Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4553, for Simeon Linsly, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Linsly, Simeon
S. 4553
CONTENTS
carded

Ohio. 13.302
Simeon Linsley
of Delaware (in the State of Ohio) who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Gillet of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ennis in the Connecticut line for 8 mos. & 21 days.
$29.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 29 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of June 1833 and sent to Mr. Reynolds Delaware (N. Br. Ohio) Arrears to the 1th of March 1833 - 58.00. Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833. 14.50 $72.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by M. J. Palmer Clerk, Book C. Vol. 3, Page fifteen.
order to pay. see Lt. T. H. Groesbeck. 2 nd June 1834.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sept 1839. Agents Modified 4 Sept 1840
Letter to J. G. Anthony 8 th Oct 30. March 1846
let to S. H. H. H. ashier Sept. 20. '47

20134/3.302
Simeon Linsley Ohio
Peter
5.11.1817
Adm for 8 months of 2. days.
The Reynolds att Delaware & H Ohio

BRIEF in the case of Simeon Linsley  Country of Delaware in the State of Ohio  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71  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.     Vol In 1779 about 7 Private Gen. Capt Waugh   " 1780 5 " Capt Gillet Col Ennis   drafted 1781 about 1 " Col Barnfield Capt Huestt   Sub 1782 1 " Col Swift Capt Bennet   " 1 " Capt Taylor  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stockfield Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no clergyman 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. H. Forrest  Examining Clerk.

Wethersfield Aug 24. 1844.
Dear Sir,
The widow of Simeon Linsley Solicits me to inquire if she is intitled to a Stipend on behalf of her deceased husband. They were married in the State of Vermont previous to 1794 And whether there are any records of their marriage if not is not known to Mrs Linsley. The old lady is poor and lives upon the charity of others. and if she is intitled she would be very glad to know how to proceed to procure her pension, if any due her. Simeon Linsley husband of the present applicant drew a pension under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 of $29.00 He obtained his pension June 22nd 1833 And drew it the pension upto his death September 23rd 1844. Mrs Butilly Linsley begs to be informed what to do she has to do to procure a Stipend of any due her under the circumstances.
Mr Linsley certificate is now in your office He drew $29. per year as we recollect.
If you can comply with the above consis- tently with your rules, you will confer a great favor.
I am der Sir
Your most
Obedient Servant
A. H. Thrasher
J. L. Edwards Esqr

Lincoln Binsby Application for Pension " "
20134

The State of Ohio — Delaware County. ss
Be it remembered that on the twenty first day of November in the year eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Delaware and State of Ohio now in session, Simon Binsly a resident of Thompson Township in the said County aged twenty one 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.
I the said Simon Binsly on my oath state that I entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit:-
I was born September 2. nd 1761 in the Town and County of Fairfield in the state of Connecticut, where I resided during the revolutionary war. In 1779 about the time of the burning of Fairfield and Norwalk I was called out with the militia on an alarm and marched to New Haven under Capt. Alexander Waugh. I was in the service this time in the service about one week. In 1780 I volunteered to serve for six months in the militia. I served this time under Capt. Gillett, Lieut. Clerk and in a Regt. under Col. Dyer. We marched at Fairfield and marched with the Company to Norwalk, then to Horse Neck where we were a short time when I was marched to Old Greenwich in sight of Horse Neck across the water. We were stationed here until late in the winter. After I served five months I had leave to return home and my brother Solomon Binsly took my place as my substitute. In the year 1781 I was drafted for 3 months
Simon Binsly of Thompson Tn.

and served that time under Capt. Houghton and Lieut. Mason. and under the Command of Col. Campfield. We moved at Litchfield and moved to a place called Middlesex near Stamford Connecticut, where we were stationed. There were only one stationed  two there. After being here about one month I had a furlough to return home as was also the whole Company, by the Colonel on account of the want of provisions. I never was after that called upon to return into the service. I served this time while going to our station, while there and returning about six weeks. In the winter of 1782 & 83 I went to where a body of Continental troops were stationed at the Highlands in New York near Peekskill. I entered into a Company of regular troops under Capt. Taylor Bennet in a Regt. Commanded by Col. Swift. and Major Smith. I entered this Company as a substitute of for Sergeant Terres Knapp who was enlisted during the war. After serving one month Knapp returned and took my place. I then entered as a substitute for my brother Solomon Binsby, a printer, in Capt. Taylor's Co. in the same Regt. I served here one month as his substitute when my brother returned and took my place. I thus served during the revolution in all eight months and three weeks besides the time I was under a furlough of two months liable to be called upon at any time making my claim upwards of ten months. Soon after the revolution I removed to Vermont where I served upwards of thirty years. In 1817 I removed to Delaware County Ohio where I now reside. I have no documentary evidence

