Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10021, Ansel Field, N.C.

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(3-1776) 
SERVICE NUMBER
[handwritten]
N.C. Field or Fields Ansel W10021
Martha [end handwritten]
CONTENTS

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See letters of august 1811 to H. F. Robison

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Indiana 1779
Ansel Field of Shelby Co in the State of Indiana  who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Leek of the regt commanded by Colo Martin in the Indiana line for 9 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 50 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May 1834 and [illegible] Robison Shelbyville 
Arrears to the 4th of March 90.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 13.00
$103.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 111

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5.951
Indiana M
Martha Fields died 
widow of Ansel
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Ending 13, October, 1848 
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July '52 and sent to J. J Coombs, prest. 

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1846, Page 327 Vol 3

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1864 Aug.t 5 memoir of the ages of Ansel Fields [crossed out] Children
Mary Fields was Born the 14 day of February AD 1783
Sarah Fields was Born the 7 Day of Aug.t AD 1784
Nathaniel Fields was Born the 10 Day of June AD 1786
Allen Fields was Born the 18 Day of March AD 1789
John Fields was Born the 31 Day of October AD 1793
Catherine Fields was Born the 18 Day of April AD 1795
Abner Fields was Born the 22 Day of November 1797
Noah Fields was Born the 15 Day of July 1801
Redmon Fields was Born the 1 Day of April AD 1804
Pattey Fields was Born the 16 of November 1808

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Above family

signature of Abner Fields en-dorsed hereon November 11 1839
Abner Fields

Witness
John Morrison J.P.
Royal Mayhew

[illegible] of
Ansel Fields
Children

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State of Indiana Shelby County.} ss.
On this the 18th day of March AD 1853 personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid Sarah Brad-ley aged (68) Sixty eight years Abner Fields aged (55) fifty five years and Redmond Fields aged (48) forty eight years. Residents of the County of Shelby & State of Indiana who first being duly sworn according to law doth upon their oaths State that they are the chil-dren of Martha Field (Died) who was the Widow of Ansel Fields (Died) late of the County of Shelby & State of Indiana. Who was a revolu-tionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty dollars per Anu they state that their Father the said Ansel Fields died 15th day of October 1835 and that their Mother the said Martha Fields died in Shelby County Indiana on the 13th day of October 1848 [crossed out] they further state that they verily believe that that their Par-ents were married according to law in Rock-ingham County North Carolina about the year 1781 that they always understood from their Parents that they were lawfully married that they never heard any thing to the reverse and that they always lived peaceably together as husband & wife & were always so reputed from the earliest of their Recollection & that the following are her only living children. Viz Mary Barnes aged (69) sixty nine Sarah Bradley Allen Fields

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Abner Fields & Redmond Fields & they state that they make the foregoing declara-tion for the purpose of obtaining the amt of pension that may be found due them That their Mother the said Martha Fields has hitherto made application & to the tes-timony on file & to the Records they refer for evidence in support of thier Claim
Robt. K. Graves Att James G. Coffey} Sarah her + marl Bradley seal
Abner Fields seal
Redmond his x mark Fields seal

Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year above written
James Norvell JP

and I the just subscribed magistrate certify that the foregoing declaimants are personally known to me & known to be persons of respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and cred-it should be given
In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 18th day of March 1852
James Norvell
Justice of the Peace

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Know all men by these presents that We Sarah Bradley Abner Fields & Redmon Fields of the County of Shelby & State of Indiana the Children of Martha Fields (died) Widow of Ansel Fields (Died) who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $30 per Anu do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint G H Monsarrat of Louisville Ky as our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names to demand at Washington City an investigation of our right to a pen-sion and to do any and all things necessary in order to establish our right to a pension in consideration of the Revolutionary services of our Father the Said Ansel Fields under any act or acts of the Congress of the Congress of the United States and when an amount or amounts are found due us then our said Attorneys are hereby fully authorized to demand from the Government of the United States or any office thereof the certif-icate in satisfaction for the same and do sign seal & deliver any instrument or instruments in writing in order thereto that they may deem [illegible] and [illegible] hereby [illegible] all former power of Attorney or other instruments in writing [illegible] we may have heretofore [illegible] to any other person or persons. hereby [illegible] and confirming all and whatsoever Our said Attorneys the said G H Monserrat [illegible] may do by [illegible] of these presents in testimony whereof we hereunto sub-scribe our names & affix our seals this the 16th day of March 1852
Att Robt. J. Graves
James S Coffey
Sarah her + mark Bradley seal
Abner Fields seal
Redmond his + mark Fields seal

