Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,484, Benjamin Wheeler, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Wheeler Benjamin Giles
NUMBER
W. 15.484.
CONTENTS

Benjamin Wheeler of Bloomfield in the State of New York who was a Pr. & Sgt. in the Company commanded by Captain Goel of the Regt commanded by Col Lane in the Massachusetts line for 9 months Sergt & 15 months private .
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 95 Dollars 0 0 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. Speaker of Repres.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833  $142.50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar '33  47.50
$190.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ino Cromwell Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 205

State of New York 3 Ontario County 3 p:
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the County Court now sitting. Benjamin Wheeler a resident of the town of Bloomfield County and State aforesaid aged Sixty nine 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 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following Officers, and served as herein stated.
1 st At Rehobeth in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts in the Spring of the year 1777 his Brother Simeon Wheeler was drafted in Captain Simeon Cole's Company and he this declarant was a substitute for his Brother Simeon, and was enrolled in said Company, and was a waiter to Captain Cole for the term of three months, and was at Warren, Bristol, Providence and North Kingston, and was dismissed at the last place after his time expired, and was honorably discharged.
2 o Immediately after, he enlisted at Rehobeth as aforesaid, in Captain Nathaniel Carpenter's Company in Colonel Lane's Regiment, for four months, and served as waiter for Captain Carpenter the whole time: marched to Providence, Warwick, and Greenwich and was discharged at the latter place after his time expired.
3 o In the Spring of 1778, was a volunteer in Captain Israel Hicks Company, and served three months, and after this was in Captain Israel Nichols Company for four months and believes the Regiment was commanded

by Colonel Slack. He was on Rhode Island when General Sullivan retreated, and was in the Picket Guard.
4 th At Rehoboth as aforesaid he volunteered in Captain John Hydes Company and served four months and also in Captain John Hills Company and served four months, and served at Howlands Ferry and on Rhode Island. This was in 1779. Cannot tell which Company he served in first, but he served in both Companies eight months in that year. 5 At Rehoboth as aforesaid, in the Spring of 1780 he volunteered in Captain Nathaniel Randalls Company and served four months and after his time expired, he enlisted in Captain Joseph Franklins Company and served five months, both on the frontier of Rhode Island. 6 th At Rehoboth as aforesaid in the Spring of 1781, he enlisted in Captain Jabez Barnays Company for five months, and was marched to Providence, Suffield, and Litchfield to Fresh Kill and then to West Point and joined Colonel Jacksons Regiment and done duty at West Point, and was fourth Sergeant in said Company, and was part of the time at New Windsor at the Hospital, and was discharged at West Point. The same day he again enlisted for four months in Captain Olneys Company at West Point and soon after went to Verplanks Point, and soon after went to Jersey, and went with the army to Yorktown in Virginia and was there at the capture of Cornwallis. He saw General Washington at Providence, at West Point and

at Yorktown. Hee was orderly Sergeant at the Hospital at Yorktown. After the Battle at Yorktown, was sent back to West Point and was there discharged and went home. It was near the last of December when he got home. He received a discharge - does not remember who signed the discharge. When he left Rhode Island to come to Bloomfield more than thirty years ago, he left his papers there, among which was his discharge, and he does not know whether it is now in existence. Doctor Rogers was the Surgeon of the Hospital where he done duty. James Gladding of Bristol saw him in the service on Rhode Island in 1778. He had no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He has no record of his age. Hee was born in Rehobeth the Seventh day of February 1764, and after the war lived in Dighton, and thirty one years ago he moved to Bloomfield where he now lives and has lived ever since.
Hee knows Elihu Morse and James Gladding both of the town of Bristol. Hee hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn & subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open Court.
Benjamin Wheeler
Mr Elihu Morse and James Gladding residing in the Town of Bristol in the County of State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted

