Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5476, for Caleb Ingalls, New Hampshire

SERVICE
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N.H. Vt.
Ingalls, Caleb or Ingals Mary
R. 5476
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New York 28.111
order to pay Oct. 16. 1836-
Caleb Ingalls
of Essex Co of the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Reg t commanded by Col Reed in the N Hampshire Mil- itia for 18 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of April 1834 and sent to Hon R. Whallon R Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $180.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 4 '34 30.00
$210.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Sam l H. Page Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 63

In the Matter of Calib Sugars
Application for Pension
com d 18 mo. pri $60  $

State of New York Essex County ss
On the 29 th day of September in the year of Our Lord 1832 personally appeared Calvin open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Essex now sitting - Calv Small a resident of the town of Heck in the County of Essex and state of New York of the age of Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 That in October in the year 1775 he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under the Command of Capt. Philip Thomas Col. James Reed Major - Nathan Hale and marched to and was stationed on Winter hill near Boston and remained there until the first of January following, at which time I enlisted under Capt. Jacob Hinds and remained at that place until about the first of March and then marched to New York by the way of New London I was at this time attached to Brigadier General John Sullivan Brigade; from New York we were ordered to Albany from thence to the head of Lake George then across said Lakes to Lake Champlain at Ticonderoga from thence through said Lake Champlain to St. Johns in the Enemy's Country from thence to Montreal after remaining at the last mentioned place about two weeks we retreated on the same route back to Crownpoint on Lake Champlain when I was for some time sick with the smallpox from thence we continued our retreat to the head of Lake George from thence I was ordered back to Mount Independence on the east shore of Lake Champlain opposite the fortifications at Ticonderoga where I remained until about the first of November when I was discharged by Order of Gen. Gates who had succeeded Gen. Sullivan in the Command of that Brigade from thence I went directly home to the town of Piercy in New Hampshire where I resided at the time of my first enlistment

where I remained until about the latter part of June 1777 when I again volunteered under the Command of Capt. Salomon Hove and marched direct to Pycanawaga N.Y. made a short stay at that place and returned back to the town of Pliny N.H. and about the latter part of July we march for Burlington Vt. under Gen John Stark and was there engaged with a party of the enemy under the Command of Col. Baum who had been ordered by the British Gen. Burgoyne who then lay at St. Edwards to destroy the Military Stores at Burlington on the 16th of August we met the party and after an obstinate resistance took the whole prisoners - we then marched immediately for Plattsburg N.Y. to oppose Gen. Burgoyne who lay there with his main army when I was discharged, my time of enlistment having expired. I then returned to my former place of residence in New Hampshire.
In the Month of March the following year (1778) I changed my residence and went direct to Clarendon in the County of Rutland state of Vermont where I volunteered as a minute man under the Command of Capt. Thomas Sanger and was alternately employed for most of the time during the years 1778, 1779, 1780 and 1781 in scouting and keeping garrison at the Forts at Rutland, Pitsford and Castleton, Vt. I was under different officers during the years above mentioned among which I recollect Capt. Abram Salisbury & Capt. Schobal Robertson and on one or two occasions was out under Continental officers (viz) Capt. Gideon Brownson and Major Whitcomb and under Capt. Ebenezer Allen &c.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declaring that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Subscribed this 26th day of September 1832 in open court
Caleb Ingalls
Pro Notary Public

The court propounded to the applicant the following questions and received from him the answers as they stand annexed to the questions
Ques 1 When and in what year was you born
Ans. In the town of Andover in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1755 as I have been told by my parents
" 2 Have you any record of your age and if so what has been of it
" I know of none
183 4 / 8
1756
" 3 When did you live when you first entered the service When have you lived since the revolutionary war and when do you live now
" In the town of Pinedge in the state of New Hampshire from thence I came to the town of Glover in the state of Vermont in the year 1778 where I lived until about twenty nine of the last years which time I have lived in my present place of residence (Barn East Co. N.H.)

