Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45876, for Abner Loveland, Connecticut

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SERVICE
Conn
Privateer


Loveland, Abner

NUMBER
S. 45876

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1651 Pittsburgh Ohio Agency
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Abner Loveland
Lorain in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Wells of the Regt commanded by Col. Wills in the Connecticut 
line for 6 month 25 days
from 1779
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pitsburgh Agency
at the rate of 25 Dollars 78 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Nov. 1832___ and sent to Eben Whiton  Elyria  O
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832       38.67
Semi=anl allowance ending 4    12.89
March 1833
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$51.56
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice  Clerk
Book  D   Vol. 2    Page 136

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Abner Loveland
Ohio
No 2083

from 1779 private
6 mo 25 days

$25.78

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2083
Abner Loveland
Pension
PV

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The State of Ohio}
County of Lorain} ss

Supreme Court
August Term A.D. 1832

On this 2nd day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. John C. Wright and Joshua Collet judges now sitting Abner Loveland a resident of Brighton, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio aged Sixty eighty___years, who being first duly sworn according to last doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. The he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated.

That in the year 1779 in the month of Aug. as near as I can recollect I volunteered into the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Wells & joint the company at Glastonbury & marched to New Haven, where we kept guard & thence removed to East Have, here we were engaged building fortifications, I was dismissed here after serving one month & 5 days___& in the month of April AD 1780 I volunteered for one month in Capt Barnard's Compy__& Col Wilkes regiment of Morristown New Jersey, our business here was to stand as Centinels [sic] , after serving one month, I was dismissed & took a pass & returned home __in the same year in the month of Sept I was drafted on a tour of two months which I served & then I volunteered two month__my officers were Col. Wells & Capt Granger, Lieut Mc Dowel, in this tour I marched to Horseneck Conn__ where our duties were to stand Centinels, & go out pin scouting parties  I served four months & five days in this tour, when I was dismissed____in Sept 1781 I went as a substitute to Castletown in Vermont, where I stood Centinel & engaged in scouting___served fifteen days, the names of officer I do not recollect__ I do not now recollect the names of any other officers except this I have mentioned___nor the names of the regiments other than I have given__I never had any written discharges __ I do not know of any person living who I can procure to testify with regard to my services as a soldier of the revolutionary war, not have I any documentary evidence of my services__ my whole service amounted to six months &  twenty five days in the above tours.

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in April 1782 I went to Salem & volunteered on board of a privateer called Viper commanded by Capt Niel ___my service was as a marine, we took a merchant vessel , name I do not distinctly recollect___I was ordered on board of here to take her to Salem, but was captured by the enemy, in the month of May following & carried to Quebeck & detained till Aug 1783____make 1 year & four months service in this tour____in all one year ten month & twenty six days when I entered this service I was living at Glastonbury Conn.

Questions put by the Court to said Loveland
Qn 1st - When & in what years were you born?
Ans. I was born in the year 1764 at Glastonbury Hartford Co Conn
2d  Have you any record of your age & if so where is it?
Ans  I have no record of it in this country
3d  Where were your living when called into service, & where since lived?
Ans I was living in Glastonbury Conn except the service of fifteen days in Vermont when I lived in the town of Pollet State aforesaid__After the Rev War I lied in Glastonbury for 4 years, & since I resided in Sandersfield & Souder, in Berkshire Co. Mass. till the year 1821 when I removed to Brighton where I have since remained___
4th  How ere you called into service?
Ans I was drafted once or twice & the other times I volunteered as states above__
5th  State the names of the regular troops where you served such Continental & militia regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service?
Ans.  I do not now recollect the names of regiments services I have stated precious, above, all I now recollect.
7th  State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, & who can testify as to your character for veracity, & their belief of you serves as a soldier of the revolution?
Ans.  Revd Joel Talcott & David Webster

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state____
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid___
Abner Loveland

Ebenr Whiton   Clerk

We Joel Talcott a clergyman residing in the town Willington County & State aforesaid &  David Webster residing in Willington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abner Loveland, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood  where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion__Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Joel Talcott
David Webster

Ebenr Whiton  Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter & putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states, & the court further certify that it appears to them the Joel Talcott who has signed the above as a resident in the town of Wellington & that David Webster who has also signed the same is a resident of Wellington & that they are credible persons, & their statement are entitled to credit__

I Ebenezer Whiton Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Abner Loveland for a pension___
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office.
Ebenr Whiton Clerk

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Abner Loveland
Ohio Ad 32

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MMHF

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

May 16, 1924
 Mrs. theodore R. Oehlke
338 Washington Ave.m
Lorain, Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 45876 it appears that Abner Loveland was born in 1764 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut.

While a resident of said Glastonbury he enlisted in August 1779 and served on month and 5 days as a private in Captain Samuel Wells' Connecticut Company.

He enlisted in April 1780 and served one month in Captain Bernard's Company, Colonel Wyllys' Connecticut Regiment.

He enlisted in September 1780 and served two tours, one of two months and the other two months and five days, as a private in Captain Granger's Company, Colonel Wells' Connecticut Regiment.

While living in Pawlet, Vermont he enlisted in Sep-

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member 1781 and served fifteen days, officers not stated.

While a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut he volunteered in April 1782 on board the privateer "Viper", Captain Niel.  They captured a merchant vessel and he was ordered on board to take it to Salem, but it was recaptured in May 1782 and he was taken a prisoner to Quebec and detained until August 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 2, 1832 while a resident of Brighton, Lorain County, Ohio.

In 1850 his son L. H. Loveland was a resident of said Brighton.  There is no further family data on file.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

[handwritten note]
Date of death not on A B.