Benjamin Wheeler who had subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in this opinion. And the said James Gladding further certifies that he was with him in the service at Wadsworth and — Eliza Morse Subscribed and sworn the James Gladding day and year aforesaid in open 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 states certifies, that it appears to them that Eliza Morse and James Gladding who have signed the preceding certificate are both residents of the town of Bristol, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Wheeler for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of September A. D. 1832.
Charles Crane
91.96 Benjamin Wheeler
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9 mos. 20 days 15 mos. 20 days
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Thomas Beals Agent Passed Canandaigua

5360
New York, Albany Celia Wheeler widow of Benjamin Wheeler decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 6 th February 1836 of Ontario in the State of N.Y. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain G l of the Reg t commanded by C l Lane in the M p time for 7 mos & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 25 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of May 1840 and sent Mathew Clason Canandaigua N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1840 $100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 Sept r 12.50 $112.50
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Adison Clerk. Book P Vol. 2 Page 110

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Jonathan Mason Canandaigua N.Y.

State of New York } Ontario County } }
On this twenty first day of January in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and forty, personally appeared before John Lapham one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County and State aforesaid, being a cause of record, Celia Wheeler, a resident of the town of Canandaigua in the County of Ontario, aged Seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed, July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows"; That she is the widow of Benjamin Wheeler, who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and who, for these services received a pension from the Government of the United States, under the act of 1832, of about ninety five dollars per annum - that after her husband's death, she applied for and received the amount due him at the time of his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Wheeler on the twenty Eighth day of July in the year seventeen Hundred and Eighty two - that her maiden name was Buffinton - that her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Wheeler, died on the sixth day of February Eighteen Hundred and thirty six - 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, viz. at the time above stated. Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written -
Before me, John Lapham.
Judge of Ontario County Court.
Celia Wheeler
I John Lapham one of the Judges of the Ontario county court do hereby certify that Celia Wheeler, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, is not of ability, by reason of her age and bodily infirmities, to appear before a court of Record, in order to make her declaration in open Court - and I further certify that I believe her to be a person of good character, and whose statements are entitled to full credit and belief -
Dated January 21 st 1840 -
John Lapham Judge of Ontario County Court

State of New York Ontario County ss. I Thomas Hall Clerk do hereby certify that John Dapham Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit, Certificate and declaration was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of Ontario County Court in & for said County duly Commissioned and Qualified and authorized to take the same — And that his several signatures thereto subscribed are Genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said County this 22 d day of January A.D. 1840 at Canandaigua — Thomas Hall Clerk

State of New York } Ontario County } ss
Fanny G. Slight being duly sworn according to law, says that she resides in the town of Canandaigua in the county and State aforesaid, that she is thirty three years of age - is the daughter of Benjamin Wheeler & Celia Wheeler - that her father died on the sixth day of February one thousand eight hundred & thirty six - that her mother still survives him, and remains his widow - and she further says that since the death of her father, her mother has resided and now resides with this deponent - That her father in his life time kept a Family Record, which was copied into a new Bible many years since, that she well recollects when her father had the transfer made from the old into the new Bible - that the Family Record herewith annexed is the transcript made from the original, which has been destroyed - that it is a true Record of her father's family, and as such is recognized by all the members of her father's family - that the right hand column in the annexed Record is the Family Record of John H. Wheeler this deponent's brother - and the left hand column is the Family Record of Benjamin Wheeler this deponent's father - and further this deponent saith not.
Fanny G. Slight
Subscribed & sworn to this twenty first day of January 1840 Before me John Lapham Judge of Ontario County Courts
I John Lapham one of the Judges of the Ontario County Courts do hereby certify that Fanny G. Slight who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit, is a person of good character, whose statements are entitled to full credit and belief - (Dated January 21 st 1840) John Lapham Judge of Ontario County Courts

