Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20,192, for Peter Ingersoll, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Ingersoll, Peter
P. 20, 192
CONTENTS

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State of Indiana } Sct Green County }
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I Peter Ingersoll in the County of Green in the State of Indiana do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Asa Caburn's Company in the Seventh Regiment of the Massachusetts line, and I also declare that I never have received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars or for any other sum whatever under any resolve of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 and I further declare that I was, not the fifteenth day of March 1828, on the pension list of the United States.
Peter Ingersoll (Seal)
State of Indiana Green County
Before me Mcbride Rust a justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Green in the State of Indiana Personally appeared this 22 nd day of July 1828 William M Norris Postmaster Thomas Wamick Clerk and Reuben Heill Esq

all citizens of said County who did severally make oath that Peteringer who by whom the foregoing Declaration was Subscribed is generally respected and believed to have been a privates in the Army of the Revolution war
In Witness my hand and seal this 22 nd day of July 1828
Albert Seal
I Thomas Warnick Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Greene in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace and duly empowered by law to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 22 nd day of July 1828
Thomas Warnick Clerk

Rejected
Ex'r. OLD WAR.
No. 20192
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Peter Ingersoll
Capt. Colburn 7th Mass Line Heavy Arty
REJECTED
Filed at _____
other claim.
_____, 187____
Clerk.
Application filed: _____, 18____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Evidence insufficient for 1862

Peter Ingersoll — Prob. Mass. line
Indiana —
: No Record, Ref. or old Books. " " Inval. or Misc.,
No Record Lod
Nov 1881

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
16 Feb 1829
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Peter Ingersoll under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
R. Rush.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Depart: Bounty land office 18 Feby 1829
The records of this office do not show that Peter Ingersoll of the Mass a . line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States. Robert Taylor

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Augt 29. 1828
Peter Ingersoll, of [blank] in the County of Green, in the State of Indiana, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain [blank]'s company, in the Seventh  (Col. Brooks's) regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, H.kins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
5. September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [blank] in the [blank]
It further appears that Peter Ingersoll  not is now on the pension list of the any [blank] agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month
The name of Peter Ingersoll cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of eighty Dollars, were issued -
Richd Hagner And

Rec d 30 Dec 1829.
1229 Bloomfield Green County Indiana November 17 th 1829
To the Honorable Secretary of the Pension Office
Dear Sir I have forward, my papers to your Office relative to my pension claim g for Revolutionary Service; I forwarded the affidavit of Mr. Hazelton, also letters to your office to be forwarded to Robert Seivers and Josiah Phelps Privates in the Massachusetts line who obre d a pension under the old law and who knew me in the service and I do not know where they reside at present so as to enable me to procure their affidavit if they have not already reached your Office, their names was not on the list which was sent me for my guidance and I have forwarded letters to several of my acquaint- ances and have not received any letters except from two and one of them enclosed the affidavit of Mr. Hazelton and the other was from one Asa Hamilton, who was in the service but it was his brother whom I was acquain- -inted with — Pleas send me an answer if you do not consider my Testimony sufficient, to allow me a pension, where Mr. Seivers and Phelps resides at Present so that I may procure further Testimony to support my claim, altho I just it is for me to have it in my old age, it seems hard for to procure testimony from One and an other who are so widely separated apart in almost every State in the United States

but I shall not yet dispense of hopes that there will be some testimony procured, that will satisfy your Honors that I am very needy and justly entitled, to my demands and I hope a Generous & Good Government like ours will not send down my Gray hairs to the grave in Poverty — And Disgrace our Generous Services with so great a contempt
Your Most Obl. Servt. Peter Ingersoll
I have not received any answer from Lieutenant Sturgeon Stone or Ensign James Seivers to whom I wrote to for Testimonial affidavits, and perhaps they have forwarded them to your office, if they have not come to your hands perhaps I mistook in the directions from your list, Dear Sir please to give me directions where they live so that I can write again as My memory is very treacherous at present and I did not take down their Place of residence
Your Most Obl. Servt. Peter Ingersoll

Respectfully yours
Sir
Respectfully referred to the Treasury Department Dec. 29. 1829.
To the Honorable Secretary of War or Pension Office of the United States at Washington City
15 Dec

