Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11004, for Solomon Loring, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Loring, Solomon
S 11004.
B.L.Wt. 19827-160-55
CONTENTS

9079
Connecticut
Solomon Soring
of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regiment commanded by Col. Vose in the Connecticut line for 24. Mo - _____
old case
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23. day of March 1833 and sent Thomas Gray Windham Connecticut
Arrears to the 14th of March 33 $ 160.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 4. 33 40.00 $ 200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk, Book 60 - Vol. 3 - Page 24
Reg 3 m 55- 127467

Not Moks 1274167 Mar 10/53
Angeline Loring minor child of Colonel Loring
Col Vase Sp  1827  rotationary man mass troops refuses evidence office
mmu The name is Loring
Sergeant Col Vase
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Conn June 32-9079
Ad. 160 acs Apr 4/56
Dodge
Samuel Lee Williamstown Conn
See S. Lee Feby 11/56
Vol L. page 123

Yolo. Spring Sebania

STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
County of New London } ss. Seban Probate Court district of Seban
On this 30 day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Seban the county of New London and state of Connecticut, now sitting, Solomon Soring a resident of Seban in the county of New London and state of Connecticut, aged Sixty Seven years, and 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 enlisted into the service of the United States April 1783. in Capt. John Williams Company, in which — Flord was Lieut. & — McCay Ensign. I served in Col. Joseph Wose Regt. in which Elijah Wose was Lieut. Col. & Pettigall Major — That he served in P. Regt. & Company until the close of the war, being about 18 or 19 months. That he has a Pension Certificate under the act of March 18. 1818. That he was dropped from the pension roll on account of Property , That he lived in Seban in New London County where he now lives, when he made his first application, & that the town of Seban , has been set from Windham County to New London County since that time — His Pension Certificate is herewith enclosed —
He further states that in the Spring of 1781 he volunteered & did a tour of duty of nine months at Nantasket under Capt. Thesphilus Wilder & Col. David Cushing , That he then lived in Wingham Mass. That he has no official record of his age, but was born in the year 1764, & that the record of his age is the town records of the town of Wingham Mass. — That all the documentary evidence of his services he thinks were forwarded to the war department on his former application & that he knows of no one now living who may write him in the campaign last mentioned, & that he thinks this service was not stated in his former application not being then necessary. I have resided in said Seban for about four years last past. I have a written discharge from the Continental service but believe it has been found lost. I have no other papers to the war department. I am acquainted with Elder Ezek Brown and Gordon Robinson who are in Seban to my knowledge and services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state except as above stated
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Solomon Soring
We, Ezek Brown a clergyman residing in the town of Seban and Gordon Robinson residing in said Seban hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Solomon Soring who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Sixty Seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezek Brown
Gordon Robinson

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 said court that Rev. Dea. Brown who has signed the foregoing certificate is clergymen resident in the town and district of Lebanon and that Dea. Guncle Robinson who has also signed the same is a respectable in said Lebanon and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, John Nettles clerk of the court of Probate in & for the district of do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Solomon Loring for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 30 day of Decr A. D. 1832.
Seal
John Nettles Clerk Pro Tem

State of Connecticut New London County } p. Probate Office District of Lebanon.
It appears by the records in this office that Chester Hunt of Windham in the County of Windham is the Guardian to Angelina Seering a minor of this District now about fifteen yrs of age as is shown of record -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of said District on this 26 th day of March A D 1855.
Deborah H. Hovey, Judge -

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Windham April 30 th 1855
This may certify that I have this day examined the family records of Solomon Loring deceased late of Lebanon in New London County State of Connecticut, and the following marriage there in recorded, Solomon Loring married to Angelina Sawyer March the 23 rd 1828 Also in the same a records of births, Born Angelina Loring daughter of Solomon Loring July 16 th  1829 1839. Also in the records of Deaths Angelina Loring wife of Solomon Loring died July 16 th 1839 aged forty five years. Also Solomon Loring died Feb the 19 th 1846 aged seventy six years the above is a true and correct copy of the marriage of Sol Loring. Also of the birth of his daughter Angelina Loring, and his death and that of his wife. as recorded in the said Solomon Loring family Bible records
William H. Corry
Before me personally appeared William H. Corry, a resident of Windham and made oath to the truth, and correctness of the above certificate by him subscribed. and I certify that I know him to be a credible person, and of lawful age In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office Dated at Windham this 30 th day of April 1855
David Lee Doley, Public

