Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File for Josiah Spalding, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Spalding, Josiah
Dis no papers
father of soldier who received B.L.M. 7/11/15.
CONTENTS
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Spalding, Josiah
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feb'y 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, class 7, page 153.
Rank; Lieutenant.
Regt; Col. Smith's militia.
Disability; Wounded by means of a cannon ball, which, passing through a stone wall near which he was stationed, forced a stone against the calf of his leg, and much injured his knee and tendons.
When and where disabled; Aug. 29, 1778, Rhode Island.
Residence; Ashford
To what pension entitled; One-half
Remarks; Militia
Evidence complete.
allowed
see 1835 list

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
June 8, 1917.
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
Replying to your letter of the 2d instant, you are informed that the records of this office show last payment to have been made to Josiah Spalding, Lieutenant, Army of the Revolution (no certificate No.) Connecticut Agency, at $80.00 per annum to Sept. 4, 1809.
The records do not show the date of his death and the vouchers for that period were destroyed by the burning of the War Office.
Respectfully,
Alvin A. Price
Auditor.
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Rev. War Section
3-1865
13 J.W. 2
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
June 2, 1917.
To the Auditor for the Interior Department, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
You are requested to furnish, if possible, the date of death of the following invalid pensioner of the Revolutionary War:
"Josiah Spalding, Lieut., (no certif. no.) pensioned at $80 per annum from September 4, 1794, under the Act of April 20, 1796, at the Connecticut Agency".
This Bureau has no further information concerning him, as there are no papers on file, the same having been destroyed by the burning of the War Office.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rev. War Section.
June 2, 1917
also call on auditor for date of death
Miss Frances Prince, York Avenue, Towanda, Pennsylvania.
Madam:
In response to a personal inquiry on the twenty-ninth ultimo, you are furnished the following information relative to Josiah Spalding, Senior, and his son Josiah, of Ashford, Connecticut.
From the papers on file in this Bureau it appears, that Josiah Spalding junior, was drafted at Ashford, Connecticut, shortly after the murder of Colonel Ledyard, about November 1, 1780, as a Private, in Colonel Samuel McClellan's regiment of militia (Captain not recollected), and was stationed at Fort Groton for two months and a few days.
He was allowed 160 acres of bounty land for the above service, on his application executed September 15, 1857, at which time he was a resident of Eastford, Windham County, Conn- and almost ninety-three years of age.
Leave space here instead of above because this is about his father
In 1857, soldier's sister, Cynthia Howe, a resident of said Eastford, and ninety-one years of age, stated that when her brother performed the alleged service, their father, the late Lieutenant Josiah Spalding, remained at home because he "had then been wounded and disabled from service", and the List of Pensioners reported by the Secretary of War in 1835, in volume 1, Connecticut Pension Roll page 24, shows, Josiah Spalding, Lieutenant of the Revolutionary Army, pensioned at $80, per annum from September 4, 1794; died 1799".
His name also appears in the volume entitled "American State Papers, Class 9, Claims" page 153, as Josiah Spalding of Ashford, Conn., a Lieutenant in Colonel Smith's regiment of militia, wounded in Rhode Island on August 29, 1778, by means of a cannon ball passing through a stone wall (near which he stood) and forcing a stone against the calf of his leg, injuring his knee and tendons.
There is no further information concerning Josiah Spalding, Senior, as there are no papers on file in this Bureau the same having been destroyed in the burning of the War Office
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.