Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 15106, Samuel Dunbar, Mass. New York

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Service Mass. New York
Dunbar, Samuel
Number S15106
Carded

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Vermont. 18744
Samuel Dunbar
of____ in the Province of Lower Canada
who was a private in the [illegible] command
by Captain Stevens of the Reg t. command
by Col. Marshall in the Mad.ma.
line for 19 mo. 12 days. and New York
aw Aug. 12. 08.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont.
at the rate of 64 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Sept
1833. and sent to S Fletcher
Redfield. Derby. VT
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33. $161.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. '34 32.33
$193.98
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Ele Brown Clerk
Book [Illegible] Vol.3 Page 60

[Number vertical on right side bottom] 286310
[Right side] 1885 Mch 25 H La Croix history prior

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12354.  Map.
Samuel Dunbar
Rolls-9mos
25-July 79
25-Ap. 80
16
[Illegible]
[Illegible]
19 and 12 d
S. Fletcher Redfield
Derby Vt.

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Brief in the case of Samuel Dunbar- Lower Canada
of
in the State of
(Act 7th June 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 67 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.  Duration of Service.  Rank. Name of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
July In 1779. 9 months.  As a Private. Capt Noles, Col Marshall
May 1780. 3 months. ".  Capt. Stevens Col Shedden
1776. 3 months.  ". Capt. Stevens
3 months. ".               "        "
1 month 12 days. ".   Capt. Baxter

5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Braintree Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are all attached as response
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
Richard Cutt Examining Clerk

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State of Vermont Orleans County  [illegible] and District

On the 15th day of August A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Pro[illegible] court within and for the county & District of Orleans aforesaid Samuel Dunbar a resident of Barnston in the county of Stanstead and Province of Lower Canada aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make and submit the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision of the act of Congress passed June of 1832 that he [illegible ________]and enlist in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with one Joshua Finch and one Gideon Herreck in the regiment commanded by Colonel Marshall of the [illegible] Clindetts line under the following named officers. In the year 1779 he resided in the town of Braintree in the state of Massachusetts and in July of that year at that place he enlisted as [illegible]for the term of nine months in the company  commanded by Captain Jacob [Noles]

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regiment aforesaid. He joined his regiment at that point in the state of New York where he remained during the whole of said term of enlistment except about twenty days in the month of January when he went out with a regiment under Colonel Thomas in Capton [sic] Cooper's company on a scout to the white Plains in the State of New York where he was in a pretty short engagement. At that point he was employed in building fort Arnold and two redoubts and regular drill service. In the month of April 1780 he having served nine months [received] a written discharge  signed Captain Jacob Noles which he has since lost. In the year 1780 he was residing at Crotons Manor in the State of New York and in April or May of that year enlisted in the militia of said State of New York for three months in Captain [Strade's] company which company [illegible]were stationed as a [illegible] party for Colonel Sheldons light horse on the [illegible] in the State of New York near the

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White Plains; when he served three months.  After the enemy surrendered Boston in the year 1776 he enlisted at said Braintree and in the [illegible] of that year at said Braintree he enlisted in a militia Company under Cofton Stevens he thinks; Lieutenant [?] of said company enlisted him for three months; this company with another company under Captain Penniman was employed in guarding the stores at the forts on Foxchist Hill in which service he continued three months & was discharged without writing; his term of enlistment having expired; the winter following he enlisted under the same Captain & Lieutenant last named for three months in the same company as before last named.  He then residing in said Braintree; the term of three months under this enlistment he was employed in guarding the stores in Boston in the state of Massachusetts & was after said service of three months discharged but without writing; the service following the last named enlistment he [illegible] residing in the said Braintree District in the company of Captain Baxter for

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the term of six months he thinks; he marched to the Island in Rhode Island on a secret expedition as it was after he was under the direction General Sullivan or French General;  he served for said term of six weeks and was stationed on the West end of said island and was employed in digging a trench [illegible] was after completing term of six weeks discharged but without writing; he does not know of any testimony as to any of aforesaid service from living witnesses which he could procure, except as to general reputation. He was born in the year 1764 on the 14th day of October at said Braintree and is now sixty seven years old; Whereas a record of his birth in [illegible]; since the revolutionary war he has resided in said Town of Barnston thirty two years; in said Braintree the remaining portion of the time; he entered the service at [illegible] of the times aforesaid as a volunteer in his first term of service of nine months belonged to General Pottuns brigade & [illegible] Hoshell brigade Major; General Grant was also [illegible] at [illegible]