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State of Indiana Shelby County
Be it known that on 16th day of March 1852 Before the Subscribed a justice of the peace in & for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Bradley Abner Fields & Redmond Fields and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be their own voluntary act & deed.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name the day & year aforesaid James Norvell
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Shelby County ss
I Jacob Vernon Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State afore-said do hereby certify that James Norwell Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit and Power of Attor-ney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing and still is at this time an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County of Shelby duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that his signature thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Shelbyville this 22d day of March a.d. 1852
J. Vernon ck

[written sideways]
J. J. Coombs
March 29th/52

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State of Indiana Shelby County ss}
Be it known that on this 11th day of November in the year 1839 Before me John Morrison a Justice of the Peace of said County. personally came Abner Fields who being by me duly sworn on his oath Saith- that the paper hereto attached and on which he has this day endorsed his name is a paper which has been preserved as the family record of the births of the persons therein men-tioned, who are the children of Ansel Fields (late of Shelby County Indiana deceased who was a Revolution-ary soldier as this deponent believed and received a pension in his life time) and Martha Fields his widow who is now an applicant for a pension.- This deponent further states that his Father Ansel Fields had no education and could not write his name- That the deponents uncle whose name was John Fields (an elder Brother to deponents Father) had kept a memorandum of the births of the Children above names, That his said uncle (John Fields) brought the said paper or memorandum hereto attached, and gave it to him this deponent to take care of while this deponent lived with his said Farther and when he was a youth he thinks about the year eighteen hundred and twelve- that he has ever since preserved it as a time memorandum that his Father and Mother considered it and referred to it as such- and that he this deponent saw his said uncle set down the name of Patsey Fields at the time of her birth, at the time of delivering said memoran-dum had been kept by his uncle from which the above was drawn off, and that the names of same of the children who had died were omitted and not in the above- and that he does not know of, or believe, that any other record of the births of said children or any record of the marriage of said Ansel Fields & Martha has been kept by them-
Witness Royal Mayhew Abner Fields

Sworn to and subscribed to before me the day above written and I hereby certify that I am acquainted with said Abner Fields and that he is entitled to full credit Witness my hand and seal this 11th day of November 1859
John Morrison seal
Justice of the Peace

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State of Indiana Shelby County ss}
Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said County personally came Martha Fields widow of Ansel Fields late of Said County deceased, who being by me duly sworn on her oath Saith, that the list within attached and referred to in the affidavit of Abner Fields,- is a list which has been preserved and kept in her Family in the care of her son Abner for many years, she thinks between 25 & 30 years- That she was acquainted with the circumstances that it was furnished by a brother of her deceased husband. That the said list has been always since her knowledge of it- referred to as a time record of the time of the births of the children therein mentioned that the same contains the name of the children of her his deponent and her deceased husband Ansel Fields, that is to say, such as were living at the time said list was received from he said husbands brother (John Fields) and she verily beli-eves the time of the births of said children is truly therein stated. and that she does not know of any record of her Marri-age with said Ansel Fields,- or of any other record than that here exhibited of the births of said Children-
Attor Royal Mayhew Martha her + mark Fields
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of November 1833 & whose statements are entitled to full credit
John Morrison seal
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Shelby County ss}
I Sylvan B. Morris Clerk of the County, do certify that John Morrison before whom the forego-ing affidavits were taken, was at the time of the taking thereof and now is an acting justice of the peace within and for said County, and that full faith and Credit are due to his acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Shelbyville, this twenty first day of November 1839-
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

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Pension Declaration of
Ansel Fields
29.961

H. F. Robison attorney
Shelbyville Shelby County
Indiana

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Indiana County of Shelby} et
On this this third day of March 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Shelby Circuit Court of Shelby County Indiana now sitting Ansel Fields a resident of Sugar Creek Township in said County aged eighty 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 under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. To Wit, sometime in the month of July 1780, (he does not remember the day of the month) he entered said service as a volunteer of the Militia and was Sergeant during all his service, of the Company to which he belonged. He resided then in Guilford County, North Carolina. The officers of his company were, Capt-ain John Leek Lieutenant George Peay Ensign James Leek. Claimant himself was the Sergeant of the same to which office he was elected imme-diate after he volunteered & before the company marched. He does not remem-ber the number of his Company, nor of the Regiment to which it was attached The latter was called the Guilford Regiment, and was commanded by Colonel James Martin & Major Robin Ralston. He was under the command of General Rutherford. After his company was formed & then officers elected they assembled at Spring Garden in Guilford County N.C. from which place they marched to Guilford Court House, on their way to which place they met with another company, which joined them, & they marched together to the Court House. There they met the army of the Militia consisting he thinks of three thousand men. He thinks there were among them no regulars. From Guilford Court House they marched South and against the Indians who has been Committing depredations on the whites. The first important point at which they arrived on their march was Salisbury in North Carolina, about ninety miles from Claimants residence at that time, thence they marched to Camden in South Carolina at least one hundred miles further, thence they marched about two hundred miles to an Indian town, lying on the Tennessee River, he thinks in the State of Tennessee. He does not know the name of this town, but thinks it belonged to the [crossed out] Cherokee nation. This town they destroyed and burned the housed They then marched thirty miles farther among the [illegible] nation, and took a white man called Scott who had married an Indian Woman. They were then out of provisions, and returned home, where they arrived sometime in the month of October 1780. He there received a written discharge from his Colonel which he has lost. He served during this engagement just three months He was during the time in no battles except at the destruction of the Indian Town and a skirmish at the taking of Scott. He was with none of the Regular forces, and thinks they were stationed at Cross Creek now called Fayetteville North Carolina. He does not recollect the names of any of the Regular Officers except Lieu-tenant Barns, with whom he was acquainted at home. While crossing a stream on their march, an officer of the Rowan Troops took up a soldier on his horse behind him, and there being a great number of reeds growing about the edge of the stream the lock or trigger of the private's gun caught among the reeds & was fired