" 4 How were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
" I first entered the service as a volunteer and served as such during my whole service except about two months but cannot now recollect for whom I was a substitute but think it was for Benjamin Gould
I Elyah Brown of the town of Ken in the County of Essex and State of New York do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Caleb Sargall who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration and that I believe him to be seventy seven years of age and that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion Elyah Brown
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court this 28 th day of September 1832 - Samuel Wood clerk

This may Certify that I am personally acquainted with Benjamin Foster who has been & subscribed to this affidavit and knows him to be about twenty years and that he has ever sustained a good character for truth and that his statement herein contains nothing to the prejudice of Essex County.
I Benjamin Foster of the town of Mariah in the County of Essex and State of New York of the age of twenty eight years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the Spring of the year of 1778 Caleb Ingalls came to reside in the town of Clarendon in the County of Rutland state of Vermont that he entered the service of his Country under the Command of Capt. Thomas Sanger as a volunteer; that from that time untill the final close of the Revolutionary war he was more or less engaged as a Soldier under different officers that I was with him in many scouting parties through the Country between that place and the enemy's lines on the North and that he was frequently called out to keep garrison at the forts at Rutland, Pitsford and Castleton at which places were temporary fortifications erected for the safety of the Inhabitants that during this time I was also engaged in my Country's service as a Corporal & Sergeant and frequently called on him to warn him to join his Company to go against the Tories & Indians which frequently infested that part of the Country that he was ever ready and prompt in the discharge of any duty that was made known to him that during the time aforementioned I was often with him in various scouting excursions and in garrisons; that I have been personally acquainted with him ever since the year 1778 and that he ever supported a good character for truth and veracity and further saith not
Benjamin Foster
Sworn & Subscribed to this 4 th day of August 1832 before me - Amasa A. Dyer off Essex Com. place

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation that the above named ap- -plicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
D. Leonard Snow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proce- -dings of the said Court in the matter of the ap- -plication of Capt. Ingalls for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 29th day of September 1832 Leonard Snow Clerk
Certificate that Mason was Judge etc
State of New York, Essex County 3d I Edward S. Keighly Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Nathaniel Mason whose name appears to the foregoing Affidavit & the Certificate on the margin of the same was at the date when the said Affidavit was taken a Judge of the County of Essex duly com- -missioned and qualified as such Judge that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and truly believe his name thereunto to be his genuine hand writing In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said County & Court this 10th day of April 1834 Edward S. Keighly Clerk

State of New York } Ebenezer Ingalls of the town of Essex County of Essex } in the county of Essex and State of New York of the age of Eighty seven years - being due- sworn do depose and say, that in October in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy five, Caleb Ingalls en- tered the service of the United States in Captain Philip Thomas' company in Col. James Reeks Regiment under Brigadier Gen John Sullivan at Winter hill near Boston Mass. and remained in the same company and service and Regiment at the aforesaid place until the first of January 1776 at which time I left the company and returned home to Jaffrey in the county of Cheshire State of New Hampshire and which was at that time my place of residence - I belonged to the same company and regiment with Caleb Ingalls - he was a private soldier. And I fur- ther depose and say that in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy seven the said Caleb Ingalls entered the service again at New Marlborough in Cheshire county, New Hampshire, and from thence marched to Charleston on the Connecti- cut river and in the afore said state of N. H. and joined Colonel Nichols Regiment under Gen Starks - Captain Salmon Stone commanded the company which said Caleb Ingalls was in - Said Caleb Ingalls remained a few days at Char- leston and then marched to Manchester in the State of Vermont staid there a few days and then marched to Bennington where we met the enemy and were in two engagements about the first of August of the same year - during this last mentioned time I was in the same company with said Caleb Ingalls - we remained at Bennington sometime after the battle when he as I believe marched to Stillwater - I remained at Bennington to take care of the sick - He en

listed for two months - I was not with him after he left Bennington. I further depose and say that I have been acquainted with the said Caleb Ingalls during the time that has elapsed since the close of the Revolutionary war and know him to be the identical person who performed the above mentioned services and I further depose and say that I have no doubt that he was in the service during the whole time which he alleges himself to have been and I verily believe that the said Caleb Ingalls was in the service of the United States a number of months in the years seventeen hundred seventy six - eight - eight - nine - eighty and eighty one although I although I was not with him at that time and I further depose and say that I believe the said Caleb Ingalls is seventy eight years of age and further deponent saith not
Sworn and subscribed
to on this the 13 th day of Jan y in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four before me. Ebenezer Dinslee
I certify that the above given Ebenezer Ingalls in consideration of truth and veracity as far as ever came to my knowledge I have him a neighbor of the Peace Justice Peace never to him ten years
State of New York Essex County ss. I. Elias Kenyon Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Elyah Brown before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature thereto to be his genuine hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this 10 th day of April 1834 Elias Kenyon Clerk