Atica May 6 th 187 This may certify that Peter Ingersoll Was a Listed Soldier for During the war In my Company Of light Infantry In the seventh Massachusetts Regiment Commanded By Colonel Brooks and Discharged until the End of the War Whereof I Have Set my hand and seal the Day above Mentioned
A. M. Coburn Capt
This Day came before Asacoburn and Being Duly sworn faith the above Instrument of writing Is the full truth Given Under My hand and seal this 6 Day of May 187
James Armstrong J P

Recd 96 July 1880.
Sir,
20440. Hudson July 20-1880
I recd your letter of 15-June 1880 wherein you stated your services in the army and requested my assistance to establish your claim. and I regret. it much that I am not able to accomplish your wishes. The long lapse of time whatever I might have known of your services is intirely erased from my mind. For my self I make no doubt but your statement is correct but I have not a sufficient resolution as to enable me to render such an affidavit as is required. Had you served in the regiment with me no doubt I should have bin able to accomplish your wishes — believe me I am a sincere friend and it would be a pleasure to me could I assist you in this matter I am with respect your friend
P. Ingersoll
Sturges Sloan

864.
Peter Ingenholl 13 April 1829
Bloomfield La. Co. 4/11/29 March 29 th 3
Mr. Richard Rush
Treasury Department Washington City
Revolutionary Claims

Blountfield, Greene County, Ind a . March 21. 1829 Sir, I received your communication of 19 th Feb. 1829. which informed me that there was no corroborative support of my claim to be found in your department.
You further stated that it might be advisable for me to apply to the proper authorities of the state in whose quota I served, as it was believed that the archives of some of the states contain evidence of the rank & service of their continental regiments; which application is at this time is out of my power to make.
And, where evidence could not be obtained from state records, you directed me to obtain an affidavit from one or more persons, who know me to have served in the continental army. I have an affidavit to the point, which I obtained from my Capt. Asa Coburn, in the year 1807 for the purpose of obtaining land for my revolutionary services; but, owing to the want of means, I never have made application for it. It was the impression of myself & others that this affidavit ought to be sent to you in the first place; but others again (who, it appears know very little about it and whose advice I took) thought it to be unnecessary, believing that my affidavit and the affidavit of persons believing me to have been a revolutionary soldier to all that the law required. Enclosed I send you the affidavit, in the date of which you will see a great mistake, the cypher in the place of tens being omitted which I will aver on oath ought to be there; but from inadvertance, I presume, the magistrate did not insert it in the affidavit, nor in the acknowledgement of it.

It is a document of which I think much, & in all probability it would bring or obtain my land at this late period were I in circumstances to seek for it.
You likewise proposed to send, if I requested it, a list of the names & residence of the surviving officers who belonged to the line & regiment to which I belonged. I will name to you the those whom I can recollect; but the length of time & vicissitudes of life are such that I find myself very forgetful.
The officers names belonging to the seventh regiment as my memory serves me, are Col. Brooks, Major Prescott or Prescote; (Capt. Caburn, who I have heard is dead) Lieut. Givins, Ensign Severs, orderly sergeant Stikins, sergeant Gurn, sergeant Bellnap, Corporal Burk, Drummer Billings; and Robert Severs, George Gamble, Haselton, Northrop, George Robinson & Asa Caburn jun. The company officers & privates above named belong to the company that I did. Eggleston was Paymaster of 7th Reg. Mass. Josiah Phelps Private belonged to 4th, Mass. Reg. Drum major Joseph Burk of 7th. Mass. Reg. It is highly probable that some of these persons are living & have drawn, or made the application for their claim & I think it very probable that I should or wants be remembered by all of them, except Col. Brooks & Major Prescott with whom I had no intimacy.
Every necessary information on the subject will be very gratefully received for I am old & decrepit & have served my Country when young to obtain our independence, & when old, in the last war I took my gun to maintain it

N. B. Utica, the place in which the affidavit was made, is in the state of New-York.
Please, sir, to write me as soon as the nature of the case will admit.
I am, sir, respectfully
your obedient servant
Mr. Richard Rush
Peter Ingersoll