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off. The load passed through the body of the officer & induced his immediate death. He received no commissions as Sergeant, and is now under the impressions that the Sergeant was at that time a non Commissioned officer.
About the last of November 1780 he again volunteered in the militia. His Company elected the same officers as before, he being reelected Sergeant in which capacity he served during the whole of this his second engagement, of course under the same officers as in his first engagement [illegible] this time resided at the same place as when he first entered. he does not remember the number of his Company nor that of the Re-giment to which he belonged. The officers of the regiment were the same as before. His General was the same also As before his company assembled at Spring Garden in Guilford County N.C. & marched to Guilford Court House where they joined the main army. They then marched one hundred & twenty miles to Cross Creek or Fayetteville under the expectation that the Enemy would invade that place Here some of the Regular army was stationed. Here they remained about a week during which time the regular army marched to Juneburg. After remaining at Cross Creek a week Claimants Company & the rest of the army consisting he thinks of three thousand marched to Salisbury about two hundred miles from Fayetteville were stationed there one month, & then marched to Camden in South Carolina where they staid one week guarding tories in the prison and awaiting the approach of the Enemy. They then upon the enemy's arriving within three miles, retreated for the purpose (as claimant thinks) if leading them father into the interior of the Country. The Brittish pursued them at various distances on their return to Guilford Court House. Shortly after their return to that place the enemy came up, and a battle was fought, in which there was considerable loss on both sides, The Americans fought in an old field the Brittish in a woof. Claimant thinks both parties were beaten, as both retreated, the Americans having spent their ammunition. This battle took place sometime in March 1781. After this battle the army was [illegible]. Claimants company scouted round in a circuit of fifty miles after the tories. At length they returned to Salisbury, where [crossed out] they were stationed about a month, at the end of which time claimant received from the Colonel a written discharge which he has lost. This discharge was about the last of August 1781. He does not remember the precise day of the month on which he entered or left the service either in this or the previous engagement. In this engagement he served just nine months and in the former three months making in all twelve months as a Sergeant of the Volunteers of North Carolina. He rece-ived no commission as Sergeant. When they retreated from Camden they took the tories from the jail with them and lodged them in the jail in Guilford County N.C. He does not know the names of any other officers either of the Militia Volunteers or Regular army, during this or the former engage-ment, except those mentioned and Lieutenant Barns, with whom as before stated he was acquainted at home during

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his engagement he was in no battle except that at Guilford Court House.

Claimant was born in Hanover Virginia on the 5th of January 1749 or 1750 O.S. or on what he generally calls old Christmas eve. at the age of twelve he removed to Guilford County North Carolina where he lived [illegible] three years ago when he removed. to Sugar-Creek Township Shelby County Indiana where he now lives. He has no record of his age in his possession: it is however recorded in a Bible in the possession of his brother in North Carolina. He has no docu-mentary evidences of his services. and he knows of no living witness whose testimony he can procure, who can testify as to his service. Durig his above mentioned terms of engagement he was em-ployed in no civil pursuit. He refers to [crossed out] William Smith Jeremiah Odell Joseph Odell & Hardin Carter persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He claims a pension for twelve months, Service, as a Sergeant of the volunteers of North Carolina, in defense of the United States in the war of the Revolution. and hereby relinquished 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 or Teritory. That he knows no clergymen, in his neighborhood
[crossed out line]
or elsewhere who has any traditionary or other knowledge of his services. Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
H F Robison Ansel his X mark Fields

We William Smith [crossed out] residing in the neigh-bourhood of Ansel Fields and Hardin Carter residing in the same neighbourhood do hereby certify that we are well ac-quainted with the said Ansel Fields who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
William his + mark Smith
Hardin Carter