State of New York
Essex County ss
On the 9 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Essex now sitting Caleb Ingalls a resident of the town of Reine in the County of Essex and State of New York of the age of Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That in October in the year 1775 he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War as a private soldier at Winter Hill near Boston under the command of Captain Philip Thomas, Lieutenant John Harper Ensign Ezekiel Rand, Colonel James Reid Lieutenant Colonel Gilman. Major Nathan Hale in Genl Sullivan's Brig- ade and remained in said service until the first of January 1776 at which time I re-enlisted in the same Brigade under Captain Jacob Hinds Lieutenant Stone Ensign Benjamin Davis and continued stationed at the said Winter Hill until the first of April 1776 and then marched by the way of Providence in the State of Rhode Island New London in Connecticut to New York City at which place being joined by Colonel Thompson's Riflemen and a Regiment called the Jersey Blues and continuing under the command of Brigadier General Sullivan and in the same Company I was marched to Montreal by the way of Albany. From thence to the head of Lake George, then through said Lake to Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. From thence through said Lake Champlain to St Johns, when General Sullivan left us and went to Fort Niagara

and I was marched to Montreal aforesaid and came under the command of Colonel Arnold. After remaining at Montreal two weeks we retreated to St Johns, when I came again under the command of General Sullivan. From the last mentioned place we retreated to the Isle aux Noix, here I remained until a part of the troops who were sick with the Small Pox, were conveyed by Boats to Crown Point. After the return of the Boats that conveyed them I passed down the said River up the said Lake Champlain to Crown Point still remaining under the same command. Here Lieutenant Stone died with the Small Pox. After remaining at Crown Point about two weeks I crossed to the head of Lake George. Here Colonel Reed was taken sick and becoming blind was unable to serve. He was promoted to the Rank of Brigade General. From the last mentioned place I marched under the command of Colonel Gilman to Fort Independence. Here General Sullivan left us, and General Horatio Gates took the command, after remaining here until the 4 th day of November 1776, I was examined by Doctor Potts head Surgeon of the detachment and pronounced unfit for duty and received from General Gates a written discharge, which discharged I have lost, returned to New Hampshire and in the latter part of June 1777 I volunteered and again entered the said service in the said War under the command of Colonel Benjamin Bellong Captain Salmon Stone, and marched by the way of Charlestown New Hampshire direct to Ticonderoga N.Y. which being evacuated we marched back to Ringo in New Hampshire where I was dis- missed after a service of two weeks. In the latter part of July 1777 I again entered said service in the war aforesaid under the com- mand of Genl John Stark, Colonel Nicholls, Captain Salmon

2- Stone as a Substitute for one Benjamin Gould. We passed muster at New Marlborough New Hampshire and marched from thence by way of Charlestown N.H. to Manchester Vermont. From thence to Brattleboro Vermont where we met and Beat the detachment of the enemy under Col. Bane; From thence I marched under the same command and joined General 2 at Stillwater N.Y. where I continued to serve until two months of the term for which I had engaged was expired. Then some of the last days of September 1777 I was discharged and returned home.
Having removed to Vermont, I again entered said service in the war aforesaid at Clarendon in said State in April 1778 as a minute man  volunteer under the command of Captain Thorne as Sawyer of Col. Warner's Regiment, under which command I served at Rutland until the first of June following one month and fourteen days. In the month of October 1779 I again entered said service at Rutland under the command of Captain Abraham Salisbury, Lieut. Col. Colvin, Major Whitcomb and served fourteen days. In March 1780 I again volunteered and entered the said service in the said war under Captain Ebenezer Allen at Pittsfield Vermont and marched by way of Crown Point to Ticonderoga where we were joined by Genl. Ethan Allen and Colonel Isaac Clarke, and served fourteen days. In the month of October same year (1780) I again volunteered and entered the said service under the command of Captain Deborah Robertson at Clarendon Vt and marched to Castleton Vt and was there commanded by Col. Isaac Clarke and Genl. Ethan Allen and served fourteen two weeks. That in the month of October 1781 I again volunteered and entered said service at Clarendon aforesaid under the command of the said Captain Deborah Robertson and was marched to Castleton Vt and was again commanded by Colonel Isaac Clarke and Genl. Ethan Allen.