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for some portion of the time also General Washington. He hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension or annuity except the [?] and declares that his name is not on the pension list of the roll of the agency of any state in the Union, he is a coloured man 
Subscribed and sworn to this day and year first above written
Samuel Dunbar
We Simon Clough & Don Lyman both revolutionary soldiers now residents of Boston in the Province of Town Conder hereby certify that we have [illegible] long [illegible] with Samuel Dunbar who has in our presence signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that said Dunbar is a man whose word is entitled to full credit and that he is in the neighborhood where he resides and has resided for twenty years generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed this day and year first above written.
Simon Clough
Don X Lyman
his mark
[another signature illegible]

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[written vertically]
12.354
Sam'l Dunbar
Declaration
[illegible] agent and atty duly [illegible]
[written horizontally]
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 within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Simon Clough and Don Lyman who have signed the within certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John J. Kimball registrar of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Dunbar for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and said seal of office this 15th day of August 1832
John J. Kimball Registrar

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15106
INVALID.
File No. 15106
Samuel Dunbar
[illegible] Rev. war
Act:  June 7thg 1832
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 105
(Arrangement of 1870)
1930 - May 2 - Hist to
adjutant [illegible].  See
carbon copy of reply
in Misc files.  E [illegible] 
[illegible] C.H. Bridges

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I Erastus Harvey of Barnston in the County of [illegible] in the province of Lower [illegible] a clergyman of the Freewill Baptist denomination do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Dunbar a resident of said Barnston that I believe him to be sixty-eight years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the United States during the Revolutionary War and that I concur in that opinion and that I hereby further certify that the said Dunbar is a man of colour. Of good moral moral character and to whose statements in my opinion full credit may be given.  Sworn to and subscribed this 17th day of July 1833
Erastus Harvey
State of Vermont
Orleans District
I John H. Kimball Registrar of this probate court for said Orleans District do hereby certify that on this 17th day of July 1833 personally appeared Erastus Harvey the signer of the above affidavit before this court and [illegible] that the service is true.  And I further certify that it appears to the said court that the said Harvey is a clergyman resident in the township of Barnston aforesaid .  Aforesaid is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunder set my hand and seal of office this 17 day of July 1833
John H. Kimball Registrar

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[Seal] Customs & Canada Feb 9 1885 [Illegible]
[Seal] Pension Office U Feb 13 1885
I herewith Respectfully submit for your kind action, Two notes I have addressed to the U.S. adjutant General of dates 26 Dec & 27 long last, here enclosed, which were returned to me with advice to lay the matter before you
Very Respectfully Yrs
H. Lacroix
To the Honorable.
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. U.S.

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(1812) 9950 Abigail Morall and Samuel Me
5367 Abner MS 5266 {Josian & Martha mfr. Ohio
10540 George NY Sarah-Jafar (?)
15106 Samuel MS 14657 Nabby-Malg(?)
12817 John n 19198 Lydia-Joshua
22223 Amos NY 16962 Tryp hora [illegible]
18806 Obed MS 24088 Pilippa Dunbar RI
17396 Enoch MS 24081 Eunice Thom RE
34770 N(?) NY 22982 Rachel-Amos
31.001 Jacob MA 22981 Elizabeth Deied
30999 Elijah. 22976 Relief Peter
30998 Thomas (? struck out)
29769 [illegible] MS
29768 Peter (struck out)
39463 Robert Son
37899 Amy MS
46381 Nehemiah (struck out)
43525 Jed (struck out) con
Large initials: M.O

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War Department
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, Jan. 5, 1885.
(number in upper right corner 176/21)
Respectfully returned to H. Lacroix
-Canadian Customs-
Coaticook, Quebec
{Stamp} Pension Office U Feb 13 1885
The name Dunbar occurs quite often on the record of the regular army, war of 1813, on file in this office. The name Zebedee Dunbar is not borne. The name Samuel Dunbar occurs but once. He died in May 1813. This office has no means of ascertaining the relatioship existing between soldiers bearing the same name.
Simon Clough
Don Seymour
R.C.Drum Adjutant General By
Recback Ruchiendo A.A.G
Jan 31.85.