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the inter-rogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution & served as he claims and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that [crossed out] who has signed the preceding certificate [crossed out] a resident in the neighbourhood of the said Ansel Fields, and that Hardin Carter who has signed the same is a resident of the same neighbourhood & is a credible person, and that their statements is [illegible] of credit.
This certificate signed on next page

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B. F Morris
John Smit
Arza Williams

State of Indians Shelby County set
I Sylvan B Morris Clerk of the Shelby Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify the the foregoing (within) contains the original proceedings of Said Court in the matter of the application of Ansel Fields for a Pension. that the said Court is a court of Record, and that the within purporting to be the signatures of the Judges thereof are their genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of March 1834.
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

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29.961
Ansel Fields
Indiana

for 1780 Jan 9
$30

Can only obtain as above 

H F Robison
Shelbyville
Shelby Co.
Indiana

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of [handwritten] Ansel Fields [end handwritten]

Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimants service. Years. | Months. | Days. | Rank of the claimant | Names and rank of the Field of-ficers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported.
[handwritten]
July 1780 | | 3 | | Sergt | Cap Leek Colo Jas Martin Maj Ralston | 85 N.C. | Traditionary
Nov 1780 | | 9 | | Sergt | Officers as above | |

The applicant cannot be allowed a pension as a Sergeant unless he provides proof of his having served in that capacity. If there were any engagements in the N. Carolina militia for so long a period as nine months evidence thereof should also be exhibited. [end handwritten]
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff
of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and
"volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military
service, but not those who were occasionally employed with, the army upon civil contracts, such
as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen [emphasis added by
KDJ] , &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the
benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding
particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular 'Troops.
2. The State 'Troops. Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all
persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or
privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration,
which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And
every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of ss.
On this [——] day of personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of [——] and State, Territory or District of [——]
aged [c] [——] 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 provion made by the act of Congress,
passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [——],
with [——] and served in the [——] (e) regiment of the line, under the following named
officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the
service; (and if lie served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular
period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided
when he en[t]ered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country
through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers
and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the
present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if
any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [——]
Sworn to and subscribed the dad rear aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was
a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I [—— —— ——] of the Court of [—— ——] do hereby certify (h) that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of [—— —— ——] for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [——]
day of [—— ——] &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration,
cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers
or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of
Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following
additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [—— —— ——] and C. D. residing in (the
same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [—— —— ——], who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [——]
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.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 A. B. [—— —— ——] who has signed the preceding certificate is a
clergyman, resident in the [—— —— ——] and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a
resident in the [—— —— ——] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to
credit.
I [—— —— ——] Clerk of the Court of [—— —— ——] do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation
[sic] of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [seal
embossed onto document] of office, this [—] day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or
commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will
then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his
personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith,
as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l)
and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts,
which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with
the events of the period of his

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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full
account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the
principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the
imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no
favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the
County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above
provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following [m] interrogatories to all applicants for a pension,
on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New
Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the
Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a
substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you
served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general
circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by
whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it
signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and
who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of
the Revolution.
The Court will see that [t]he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration,
and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the
Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of
whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant,
who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents,
and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and
that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify,
and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in
the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the
subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the
declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of
Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is
herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity,
attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of
Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the
proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such
person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature
annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died
before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and
before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as
they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the
deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the
title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing go by reason of
bodily infirmity ; in which ease the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should
fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier most give the name of the Colonel under whom he
served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must
state, 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. ln 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:
“Personalty 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 the 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 such service I claim a pension.”
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, it too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who
apply for pensions merely state that 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 objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown 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.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be
distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.
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 papers
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.
Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and
State Troops, The proof required by rule in this case applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War
Department, with the declaration.

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5691.
Martha Fields
application for
Pension
Indiana

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State of Indiana Shelby County }ss.
In the Probate Court of Shelby County May Tenn 1839

On this fifteenth day of May in the year eigh-teen hundred and thirty nine- Personally appeared in Open Court before the Probate Court of Shelby County in the State aforesaid. Martha Fields a resident of the Said County of Shelby aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled |An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" - That she is the Widow of Ansel Fields who was a private and also sergeant in the army of the Revolution. That to the best of her information and belief The Said Ansel Fields believes his intermarriage with this deponent [illegible] the service in the Revolutionary War first as a private, and that during such service he was promoted to the grade if Orderly Sergeant that he was engaged in such service at two or three different pe-riods of time, the last of which he went as a substitute- but deponent does not know for whom, This deponent does not know of the services of Said Ansel Fields, otherwise than from General reputation and from information received from her said hus-band Ansel Fields in his life time, nor does she now know of any documentary or other evidences by which she can establish the fact of his services except the evidences furnished by the Said Ansel Fields, in his life time in order to prosecute a pension which were transmitted to the City of Washington in the Spring of the year 1831- When said Ansel Fields entered the service he resided in the County of Rockingham in North Carolina- The Said Ansel Fields in his life time to wit in the Spring of the year 1834 made his application to the War Department of the United States for a Pension in consideration of his said services and produced such proof as he could obtain relative thereto and obtained a Pension certificate in the following words towit "War Department Revolutionary Claim I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Ansel Field of the State of Indiana who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is