2) and several other articles - That I do hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity from the United States except the present, and I do further declare that my name is not on the Pension Role of any agency of any State: - and I do further declare and say that this is made for the purpose of amending the Original Declaration made and sworn to by me for the purpose aforesaid & that from reviewing the said Original Declaration in some instances my memory has been refreshed & some of the Circumstances more fully come fresh to my mind Subscribed & sworn to in Open Court this 9th day of April 1831 before me Caleb J. Ingalls Edw. H. Clapp Clerk.
The Court propounded to him the following questions and received from him the answers as they stood connected to the questions
Ques. 1. When and in what year were you born? -
An. In the town of Andover, County of _____ and State of Massachusetts in the month of February in the year 1755 or 56. -
2. Have you any record of your age and if so when is it? -
An. I have none nor did I ever see any. -
3. When were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live? -
An. I lived in the town of Rindge County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire when I entered the service; In the month of March 1778 I removed to Clarendon County of Rutland State of Vermont, and lived there until the year 1802 when I removed to Rensselaer in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York where I have ever since resided and where I now reside: -
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? -
An. I volunteered during my whole service except two months, I was a sub- stitute for one Benjamin Gould, and think but cannot speak positively of his name: -

Ques. 5 State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the Troops when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your serving?—
Ans. The officers and regiments were as near as I can recollect as I have stated them above—
Ques. 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?—
Ans. I recd. one given by order of General Gates at Fort Independence it was left with my papers at Rindge and was destroyed by accident;—
Ques. 7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your serving as a Soldier?—
Ans. Gardner Stone Esq. attorney and Counsellor of the Supreme Court dist attorney, Nathan Ward Esq. Justice of the peace, Elijah Brown Justice of the peace who has known me for thirty years Nathan Jones Esq. Justice of the peace Richard C. Robban Esq. Justice of the peace Artemas Fay Esq. Justice of the peace of Rindge, — There is no Clergyman of any denomination residing in the said town of Rindge.
Caleb Gage
Subscribed & sworn in Open Court the day & year aforesaid before me
Edward Hays Clerk of Essex Com Pleas

We Garden Stow a resident of the Town of Chesterfield and Nathan Ward And Silas Silas Stiles Residents of the Town of Keene in the County of Essex And State of New York do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Sugalls who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be of the age of Seventy Eight years and that he is reputed and believed in the Town and neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we fully concur in that Opinion and further we Certify that there is no Clergyman Residing in the said Town of Keene and we also Certify that the said Caleb Sugalls in our Opinion is a Reputable man in of good Standing as to truth & veracity.
Given before me in open Court the day & year aforesaid Edward Mayhew Clerk
G. Stow, Dist. Atty of Essex Co (who as to the residence of a Clergyman in Keene swears to his belief only) Nathan Ward Silas Stiles
And the said Court do declare their opinions after investigating the Matter and after having put the interrogatories prescribed by the Department of War that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certify that they are satisfied that there is no Clergyman Residing in the Town of Keene and that Garden Stow and Nathan Ward Rogers and Silas Stiles who have subscribed and sworn to the above Certificate are Reputable persons and that their Statement is entitled to full Credit Signed by order of the Court Edward Mayhew Clerk
State of New York Essex County ss. I Edward Mayhew clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and State aforesaid do hereby Certify

That the foregoing Contains the Original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the Application of Silas State for a Pension In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set My Hand & Affixed the Seal of said Court & County this 9th day of April 1831.
Edw s H. Coughlin Clerk

Declaration 10502.
Mary Insalls
Dec r 2. 1843
N.Y. Calib
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act 7. July 3 8
Rejected (-)
5476

State of New York County of Essex Surrogate's Court
On this Second day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the said court, Mary Ingalls, widow of Caleb Ingalls, deceased, a resident of the Town of Keene, County and State aforesaid, Aged eighty one Years last July, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838. An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Caleb Ingalls, who was a private soldier in the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States, she further declares that she has been informed and verily believes that her said husband performed most of his services in the state of Vermont and was in the battle of Bennington, and that she has also been informed & believes that he was in the continental service, but can not recollect the names of the officers under whom he served, or the length of time he served, she further declares that she was married in the Town of Clarendon, County of Rutland and State of Vermont by Elder Rich a baptist clergyman, in the month of July in the Year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty, and that her maiden name was Mary Chasey, she also declares that her said husband died on the second day of March in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated, and that she now remains a widow
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and Year above written, before me O. Kellogg Surrogate
She further declares that she has no record of her marriage or of the births of her children and does not know of any in existence Mary X Ingalls mark
I Orlando S. Kellogg Surrogate of the county and State aforesaid hereby certify that Mary Ingalls above named personally appeared in open court and made oath in due form of law to the foregoing declaration by her subscribe. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court the day and Year first above written.
O. S. Kellogg Surrogate