and I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my services. I hereby relinquish all claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Given & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid.
Simeon Linsley
Res Roswell Field and Sebastian Shoup of Leavitt Township in the 2 d County and
residing in the neighbourhood of the above named Simeon Linsley do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Simeon Linsley who has signed & sworn to the above declara- tion, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood of where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Given & subscribed to, the day & year aforesaid.
Roswell Field
Sebastian Shoup
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 Roswell Field and Sebastian

Those who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in the Township of Litchfield in the said County and in the neighbourhood of the above applicant, and are Creditable Persons, and that their statement is entitled to Credit.
I Thomas Reynolds Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Linsly for a Quia.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of my office this 21 st day of November A.D. 1832.
By T. Reynolds, Clerk

Rev War
4553
INVALID.
File No. 4553
Simon Linsley
Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
August 18 th 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Simeon Linsly, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty nine Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 4 th Sept. 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Almon H. Ladd Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

The State of Ohio
Delaware County, ss.
The annexed declaration of Pineon Sinsley a resident of Thompson Township in the said County of Delaware, and an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, whose original declaration was made on the twenty first day of November 1832 before the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Delaware then in session.
Personally appeared before me Ezra Griswold one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Com. Pleas in & for the said county, the above named Pineon Sinsley, who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he has no record of his age except an entry made by himself in his bible , but that from the best information he has received from his parents, and otherwise he is now 71 years of age as stated in his former declaration.
That he never received any written discharge from any of the several tours of services he rendered as stated in his said declaration.
He further states that there is no Clergyman residing in his neighborhood, but in addition to the names of Roswell Field and Sebastain Shoup who gave their certificates accompanying his said declaration he states the names of Joseph Russell, Aaron Twiss, Col. John Dunlap, Capt. John Minter, Col. Crawford and others.
Persons to whom he is known in his present neigh- -borhood and who can testify as to his character, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, and who are all highly respectable and creditable persons.
And he further states that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot

were positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than eight months and twenty one days (8 months & 21 days) as a private in actual services in the manner stated in his said declaration, and of which time no part of it, was spent in any civil employment, and for which 8 months & 21 days he claims a pension. Sworn & subscribe to -
Simeon Linsley
We Joseph Russell, John Dunlap & Aaron Givens - residents in the neighborhood of the above named Simeon Linsley who has signed & sworn to the above affidavit do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Linsley, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, that the above statement made by the said Linsley that there was no clergyman in his neighborhood is true, and that Russell Field and Sebastian Tharp who have certified for the said Simeon Linsley are creditable persons and their certificate entitled to full credit. Sworn & subscribe to,
Joseph Russell John D. Dunlap Aaron G. Givens

And I the said Ezra Griswold Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas do hereby certify that on this thirteenth day of April 1833, the above named Pineas Seinsly and Joseph Russell, John T. Bunlah & Aaron J. Gwartz who have severally subscribed the above affidavit & certificate, personally appeared before me and were severally sworn thereto in due form of law; and I further certify that they are severally known to me personally to be the persons they represent themselves to be; and that the said Joseph Russell, John T. Bunlah & Aaron J. Gwartz — are residents in the neighborhood of the said Pineas Seinsly the above applicant, and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that I am of the opinion after investigating the matter, that the said Pineas Seinsly was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
E. Griswold.
Associate Judge of Del. Com. Pleas
The State of Ohio Delaware County ss. I Thomas Ruggles, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Delaware, do hereby certify that Ezra Griswold Esq. is an Associate Judge as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed this seal of said Court at Delaware this 20 th day of Sept r A.D. 1833.
T. Ruggles, Clerk, C.C.P.D. O.A.