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[?] Department,   176/224
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, Feb. 2, 1885

Respectfully returned to H. Lacroix
Canadian Customs,
Coaticook, Quebec.

Such records of the "revolutionary war" as are in possession of the government are on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., to whom application for the desired information should be made. 

R.C. DRUM,
Adjutant General,
By [Signature]

A. A. G.

[Stamped US Pension Office Feb 13 1885]

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Enclo to 11486B84.
S 46381 Nehemiah Dunbar NJ
S 43525 Joel              "        Con
S 30463 Robert         "          "
S 31001 Jacob           "         NJ
S 30999 Elijah           "           "
S 29769 Nath            "           "
S 29768 Peter            "           "
S 22223 Amos           "          NY
S 18805 Obed           "          NJ
S 17396 Enoch          "          "
[stamp] US PENSION OFFICE FEB 13 1885
[HANDWRITING RESUMES offset to left]
1631 Dr. Josiah Bartlett
S 21626 Joseph Bartlett NJ
S 29611  do            do    do
[list resumes under columns as at top]
S 15106 Samuel         "        NJ
W. 5266 Martha Dunbar - Jonah  NJ
W. 15672 Sarah       "         Jesse    "
W 14657 Nabby       "        Melzar   "
W 19198 Lydia         "        Joshua    "  NY
W 16962 Tryphena   "        Miles     Con  NY
W 24088 Phillipa      "        Danil     RI    NJ
W 24081 Eunice       "        Thomas  "     "
W 22982 Rachel       "        Amos     NJ   "
W 22081 Elizabeth   "        David     Ma    Ma
W 22976 Raleigh     "        Peter      NJ     NJ
R 3121 Jeremiah      "                                NY
[at left side vertically]
W 278 Hannah Bartlett NJ

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[Oval stamp]
Customs Canada
Jan 27 [year illegible]
Coaticook, Que

Sir,
I respectfully enclose your kind favor of the 5th Inst. in answer to my request of the 26th Dec. last also enclosed which contains a very gross error, viz:
[underlined} The War of Independence 1812 instead of 1776. The Dunbars must have enlisted at one time from the same state, either in Conn. or N. H. I understand that a physical summary of a soldier enlisting is taken with his name, age, native town and kept in the army archives, and an a/c of the sums paid as pensions, amt and when paid. If I could obtain these facts it would lead me a

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[Bottom left}
To the U.S.
Adjudant General
Washington
D.C.
[Top right]
to more facility in tracing some points of their history which is a mystery to me now.
Please also have the kindness to trace the name of Jos Bartlett enlisted in Mass in the same war 1776, serving 6 or 8 yrs, and who also drew a pension. He was our first pioneer being a cousin of Dr Josiah Barlett first Governor of N. H. and second signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Very Respectfully Sir,
H Lacroix

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[stamp] 11486 B Dec 29 1834
[handwriting]
Canadian Customs
Coaticook, Que:
Dec. 26 /84
H. Lacroix
For historical purposes requests information of a mulatto family comprising six brothers of the name of Dunbar, who done active service during the war of 1812, two of them were named Zebedee and Samuel respectively.

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[oval stamp]
Customs Canada
Dec 26 1884
Coaticook, Que

[Top is torn]
War D

[handwriting begins]
Sir,
I thought I might apply to you for informations concerning a mulatto family comprising six brothers of the name of Dunbar, who done active service during the war of Independence of [faint writing] 1776 [circled] 1812 + one of their [illegible due to a circular stamp that reads US Office Feb 13 1885] name of Zebedee and another Samuel, the former in about 1827 lived in Vermont, most likely Braintree. Saml came in Barnston Canada about 1804 and died there in 1843 he would draw a pension of $96 yearly in Derbly Line Vt.

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[Bottom left]
To the U.S
Adjudant Genl.
Washington
D.C.
[Right side]
[illegible] until his death - Two of the 6 brothers perished during the war - I would like to know the names of those besides Zebedee Samuel, their native town & state, the date of birth, the Regiment, the name of their several, officers commanding, their physical outlines and characters, if the surviving ones after the war were drawing a U. S. pension and where they lived. Samuel was the most remarkable of the pioneers of our Town. I am gathering historical notes of our locality and I have not been able to obtain the informations I am soliciting from you.
Very Respectfully,
[illegible] Your Servant
Lacroix
Canadian Customs