State of New York County of Essex — ss Surrogate's Court
I, Orlando Kellogg, Surrogate of said county, hereby certify that on this second day of December 1843 before said court it was proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to said court that Caleb Ingalls late of the Town of Keene County and State aforesaid died on the second day of March in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, that at the time of his death he was a prisoner of the United States under the Act of 7 th of June 1832 and that he left a widow viz Mary Ingalls who now resides in the aforesaid Town, County and State and still remains a widow. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 2 nd day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
O. Kellogg Surrogate
State of New York County of Essex ss Surrogate's Court
I, Orlando Kellogg, Surrogate of said County, hereby certify that Mary Ingalls aforesaid signed her Name by making her Mark to the first above mentioned affidavit and that she was unable to write her name in consequence of extreme old age & a palsy in her hands. And I also certify that the said Ingalls & Abiah Ingalls the persons who signed the affidavit hereto annexed are persons of Credibility & Veracity.
Witness Orlando Kellogg Surrogate this 2 nd day of December 1843 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the official seal of said Surrogate this day & year last aforesaid — O. Kellogg

State of New York } County of Essex } S. I. Knows that I hereby depose and say that I am a resident of the Town of Neen, County and State aforesaid that I am a daughter of the late Caleb Ingalls and Mary his wife of the Town, County and State aforesaid and that I was born on the 22 nd day of March in the Year one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven that my father was a pensioner of the United States and died on the second day of March in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, that my said mother now remains a widow and resides as aforesaid — (Sworn to and subscribed before me ) Lois Ingalls this 2 nd day of December 1843 — W. H. Wells } J. H. Sprague }
State of New York } County of Essex } S. I. Knows that I am a resident of the Town of Neen, County and State aforesaid — That I am a daughter of the late Caleb Ingalls and Mary his wife of the Town, County and State aforesaid and that I was born on the 22 nd day of March in the Year one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven — That my father was a pensioner of the United States and died on the 2 nd day of March in the Year one Thousand eight Hundred and forty three That my said Mother now remains a Widow and resides as aforesaid — Sworn to and subscribed this 2 nd day of December, 1843 — A.D. 1843 — W. H. Wells } J. H. Sprague }

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Caleb Ingalls, Hien, Essex County New York
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Oct 1775 Volunteer Summa unde fieri dany follows Capt Thomas Col Rea Maj. Hale Mentz Still Rendgen New Ham- shire   enlist a Not in as Brig Genl Sullivan do N York L George St Johns Living witness As to part   June 1777 Vol. " Stone Gen Stack Burming- ton Vernoy Bennington Part Locations   Vol 1778 '79 '80 & '81 most of the time " Salisbury " Robertson Brownson " Allan Major Whitecomb Rutland Pittsfield Clarendon Rutland Vermont age 77 years  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ 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.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 A. B. _____ who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

State of Vermont } I John Learned of Clanton in the Rutland County } County of Rutland aforesaid do depose testify and say that I am now sixty three years of age that I was well acquainted with Caleb Ingalls and Mary his wife who formerly resided in this vicinity and also was acquainted with the children of the said Caleb & Mary Ingalls, the eldest of which was named Eunice and who was not exceeding five years and I verily believe about two years younger than myself that during the time they resided in this vicinity it was understood and believed that they were lawfully married and that they lived together as husband and wife and reputed to have been married previous to the birth of their said eldest child Eunice that I have been informed and believe that they removed from this place to Essex County in the State of New York where as I am informed the widow of said Caleb now resides that they removed from this place about forty years ago at which time they had several children the eldest of which was Eunice, Nancy, Mary and Abiah all of whom I was well acquainted with
Subscribed and sworn to } John Learned before me this twenty sixth } day of December one thousand } Eight hundred and forty three Joseph A Hays Justice Peace
State of Vermont Rutland County } I Joseph A Hays a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Rutland hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named John Learned and have so been acquainted for more than thirty years last past that he is a man of truth and veracity a credible and competent witness I verily believe full faith and credit may be given to his said deposition In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand this twenty sixth day of December One thousand Eight hundred and forty three
Joseph A Hays Justice of the Peace

