Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,297, Archelaus Welch, N. H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
W.H.
Welch, Archelaus.
Q.R. 11.297
CONTENTS

X yr
Rejected
Let to Wm Kimball April 26 th 1841.
11297
Ret June 7 1832

11297 P. O.
Thos Welch
Service: Archelaus Welch who served as substitute for his father Thomas
Enlisted: REJECTED , 18
Discharged: N. H. Lurie, 18
Rev.
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Levi Lufkin affidavit for Archelaus Welch

Choctaw Thomas Welch yrs.
ad June 32
vol. 5-12.4. p 140 - enlisted Andover - 17 July '82 -
In Webber returned as train man -

State of Vermont } On this 29 th day of August 1832, at Derby in Orleans County ss. } Orleans County personally appeared Timothy Hinman a Justice of the Peace within and for said County. Levi Lufkin of said Derby aged 67 years who after being duly sworn doth depose and say that Thomas Welch late of New Andover N. H. deceased enlisted in the army of the United States for the term of three years and joined the army at Saratoga in the month of May 1782 in Capt. Benjamin Ellis' Company and Col. Henry Dearborn's Reg t and served therein until some time in the month of Sept. following and then obtained a furlough and went home - and in the last of Oct. or first of Nov. of the same year his son Archelaus Welch took his place and served until some time in Feb. 1783 as a three years man - and then swapped places with John Webber of the same Regiment who had enlisted for during the war, and said Archelaus served as a during the war man until the seventh day of June 1783 when he was discharged at Fishkill as a during the war man - and the deponent further says that he served in the same company with Thomas Welch and Archelaus Welch during the time above mentioned and was discharged at the same time with the said Archelaus Welch.
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Levi Lufkin
Before me Tim o Hinman Justice of the Peace I hereby certify that Levi Lufkin who subscribed and swore to the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness
Tim o Hinman Justice of the Peace.

State of Vermont } Orleans County p. } 3
I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Sim d Hinman who has affixed his name to the within is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Larbrough this 13. day of February 1834
Ira H. Allen Clerk

Thomas Welch dec d
Yes
act 7. June 32

Ms Apr 24. 1841.
South. W.C. Apr 19
Dear
James L. Colwell Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington
to col. secy

Benton Orleans County Vermont April 17 th 1941
James L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir"> Dear Sir - In behalf of the Heirs of Archelaus Welch I now write to you - Welch was a Soldier of the Revolution formerly from the State of New Hampshire has lived in Stansstead Lower Canada, and in the State of Maine and again in Stansstead -
On the 29 th of August 1832. said Welch came from Stansstead to Derby for the purpose of making his declaration also Levi Lufkin met him at Judge Himmans and made his affidavit which is herein enclosed, and Judge Himmans began writing the declaration of Welch when he complained of severe pain where he said he said he must defer the business until another time and requested his son in law to help him home which he did, but Welch was never afterwards able to come to Derby but died on the 19 th of October following - His Widow survived him until the 30 th day of May 1843 when she died also - are not the heirs of said Welch entitled to receive his pension from the 1 st March 1831 to the day of his death - and are they not also entitled for what his widow would have been entitled from the 1 st March 1836 until her death, and is there any law whereby his heirs are entitled for his services as a during the War Man I would further state that the heirs of said Welch say that he once had a Land Certificate or Land Patent as a during the War Man, if so and the name of Welch is found on the rolls as such, have have not his heirs now a right to claim the land. although

although the Land certificate cannot be found — By examining the enclosed affidavit and the rolls of the during the War Men you will probably be enabled to give all information required upon the subject —
I hope Sir in due time you will let me receive an answer stating the situation of the case —
You will please preserve the enclosed affidavit or return the same to me as possibly it may be of use hereafter —
I am Sir with much respect your Humble Servant John Shimball
P.S by mistake I began on the wrong side of the sheet — J. S.
25. 10. 77 Arch. Laws Mich. 2a
Yrs
act. 7. June 32