Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 201-300, for Samuel Keeler, Connecticut

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Conn
Keeler, Samuel
B.L. Mt. 201-300
CONTENTS

Norwalk, Ct. Dec. 10 - 1802,
Sam. Wheeler - Claiming boundary land & enclosing a certificate of his service on the State line and of his cap- ture.
N o 201.
Having personal knowledge of the facts within stated, and as Capt. Wheeler is borne on the list of officers who are entitled to land, I am fully of opinion that his claim is substantial. 15. Dec. 1804. H. Rogers
referred to Mess rs Rogers
Rec. Dec. 14 - 1802,
Washington City
Feb. 1804
Henry Dearborn Esq.
Mr. Dearborn
Norwalk Conn. 9th

Norwalk Dec r 10: 1804
To the Hon ble H. Dearborn Esq.
Sir
Believing that I have a just claim to the Military Bounty Lands, granted by Congress to those who have been served in the revolutionary Army. I take the liberty through you to make application therefor.
In the Year 1776 I rec d a Captive Commission in the Reg t commanded by Col o Philip D. Bradly, and being ordered with a detachment of that Regiment to proceed to Fort Washington was there captured and detained a prisoner nearly two years. That about this time I was appointed to the same Command in the Standing Army but my long detention in Captivity prevented my joining the Reg t to which I was attached, and which on my release I found fully officered - soon after I rec d an appointment in the Military Service of this State in which I continued with little interruption till the close of the war - to substantiate these facts I enclose you a Certificate from some respectable Gentlemen of this Town and for any further Satisfaction on the Subject permit me to refer you to Major Rogers who is intimately acquainted with all the Circumstances relating thereto and to whom I take the liberty to trouble you with the inclosed. With much Respect
I have the Honor to be
Sir
Your very obed t Hble Serv t
Saml t Keller
N.B. Should it be necessary I will forward an attested declaration that I have not rec d the Military Bounty Land and that no grant has ever been made me therefor

Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Kuler of Woodstock in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut for divers good causes and considerations do make ordain constit- ute and appoint my friend Hitehiah Rogers esq. my True and Lawfull Attorney for me and in my Name and Beha- lf to Receive a Warrant or warrants which are or may be Issu- ed for me by virtue of a Grant of Congress on a Report made in my favour from the war department in their Late Session for military Services and when Received to Locate the Same and in my Name and behalf to Patent therefor and to do all Lawfull Acts Requisite for Effecting the Premises hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney shall Lawfully do by virtue hereof In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this 22 nd Day of March A D 1805 Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presence of
H. Lockwood Aaron St. John
Samuel Kuler
State of Connecticut. Fairfield County 22 nd March 1805 Then Personally Appeared Samuel Kuler Signer and Sealer of the Above written Instrument and Ackn- owledged the Same to be his free Act and Deed before me — Elizabeth Lockwood Justice of Peace

This may certify that Capt Samuel Ruler of this Town commanded a Company in a Regiment Raised by the State of Connecticut to join the Continental Army, and that he was captured at Fort Washington in the year 1776 and detained in captivity nearly Two Years, that during this time of his captivity the term for which he had been commissioned expired, and that it was on understanding he was reappointed to the same Command in the Standing Army of the United States, but by reason of his imprisonment was unable to join his Regiment and of course lost his appointment, that soon after his return from captivity he was appointed to a Command in the service of this State in which he continued the greater part of the time till the close of the war
Norwalk Dec. 10: 1804
Shaddens Betts
Eliphaleth Lockwood
William H. Betts
Justice of the Peace