State of New York Columbia County ss
John H. Wheeler being duly sworn, according to law, says he resides in the town of East Bloomfield in the county and state aforesaid, will be sixty five years of age on the 16th day of March 1846. is the son of Benjamin Wheeler and Celia Wheeler. That his father Benjamin Wheeler died on the sixth day of February Eighteen Hundred and thirty six, that Celia Wheeler his mother still survives, the said Benjamin Wheeler this deponent's father is now a widow and has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Benjamin Wheeler this deponent's father - that his mother, the said Celia Wheeler, since the death of the said Benjamin Wheeler her husband, has resided, and now resides in the town of Canandaigua, in the county and state aforesaid. That his father, the said Benjamin Wheeler, in his life time, kept a family Record - that the Family Record so kept by him, was made on the blank leaves, in a small size Quarto Bible - that about the year 1813. a new Quarto Bible was purchased, and that the Family Record of the said Benjamin Wheeler, this deponent's father, having become somewhat obliterated, his father caused his family Record to be transcribed into the new Family Bible. That the Family Record of Benjamin Wheeler, this deponent's father, was made from the old Bible into the new Bible, in 1813. by one Moses Bissell by the direction of the said Benjamin Wheeler this deponent's father, and in the presence of this deponent. This deponent further says that the Family Record herunto annexed is the identical transcript so made as aforesaid by the said Moses Bissell now dead - That the first column in the Record herunto annexed contains the Family Record of the said Benjamin Wheeler this deponent's father - and is wholly in the handwriting of the said Moses Bissell, with which this deponent is well acquainted, - the second or right hand column of the Record herunto annexed contains the Family Record of this deponent. This deponent further says that the Bible containing the Record herunto annexed, has been in his custody possession since the death of his father - that the original Record of which, the one herunto annexed, is a true transcript, is not in existence - This deponent says further that the Record herunto annexed has always been recognized as his father's Family Record, by all the various members of his father's family, and has always been referred to

by them for the dates therein contained. And this deponent further says, that the Record herewith annexed, was cut from the Bible now in his possession, by him, and herewith annexed - and further saith not. Subscribed & Sworn to this twenty first day of January John H. Wheeler A.D. 1840 Before me John Lapham Judge of Ontario County Courts
I John Lapham one of the Judges of the Ontario County Courts, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John H. Wheeler who has sub- scribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that I know him to be a person of good character, and one whose statements are entitled to full credit and belief - (Dated January 21 st 1840. John Lapham Judge of Ontario County Courts.

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
Benjamin Wheeler & Eliza Buffinton was Married July 28 th 1782
MARRIAGES.
John Harvey Wheeler & Eliza Allen Lee were Married October 17 th 1813

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
Benjamin Wheeler Born February 7 th 1764 Celia Buffinton was Born August 26 th 1762 Elijah R. Wheeler Born February 7 th 1783 Phebe H. Wheeler was Born February 28 th 1785 Celia B. Wheeler was Born April 30 th 1787 Benjamin D. Wheeler Born April 10 th 1788 Sally M. Wheeler was Born August 6 th 1792 John H. Wheeler was Born March 16 th 1795 Cyrus S. Wheeler Born August 14 th 1798 Mason T. Wheeler Born November 26 th 1799 Christopher C. Wheeler Born July 24 th 1803 Fanny G. Wheeler Born October 28 th 1806
BIRTHS.
Eliza Allen Wheeler Born October 14 th 1814 Hannah Bower Wheeler born Oct. 7 th 1816 Cyrus S. H. Wheeler was Born October 3 rd 1818 Nathan Hicks Wheeler Born September 26, 1821 Carintha Melvina Wheeler Born August 5, 1822 Charlotte Ann Wheeler Born August, 1824 Roxana Lucretia Wheeler Born September, 4, 1826 Harvey Mason Wheeler Born May 5 1829