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Caleb Ingalls a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. R. F 5476.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Oct. 1775 to Nov 4, 1776 Pri Philip Thomas Jacob Hindes James Reed Gilmán N.H.   June, 1777. 2 wks. Salmon Stone Benj. Bellows "   July, 1777. 2 mos. Salmon Stone Nicholls   1778 to 1781 (incl) various times amounting to 3 mos, 17 da Thomas Sawyer Abraham Salisbury Ebenezer Allen Ichabod Robertson Warner. ✓ ✓ Isaac Clarke Vt.  
Battles engaged in, Bemington  three ents. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ridge, N.H. at first; Clarendon, Vt.  (during rest of service) Date of application for pension, Sept. 29, 1832. His cl. was el. Residence at date of application, Keene, Essex Co., N.Y. Age at date of application, Feb. 1755 or 1756  Born in Andover, Mass.
Remarks: He was at Clarendon, Vt. July, 1780. Mary Chatey who was born in July 1762. He died Mch. 2, 1843. Daughters, Eunice; Nancy; Mary; Abiah, born Apr. 27, 1789; and Lois, b. Mch. 22, 1797, only children referred to.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office Montpelier July 3. 1845
I hereby certify that there is on file in this Office a "Pay Roll of Capt Ichabod Robinson's Company of Militia in Clarendon in the State of Vermont in the year 1780"; on which is the name of "Caleb Ingalls", with an allowance for twenty one days service as a private. — 248 Nothing is stated on said Roll, by which to determine the month that the service of said Company was performed.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this Office this 3 rd day of July A.D. 1845.
Fernand F. Merrill Deputy Secy of State

(Albany N.Y. July 10, 1845 Dear Sir
I enclose the Certificates of service from New Hampshire & Vermont showing the services of Col. Colick Ingalls for 3 months & 10 days. The Secretary of Vermont writes me that the rolls of that State are not complete and that many of them are missing. You see in your letter to Mr. Valentine of August 26, 1844, before this case can be allowed (That is the case of Mary Ingalls of Essex Co. N.Y. an applicant for a Pension under the Act of 1838) The services of her husband must be established by the certificate of the Secretaries of State New Hampshire & Vermont. Now Sir before this case is disallowed I would most earnestly solicit the attention of the Depa- rtment to the Proofs furnished by her husband to establish his claim for a Pension. Can it be possible that he should have been pensioned at the rate of $60.00 per annum and not have her pensioned herein sufficient to allow his widow a Pension. I can furnish a certificate that the rolls of Vt are not complete if necessary. It may be the services of Colick Ingalls under Capt. Salisbury Brownson & Allen are the very rolls that are missing what does dice he perform service under Salish Brownson Brownson & Allen and how much service did Ingalls

perform in the State of Vermont according to his declaration Will the Department give this case a careful examination of all the proofs now on file and I trust they will be satisfied that Mrs Mary Ingalls is entitled to pension The Old Lady is Poor and needy and a small pension would do her much good Will the department give this case an early attention
Yours Respectfully
Henry Bruce Albany N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq Counsel of Pension

perform in the State of Vermont according to his declaration Will the Department give this case a careful examination of all the Proofs now on file and I trust they will be satisfied that Mrs Mary Ingalls is entitled to pension The Old Lady is Poor and needy and a small Pension would do her much good Will the department give this case an early attention
Yours Respectfully Alonzo Bruce Albany N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions

10502 Mary Ingalls N. York to Wm. Calcutt Aug 26. 1840 to Abner Dence Aug 14. 1840

Michl & Francis Brink Albany Penn in Agency Octobr 10. 1836.
James L. Edwards Esqre, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
Caleb Braggs a Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, claims pay for two years -
Be pleased to instruct us whether or not we shall pay him upon the enclosed Vouchers - I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your ob t Serv t
Thos M c Clusky
Rev H. Pen Agt.

