Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 317-450, Samuel Ward, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
Ward, Samuel
B.L. Mt. 317-450
CONTENTS

Sir
New York 23 rd December 1806
For value received of Col o Jer h Olney please to issue to the Hon ble Timothy Pickering Esq r my military land warrant for four hundred and fifty acres. the same being due to me from the United States for my services as a Lieut Col o in the Rhode Island Line of the late revolutionary Army
Attest
Witness my hand
John Ward
Eliza J. Ward
Samuel Ward
Henry Dearborn Esq r , Secretary at War —

Col. Olney Dec. 29. 1806.
N o 317.
Free
Hon. the Timothy Pickering
W. Friend & Del. to Col. Pickering Washington, 16. Jan. 1807.

Providence 29 Dec r . 1806.
Sir,
By request of Menapsah Cutter Esq r . I herewith transmit you Col o Sam l Wards order on the Secretary of War, for his Military land Warrant for Four hundred & Fifty Acres, intended to replace, as far as it will reach, Gen l Bartons Land Warrant, for Five hundred Acres, drawn by Mess rs Putnam & Cutter, and said to have been apply'd towards payment of one of my rights in the Ohio Company, purchase in lieu of a former order of Col o Wards, in my favor, which it is said was defective, of course the Warrant not obtained. Gen l Barton has for some reason, declined to receive Col o Wards Warrant for 450 Acres, towards his 500 Acres: but I think it fair for him to receive it, inasmuch as it is the same kind of Property as the Gentleman received of him, & is certainly as good to him as 450 Acres of his original right, could be particularly as the Act of the 15 th April 1806, expressly names the Tracts of Land, in which all military Warrants not yet satisfied, shall be located — so that Wards claim unquestionably stands on equal ground with Barton's — You will please to acknowledge the receipt of this, with its Inclosure.
P.S. as Gen l Barton is interested in this transaction, I take the liberty to enclose a letter for him — Hon ble Timothy Pickering
I have the honor to be very respectfully Sir Your Obed t Serv t Jere h Olney