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"entitled to receive thirty dollars and cents per annum "during his natural life commencing on the 4th of "March 1831 and payable Semiannually on the 4th of "March and 4th of September in every year.
"Given at the War Office of the United States "this 27th day of May one thousand eight "hundred and thirty four Lew Cass
Secretary of War"
"Examined and Countersigned J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions" - She this applicant further declares that "She was married to the Said Ansel Fields in the Said County of Rockingham in the State of North Carolina On the Seventh day of April in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty one by the Reverand Nathan Thurman a Bap-tist Clergyman- and that her husband the aforesaid Ansel Fields died on the first day of October in the year eigh-teen hundred and thirty four in the Said County of Shelby Indiana- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four Vig at the time above states,
Martha her + mark Fields
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court at the Court aforesaid This 15th day of May 1839
Sylvan B. Morris Clerk

State of Indiana Shelby County ss-} Personally comes now in Open Court in the Probate Court of Shelby County in the State of Indiana- Catherine Carter who being first duly sworn on her oath Saith that she is the Sister of the above named applicant Martha Fields That her maiden name was Martha Dodd that she this deponent was well ac-quainted with Ansel Fields referred to in the foregoing appli-cation that she this deponent was present at the Marriage of the above named Ansel Fields & her Said Sister Martha above mentioned and saw their married, which marriage took place to the best of her recollection at the time mentioned in the above application that she said deponent has been

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well acquainted with the Said Ansel Fields and Nathan Fields his wife the time of Said Marriage to the time of his death and lived near them the whole time (within one mile) except for the space of three years when said Ansel Fields has first removed to the State of Indiana- She this deponent believes the said Marriage was legal & valid and never heard the legality thereof questioned- Said Ansel Fields had always from her remembrance the reputations of being a Revolu-tionary Soldier- The Said Ansel Fields & Nathan Fields has a numerous family of Twelve Children and the Said Ansel Fields died in the said County of Shelby on the first day of October 1834 She was present a Short time before & after his death [crossed out] The Said Nathan Fields remains his widow and has never been married to any other person.-
Catherine her X mark Carter
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court this 15th day of May 1839
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

also personally comes now in Open Court at the Court aforesaid Abner Fields aged 42 years who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he was present at the time of the death of Ansel Fields men-tioned in the foregoing declaration that he the Said Ansel Fields died in the Said County of Shelby on the first day of October 1834- Abner Fields
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court this 15th day of May 1839
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

We Jacob Kemmerly Judge of the Probate Court of Shelby County [illegible] Sylvan B Morris Clerk of said Court do certify that from our acquaintances with the said applicant Martha Fields, and the said Witnesses above named Catherina Carter and Abner Fields- we believe them to be persons of respectability and that their statements above are entitled to credit
Jacob Kemmerly Judge Probate Court
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

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State of Indiana Shelby County ss}
I Sylvan B Morris Clerk of the Shelby Circuit Court; and Office Clerk of the Probate Court of Shelby County being a Court of Record in the State aforesaid- do hereby certify that foregoing declaration of Martha Fields- and depositions of Catherina Carter and Abner Fields are the time proceedings in the application of Said Martha Fields for a pension had before the said Probate Court of Shelby County
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Shelbyville this 19th day of June A.D. 1839.
Sylvan B Morris Clerk

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State of Indiana Shelby County ss}
Probate Court of Shelby County
It is hereby certified that satis-factory evidence has been presented to this Court, that Martha Fields widow of Ansel Fields who was in his life time a Revolutionary Pensioner died in Said County on the thirteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty-eight, leaving the following named surviving Children, and who are her only surviving Chil-dren, to wit, Mary Barnes, aged sixty nine years, Sarah Bradley, aged sixty eight years, Allen Fields aged sixty three years, Abner Fields aged fifty five years and Redmon Fields aged forty eight years,
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty two
J. Vernon
Ck

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December 25, 1936
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BA-J/EEL
Ansel Field- W.10021