State of Connecticut, County of Windham } S Windham On this 30 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a Notary Public, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Chester Hunt, aged 63 years a resident of Windham in the state of Connecticut who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical Chester Hunt, who was duly appointed guardian of Angeline Loring Aged 15 th years the only minor child of Solomon Loring deceased who was a soldier (and served as a private) in the war of the Revolution in the Regiment commanded by Col. Dose in the Massachusetts line. And for the proof of his enlistment the time he served and when, and by whom discharged reference is made to papers now on file in the Pension office at Washington. He further states that the said Solomon Loring was married as he has been credibly informed and believes at Lebanon on the 23 rd day of March A.D. 1828 by one Essex Brown a clergyman to Angeline Loring deceased, and that her name before her said marriage was Angeline Sawyer, and that she died at Lebanon on the 16 th day of July A.D. 1839. that there exists in their family Bible a record of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, a copy of which is herewith transmitted. He further states that the said Solomon Loring died at Lebanon on the 19 th day of Feby A.D. 1842

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he for the 1 st Angeline Young a minor child of the Young may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
John L. Stanford Mary A. Johnson
Chester Hunt Gerardine
We, Mary A. Johnson and John L. Stanford residents of Windham in the State of Connecticut, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Chester Hunt in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Mary A. Johnson John L. Stanford
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Sam Lee
Notary Public.
Subscribed on file Washington July 1855

M.E.E.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
December 7, 1929.
Mrs. Angelina Avery Willimantic Connecticut.
My dear Mrs. Avery:
Prepared by Commissioner  I was very much interested to see in the rotogravure section of the New York Times of Sunday, December 1st, your picture, with the advice that you are "a real daughter of the American Revolution", and it was of unusual interest to me because I am from Connecticut myself.
In the Bureau of Pensions we have rather complete files of the records of Revolutionary War pensioners, and believing that you might be interested in knowing of the service of your father, I have had it prepared, and it is as follows:
He drew a pension for Revolutionary War service under claim No. 11004. From this it appears that he was born in December, 1764, and his age was recorded in the town of Hingham, Massachusetts.
While residing in Hingham, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served nine months at Nantucket in Captain Theophilus Wilder's Company, Colonel David Cushing's Massachusetts Regiment.
He enlisted in April 1782 and served eighteen or nineteen months as private and sergeant in Captain John Williams' Company, Colonel Joseph Vose's First Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 14, 1819, while a resident of Lebanon, Windham County, Connecticut, where he had lived since about 1808.
He died February 19, 1842 or February 19, 1846

(both dates appear) at Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.
The soldier married March 23, 1828, at Lebanon, Connecticut, Angelina Sawyer. She died at Lebanon, Connecticut, July 16, 1839, aged forty-five years. He had been previously married - the name of his wife is not shown.
Angelina, daughter of Solomon and Angelina Loring, was born July 16, 1839 at New London, Connecticut. In 1855 she was the only surviving minor child of the soldier.
There are no further data relative to wife and children.
In 1855 one Harriet Sawyer, a resident of Lebanon, Connecticut, aged fifty-nine years, stated that she had resided in the family of Solomon and Angelina Loring. Her relationship to them is not shown.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

2 Cases. 4141 ✓ Case of Solomon Loring Nijah Fuller David Bolles, Judge
Windham, Conn. Rec. June 22. 1819.
1819 Edward mass line 11 Regt Col Rose April 1822 - 3 yrs -
City of Washington
Library of Congress Ms. A. 9. 2. 22. 11

To David Bolles Esq. Judge of Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut. Solomon Loring of Lebanon in said County do apply and earnestly declare that I enlisted as a private soldier into the company of Capt. Williams (I think his given name was John) in Colonel Joseph Vose's Regiment in the Massachusetts line 1 st Massachusetts Reg t . in the continental army in the month of April A.D. 1782, for three years and I faithfully served as a soldier and the latter part of the time as a sergeant in the company from the time of my enlistment until after the peace took place; the whole time of my service was eighteen months. I rec d a discharge but have lost it some time after I removed to Connecticut. I obtained of Col. Vose the inclosed certificate signed by him to ex- onerate me from doing duty in the militia. I am in low circumstances as to property and in an infirm state of health and from my reduced circumstances in life I greatly need the assistance of my country for support & pray for a pension agreeable to the act of Congress of 18 th March A.D. 1818 Solomon Loring
State of Connecticut Windham ss. Affidavit 14 th June A.D. 1819 Personally appeared this day before the subscriber Solomon Loring of Lebanon in said County and made solemn oath that the above application by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. I am fully satisfied that the aforesaid applicant did serve in the revolutionary war as above stated That from his reduced circumstances in life he does stand in need of assistance from his country for support. Attest David Bolles Judge of Windham County Court