N o . 9196. Benjamin Wheeler
Rem D
5.
Witnesses to the foregoing
30 Oct 32
Thos Beals Canandaigua N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Benjamin Wheeler of Bloomfield in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Sixty Nine years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Spring In 1777 3 Substitute & Waiter } Col. Lane Cap t Simon Cole. Mass s   " 4 Waiter "   Spring of 1778 3 Cap t Hicks   " 4 Cap t Nicholls } Col. Slack   1779 8 Cap t Hyde and Hill   1780 9 Cap t Randall & Franklin   Spring 1781 5 Sergeant Col. Jackson   " about 4 Id. Cap t Olney  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rehoboth — Mass s
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by traditional and living testimony the latter of which relates to but the period of service
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are correct in form and authentication
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
ms
July 8, 1927
Mrs. C. S. Paine State University Library Bldg. Lincoln, Nebraska
Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 15484, that BENJAMIN WHEELER was born February 7, 1764, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and he was living there when he enlisted and served with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
In the spring of 1777 he substituted for his brother, Simeon, serving three months as a private in Captain Simeon Cole's company.
Immediately afterward he enlisted in Captain Nathaniel Carpenter's company in Colonel Lane's regiment and served four months.
He enlisted in 1778 and served three months in Captain Israel Hick's company and four months in Captain Israel Nichols' company.
He enlisted in 1779 and served four months in Captain John Hyde's company and four months in Captain John Hill's company.
He enlisted in 1780 and served four months in Captain Matthew Randall's company and five months in Captain Joseph Franklin's company.
He enlisted in the spring of 1781 as a sergeant in Captain Jabez Barney's company in Colonel Jackson's regiment and served five months, after which he immediately enlisted in Captain Olney's company, was at the siege of Yorktown and returned home in December, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was living in Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York. He died February 6, 1836.
He married July 28, 1782, Celia Buffington, who was born August 26, 1762. She was allowed pension on her application executed January 21, 1840, while living at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, with her daughter, Fanny G. Sleight.
Children of Benjamin and Celia Wheeler:
Elijah K. born February 7, 1783. Phebe H. " February 28, 1785. Celia B. " April 30, 1787. Benjamin D. " April 10, 1789. Sally M. " August 6, 1792. John H. " March 16, 1795. Cyrus S. " August 14, 1798. Mason T. " November 26, 1799. Christopher C. " July 24, 1803. Fanny G. " October 28, 1806.
John Harvey Wheeler married October 17, 1813, Eliza Allen Lee, and they had the following children:
Eliza Allen born October 14, 1814. Hannah Bowen " October 21, 1816. Cyrus S. H. " October 3, 1818. Nathan Hicks " September 26, 1821. Carintha Melvina " August 2, 1822. Charlotte Ann " August 6, 1824. Roxana Lucretia " September 4, 1826. Harvey Mason " May 3, 1829.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Benjamin Wheeler My Albany 95 act 7 June 32 when last p o
[Signature: B Wheeler]
4 apr '40
Died 6 th Feb 1836 p o to that period
JH

1781
August 15-1922.
Pension Dept. War of American Revolution
Dear Sir;-
Will you tell me
whether Benjamin Wheeler Jr. who served from the state of Mass. in the War of the American Revolution, please? If so send me copy please.
He served as a private in Capt Jabez Barneys Company - Col. Luke Drury's Regt. Marched July 11 - 1781 1871. See page 963 - Vol. 16 - Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in Rev. I add this as it might help

in finding this.
I thank you so much.
Yours truly,
Mrs. H. J. Bure,
Marshall-
Mo.
224 East Vest.

History of Benjamin Wheeler, W. File 15,484 Rev. War.
To Mrs. J. R. North, (Miss Stationary Div.) Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Personal request Sept. 28, 1914.

1914 Sept. 29. History to Mrs. J. R. North J. S. 1915 May 24. Heir to Hon C. O. Roberts M.S. J.S.C. per An 1920 Feb. 10. Heir. to Miss J. H. Dwight. Clerk Pension Bureau. Am. 1923 Sept. 12 heir to Mrs. N. J. Dure - E 1927 July 9. heir to Mrs. D. S. Paine W. O.
Map
Re WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15484  Celia Wheeler  Widow of  Benjamin Wheeler  Rev. Rev. War   Act: July 7 th 1838   Index: Vol. M , Page 33 
[Arrangement of 1870.]

IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. War Section.
3-1864
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Feb. 10, 1920.
WASHINGTON
Miss Jennie H. Dwight, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Madam:
Furnished at her personal request.
In reply to your personal inquiry of the 9" instant, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Widow File No. 15,484, it appears that Benjamin Wheeler was born February 7, 1784, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where he volunteered and served during the Revolution as follows:
He substituted for his brother Simeon, in the Spring of 1777, as Private in Capt. Simeon Cole's company and served 3 months.
He enlisted immediately after, in Capt. Nathaniel Carpenter's company, Col. Lane's regiment and served 4 months.
He volunteered in 1778, in Capt. Israel Hick's company and served 3 months and in Capt. Israel Nichols' company and served 4 months.
He volunteered in 1779, in Capt. John Hyde's company and served 4 months and in Capt. John Hill's company and served 4 months.

THE INTERIOR He volunteered in 1780, in Capt. Matthew Rendall's company and served 4 months and in Capt. Joseph Franklin's company and served 5 months.
He enlisted in the Spring of 1781, as Sergeant in Capt. Jabez Barney's company, Col. Jackson's regiment and served 5 months, he then re-enlisted the same day in Capt. Olney's company, was at the siege of Yorktown and returned home in December 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832 while living at Bloomfield, Ontario Co. New York. He died February 6, 1836.
He married July 28, 1782, Celia Buffington who was born August 26, 1762, and she was allowed pension on her application executed January 21, 1840, while living at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, with her daughter Fanny G. Sleght.
Children of Benjamin and Celia Wheeler.
Elijah K. born February 7, 1783. Phebe W. " February 28, 1785. Celia R. " April 30, 1787. Benjamin D. " April 10, 1789. Sally M. " August 6, 1792. John H. " March 16, 1795. Cyrus S. " August 14, 1798. Mason T. " November 26, 1799. Christopher C. " July, 24, 1803. Fanny G. " October 28, 1806.

John Harvey Wheeler married October 17, 1813, Eliza Eliza Allen Lee, they had the following children:
  Eliza Allen, born October 14, 1814.   Hannah Bowen, " October 21, 1816.   Cyrus, S. H. " October 3, 1818.   Nathan Hicks, " September 26, 1821.   Carintha Melvina, " August 2, 1823.   Charlotte Ann, " August 6, 1824.   Roxana Lucretia, " September 4, 1826.   Harvey Mason, " May 3, 1829. 
There is no other data on file as to family.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
G. O. LOBECK, NEBR., CHAIRMAN. CHARLES D. CARTER, OKLA. HORATIO C. CLAYPOOL, OHIO. MICHAEL E. BURKE, WIS. JOHN R. CONNELLY, KANS. DICK T. MORGAN, OKLA. HENRY W. TEMPLE, PA. J. H. HANLEY, CLERK.
House of Representatives U. S.
Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department
Washington, D. C.      426 Bee Building, Omaha, Nebraska May 20, 1915.
Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Saltzgaber:
Your letter in reply to mine relative to Benjamin Wheeler received. This Mr. Wheeler served in the Revolutionary War and after his service lived in Ontario or Monroe County, New York. I do not have any record as to his Post Office address before his service, so I presume he spent the remainder of his life after serving in the War in the above Counties in New York.
Thanking you for any information you have regarding to Benjamin Wheeler who was Pensioned as Revolutionary Soldier, and later lived in New York. I am
Yours very truly,
G. O. Lobeck
COL-EC

