrs. F.E.) Mabel P Stivers S 

Circular stamp U.S. Pension D Office 
Dated Nov 7, 1902

 Walter Bell of Colerain, Mass

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Brookline Mass
Nov. 19 1928
Bureau of Pension
Washington, D C

Dear Sir
Will you please
furnish me with a
transcript of the record
relating to WALTER BELL
a pensioner, born in
Colrain, Mass, and
who died there Dec 12th 1851)
I am particularly interested in his
Ancestry
It will be a


[stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
NOV 21 1928

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pleasure to promptly
remit whatever the
charge may be for
furnishing this
information
Respectfully your
William S. Kent
Address #39 Auburie St
Brookline
Mass.

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208 WINTHROP ROAD
BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS
Feb, 12, 1929
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Will the Pension Office
inform me if it has any record of one Walter Bell
of Roxbury, Mass. (born there 1757)
and Colrain, Mass, (died there 1851
as a pensioner.  If so, I wish
such facts as the record may show
of a genealogical nature, viz: names
of his father and mother and his
wife and children, etc, some of which
fact I have. His father was Thomas
Bell  I have, also, probably, his children
The record of his death does not
give the name of his mother.
Very Truly Yours

E. L. Smith

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
February 15, 1929.

E. L. Smith,
208 Winthrop Road,
Brookline, Massachusetts.

Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary 
War pension claim, S. 18712, it appears that Walter
Bell was born in Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts,
date and names of parents not stated.

He enlisted April 1, 1776 and served six months as
private in Captain Robert Cochran's Company.

He enlisted October 1, 1777 and served about
fifteen days as a private in Captain Hugh McClallen's
Massachusetts Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
September 11, 1832 while a resident of Colrain, Massachusetts
where he had always lived, and was then aged
seventy-five years.

There are no data whatever on file as to his family,
except the statement that his father was living in 1776
during his first service.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.