Albany January 31 st 1844
Sir
I herewith enclose the Declaration and proofs in the application of Mary Ingers, widow of Caleb Ingers deceased, under the Act of 7 th July 1838
Relative the date of the marriage, I would beg leave to refer the Dept t to the depositions of Mahitah Wills and Silas W Hodges & it will be observed that the marriage took place at the time set forth in the declaration, which being in 1780 it will at least appear satisfactorily established prior to 1794 and I believe so admitted by the Dept t
There being also much oral testimony corroborative of the date and fact, there can be no reasonable doubt as to the date and fact as set forth in the declaration. I therefore would submit the case without further comment.
I am Yours very respectfully
Wm Valentine
J. G. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Town Clerks Office Clarendon August 14 th A.D. 1843
I Joseph A Hays Clerk of the Town of Clarendon Rutland County Vermont certify that I hold the Office of Town Clerk for the Town of Clarendon that the Records of said town are in my keeping and custody that I have examined the same and find no record of a Marriage there recorded between Caleb Ingals and Mary Chatsey nor do I think there is any such record as but few marriages were recorded at that early period of our records - I further certify that I find a Record of Deed from Caleb Ingals to Jonathan Calvin Rescued in Vol 8 th page 47 dated November first One Thousand Seven hundred & ninety six and acknowledged April tenth One Thousand Eight hundred Also I find two deeds recorded from Caleb Ingals to Samuel Trafton in Vol 7 th pages 15 th and 48 th dated in January One Thousand Eight hundred and acknowledged before a magistrate in March One Thousand Eight hundred and One and One in August One Thousand Eight hundred and Three
Attest Joseph A Hays Town Clerk
Sworn to before me this fourteenth day of August One Thousand Eight hundred forty Three
Lewis M Walker Justice Peace
Personally appeared before me Joseph A Hays who subscribed the foregoing affidavit well known to me and a credible witness being at this time Town Clerk of Clarendon aforesaid and made oath that the affidavit subscribed by him contains the truth & nothing but the truth
Lewis M Walker Justice of the Peace
STATE OF VERMONT, RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, Amasa L Brown deputy Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Lewis M. Walker Esquire was, at the date of the Certificate to which this is attached, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of court, at Rutland in said County, this 14 th day of August Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty three A. L. Brown

State of New Hampshire.
Secretary of State's Office,
I do hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military services in the War of the Revolution, which remain ing this Office, it appears from
the "Pay Roll of Part of Col o Enoch Hoales Regiment" which regiment marched from the State of New Hampshire June 29 th 1777. under the command of Lt Col o Thomas Hoale to reinforce the Garrison at Ticonderoga. That the name of Caleb Ingals is borne upon said pay roll as a private, for fourteen days , ending July 12; and from the "Pay Roll of Captain Salmon Storer's Company in Col o Nichol's Reg- iment Genl Stark's Brigade rais'd out of the 15 th Regt of New Hampshire Militia Enoch Hale Col o . which company marched from Ridge in said State July 1777. and joined the Southern Continental Army at Bennington & Stillwater. it appears, that the name of Caleb Ingals is borne upon said Roll as a private for two months & six days , commencing July 21 st & ending Sept. 26 th 1777.
Given under my hand & the Seal of said State, this 14 th day of July, A. D. 1845.
Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State

426 Cass St Cadillac Mich March 18. 1916
Dear Mr Commissioner:-
Thanks for your kindness in replying so soon.
We are now trying a another line and I wish to trouble you still further We find in D.A.R. genealogical books here in our library, information in regard to the "Ingalls" family, which is another ancestor of Miss Kelly, that some of them received pensions.
James Ingalls, father of Millard Ellis, and Lovisa Ingalls, was a paternal ancestor. Have you record of Pension? They have lived in Walden Vt and Enfield N.H.
Also Caleb Ingalls (who we think was brother or relative of above) B. Rindge N- served under Col. Enoch Hale and was at Ticonderoga wife-
Mary Chetsey

Yours very sincerely thanking you in advance!
E. Alice T. Miller
(Mrs Carroll E.) Regent
106

1915, Mch. 31. History to Mrs. Carroll E. Miller.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5476
P. O. _____
Henry Inyang
Service: widow of Caleb
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____ , 18 .
Discharged: _____ , 18 .
Application filed: _____ , 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