I, Lucas Flower of Windham in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut of Lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mr Solomon Loring of Lebanon in the County of the within application and know him to be a man of good reputation for truth and integrity and I know that there are obligations against him for more than his property would pay so far as I am acquainted therewith and according to my best knowledge and belief he is reduced in circumstances and inferior in his health and does stand in need of the assistance of his country for support I am acquainted with Mr Cromwell Buel of Lebanon aforesaid, and know that he also is a man of fair reputation -
Lucas Flower
Con. Windham ss. before me 14 th June 1819 Personally appeared Mr Lucas Flower, the signer of the above deposition and before me made oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth -
I certify that he is a gentleman of fair reputation for truth and honesty.
David Buel Judge of Windham County Court

I Cranston Bowen of Lebanon in the county of Windham of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mr Solomon Loring of S d Lebanon that he is infirm and unable to labour and is in embarrassed & reduced circumstances and does greatly need the assistance of his Country for Support. Cranston Bowen
Windham to Ashford 14 th June A D 1819
Personally appeared Mr Cranston Bowen signer of the above deposition and made oath that the same contains the truth & nothing but the truth
before David Bolles Esq r Judge of Windham County Court
I David C o Bolles Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do certify that David Bolles Esq r before whom the foregoing Affidavits were made, is Judge of S d County Court, that the forego- ing Signatures are his hand writing, & full faith & credit due to be given to his acts as such
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name & affixed the Publick Seal of S d Court at Windham in S d County this 14 th day of June Anno Domini 1819
David C o Bolles

State of Connecticut, County of New London } ss Lebanon on this 18 th day of February 1856 personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid Harriet Sawyer Aged 59 Years a resident of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to law depose and say, that I became acquainted with Solomon Loring deceased late of said Lebanon in New London County on or about the year 1814 And was well acquainted with him until his death which occurred in Feb 1842 having resided in his family previous to the death of his wife Angeline Loring in 1839 and statedly ever since, was present at the birth of their daughter Angeline Loring who is the only surviving Minor Child of Solomon Loring, who was a pensioner on the Connecticut Roll at the time of his death and had been for a long time previous And that his daughter Angeline Loring is the identical Minor Child of the identical Solomon Loring who was a pensioner as aforesaid; she further states that she frequently heard the said Solomon Loring him, state in his life time that he entered the service as a substitute at the age of twelve years Also that he states that he enlisted for a term of three years nearly at the close of the war of the Revolution

that he entered the service as a substitute at the age of twelve years. Also that he has stated that he enlisted for a term of three years nearly at the close of the war of the Revolution
and continued in the service after peace took place and served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Dole of the Massachusetts Line.
Harriet Sawyer
The foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I have been well acquainted with the affiant for a period of 40 years or more, and know her to be a credible person.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set  set my name and affixed my seal
Samuel Lee Notary Public

Williamsville Feb 25 1856
Hon J. Mennott
Due Sir yrs of the 11 th Inst has been recd, requiring further evidence in the application of Angeline Loring Minner Childs of Sol Loring for bounty, Land and the Act of 3 d March 1855
I herewith forward you Harriet Sawyers affidavit proving the identity of her father with the Soldier who was a pensioner at the time of his death on the Connecticut rolls
Also a full copy of the family records showing Births, Marriages and deaths which I presume are sufficient to meet the requirement, if not pleas inform me and further evidence can be furnished you mention that the family family register represents him to have died in Feb 1846 at the age of 76 consequently he must have been too young to have served the service as alleged If any such allegation has been made or is on file it must have been incorrect as you will perceive by referance to the copy herewith sent which I have carefully compared with the original and is correct

refer as may be time to the time of his death by referring to the time his pension ceased which I presume will correspond with the evidence now furnished
In behalf of the applicant I would say that I have been intimately acquainted with the family of Sol Sony as since 1814 the time he married his second wife that having occurred in my immediate neighborhood that I knew him well until his death concerned with him him relative to his pension frequently in his life time, I am Also well acquainted with the daughter Agnes and know her to be the daughter and niece Childs of the identical Sol Sony who was a pensioner of the Connecticut rolls at the time of his death, which occurred at the time specified in the family register according to the best of my knowledge and belief
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Saml Lee

Oct 19.
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Spencer

Windham Oct. 16 th 1832
Hon. Simon Easly Esq r
Del r .
Enclosed is the further Statement of Sol o Doring containing as he says all that he is able to obtain - He has lived above 40 years in this neighborhood & has forgotten the people with whom he was associated when he lived in Mass t . not having seen them for many years - his certificate, should he obtain one, may be directed to me, or to him at the Post Office in this town as he lives nearer to this office than to Sebecom
Resp t (Yr ob t Serv t )
Thomas Gray