Myrtle Armstrong
1005 Elm Street
Shelbyville, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ansel Field, who served in the North Carolina troops and was pensioned while living in Shelby County, Indiana.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.10021, based upon the mili-tary service of Ansel Field in that war.
Ansel Field war born January 5, 1749 or 1750 (Old Style), in Hanover, Virginia. and when twelve years of age, moved to Guilford County, North Carolina. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in said Guilford County, Ansel Field volun-teered in July, 1780, served as sergeant in Captain John Leek's Company, Colonel James Martin's North Carolina Regiment, went on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians, was in several skir-mishes with the savages and burned one of their towns: length of service, threemonths" he volunteered again about the last of No-vember, 1780, and served two tours, the first of three months and the last of six months as sergeant under same officers and was in the battle of Guilford Court House.
After the Revolution. he continued to reside in Guilford County, North Carolina, until 1831, when he moved to Shelby County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 3, 1834, while residing in Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, Indiana, His name was borne on the pension roll of Field.
He died in Shelby County, Indiana, October 1, 1834.

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Ansel Field or Fields married in Rockingham County, North Carolina, April 7, 1781, Martha Dodd. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
Soldier's widow, Martha, was allowed pension on her applica-tion executed May 15, 1839, at which time she was aged eighty-five years and resided in Shelby County, Indiana. Her name was borne one the pension roll as Fields.
It was stated that they had twelve children, the names of ten follow, the names of the other two are not shown and it was stated that they had died before the record was made.
Mary Fields born February 14, 1783.
Sarah Fields " August 7, 1784.
Nathaniel Fields " June 10, 1786.
Allen Fields " March 18, 1789.
John Fields " October 31, 1793.
Catherine Fields " April 18, 1795.
Abner Fields " November 22, 1797, in 1839 he was living in Shelby County, Indiana.
Noah Fields " July 15, 1801.
Redmon Fields " April 1, 1804.
Pattey or Patsy Fields " November 16, 1808.

Soldier had an older brother, John, who was living in 1812, in 1834, soldier referred to his brother living in North Carolina but did not give his name.
In 1839, Catherine Carter, a sister of the widow, was living in Shelby County, Indiana: the date of her birth and the name of her husband are not stated.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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[left page]
[handwritten]
1936- Dec 24 Hist to Myrtle Armstrong
EL

[right page]
Revolutions
North Carolina [end handwritten]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. [handwritten] 10021
Martha Fields
Wid. of
Ansel Fields
Pvt Rev. War [end handwritten]
Act: [handwritten] Feby. 2'748 [end handwritten]
Index:-Vol. [handwritten] A [end handwritten], Page [handwritten] 237 [end handwritten]
[ Arrangement of 1870 ]

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[handwritten]
5267
Indiana
Martha Fields [end handwritten]
widow of [handwritten] Ansel Fields. died [end handwritten] who was a pensioner under the Act of [handwritten] 1832 [end handwritten] and who died on the [handwritten] 1st October 1834 [end handwritten] of [handwritten] Shelby Co. [end handwritten] in the State of [handwritten] Indiana [end handwritten] who was a [handwritten] private [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] Company [end handwritten] commanded by Captain [handwritten] Leek [end handwritten] of the [handwritten] Regt [end handwritten] commanded by [handwritten] Col Martin [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] N. Carolina [end handwritten] line for [handwritten] 9 months [end handwritten]

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Martha Fields
of Ansel
Indiana
Suspended
Sec let 3d Sept
to Royal Mayhew

Act July 1838.

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14.628
Martha Fields
of Ansel
Indiana

Suspended
let 13 April 1840
Royal Mayhew

3 and 7 July 52
Act July 1838&c

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Ansel Field Inda Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen Office
Aug.t 31, 1839

po to 4 Sep 1834

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[handwritten]
11.353
Indiana m
Martha Fields died [end handwritten]
widow of [handwritten] Ansel [end handwritten] who died on the in the State of who was a [handwritten] Priv. [end handwritten] in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the for [handwritten] Revolution [end handwritten]
Inscribed on the Roll of [handwritten] Madison [end handwritten] at the rate of [handwritten] 30 [end handwritten] Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 20 [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] July 1852 [end handwritten] and [handwritten] Senk Co
J.J. Coombs [end handwritten] Arrears to the 4th of [handwritten] present [end handwritten] Semiannual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by [handwritten] R McRae [end handwritten] Clerk
Book [handwritten] D [end handwritten] Vol. [handwritten] 12 [end handwritten] Page [handwritten] 423. [end handwritten]

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[handwritten]
9.244
Indiana M
Martha Fields died [end handwritten]
widow of [handwritten] Ansel [end handwritten] who was a [handwritten] private [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] Revolution [end handwritten]
Inscribed on the Roll as the rate of [handwritten] 30 [end handwritten] Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 20th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] July 52 [end handwritten] and sent to 
[handwritten] J.J. Coombs prest [end handwritten]

[ Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844. ] 
Recorded in Book [handwritten] A [end handwritten] Vol. [handwritten] 2 [end handwritten] Page [handwritten] 218. [end handwritten]

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[handwritten] March 30th 1852
Addl. evi: in case of Martha Fields
died widow of Ansel
Indiana
Acts of 7th July 1838&c

JJ Coombs
Present

[written sideways]
[illegible]
Comm. of Pensions
[end handwritten] 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business

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children
Mary Barnes
Sarah Bradley
Allen Fields
Redmon Fields
Abner Fields

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Pension Office 
July 7 1832

Indiana Rolls Act of June 7 1832}
Ansel Fields pn pensioner
$30 per annum, to whattime was he paid?

auditor JJ
Paid for 4th Sept: 1832
BSM

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State of Indiana County of Shelby} ss.
On this the 18th day of March 1852 personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Catherine Carter aged (76) seventy six years a resident of Shelby County in the State of Indiana who first being duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath that she was intimately and personally acquainted with Ansel Fields (Died) late of the County of Shelby & State of Indiana that she was also well acquainted with his wife Martha Fields (Died) both before and after her marriage to the said Ansel Fields that she was present at their marriage which took place in the County of Rockingham in the State of [crossed out] North Carolina in the year (1781) seventeen hundred & eighty one & that the name of the said Martha Fields before her said marriage to the said Ansel Fields was Martha Dodd. She also states that the said Martha Fields remained the Widow of the said Ansel Fields (Died) until her death which took place in the County of Shelby & State of Indiana on the 13th day of October 1845 leaving the following persons her only living children vig Mary Barnes aged (69) sixty nine years Sarah Bradley aged (68) sixty eight Allen Fields aged (55) fifty five & Redmond Fields aged (48) forty eight. & that she knows of her own personal knowledge the Ansel Fields (died) served for some time in the war of the Revolution and she thinks

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for the period of about nine months
RK Graves Catherine her + mark Carter
witness James S Coffey

Subscribed & Sworn to before me an acting Justice of the Peace this the 18th day of March 1832. James Norvell 
and I the just subscribed magistrate do hereby certify that the foregoing affiant is per-sonally known to me and that she is highly respectable and that all her statements are entitled to full faith & credit & that she is of the age above stated James Norvell
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Shelby County ss
I Jacob Vernon Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State afore-said, do hereby certify that James Norvell Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and by whom the same above certified, was at the time of so doing and still is at this time an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Shelby, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that his signatures above are genuine
In testimony whereof I have here-unto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Shelbyville this 22d day of March a.d. 1832
J. Vernon Ck

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[written sideways]
Indiana
[illegible]
May 22d. 1834
[end written sideways]

Free
J L. Edwards Esq Com Pen.
Washington City
D.C.

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Shelbyville May 12th 1834
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Dr. Sir
I return the papers of Ansel Fields with his amended declaration. His thence age and feebleness was the cause of the light mistake he made. If the papers he now lends are not sufficient to entitle him to a certificate. he believes you to suffer his case to remain undecided until he learns whether the evidence he is now seeking can be procured. From some information lately [illegible] he hopes to be able to procure testimony. The point to which your circular refers are applicable only to cases of the regular army where the name of the ap-plicant is not found on the rolls. This includes to suppose that officers of the Militia (the capacity in which claimant served) are by the practice of your office placed on the same footing. If so, not knowing the reason for the distinction, I cannot say whether or not, if it be inconsistent with your regulations to give him the pension of an officer you could give him that of a private. This letter if he fails in his proof he would accept freely if he can do no better.
Very respectfully yours H
J. L. Edwards Esqr H. F. Robison atty p appl

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[written sideways]
March
15. 1834
Indiana
esquire
[end written sideways]

[crossed out]
Free
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

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Shelbyville Shelby County Ina
March 4th 1834
J. L. Edwards. Dr Sir. I send the enclosed application. The claimant denied me particularly to call your attention to the fact that he served as an officer. He expects that his pension will be greater than that of a private. Direct your communications to me at Shelbyville Shelby County, Inda
With much respects
Your obed't servant

H. F. Robison
atty for appl

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[written sideways]
Inda.
aid proof
Rebecca Miller
Martha Fields
[end written sideways]

FREE
Hon. Geo Wm Crump
acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City. D.C.