I James Ladd of Clarendon in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont aged Eighty years do depose testify and say that I have lived in the town of Clarendon when I now reside about seventy years and was for several years acquainted with Mary Chatrey and Caleb Ingalls whom I supposed them to be single persons and afterwards I was acquainted with them when I supposed them to be man and wife for about twenty years when they resided in Clarendon and that they lived together as man and wife and reared a family of children and I have no hesitancy in saying that I believe them to have been legally married as much as any persons who I did not see married. And would say that I was acquainted with Elder Rich a Baptist minister who resided in Clarendon and at the same time that Caleb Ingalls and family resided here and would say that I never knew of any thing against the family and always considered them a respectable family and further deponent saith not.
James Ladd
Sworn to in due form of law before me this 17 th day of August A.D. 1843 David H. Saltonstall Justice Peace
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named James Ladd and consider him a man of sound mind and memory and of character unimpeachable
D. H. Saltonstall Justice Peace
STATE OF VERMONT, RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Joseph A. Hays & David H. Saltonstall Esquires were at the date of the Certificates to which this is attached, Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned, and qualified to take their depositions, and that I verify believe their signatures to the same are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Court, at Rutland in said County, this 29 th day of December Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
F. W. Hopkins

I Silas W Hodge being fifty eight years of age and now residing in Clarendon Rutland County Vermont where I have always lived, do depose and say that I was acquainted with Caleb Ingals and his wife and many of their children ever since I first knew them which was something like or nearly fifty years until they removed from Clarendon about forty years since as I now think to the Town of Jay in the County of Essex State of New York I was often in their house while they lived in Clarendon and often saw Mr & Mrs Ingals at my Father's house, on business, and one of their Daughters lived in Father's family a number of years before the death of my Father and after wards I think some six or eight years in the whole She was older than myself and her name was Nancy Ingals and I further say that I never heard any suggestion but that Caleb Ingals and his wife Mary Chatsey (which was her first name) were Lawfully married, and I have not the least doubt of the fact, for I am quite certain had there been any report I should have known for they lived about three miles from my Father's house and where I now live and have always lived, and I further say that the family of Old Mr Chatsey and Caleb Ingals was respectable not people of great wealth, but comfortable in the world according to my present recollection sworn to before me this twenty sixth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Silas W Hodge
Joseph A Hays Justice Peace
State of Vermont } I Joseph A Hays a Justice of the Peace Rutland County ss } in and for the County of Rutland do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Silas W Hodge and have been for a great number of years and that he is a person of truth and veracity and full faith and credit may be given to the above deposition
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty sixth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Joseph A Hays Justice of the Peace

I Lewis Walker of Clarendon in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont aged sixty two years do depose testify and say that I was formerly acquainted with Caleb Ingals who then resided in Clarendon was also acquainted with Mary Ingals his wife as also with their children I never heard any question in regard to the Marriage between him and Mary Chatsey his reputed wife and have not any doubts but that they were lawfully Married Caleb Ingals and family removed from this Town according to my best recollections some time like forty years since while I Ingals resided in Clarendon he lived near my Father's and I was well and personally acquainted with him and family.
Lewis Walker
State of Vermont } Clarendon August 14 th 1843 Rutland County } personally appeared Lewis Walker and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth before me I also say that I have been personally acquainted with Lewis Walker the deponent and have been for more than thirty years and I consider him a man of unadulterated veracity.
Joseph A Hays Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } I Mehitable Hills of Clarendon in said Rutland County ss } County hereby depose and say that I am Seventy two years of age and have an Original and Correct record of My age in My possession that I was acquainted with Calib Ingalls and Mary Chatsey who formerly resided in this Place at the time they were reputed to have been married That I was not present at their marriage but know it to have taken place previous to the year One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five and believe it was in the year One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty, from a variety of facts and circumstances and by general report in the neigh- borhood at that time and am enabled to state the above date from the fact of having a record of My age and by which I am enabled also to state and do say that I was not exceed- -ing fourteen years of age and believe I was about ten years of age at the time they were so reputed to have been married and that I have no doubts and have never had any expressed but that they were lawfully married at that time, that they lived together as husband and wife from the time they were so reputed to have been mar- -ried until they removed from this place which was about twenty Years and that I am informed and believe that they removed from here to Essex County in the State of New York and where as I am informed the Widow of the said Calib Ingalls now resides and they removed from this place about forty Years ago. and that I resided in the same neighborhood with them at the time they were reputed to have been married as aforesaid
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26 th day of December 1843. Joseph A Hays Justice Peace
Mehitable Hills
State of Vermont } I Joseph A Hays, A Justice of the Peace Rutland County ss } in and for the County of Rutland aged- hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Mehitable Hills and have been so acquainted with her for more than thirty years last past that she is a person of truth and veracity and a credible and competent witness and full faith and credit may be given to her deposition. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this twenty sixth day of December A.D. 1843 Joseph A Hays Justice Peace