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Nebraska State Historical Society
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OFFICERS AND ELECTED MEMBERS N. Z. SNELL, President - Lincoln REV. MICHAEL A. SHINE, 1st Vice-President - Plattsmouth JAMES F. HANSON, 2nd Vice-President - Fremont DON L. LOVE, Treasurer - Lincoln JOHN W. ROBBINS - Omaha N. C. ABBOTT - Nebraska City A. T. HILL - Hastings W. E. HARDY - Lincoln E. P. WILSON - Chadron
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
ADAM McMULLEN Governor of Nebraska SAMUEL AVERY Chancellor of University of Nebraska H. D. LEGGETT, Ord President of Nebraska Press Ass'n CHAS. A. GOSS Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Nebraska
June 4, 1927
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Benjamin Wheeler who was born in Mass. and moved to Canandagua, Ontario county, N.Y. received a pension for Revolutionary service. Will you be kind enough to send me all the information and record of service disclosed by the pension record.
Lyman Miller, son in law of Benjamin Wheeler, was a soldier in the war of 1812 from Ontario County, N.Y. If he is on the Pension Roll for service in the war of 1812 please send me the record.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. P. S. Paine
Librarian Nebraska State Historical Society
Lyman Miller was in Hinkley, Medina Co. Ohio in 1850 age 68 Benjamin Wheeler might have also gone into Medina Co. Ohio.

Jan. 29. 1840 N.Y. 6721 7 July 1838
ms. of Benjamin
James L. Edwards Esqr Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.
FREE

Canandaigua Ontario County January 22 d 1840
J. L. Edwards Esq. of Canandaigua
Herewith are enclosed the Papers of Miss Celia Wheeler on her application for a pension under the act of 7 July 1838
I remain Respectfully
Yours &c
Jonathan Mason
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State of New York      In the matter of Benjamin Wheeler Ontario County      applications for a pension
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County, James Gladding of the town of Bristol in said County aged 71 years who being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the months of July 1778 he was in Captain Hastings company in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment, and was stationed in Rhode Island, and there doing duty, and while there he saw Benjamin Wheeler in Captain Hicks Company on duty, and he further saith that he was born in Rehoboth, County of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, and knew the said Benjamin Wheeler and lived near him - He does not remember seeing the said Benjamin Wheeler in the service at any other time, but he does say that he knew him well, and could not be mistaken about seeing him there in the service - and he further says that after the war of the Revolution he resided in the town of Rehoboth near the said Benjamin Wheeler, and about 17 years ago he moved to Bristol where he now lives, and not more than five miles from where the said Wheeler now lives - He has known him from a child, and he further saith that he believes the said Wheeler served as stated in his original declaration before the County Court on the 28 day of August 1832 and it has always been the opinion of his neighbors that he was bound to the service for several years, and this has never been questioned or doubted as this deponent believes -
Sworn to and subscribed this Eighteenth day of January 1833 before me -
Henry Chapin J.P.
James Gladding
I certify the above named James Gladding is a credible person - Henry Chapin J.P.

State of New-York, I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said county, At Herk County ss. I do hereby certify that Henry Chapin whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certi- ficates of the Affidavit of James Shadbling and also to the affidavit of Benjamin Wheeler was, at the dates thereof, a Justice of the peace in and for said county; And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signatures to be his proper act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this nineteenth day of January A. D. 1833.
Charles Crane

State of New York Ontario County S.S. In the matter of Benjamin Wheeler's applications for apportionment.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said county Benjamin Wheeler who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that the reason he did not have a clergyman to support his application for a pension before the county court on the 28 th day of August 1832 was that when his case was called, the clergyman living near him was not in attendance.
He is required to state with precision the length of his service and the different grades in which he served, and he now says that in the year 1777 under his first head in his said declaration he served as a private not less than three months - and under the 2 d head he served not less than four months as a private - under the 3 d head in 1778 he served not less than seven months as a private soldier - under the fourth head in 1779 he served not less than eight months - under the 5 th head in 1780 he served not less than six  nine months as a private soldier, and under the 6 th head he served not less than nine months as a sergeant. He served in all two  three years and six  four months - the last nine months as a sergeant - for which he claims a pension -
Sworn and subscribed this Eighteenth day of January 1833 before me -
Benjamin Wheeler
Henry Chapman J.P.
The words "Nine, three, four," interlined before signing -
Henry Chapman J.P.