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Shelbyville Ind. Dec. 2nd 1839.
Dear Sir
I send enclosed such testimony as Mrs Rebecca Miller and Mrs Martha Fields have been enabled to garnish (in addition to that heretofore sent) to establish their claims to a pension- Which I hope will entitle them to a favorable adjustment-
The additional testimony & authenticat-ion the case of Mrs Phebe Pope has not yet been obtained- but I presume will be forwarded in a few days
Very respectfully yours &c
Royal Mayhew

Hon.l Geo Wm Crump
act.g Com. of Pensions

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Martha Fields
applicant for 
Pension

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Amendment to the declaration of Ansel Fields to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Indiana Shelby County set
On the 12th day of May 1834 Personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of Shelby County Indiana now sitting Ansel Fields who being duly sworn saith that he is the identical person who makes application for a pension in the declaration hereto annexed to which this is an amendment That in his said declaration he neglected to state but now on his oath states that the term of nine months service therein mentioned was performed in two tours or engagements, That the circumstances were as follows To wit, The second engagement [crossed out] said declaration mention-ed was for three months which are the first three months of the nine months therein men-tioned, That these three months expired shortly after his return to Guilford Court House therein mentioned- that is about the last of February or first of March 1781. That his Captain requested all who were willing to engage again & that he with a number of their engaged for six months and served that period being the latter part of the nine months in said declaration mentioned. That the period between these two engagements was but a few days perhaps less than a [illegible], and the shortness of the period was the reason why he did not in his first declaration state that the last nine months service was performed in two engagements. Considering the whole as not differing materially from a continued engagement on account of the shortness of the interval

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That Chesley Barnes, Nicholas McCubbin, George Nicks, Samuel Gan, Thomas Carter Gan, James Delay, (besides the officers in his declaration mentioned) are persons who served with him and who when living had some knowledge that he served in the capacity & in the man-ner stated in his declaration That he is not certain whether any of them is at this time living, but he has taken steps to procure the affidavits of such of them as are living and can be found, if any such there be which when procured will be sent to the war depart-ment
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Ansel his X mark Fields
H. F. Robison

and the said Court hereby declares their op-inion that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution & served as he states and that the said applicant is a person of veracity and that his statements are worthy of credit.
Erasmus Powell, Judge of the Probate Court of Shelby County

State of Indiana Shelby County ct} I Sylvan B. Morris clerk of the Probate Court of Shelby County Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings (in amendment) of said Court in the matter of the application of Ansel Fields for a pension- That said Court is a court of record & that the above is the genuine signature of the Hon Erasmus Powell sole judge thereof.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of May 1854 Sylvan B Morris Clerk

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Brief in the case of [handwritten] Martha Fields dec Wid of Ansel [end handwritten] County of State of [handwritten] Indiana [end handwritten] act [handwritten] July 7 1838 &c [end handwritten]
Claim, ("original," [crossed out])
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. [handwritten]
Husband was a pensioner al- 30$ per annum Act June 7 1832
Evidence of Marriage Documentary [end handwritten]
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
[handwritten] J. J. Coombs Present
Thornton Triplett [end handwritten]
Examining Clerk.

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Payments to be made [handwritten]
by Thomas Dorsey of Creyton [end handwritten]
Agent for paying Pension-ers in the Agency of [handwritten] Indiana [end handwritten]

Recorded in the Pension Of-fice in Book [handwritten] E [end handwritten] Vol. [handwritten] 7 [end handwritten] Page [handwritten] 111 [end handwritten] by [handwritten] Danl Boyd [end handwritten] Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, [handwritten] Ansel Fields of the State [end handwritten] of [handwritten] Indiana [end handwritten] who was a [handwritten] private in the Army of the Revolution [end handwritten] is entitled to receive [handwritten] thirty [end handwritten] dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, com-mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this [handwritten] 27th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] May [end handwritten] one thousand eight hundred and thirty [handwritten] four 
Lew Cass [end handwritten]
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned}
[handwritten] J L. Edwards [end handwritten]
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Washington March 29th/52
Sir:
Enclosed please find addi-tional evidence in support of the claim of Martha Fields, died. late of Indiana, widow of Ansel Fields, died for pension under acts of 1838, &c.
The joint resolution of 1st July 1848 obviates, the only objection ever made to the allowance of their claim.
I deem, respectfully
Your obt servt,
J. J. Coombs

J. E. Heath, Esq
Comm of Pensions

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Martha Fields dec
Wid of Ansel
Ind
Act of July 1838&c
30$ per annum
to 13 Octo 1848
When she died except two years
Payable to
Mary Barnes
Sarah Bradley
Allen Fields 
Abner Fields &
Redmon Fields
surviving children
Sent to J J Coombs
Present

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1005 Elm Street
Shelbyville, Indiana
October 19, 1936

Veterans Administration
Revolutionary War Records Division
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Hiller,
Thank you for advising me in regard to the correct name of the Field pensioner. I shall appreciate the record of Ansel Field, who served in the North Carolina Troops; pension-ed in 1833, while a resident of Shelby County, Indiana.
Yours very truly,
[handwritten] Myrtle Armstrong [end handwritten]
Myrtle Armstrong
[stamp]