State of Connecticut County of New London } B. Seban
On this day of

State of Connecticut County of Windham } ss Windham
On this 15. th day of October A.D. 1832 before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windham personally appeared Solomon Soring of Sebanah in New Bedford County & State aforesaid (Who having in the first instance made his application in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. th 1832 before the Court of Probate for the District of Sebanah in d. t New Bedford County) and on oath doth make this further declaration in order to obtain the benefit of said act. (viz.) That when he made his application under the act of March 18. th 1818. before the County Court for the County of Windham, he did state the campaign of nine months which he served in 1781 at Nantasket, but that he was then told by said Court that the services in Capt. Williams Company in 1782 & 1783 were sufficient, and that it was only necessary to prove that service to entitle him to a pension under that act — That he knows of no one now living by whom he can prove his service stated in the campaign of 1781. That Capt. Wilder and Col. d Cushing are both dead, & having been so long absent from Hingham in Massachusetts where he resided at the time he entered said service (being more than forty years) he has lost his acquaintance there, if they are not dead, & that he found but

few at the time he made his application under The act of 1818. He further states that all those by whom he proved his services in 1818 are now dead, and that without his Pension certificate, and the proof now in the office of the War Department it would be impossible for him to prove his services as stated in his application at that time -
He would further state, that, he is confident he had a certificate from Col. o Bode that he was a Sergeant, and thinks it was forwarded on his former application in 1818. He thinks that that may specify the time when he was appointed a Sergeant, he is however confident that he was a Sergeant thirteen months, that he was a Sergeant at the time he went to Philadelphia with Col. o Bode's Regiment to quell the insurrection in Pennsylvania, that he there saw two Sergeants brought out to be shot but were reprieved by Genl. Washington. That it was in very hot weather & that the regiment underwent much fatigue on the march, that they were stationed near Philadelphia about three months
He would further state, that it is impossible for him to prove any thing further relating to his services, that he is willing to leave it to the discretion of the Secretary of War to settle the amount to which under the circumstances he may be entitled, as it is wholly out of his power to make any further proof; pledging

his hand to feel satisfied with whatever his foremost may see fit to allow him
Solomon Soring
Sworn and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid?
I hereby certify that Mr. Solomon Soring who has sworn to, & subscribed the foregoing declaration is to me well known in a credible person & his state- ments are entitled to credit
Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace

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Lee Letter to Thomas Gray Windham Ct, Sept 27 th 1832
Connecticut Solomon Loring
of _____ in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Morse of the Mass line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of June 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of July 19 and sent to David Bolles Windham Conn Ct arrears to 4 th of Sept 19  25 60 emi-anl. all'ce ending
2 25 30  25 60
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

Solomon Loring's pension certificate
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Mid-dleton, at
the Branch Bank of the U. States.
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____
Solomon Loring late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 14 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 25 th day of
July one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Peter Gardner Deposition

I Perez Gardner of Hingham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, do testify & say, that Mr Solomon Loring now residing in the town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth & State of Connecticut, to my knowledge was in the Continental Army in the first Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Vose of Milton, & Col John Williams Company to the best of my recollection between one & two years at one term of time
Hingham June 1 st 1810 Perez Gardner
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss
Town of Hingham this 1 st day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & nineteen, personally appeared Perez Gardner & made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me Joseph Wilder Jr my Jus: Peac

Nath l Loring Deposition

I Nathaniel Loring of Hingham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawfull age do testify & say that I am knowing that Solomon Loring was living in the town of Lebanon in the County of Lincoln & State of Connecticut enlisted into the Continental Army in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & one, or two & I was know- -ing that he the said Solomon Loring was gone the space of fifteen months at that time into said Army
Hingham May 31 st 1819 Nat Loring
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth S.
Town of Hingham this 31 st day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & nineteen personally appeared Nat Loring the Deponent & made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true -
Before me Joseph Wilder Justice of Peace

Melzar Dunbar Deposition

I Melzar Dunker of Hingham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify & say that Solomon Loring now residing in the town of Lebanon in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut was enlisted by the plan to which I belonged into the Continental Army & to the best of my knowledge I believe was there more than one year at that time.
Hingham June 1 st 1819 Melzar Dunker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss
Town of Hingham this 1 st day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & nineteen persons appeared Melzar Dunker & made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true —
Before me Joseph Wilder Junr Just Peace

Colt's Wore Certificate
Solomon Loring S. #11,004 Mass.

I Certify that Solomon Loring was a Sargent in the first Massachusetts Reg t under my com- =mand & was honorably discharged as a Sargent~ Joseph Vose Col o